Flop Rap
for Bob Holman
The
Supreme Court is a flop.
Civil
Rights is a flop.
Divorce
& Crime, big flops.
The
Nuclear Arsenal is a flop.
He’s
a flop & he’s the Chief Executive!
And
his Handlers, they all flop.
&
the Corporations he represents,
nothing but flops.
Competitive
Edge a flop.
International
Markets a flop.
Public Radio & Cable News, just flop x
two.
Free
Speech a flop.
Newspapers a soft-porn flop.
Photo-Ops
flop.
Censorship a flop.
What
a flop Central Intelligence.
Architecture of Thought, an artificial flop.
National
Security Association, a telecom flop.
Creaky
Health Care skeletal stench goes flop.
Pursuit of Money, perhaps your fatal flaw.
Automobile-Recording
Industry Complex
expensive ear-fuck
flop.
Toenails, a flop.
Gene
Patents, even scientists flop.
KKK great Aryan Nation flop.
Lynching
a flop.
Poison
Gas, a flop.
Skin,
a cancerous Ozone flop.
Abstinence,
another Mayflower safesex flop.
Dirty
distortions about “Clean Power” flop.
Redwoods
climbing to nowhere, flop.
Earth
& Heaven, polluted flops.
Autumn––that
Time when Tough Daddy Death flops.
Trees
fall off their leaves with dyslogic flops.
Mountains
fall off their clouds––irrational flops.
Stars flop, fall off inky-blueblack
hole Swings.
Each generation a flop.
Every Poem & Machine a flop.
You
plus the person you Love plus the thing you flee
= flop x 3.
That One to be next to you in the Grave.
Flops,
those that will of you dine someday.
Everything
changes & everything flops
Flop
goes Memory.
Untruth
flops True
&
me a flop.
Me a flop too.
20
October 1991
[Published in Grasslands.
© 1994 by Jim
Cohn.]
