CaLokie
Here Comes Gertrude Stein-
Queen of Pasadena Library’s Doo-Dah Parade--
riding
in her “rose is a rose is a rose” float! Then Walt Whitman
high-strutting
before Redwood Chainsaw Massacre Marching Band
chanting
“Pioneers, O Pioneers...” Next--Cleopatra in front of Langston Hughes
singing
“America...” from a Nile River gallery deck and a
smiling
Uncle Tom and Simon Legree pull oars before Bukowski
bathing
in four-wheel bathtub with Gregor Samsa metamorphosed as cockroach
inline-skating
on six legs behind the dirty old man! Fortunately Falstaff is
unicycling
behind him with a mucous scooper and in front of Allen Ginsberg
directing
the Beat Poets’ HOWL-e-lu-jah chorus followed by Emily Dickinson
popping
out of her casket to swat the fly she hears
buzzing
over her--Hey there’s Ezra Pound in cowboy suit
hopping
along over a broom horse with his fascist gun in the West and
firing
blank verse bullets above a raft on the Mississippi
carrying
Jim, Huck and what’s this...? Langston Hughes again
singing
“America...?” Look--Romeo’s at a balcony
French-kissing--
Good golly--Mrs. Molly Bloom! Ah, Titania and amiable ass Bottom
whirling
in mad Midsummer Night’s Dream followed by Joseph Conrad
driving
river boat deep into the Congo--Can you believe it? Langston Hughes
singing
“America...” Does this guy know rivers or what? Here comes Moby Dick
holding
Captain Ahab and Ishmael
showing
banner, SAVE THE HUMANS! Omigod! J. Alfred Prufrock is
daring
to disturb the universe
I LOVE THIS PARADE!
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