Crazy Shirley Writes with Her Teeth, Lips and Tongue
When? says Crazy Shirley,
is the dreadlock on that bucolic
hot-giggle
Samson man
gonna just fall off?
He’s been dipping it in
beef stew and sugar
all day,
fahrenheit been hitting the top of the bulb!
He’s in a ubiquitous position,
’cause Bob Marley’s not in the general vocabulary
of this fraternity.
He’s kinda mucous-tasting and fecund.
His face? Chalk-white and he uses
a kitten in the morning for a wash cloth.
Hippopotamus?
Yeah
They’re heavy.
Sure.
And a goldfish is gutteral
while an owl
sorta chortles and
whooooooos.
I’m not that keen on bucolic,
but
I got a Ticonderoga tintype
that’s got the most fantastic hue!
A “sound” poem for dVerse Poets
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Bebop cool, Mama.
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Wow Judy
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Yep sounds a plenty here – ‘a hippopotamus is heavy…a goldfish is guttural, while an owl…’ – methinks Crazy Shirley is wise…
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Oh oh. Now she has a swelled head! As though there wasn’t enough in there already.
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Good fun
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That’s hip!
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I was swaying to the rhythm of this one!
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So was Crazy Shirley
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Way cool!
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I did a chapbook of Crazy Shirley poems years ago. I may resurrect some more of them..or perhaps not!
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This is fantastic! I especially like; “He’s been dipping it in beef stew and sugar all day,
fahrenheit been hitting the top of the bulb.” 🙂
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;o) Good for you. Weirdest line in the poem. You passed!
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The sound of the menagerie made me think of some Disney Silly Symphony
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Thanks so much for sending this, Björn. I used to love the Silly Symphonies and must have seen this one but had forgotten it and I love the details of ship building! Has to be my new favorite. I have to look up some others.
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Now that’s surreal
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I wrote a whole chapbook on Crazy Shirley 35 years ago. Yikes!!!
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