Seeker Magazine

AVANT SOUL

Rhapsodies in Words

to reawaken our fascination with the ever-original SOUL

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ODE TO A HANKIFIED PANKY
(The Children Are Playing)
—!Your Fabulous Dysfunctional Global Family Reunion!—


Amtrack, Amtrack, catch that catchy train...
Tickets are on sale & it's coming back again..
Amtrack, Amtrack, hear that whistle blowin'!
It's a sale on humanity's soul 
		& your slip is showin'!
	Clothes racks, 
		thumbtacks, 
			three days only...
		Better Hurry NOW 
			cause it's gonna get ugly...

Aunt Tacky 
	& Uncle Tick-Tack
Mack the Knife & Riki Tiki Tavi
Aunt Savvy & 
	Cough Enough...
Smicks & Shacks In The Thicket Of Smacks
THWACK! There's a bruise for humanity's hole...

I did not ask for your towering underwear 
	blowing in the wind
Oh you grasses of centerfolds
	On the front page, my Friend.
The answer is: Auntie enthralled, 
	Little–grass–Lyme–disease
Oh you tickets flying suicidal 
	In the brush of Achilles' ankles.

THWACK! There's a crack & it ain't too pretty.
Bitten by a lemon, Key Lime pie,
You read daily crap & still doubt the sky
Or the sun to set or your moon to shine 
	Ticks you bloody clock
		...(Universal U-turn)...
Oh you swamps singing 
	  *Such*
			A *smashing* song
Drown you out, DROWNING 
	Your funny fragile LIFE raft 
		All–The–Day–Long
Row row, Row—your—boat
POP! goes the weasel
Tick-tock, 
	religious zealous dogs
Bowing to the big guy, Oh-Me-My
	Bow wow to the East, 
		Bark to the West,
Pranam to the idiot who shat on your vest
Bring Uncle Mongoose, 
		There's a snake 
	in the pantry
The children are playing 
	in their dailies & nighties
It's a stampede of hysteria
By a hankified panky


			(And it's so unslightly.)



(Photograph and poem copyright 2001 by Darius Gottlieb - No reproduction without express permission from the author)

You're invited to visit Darius' website of his photographs at Art Bliss

Letter to the Author at SoulGnosis@aol.com

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