On SUNDAY, 14 July the Next Objectivists will continue our collaboration with the Crisis Image Archive show. In the afternoon (1-4pm)
we will have typewriters set up in the APC gallery (2040 N. Milwaukee) & our poetypists
will be on hand to seek public responses to the images, transcripts of
which will become the basis for future workshop poems.
Remember that all events are FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us!Following are two poetic responses to images in the archive produced by the workshop in the last several weeks:
Paddle Shifting
Paddle
shifting boys through waters
In a suspicious blue
eyed trash hand slipping
Through wire - worth
said things
Rectangular rectum
gracious shades sweeten my taste buds
Sliding downwards
funny mustache
Oh - the cash. Vila
Campesina.
The slant is
incorrect, though meaning can arrive at many angles.
Almost alike. Her
head mirrored on the pot.
Though metallic; it
evens out. Not chilling.
Praying gaze, like a
sweet astonishment.
The ever so easy
protest. When you're young
it all resembles up
in arms. Tent city.
The odd posture of a
soldier in a docile mass of suits.
Oh, the '20s
Arab-Hispanic-hetero-crotch.
Media bias hard-on;
a wonderful case
of giving head
during an economic crisis.
The question mark
with no urinal, as expected.
Overhanging
dollar-tie, with people to spare.
EKPHRASTIC SONNET
Saint
Obama & the Wall Street worm
Watch in
horror as the world burns
Thunderbolt
stock reports threaten the Ark
Two dozen
tents pitched in a park
Total
Recall for Governor Walker
A screw
through the head of a middle-class boy
Latest
updates on the Wall Street shocker
The Piper
pipes; we dance for Joy
The cane
now poised to pull Shrub offstage
Governor
Ryan makes a final stand
A
patched-up Uncle Sam, hat in hand
While his
dog howls in fear & rage
A dollar
bill suffering an anxiety attack
They call
it class war when we fight back
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