Note; This was about one of my passions prior to meeting my wife.
I’ve only had one passion since we met in 1988.
Looking for love on all the wrong beaches
The past and future at one time
at the ocean
I stood in the harsh wind-rain
and swore
I was Jesus
but I couldn’t find Mary,
she had met a sailor and was,
at the moment I saw the scimitar-shaped gleam of silver light
in a cheap grease hotel
on the Admiral Wilson Boulevard,
inserting quarters
into the Denco
Toy
Bed
- In the time it takes to write this scream
universes may be won or lost
I want to speak to you and
make you my new you
I want to speak to you
and tell you words
and, oh yeah, listen to who you are, as opposed to my fine fierce fancy of you
(You cannot be her; That Winter Universe is lost.)
and listen to who you are;
will I
let
me
3) I mentioned
Diane Arbus to you
She snapped photos of me
before I was born
We know this
I am a chameleon
around you
I will be soft
be cause
you will let this in me out
around others
I will be hard
because
they will let this me, in me, out
around me?
There’s not any me I remember
4) At the Ocean
I was Jesus-Dracula
im paled
in haled
after him
there is one
someone else
I think
I read this on a rock
or a rack
now is it time
to meet
him
this new him
this old him
this cold him
who
still
lives
here
This was originally written on 6-9-86 and revised 6-26-86
and worked on throughout October
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About bobsmall1
Bob Small has read at Bacchanal, Barnes and Noble, Borders,
The Booksource (Swarthmore), The Clark Park Festivals,Community College of Philadelphia
Highwire Gallery, The Mad Poets Annual Food Fest Reading,
The Middle East Restaurant, Nexus GalleryThe Painted Bride Arts Center,
The Philadelphia Ethical Society, Robin's Bookstore
The University of Pennsylvania and also in New York City,
Trenton, NJ, Washington, DC, and in many Delaware Valley Venues.
He is the author of numerous chapbooks, including
El Otro Lado (with Maralyn Lois Polak), On watching America Die,
Small Steps and Toes (with Lamont B. Steptoe), and The Unapoet.
This is his first Reading in over a year.
Bob Small was Founder and President of the
two decades old Poets and Prophets,
which presented Poetry Readings
in both Delaware County and Philadelphia.
Bob was the Chair of The Delaware County Green Party and was the
First Green Party Candidate in Delaware County (2005).
He was also a Green Party National Delegate, among other duties.
He is the Founder and Facilitator of
The Pennsylvania Ballot Access Coalition (PaBac),
which is a Coalition of both Independents and Third Parties.,
seeking to legislatively improve Pennsylvania's Ballot Access Laws. (Facebook)
Bob is also a founding member and
Facilitator of Democracy Unplugged, and Delco Debates,
which has presented Independent and Third Party Forums in Delaware County since 2004. Facebook)
He was formerly involved with Cinema Resistance, and Delco Pledge of Resistance.
Bob currently lives in Swarthmore with his wife
and their menagerie of animals.
He is currently focused on writing a Novel and organizing his Poetry, which he posts on his Blog (Bob Small1). He is retired from most of the above activities, except Delco Debates and Poets and Prophets, which he may return to.
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