Lamentation 5 - The Faithful Bewail (by Steven B. Smith)
Smith3 - foto by Steven B. Smith
Lamentation 5 - The Faithful Bewail As Eye and I went walking
And Eye and I were talking
Eye on I was watching
So shake your booty Buddha boy
Can’t you spare a paradigm? For me wanna marijuana
And me wanna do the dog
Bow the wow to shady lady
Leap and lap her fire log
Oh let me be your poodle boy All aboard the Cardboard Express
Fresh in fresh sin and absolution
You can keep your Hallelujahs
Let me have my Loch Ness Jesus
Nam myoho renge kyo Oh yes
It’s all tits and toothpaste
A test tease totality
In textbook time But I am not bothered by grace
Why watch the dead rework the living
Embalm our worst in overtime
Famous faces in golden places
Never look to me
To see Zen flesh-less-ness to be
Serpent servant sorrows sire
Brags big broths in briny bowls
But aftermath of meat belief
Is math to meat retreat
Though Eye and I not talking
But Eye on I am watching
So do your duty Buddha buddy
Cue this cat to paradigm
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Posted by Jesus Crisis at 8/28/2008 1:15 PM 
Categories: Cleveland, Smith (Steven B), 1900s, 2000s, Writing, American
Categories: Cleveland, Smith (Steven B), 1900s, 2000s, Writing, American
This is so unlike anything else I've read but I think that is why I like it. LIke Shady Lady's recent writing it makes me have to think in a different way and I like that...
My two favorite lines are, "shake your booty buddha boy" because of the fine picture it painted in my mind, and " It's all tits and toothpaste"... because it made me smile... and that's always good.
Thanks for posting Smith's poetry here finally I would have been disappointed with Dr. Suess. :-)
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I would have posted him sooner, but his poems languished in my e-mail spam folder for a few days before I stumbled upon them. Good thing I checked... I sometimes dump my "spam" without looking through it. But I knew he'd promised to send some poems, and I was surprised I hadn't gotten them, so I went looking.
I find the "shake your booty buddha boy" line interesting because the first e-mail address I created upon my release from prison was shakeyourbuddha@comcast.net (it's now defunct, so don't send messages there... lol), several years before I knew of Smith or his poetry.
I don't think Smith knows this fact, and I'm pretty sure his reference has nothing to do with me. But I find the semblance of synchronicity intriguing.
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Oh. the Smith poem Shady Lady posted today on her blog I like alot too. I hope it is one that might make it into the on-line library maybe.... I have to come back with the title.. forgot my computer just froze and had to log back on... So can't access it quickly.. I'll be back.
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Here it is...It was in the blog, "This is the one that got me"...
titled..... DEAR OCCUPANTS, ACCIDENTS & OCCIDENTALS ... I think.
Hopefully it's something he sent you.
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I don't believe it's one he sent. But it is included in the Cleveland Poetry Scenes book you bought while you were in Ohio.
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you can use any poem i have, including the three from the cleveland poetry scene book.
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Thank you, Smith!
More will definitely be coming, then....
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