Larry Lies

[larryrap]

Poetic license.

1st - The Spokesman
2nd - The Daily News
3rd - Missing
4th - Easter Weekend
5th - The Beam and the Barrel
6th - The Detour
7th - Hairless, the Musical
8th - ASMR
9th - Stump City
10th - The Great Extinction
11th - Why I Left
12th - Collected Poems
13th - Hair, Tel Aviv 2015
14th - Notes Towards Meeting the Other
15th - Early to Bed
16th - Run, My Child
17th - Aladdin's Cave
18th - When We Stood Tall
19th - The Musicians are Leaving
20th - The Noise
21st - Four Poems
22nd - The Secret Society
23rd - In Storage and Coming Down
24th - Late
25th - Memory of Fire
26th - Works and Days and Marrow
27th - Trigger Warning and Sue
28th - Start Over
29th - High Hopes
30th - Larry Lies

[billdozer]

Welcome Larry!

[PClem]

Let the games begin!

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

Larry
Is
Ready!
Really?
Yes!

Larry
Is
Entirely
Stoked.

BrianIs AtYou

[cookala]

happy napo!

[prokopton]

Shalom.

Been a while.

G.

[prooftheory]

This last one has the noirish feel of a Tom Waits spoken word thing. Very nice.

[larryrap]

Hey bop and proof, it's nice to rub shoulders with you.

[larryrap]

6th – The Detour

In this minor town which success has passed over,
which has survived the intrusion of a half-hearted mall and an upscale medical center,
a place one never seeks but only passes through, headed elsewhere,
which registers on GPS but not on the map of the mind,
nostalgia and longing have taken possession of me
and a litter of lazy demons stirs from sleep
to sneer at my unlived life.
I've often offered to cast them into a poem,
but they settle and say: "Leave us alone, we're legion."

[Dunc]

Larry

Daily News - nobody does it better. You have that power over the look and feel of the problem.

Missing - That's one hell of an elegy. Not least, I lay these words like trinkets at the mouth of a void, / filling nothing with nothing.

Easter Weekend - a rolling anapaestic tet advancing down the poem like a psychodelic wave.

The Detour, the town and the demons that reflect both it and you are effortlessly in symmetry. Very effective.

Your thread's always a treat.

Regards / Dunc

[larryrap]

Thanks Dunc, you're very good at bolstering my confidence.

[larryrap]

7th – Hairless, the Musical

It's about cutting one's hair in contempt,
a cell of regressives thwarted by the eco-police
before they poison the children.
The audience response is heartening, but wait:
the theater is inside a camp. All attend
by strict orders. "Science! Tolerance!
Unity!" they chant; fine footage
and vital to the cause, not for its truth,
but to protect the people's conscience
as we take it upon ourselves to serve
the accurate quota of firmness and mercy
so difficult, always, to explain.

.........I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated.
..........And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
..........And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."
....................Larry Grathwohl - No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism

[PClem]

Always nice to encounter your finely tuned cynic's voice. The Spokesman, I think, captures the desperation, confusion and cowardice inherent in the crumbling of an empire.
The Beam and the Barrel - love the scripture behind it and the grim realism - that baby, the scholars arguing a point of law, the dead donkey, all of it.

[cookala]

heya Larryette!
Easter Weekend - I like the theme of rebirth in this. running roll of sky and weeds swivel like pilgrims in chlorophyll bliss are awesome sauce. good sounds, diction and imagery. me likes!
Beam and Barrel - I like the madness and mayhem of this, chaos put to order in the telling (or rather, showing) you've a gift for describing dominoes and inter-connection of events.
Detour - yes. exactly. I feel this way from time to time myself, more so now since the cancer. so many things I want to, so many places to see, and so little time now to accomplish that. legion. exactly.

[larryrap]

Laurie, Brian, and cookalada - lots and lots of thanks.