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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

foreplay (baseball?)

(from 2006 - some notes, some poetry)


foreplay.

baseball.
we cried in that japanese basement. work was finished,
we had no home
no home to go home to.

i dreamed of BASEBALL.
hold up that mighty bat.....
boys dream of this moment.
i swing , i miss....swing, miss....swing ,miss...

for some reason, this game makes boys into healthy men.

one time i dated an old school, east village woman, carla.
in the 80's,
she told me,
she had had
the best ass
on 2nd avenue.

we met late one night at that coke bar, 119,
near union square.
the bar staff where i worked
used to go there after closing.
for a while, 119 became a habit.
women waiting up late, for something... i would wait ,too.
looking back, i know there was no point in waiting up past midnight at a bar.
most of those folks needed some kind of drugs. i just wanted to meet a girl.

with carla,
uplate that night.
just staying up late....waiting....
a few days later, we agreed to meet on a sunday afternoon,
at her old haunt walkers in tribeca.
it was the world series. one of her few healthy pursuits was baseball.
we watched the whole game.
this was 15 years ago, so i don't think the yankees were in it...
after beers,we went to her place

it's true. the great game of baseball is also great foreplay!
i should have said 'this was great'. we'll have to make a date for the same time next year. we'll watch one of these baseball games together, have a few beers, go back to your place.

it was never the same after that. another date or two. just wasn't the same without baseball. i think that's why she would go out late,hope for drugs....

Saturday, January 24, 2009

GO GROOVY

GO GROOVY.
thoughts turned to obama
and pepsi's multinational campaign
to
GO GROOVY.
but they couldn't quite find the groove,
mistepping
every
step
with phrases like
HO HOWDY.
they should have hired me
with my playful lyricism.
so i'll turn this into
A POEM FOR JULIE.
(like a song, and clap for accent after each word)
JULIE......
GO GROOVY........
it's not a gravy.........but it could be/
please don't tell me......... that it's pepsi/
what it could be.........is your birthday....

(now back to the poetry, the music turns off)

hey julie
go groovy
it's not a gravy
but it could be
please don't tell me
that it's pepsi
what it could be
is your birthday

__________

GO GROOVY trademarked 2009 by jimmy carbone, sorry pepsi