12/02/2006

SexiPanty $14


Marcela Rodriguez
solo exhibition,
featuring drawings on paper
and a video installation
by the Columbian artist
Dec 1 2006 - Jan 7 2007

Meat Market Gallery
1636 17th St NW Washington DC 20009
wed-sat 12-7
sun 12-3
or by appointment
www.meatmarketgallery.com

American Basement


Welcome to the good life
America welcomes you
and hopes you'll enjoy our many amenities
many of which ...
my, it's warm in here
it's warm outside
I got a tab going
just order
& leave outside

or go down the street
we're in the Basement of America now
the beer we got from upstairs
then we bring it down here
we're all loud
we're all drinking
we're all enjoying the music in this basement
everything on the walls points to France
but this is America
this is the Basement of America baybee
do you think the girls look like this in other countries?
well they do!
do you think the guys are this hansome?
syke!
America.

and hey she's cute there
and so is she and she and she
and I didn't even see the other 2 girls
at that 3 girl table

What?
just because I'm American?!
what you think because I'm American the world is under my thumb?
boop!
there's the nuke button
America baybee

I like that girl there
"dibs"
you can't call that
what "dibs" this is America beybe
oh you said "you called dibs"
this is America baybe!
maybe I should write that down
no I won't
yeah I did

sitting at the steps
I'm sitting at the steps I'm
sitting at the stepps I'm
sitting at the steps
people are waving
no one is dancing
wait
bump bump bump
bump pun ump

11/30/2006

A Triad of Formulaic Circumstance


Confidence seems to be
half genius
half stupidity

Genius may be
half confidence
half stupidity

Stupidity could be
half genius
half confidence

11/26/2006

Recessions for One


26 ounces in a single draft
well under $3
only a couple people in town
Van Halen is here
he's ruling the jukebox as we arrive
a man plays pool
by himself
AJ takes a drag from his smoke
and resolves to quit
we talk
about poetry
about getting on our way after these beers
about not much else

Transformer Gallery

presents the D'Steele Society of Advanced Poetics


D'Steel(e) Society of Advanced Poetics
-Dare to be brave.-
Come out and see us
Free @ 7 p.m.
Wednesday Nov. 29th
Transformer Gallery
1404 P. Street, NW

11/25/2006

Age of Independence


The Age of Independence
The Age of Independence
calls for
The Age of Independence
calls for a party
The Age of Independence
calls for a party
w/ dancing on the 8th flr
of a place I've never been to
before
The Age of Independence
is not me
The Age of Independence
is
younger
drunker
happier
more awake



Fringe Age


an old woman and a young boy walk down the sidewalk
both feeling they have a responsibility towards the other
both proud of that responsibility
there is no age of independence to be found

Black Friday Happy Hour


Out and celebrating life w/ friends
the time is going fast
We know each other an extra year
each time we raise our glass


11/24/2006

The Family Holiday of America


Riding out to celebrate a holiday of food and thanks
riding through the suburbs to a turkey
in the suburbs of America
Out here I can see my breath in the cold
and it's red white and blue
out here all birds overhead are Bald Eagles
and buffalo and cowboys wander along the highways



Here I can walk into anyhouse and have a home
this is the suburbs
and this is America
sometimes we get lost in cultisacs
but we take our time
it's Thanksgiving
in America
and we are on our way to see an American Family
And eat a turkey
the anti-eagle
My friends of friends I've never met are there
and there are more on the way
when all are present we begin to pray
a couple people leave the room
this is America
any belief goes here
when the prayers are over we eat the food
and praise it too
here in the Colonies
we eat their hearts out with
ham & turkey & adobo pork & squash & potatoes & noodles
everything swims in gravy and sauce on my plate
& down my throat
red white and blue
fills my stomach and makes me fall asleep
on a floor in a home I've never been in before
and when I wake up I sit up
from behind the couch
and I am surrounded by a Big American Family
This This This This This
this is America
And This this is Thanksgiving
America,
thanks for
food family & friends


11/22/2006

The Airport of America


Riding the escalators all day in the Airport of America baybee
watching the watches under the counter
where are we going to see art?
to see the Streets Of New York?
right here in America?
the capitol city of the world bay-bee
NGA, the Airport of America baybee
sandwiches are $10
coming to you live from 4th Street NW
are there steps over here?
of course this is America we have steps everywhere
big Ivory, Marble staircases
We art walk everywhere
with our hands behind our backs
Artwalking in America baybee!
the Airport of America Baby



rain snow or cold
look out that window
it's hot outside
this is America
Bay-Bee
Coming to you live from the streets
from right off the streets of America
We are tourist on our own tour
this is America
our car is made of Granite and Marble
and we have the biggest buses too
we are Americans
we are in America
At the Airport of America Baybee


Breakfast in America


The recycling is all over the floor because there is no place for it
The heat is off it's cold and I'm coughing
in running pants and other clothes I found on my floor
My coffee pot only makes 4 cups at a time ensuring a fresh cup everytime
Half of the house is at work the other half in bed
The yogurt I ate was incredibly cheap and I have eggs too
I turn off the furnace to calm Freddy Kruger a couple runs from Starbucks
standing on the porch people are sniffing a man is sniffing
the bus stops at a light a girl wipes her eye the pause becomes a metaphor
the stairs creek
the roof leaks
the news is always bad
This is Breakfast
Go America Bay-Bee!



This is America
everything has a remote
I wish my coffee cup had a remote
I would send it to get more Half&Half
instead we drink coffee in the kitchen like a family
like the Bearenstein Bears
The cops are patrolling outside
did I mention this is America Bay-Bee?
(I should have a job coming up with catch phrases for the troops in Iraq)
Still reaping the benefits of my forefathers
I was raised by TWO gay couples
anything goes
This is America Bay-Bee!