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2 poems by Joe Eldridge

6/6/2013

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Songs of my Father from the ’60s to ’80s

Commie in a crate

in a crate in a crate
Commie in a crate 
of Carling Black Label

birch hand-carved 
peacekeeper clubs 
Vacation Bible School
macaroni Jesus 

not a survivalist 
not a supremacist 
blackout curtained
towel-stuffed doorjamb

subterranean
neighborhood meetings 
bearbaiting Ruskies
Leninists/Stalinists/

Khrushchev/Brezhnev/
Cherenkov /Gorbachev 
calling Youth for Christ 
kill Soviets kill

pussycat/tomcat faster, faster 
nyet to re-education 
gulag archipelago
detente perestroika 

& mine HUAC Daddy—please 
Mr. Wallace-Nixon-Reagan 
tear down your wall
tear down your wall. 


Year IX 

What a queer switch—the triangle not pink
but as black as his hair after a box of L’Oréal # 2

Shakespeare’s “to thine own blah blah blah”
is red; can’t tell if cloisonné or enamel 

Plus he wouldn’t know Polonius even if Polonius popped
out of an arras & plunged a knife into his heart 
for a much needed comic twist. 

He shares: cliché cliché slogan cliché 
unexpected aphorism
back to cliché (wait for applause) 
wrap it up: slogan cliché 

one flip—thumb under index finger—there’s the prayer

& suddenly he’s god again
doing standup comedy 
complete w/ flop sweat 
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