Catherine will be available for biblio details and will have some of her
chapbooks when me and she read at Subvoicive feb 9, i believe.
best
Martin Corless-Smith
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alan Halsey wrote:
> It seems to be samizdat (no biblio details) rather than a pamphlet
> published & priced but Catherine Wagner's MAGAZINE POEMS plopped down
> from the USA on our doormat this morning & I find them mighty
> entertaining. An example:
>
> A POEM FOR HARPER'S BAZAAR
>
> Black caw gimme a gnaw
> I wore your underclothes
> Walked to the river and soaked my toe
> Down to the undergrow
> Nail gone, go callus, bonepull, raw
> You been eating too much too fast
> You fat and gassy and tepid
>
> You been silver and gold, you match
> You plaid metal up to the neckbridge
>
> And I I say been belted round
> With Virginia creeper
> And I been choked down marrow out
> And fed tinfoil till bloated
>
> We all sat round and watched TV
> That evening
> You had a cigarette the smoke was your halo
>
> Little storm in the skin
> Rushes out
> Bright house
>
> If I had a girl
> Who would speak through her gun
> If I had a print
> Of a coo or a caw
>
> A pale plaid print
> On a jubbly thigh
> A mayonnaise face
> And a switch of rouge
>
> La loony boyette
>
> doot doot doot doot doot doot
> la loony.
>
>
>
>
> --
> AH
>
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