CALOKIE
Here
comes Gertrude Stein--
Queen
of Pasadena Library’s daily Doo-Dah Parade
riding
in
her “rose is a rose is a rose” float, followed by Walt Whitman
high-strutting
before
Redwood Chainsaw Massacre Marching Band
chanting
“PIONEERS, O
PIONEERS!” and Cleopatra in front of Langston Hughes
singing
“
AMERICA...” from a Nile River gallery deck over
smiling
Uncle
Tom and Simon Legree as they pull oars before Bukowski
washing
in
four-wheeled bathtub with cockroach metamorphosed Gregor Samsa
inline-skating
on
six legs behind the dirty old man! Fortunately portly clown Falstaff is
unicycling
with
mucous scooper behind Gregor. Oh my! Emily Dickinson at funeral is
popping
out
of her casket to swat fly she hears
buzzing
over
her--Hey! Ezra Pound’s in a 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 Langston Hughes again
singing
“
AMERICA.” Can you believe this? Scrooge dressed as Santa is
throwing
$1,000
bills from his bag to the crowd while Babbit is
fighting
Tiny
Tim for one of them. Look--Romeo’s at a balcony
French-kissing--
Good
golly--Mrs. Molly Bloom! Wow! Watch J. Alfred Prufrock
measuring
out
his life in coffee spoons followed by Joseph Conrad
driving
Congo
River boat deep into rainforest before who but Langston Hughes on rowboat
singing
“
AMERICA.” Does he ever know his rivers? And in grand finale,
Allen Ginsberg
directing
the
Beat Poets’ HOWL-e-lu-jah chorus!
I
LOVE THIS PARADE!
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