3 Poems

Macaroni Dans la rue Des etrangers Il y a des voyageurs . . . Ahora Me gusta George Bush Why? Porque El quiere dar anestia A los indocumentados I have other concerns El gobernador No me quiere Pero El presidente si . . . Comment va Bon ami Ca va bien Yo tambien Yo quiero estudiar La geografia Quiero ir a Francia Le monde Se revuelve I walk in the flood After Paul Hoover* (In the Postmodern) P[raxis Encompassing Mainstream culture Model of Writerly Consciousness Pan[optic] death Of God and the Author Narcissism 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 signified Deconstruction 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 Whistles Miss Terry With your toes Skirt hitch Zoroastrian cosmologist Biting the inkling Thistles Rolling river With your travelling woes Timely stitch Zoological epistemologist The twilight’s twinkling Epistles Intimate squink With holy hoes The winter twig Tangles Its fluffy foes Amen