beauty and the chump change
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		i think
		you are
		the sole creator discoverer of michigoose
		pretty pretty name

		okay.  but tell me why so
		michigander begs for a pun
		why did it take me years myself to at last
		pluck at a michigoose?

		and what about that ugly orwellian -- trademark --
		viagra

		right out of a sordid fuddyduddy british yesterclassic
		of a world gone wrong and totalitarian

		and everyone bought it instantly -- sold!
		without blinking -- blinkers on  -- blinders on --

		what is happening to my kin
		why am i so out of step
		what is happening to our skin
		why is this lexical leperville

		vagina rearranged is viagna -- si, claro 
		niagra prodigiously spews its rolling rollin
		now a monstrously white -- of jism-water
		a gargantuan ejaculation for few and far between
		sperm
		attempting the crossing -- in aged oak caskets
		or just fucken tightrope walkin on by
		suspended precariously in latex...

		an image that gives and gives
		is giving -- niagra falls -- a black welt of
		a woman fist-beaten for father's father's sake

		from animal/wife husbandry to medical researchry
		marching in place and in step

		these are the obscenities of our time
		these are the crudities to make existence
		a cosmic joke or someone else's in your face

		fart.  how dare they how could they how powerless
		we are.  as niagra falls so does niagra falls.
		like taken geese.  like the peaceful snuffed people
		who gave michigan their own name and got oblivion for 

		chump change.


			Marek Lugowski / Karla Rogers
			8 November 1998
			Chicago, Illinois / Mountain View, California