Landscaping America

We are American landscapers
rolling through The Suburbs in our truck
Scoping out the Sweet Piney Oaks

the NEW HAMPSHIRE mart

Hey baby Hey Sweetie
Hey Pumpkin
could you go over to
the New Hampshire mart and get
some Corn Beef Hash
some Half & Half
and a 12 pack of ying ling Beer
(Oldest Brewery in America)

American Sidewalk

standing in the sun
on the sidewalk of
the Blvd of American Presidents
looking South
looking N.
looking good
everything's looking good here
this is America
it's newer than before
always is

American renaissance

"New Rome" the Renaissance of America
the blood of American Creativity Baybee
In the Capital of America Beybe
Our Art in buildings
Our People in tunnels
traveling under the ground
in happy families from different Places
here collecting under the Capital of the world
riding on seats through tubes
How do we create?
American
Ingenuity
Baybee
How do we speak?
in English Baybee
American English
Obnoxious
Arrogant footprints
American Art
in America
and elsewhere
Artwalk baybee
in America
bay
bee

Re: your poem

thanks,

maybe you could buy me the link

www.IhateMikeCorcoran.com

yeah baybee

went to frank days house last night

did a little beer drinking

a little drink dancing

spilt shit on the floor

was loud and obnoxious

mission accomplished

when I drink beer alone
I am by myself
when I drink coffee by myself
I am lonely

American Mom

I called my American Sister today
the one with the horses down in Florida
yeah she told me my our mom was in the hospital
she went in tuesday but she just told me today
funny like how when I was in Kandahar and I told my mom I was still on the ship
but my sister told my American mom though
she always tells
she told me she s in and out
she told me she might have trouble talking from the pain
medicine
(what the f@#k!!)

Oh my American Mom called me today
at first I didn't know it was her
she sounded so young
I imagined her young
it was her nurse
she told me her arms were like puppets
the nurse helped her with the phone because she can't feel herself holding the phone
This is my American Mom
the one who used to hold me
the one who joined the Navy out of high school for a couple years during the Korean war.
the one who's Scot-Irish and German
worked in steel mills too
My American Mom is an American Woman who made two American Women
my sisters
she made two American Men too
But now she can't make it out of bed really
And my American Sister down in Florida fed her breakfast today
I told my mom how it's Dec 1st and I'm wearing a t-shirt in the Capital here
how the leaves are collecting on my street between the row houses
and how the wind spirals the leaves into our red white & blue sky
"That looks beautiful Honey"
It is mommy

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

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

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