Drum Rider: Tribute to Bi Kidude, by Shailja Patel, a beautiful woman |
Drum Rider: Bi Kidude PoemIn response to all the requests I've received for the text of Drum Rider, the poem I performed at the Zanzibar premiere of As Old As My Tongue, and at the World Social Forum ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:34:00 GMT |
slam |
Car brakes screech fast
Beating powerful bassline
A door slams.
A girl's laughter turns into
Sirens in the dark, moving fast
Another door
slams.
Car horns are giving way t...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:24:00 GMT |
A Story |
Once upon a time, there were nine giant astronauts from the planet Zurg. They'd been sent home because they fucked with the rulers leading Turkmenistan on Earth. However, the rulers were extremely nai...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:08:00 GMT |
James Joyce is in my head and |
James Joycs is in my head and
A white oppossum picks carefully through the yard but
Sorry oppossum there is nothing there
But magnolia plants and mulch and seashells
Dragged here from some coast
We ar...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:02:00 GMT |
the results of landscaping duties and extrospection |
No ladybug can get you in here,
little Aphid.
Who are your fiery cousins?
They seem to swarm.
I burnt my forehead today;
It hurts alot.
L...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:34:00 GMT |
No false wet windy cage |
I feel dangerous sitting by the window during this. These winds swish around menacingly, Threatening to become the Jack-in-the-boxes of my trip. Yes, they want to eat me. Daring me even to look out th...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:22:00 GMT |
Hula-Hoop |
You predicted her downward spiral But she's really going side-to-side And 'round and 'round. And she feels her locus of control To be internal, although she's hollow, Flinging 'round several active bo...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:19:00 GMT |
Sharpie thoughts |
If you could just support me as much as my bra does and random new friends who believe in me, maybe we'd be cool. If you didn't have this vision for my life and just accepted what I say, I'll promise ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:12:00 GMT |
The Warning / Mad Life / Ode to Whomever Gets Close to Me |
Will you swim upstream with me? Discuss anti-ideals? And jump off mausoleums to celebrate our lives? Make love in the rain, Say no to our parents, Read Salinger and worship Radiohead? I promise I won...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:02:00 GMT |
for the catfucker |
etc etc blasi blah... The ants go marching two-by-two! Hurrah! Hurrah! The very word "hurrah" has me paralyzed in a state of new glamorous view of the charms of grammar. At the same time; shocked, ele...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:47:00 GMT |
