Jessica
Freeman
Working Note
More than once its been said quote
Art is art
Everything else is everything else
Everything else bores crap out O me/has over half a century
from New Orleans Dizzy Spit
ASSBUST FOR BUCKS
GOLD DUNG FLIES
ESPOUSE MAD COW
BOW DEEP THRICE
from lundi gras un deraillement
BELOW DECK TAUT WIRE
EARLY DARK
EXPLAIN RAIN
hydr peroxide blond fine-tune rootball z::
mulch poison ivy a-twines stuckup jujube
mouth one juj bee aftr nothur 25¢ matinee
Perjorative Everybody wants to have a say
centrafugalrevival half kilo kilo gram
I leave off hoe a-hoy! say there, red-head,
iron, darn, patch, seven gardenia blossoms
les bonbons eskimo pie held fast each hand
paper fan [tarpaper hail Laredo Texas 78041
pill bus redeeewhee mexico pachuca s.a.
pill nil$ thrill set aside fans wolf lo pill
no. 92775408.74 XXXX6.02 ‘them’ what want
their say butter em up brace for Longhaul
& mess round flannel work shirt cake lather
shave kiss miss ofelia insurrect buzzword
reread Vitezslave Nezval & Andre Breton &
ILIAR TERRITORY MIDBREATH LIAR LIAR LIAR
And, [just] to prove it, Tovar Albert
Lilianna Jere Heather Carolyn Kip Erik
Steve Bogan Eugenio Syd’s brother Wayne
Alyssa Renata Charlotte God A-mighty each
every one a liar K.C. Trey Reese Larry Mary
lie in wait lil white lies thru snowey
bleach-white incisors lie lie tenacious
fender dent repar ram reenoff inside lanes’
blue moon bleu
from New Orleans Dizzy Spit (Anabasis, 2000)
(Thanks to Thomas Taylor of Anabasis Press for permission to reprint the poems from New Orleans Dizzy Spit)
$ hello
$ hello
easy come easy go
Pay through fleur-de-lis nose
Rapids shoot sandbar navigable
Savannah grasses mark
High infant mortality rate low
Interest lower earnings
lift yoke
fund rum distillery open lift
rum barrel
monetary unit’ll perch atop red ink
herd hail Fellows well met
Freebee gift horse
Chafes bit
Labour taxes’ elbow leans right
Paper loons & fireworks demur
Inconvertible paper
Dinner parties graft tip
To worthless
Gratuity qui paie ses dettes
s’enrichit
America
Ain’t miser in sight
American know-how: debt by fiat
French the rich man is one who pays his debts
shiny gold fly upon manure
40 degrees passion nil
off to the races God, yeah,
a mammal
a streambed’s unrequited zither
oboe Concerto D Major
Intermission harpsichord viola
violin cello pair
Sweet talk Remy Martin talent’ll
test drive phantom gangplank
here, hear,
D-Day bric-a-brac
romantic outre off limits
Allegro con brio giocoso
TelAmerican rangeland hindmost
shoo fly
shoo fly
don’t bother green epaulets
fly, nest, linger itinerant
lissome damselfly
overdue take precaution
dungheap’ll smack of saffron-
yellow plumb-line New Orleans
Lisette Jeansonne
Writes leftist journal
Her rude mouthings
Her dewy brow
Her guarded smiles’ scared
Mission face bull boiling
Over with right wing nerve
till Dante Street crams
Message deep inside
hip pocket
Red hanky’ll beep cow-catcher
till Brazilian Usina Barcelos
renames mother’s
milk vodka tonic
till Lisette drips from
stigmata gore
throw money out
the window
throw bairn outside hearing
range collect purse or silk
ear galley proof
pads bullring barefoot
nasturtium petals’
leavetaking nuzzles
olive eye
and applause (rapt
and jimson weed highly toxic
Monster tidal wave escapes
Fog horn looks out
Presses bright enamel icon
Against Pantokrator upon us
Rants intermitte
Tam ni pou tam ni be
Tam ni pou tam ni be
Son O Bitch hurricane season
Upon Dominican headquarters
A day past April Fool Day
Communion holy oil leaps
Fiddler plays mean bow
Vacant eyeglass frame looking
Upon air pocket & false heaven
Rid of old gook-layers
Leonardo’s Last Supper
Offering up black yoke
To devil
from lundi gras un deraillement
A throwback limps lists
to port Orleans it’s Kwanzaa
kids test drive Santa scooters
guzzle coconut mild Zulu away off
St. Joseph street barge wrestles white-
cap kaolin
! quaff sea air quicken vomit
heave astern overboard
Picadinhos de Carne bean cakes
Enroldadinhos Stewed green papaya
Obviously figurehead Brazilian
Atavistic prow peeling rustbucket
to gain admittance
mess cook ‘Bolo’ winks eye indigo
prow blunderbuss
read flag
Order & Progress
looks not kindly on latterday Beats under
contract underneath zinc bar. A pallbearer
co-chairs reading showcases deep south
Salon des Refuses Irish Channel. Eavesdrop
nude picks up sarde a beccafico [bird turd
dirty shoulder cold [[rank amateur bard
is fighting to control mike. Ingwerson’s
vanity press chapbook doodle peptalks
Earthiness tippytoes past register &
abacus pees against iron grille breaks New
Orleans ordinance 91b4]] outside prelate
hurries head down against November gusts as
microphone falls into Vajna’s right hand.
Jimmy Swaggart paces sanctuary
collection’s gold plates mirror rants
faux tongue-cheek-chants downright
Devilish [Satan on muleback a-comes
comes vigil eucharist be damned
spy station offshore Cuba hangs
‘shut flusso’ sign over latchkey hole
quid pro Treaty gone ballistic
down Bluebonnet bereavement & quickie
baptisms [sheep dip bath coattails
flip coat tales ride up buttock saddle
sore five doors up from shoe shop
torrential rain dams fjord to hell
& back Alleluja
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