#74
This is your life!!!! Well it's my life & it was his life & it could of been your life! Right, Lavin? We are livin. There's a whole lot of magic with this, and I can't say I should be surprised, though I am.
I changed the title of this poem many times. In this episode, the world meets Zuzu, the water juggler. How funny to juggle water. Perhaps wilder, if you watch the film, Diamond Horseshoe, you will be overwhelmed by an abundance of blue. I added "Sea" to the "Horseshoe" because of the ocean n also because my ex boyfriend was obsessed with seahorses, but in the end the seahorses did not make it in. I wanted horses on the horizon where the sky meets the sea, but I could not get the imagery right, and I decided to cut it.
Water is in this poem about the past. There was so much water when i lost him to an uncontrollable force of GOVERNMENT. Definitely the strangest breakup I have ever been through. America told my boyfriend he could no longer stay in this country, and we were split up. To try and make sense of this world, we did DMT together with friends at a beach. I decided to filter the experience through this episode of The Muppet Show, as 4 an amphibian creates DMT.
When I met my ex boyfriend, I was working at a 24 hour diner in San Francisco called Sparky's. It had an 80s retro vibe where the jukebox ruled. Linda Lavin's Alice worked at Mel's Diner through the 80s. In this poem, all the italics are references of 80s songs. One can interpret within the poem that these are lyrics being played at the beach on a boom box. Here's the lowdown: the first two, and "jolly fellow" are connected only through The Muppet Show, but the rest were hits you might have heard on Sparky's jukebox. I actually distinctly remember "Lucky Star" playing at The Lexington Club on one of our dates, and I specifically called him, "my lucky star" (I'm so clever). I've told him before, and I'll say it again to no one, my ex also happens to look like Prince, and Le Petit Prince was a thing between the two of us. I included a line of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which synced because of The Frog Prince.
"mighty cold" - in reference to the U.S. Navy Seals: "I Don't Know, But I've Been Told..."
"you've got possibilities" — show tune of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams for It's a Bird.. It's a Plane... It's Superman performed by the lovely, Linda Lavin (...as well as Gertrude (...check M'blog 6/21/20))
"let's hear it for the boy" — Deniece Williams, recorded '83, released on Valentines day '84
"maniac & she's dancing like never before" — Michael Sembello, '83, used in Flashdance
"control" — Janet Jackson, '86
"heaven is a place on earth" — Belinda Carlisle, '87
"jolly fellow" — Marie Antoinette, 18th century
"would die 4 u" — "I Would Die 4 U," Prince, '83
"lucky ur star"— Madame X, '83
"nasty" — Janet, '83
(my baby knew)
You can too!
Read the poem
in Another New Calligraphy's Impossible Task
with it's new title as the link:
(thanks to my brother, Matthew)