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S.A. GRIFFIN
A Million Years Ago & Now (for David Lerner) the homeless are more in style than ever raving mad messages of death corrupt precious sleep & sweeten our breakfast people are fat with fear spilling over their belts & into their dresses riding ten feet over the truth everywhere their wheels can carry them soul assassins armed with shotgun dreams murder the malls & street corners with their well coifed cool money is still worthless the heart starves & the days stack one upon the other waiting for the fall as the war revels on with its hopeless celebration of grief so you see David, not much is different since you're gone but today The Last Five Miles to Grace flies into El Lay announcing the lavender spring & for awhile the day is transformed by the poem : a crush of verse like a rock star unfolding on the lips of innocent roses a tumbling scotch or golden San Francisco dressed in loose change winking in the sun & the world has gone fishing for the day S.A. Griffin is the author of Unborn Again (Phony Lid), A One Legged Man Standing Casually On Hollywood Blvd. Smoking A Cigarette (1989, Shelf Life Press), Heaven Is One Long Naked Dance (1993, Rose of Sharon Press), Twisted Cadillac: A Spoken Word Odyssey (with The Carma Bums, 1996, Sacred Beverage Press) and Co-Editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999, Thunder’s Mouth Press). |
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