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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1031302-A-Great-Big-Shining-Star
Rated: GC · Book · Arts · #2270145
~ in the neck is low tech, through the heart is high art ~
#1031302 added April 25, 2022 at 2:39am
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A Great Big Shining Star
April 25: Music — write a(nother) poem in response to a particular song or larger musical work (or, alternatively, to a jukebox situation connected to “drunken barroom layabouts” to quote Harlow Flick)


I have seen Miss Clarietta
(in two dimensions, as a vision)
riding round on her lambretta

dancing to Miss Clarietta's Rag
reimagining cloth remnants in my bag
I would make Miss Clarietta

as a piece of naive sculpture
satin, kapok, chicken wire
with a great big shining star

to show her where you are
tinfoil, tinsel, isobar
lovely flowers of crepe paper

features of her stocking face
are painted on like make-up, lashy,
lips of carmine tart & trashy

dress of second-hand magenta
poet sleeves a-dripping lace
diamantes in the centre

nylon tresses, nests of hair
piled high, a tower, with messy spill
& pinned-in plastic flowers

she's the queen of mountain magic
on a ruby-red lambretta
please send her the love you've stored away

now that you've seen the queen, Miss Clarietta













with a very cheap webcam

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