Barbie Doll

This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.

Bleezer's Ice Cream

I am Ebenezer Bleezer, I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE, there are flavors in my freezer you have never seen before, twenty-eight divine creations too delicious to resist, why not do yourself a favor, try the flavors on my list: COCOA MOCHA MACARONI

The Blues

When the shoe strings break On both your shoes And you're in a hurry- That's the blues. When you go to buy a candy bar And you've lost the dime you had- Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere- That's the blues, too, and bad!

Candy Man

Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two The candy man, the candy man can The candy man can 'cause he mixes it with love And makes the world taste good Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh Soak it in the sun and make a strawberry–lemon pie The candy man? The candy man, the candy man can

Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan

They sent me a salwar kameez peacock-blue, and another glistening like an orange split open, embossed slippers, gold and black points curling. Candy-striped glass bangles snapped, drew blood.

Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceilings: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown Bananas, rotten peas, Chunks of sour cottage cheese.

My Groupie

I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4's finished when I heard a long high scream and a quite attractive young girl came running toward me long gown & divine eyes of fire and she leaped up on the stage and screamed: "I WANT YOU! I WANT YOU! TAKE ME! TAKE

Kaddish, Part I

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph the rhythm the rhythm--and your memory in my head three years after-- And read Adonais' last triumphant stanzas aloud--wept, realizing how we suffer-- And how Death is that remedy all singers dream of, sing, remember,

From On Being Fired Again

I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times— most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, another time by Jack, whom I was sleeping with. Poor attitude, tardiness, a contagious lack of team spirit; I have been unmotivated squirting perfume onto little cards,

A Visit To The Seaside

When we pay a visit to the seaside, We venture out onto the sands, And wiggle our toes in soft golden grains, And mould sandcastles with our hands. We so like to collect lots of seashells, Different shapes, sizes and hues, Houses that once belonged to sea creatures, In soft greys, pale beiges and blues.

The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me

'the withness of the body' --Whitehead The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his face, Clumsy and lumbering here and there, The central ton of every place, The hungry beating brutish one In love with candy, anger, and sleep, Crazy factotum, dishevelling all, Climbs the building, kicks the football,

Mama

here I am in the ground my mouth open and I can't even say mama, and the dogs run by and stop and piss on my stone; I get it all

A Cuppa Coffee With You

Bistros, Barristas, or Café Coffee My soul craves for coffee Our sorrows- a storm in coffee cup When we supped, Let them get engulfed For today, my turn Just to listen and burn Now come, and spell out your plea You ask if I want, Mocha, Breve, or Café Crèmes

Ave Maria

Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must

Candy Hearts Can Kill

CUTE ONE, BE MINE, LOVE ME Valentine’s day brings them out BE TRUE, KISS ME, HUG ME, Sayings candy Sweethearts shout Jumbled like a crazy quilt Field of pastel blossoms pink, orange, purple, green, yellow, white and now soft brown chocolate too Spill them out

Grandfather Says

"Sit in my hand." I'm ten. I can't see him, but I hear him breathing in the dark. It's after dinner playtime. We're outside, hidden by trees and shrubbery. He calls it hide-and-seek, but only my little sister seeks us

Reflections On Ice-Breaking

Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker.

Adorable Chocolate...

Adorable chocolate... melt me... melt me as a sweet candy... sweet chocolate...

(013) The Most Beautiful Lullaby Ever Written (Omanathinkalkidavo..)

Is this sweet babe The bright crescent moon, or the charming flower of the lotus, The honey in a flower, or the lustre of the full moon, A pure coral gem, or the pleasant chatter of parrots, A dancing peacock, or a sweet singing bird, A bounding young deer, or a bright shining swan, A treasure from God, or the pet parrot in the hands of Iswari* The tender leaf of the Kalpa tree, or the fruit of my tree of fortune, A golden casket to enclose the jewel of my love, Nectar in my sight, or a light to dispel darkness,

Manuelzinho

[Brazil. A friend of the writer is speaking.] Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)— a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me with vegetables, but you don't; or you won't; or you can't get the idea through your brain— the world's worst gardener since Cain.