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acts of the apostles
1. Salome
truly
she shimmers like a peacock's tail
in full whammy
and her mother sifts your ashes
out of her firebox
very lovely tall personages
2. the lockdown of the city
my friend the saxophonist
thinks it's a kazoo
somehow the architect fancies
his pottering a sweet new style
it is a new breed of the disease
Postmodern kitsch
3. maundering of the educationalist
bark of my career
in the stadiums of the great
behold I am he of the thumbs
up or down
let my pomp be extolled
4. America he says
is a thing of the past
it is old history
a hat you wear
in the ring
a somewhat proivincial type of
somewhat outré discourse
this rube
5. men in white
they rise and fall
into the snake pit
it doesn't help to be crazy when you're
working here
but you have to
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