Selected Poems

Hermaphropoetics

from Solitary Workwoman

Part 3: Fire Clay
from The Joe 82 Creation Poems

Selections from
I am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter

Not Be Essence That Cannot Be



             Wild-Man & The Essence Of The Crystal X-Rays


                                 free
                              with death        the Power Project
will              c o n t i n u e
                                      rolling over &
                        crashing    s u b m e r g i n g
             life in Andorra
             quickening the
             babe fast
             into War wound
             existence
                           Voices on the Moon were heard
                       on Earth      the infusion of
                                  spice into the 
                               old easygoing 
                            exploited brown-skin 
                         race    spice is nicer 
                than   boasting chinese
                  Socialism/    sez FRANCE.    more Power! 
         more Meat!    more Spies!    more military coups! 
     more Zealots! 
                               that they are beginning to make
                    an effort     following the
                  clashes      the overthrowing       the
                third dose
             the time for body resistance to gory
                  peoples' protests.  Selah!

                                        & Wild-Man & General 
           stonewall jackson smelled out the sale 
        of rum
    & the meeting of black slaves   from Egypt & new raw 
 Bangkok                that the world faces
                  the man who the police say is the purple thief 
               the man who understands the problem 
            the Wild-man who WILL
                                  slay the owners of 
                              rubber trees & tin mines 
                          & plastic corn stalks/ 
     licentious Higher Education for the
     Coatzacoalcos indians
                                 the middle-class movement
                              into inspiration!
                                               the harmony in
                                           which a
                                      woman's position
                                               is determined by
                                           her praise of
                                                    crystal X-rays!