"Gong Show" and "See Saw Margery Daw"

Gong Show  

How rank their run these con men who crowd in gangs, pawns too proud to see that dang orange moron. He has a plan to land us in calamity. He uses an app for that. Some conject this jerk has run a dang hellish con, that he is yellow to his core and will hand us a hand job, a poly-glot of not, of rank, of thankless revenge. A true con man, loud, the sum of slurs, sour apples, cannot drown out the gong sound. The app exists, for revenge, for rousting out the sound of his yelling ground swell, tearing kneeling teams apart in sour arcs of swart. You know the plan is to con us, to drown us in cum, mar our tank tops as we run. He has an app that flounders me in dopples, in gangers. Hello! I do not wish to linger. I dream of  revenge that rankles, of gongs bonging when the time is up. I have heard that you can download the app.

 


 

See Saw Margery Daw

 

so much
                                                                                                            dumb
                                                                                    dirt
sick
                                                                        deep cuts
                                                cut
                        cut
slash                                                                     Johnny shall have a new master

 

                                                 fancy-dancy       t  "             rump  
            cata-cut                                                                          but
cu    t
           c    u       t
                                                            Oval                                         man
                                                                                                man
                                                                                                            that
                                                                                                            can
't
rump
gut                                                                   trills                                        dolls
                                                                                                  make him
                popu​
                           lar
                                                        Johnny shall earn but a penny a day

ready
                                                hacksaw                     saw
                                                            will                                                    still
                                                                                                                                    bill
t,         rump
                                                                    wipe
hungry                                                                              hand
                                                                             hastily
                                                                                                cuts
                                                                                                                        gold
                                                determined to miss
                                                                            Because he can't work any faster

 

 

 

Erasure poem from article in The Week March 31, 2017

 

 

Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios

Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios' award winning chapbook, Special Delivery, was published in the spring of 2016.  Nominated for a Pushcart award for 2019, she has poems published in various anthologies including Stories of Music, Love Notes from Humanity, Hudson Review, Poeming Pidgeon, Passager, NILVX, Unsplendid, Scissors and Spackle and the American Journal of Poetry. She is a Professor Emerita from American University, artistic director of the Redwoods Opera in Mendocino, California, and has spent much of her life performing as a singing artist across Europe and the United States.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Sunday, October 21, 2018 - 22:55