3 Poems
Macaroni
Dans la rue
Des etrangers
Il y a des voyageurs. . .
Ahora
Me gusta George BushWhy?
Porque
El quiere dar anestia
A los indocumentadosI have other concerns
El gobernador
No me quiere
Pero
El presidente si. . .
Comment va
Bon amiCa va bien
Yo tambien
Yo quiero estudiar
La geografia
Quiero ir a FranciaLe monde
Se revuelve
I walk in the flood
After Paul Hoover*
(In the Postmodern)P[raxis
Encompassing
Mainstream culture
Model of Writerly
ConsciousnessPan[optic] death
Of
God and the AuthorNarcissism
Sentimentality
Self-expressiveness
(Insert criticism)
Neo-romantic
Intense casualness
an ongoing process of resistance to
mainstream ideology
(Insisting on the inevitable)Heroic betrayal of the bourgeois self
Symptomatic of prepare for irony
the loss of individuality in a consumer society
(or the proletarian juggernaut)Mimesis
Self concealing
Appropriation
becomes a reigning device
Transcendental signifiedDeconstruction
Of expression
(The illusion)
*Some of the phrases in this poem were borrowed from Paul Hoover’s introduction
to the Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry.
May the Lord Beseech You
Strain witch
Zaftig numerologist
Listening to glinting
WhistlesMiss Terry
With your toesSkirt hitch
Zoroastrian cosmologist
Biting the inkling
ThistlesRolling river
With your travelling woesTimely stitch
Zoological epistemologist
The twilight’s twinkling
EpistlesIntimate squink
With holy hoesThe winter twig
Tangles
Its fluffy foesAmen