Eugene Ostashevsky Poems

Dear Owl
you have big eyes

feathers that stick in all different directions
you wake up
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He walks around walks around
DJ Spinoza

He looks like a circle
from which sticks out a snorkel
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DJ Spinoza
is a mighty wrestler

His angel is a book
He dreams he climbs
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Now the Lord said to DJ Spinoza,
Get out of your country!

And DJ Spinoza said to the Lord,
What country are you talking about, Lord?
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When his father lay dying
DJ Spinoza knelt before him in goatskins
and pretended he was someone else.
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Now the Lord God said to DJ Spinoza,
Baruch, are you there?

And DJ Spinoza replied to the Lord God,
Here I am!
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2.
When Morris Imposternak throws his round shield
Down during, say, the battle of Philippi or something

Who knows what poems, what true propositions
Will rise out of the sticky, fragrant loam?
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3.
When Morris Imposternak fell in love
The woman he loved didn't love him in return

And so he picked up a violin and said:
You, violin, respond to my application
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6.
Do not love
It is possible that nothing is true anyway

That we live in a forest of begriffons
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8.
Let us ask a question: Where have you been,
Morris Imposternak? Whom have you lied to

Again, and when? Among what arms, what legs
Have you remembered
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