| SPINBUSTERS |
| Cultural Issues Minus the Spin |
| L. Bowie Patches, Foozler Poet-in-Residence, presents: |
| Tails of the Patriarchy |
| He�s crossing Oak Street in front of my brother's pickup with a pile of Street News under his arm, you know those homeless rags that morph into donation? Some kinda gremlins or sprites whatever dancing all around him like he's the goddam golden maypole, scrambling up his snotsleeve coat and crooning like shitpigs. I pull over. Sure, I'm gonna shrug when the Blarney Stone, Lourdes and Santa knock on my crib wondering uh, do I need anything today? Don't move, lemme get the lists!! Street News Street News he croons but that I always got what I need's a possession. Now I'm close enough maybe one a those iridescent munchkins might could trip and fall on me. Little holiday something I say, and slip him the green. He grabs me and hugs me, hops up and down and up, then thrice around we go, oh man he says oh man and those little fuckers rip through my chest. Now I'm the maypole too. Yeah it was calculated yeah it was selfish but I got mine. |
| "Rites of Spring: December 11, 1998" |
| Taking Back the WhupStick |
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