by Alan Britt
The Honey Dippers arrived at La Guardia safe & sound,
souls firmly implanted on the platform leading to a runway
that ran beneath NYC, a sewer of sorts, but prepared
to levitate the first 6 rows & cause the last 8 to shed
the cultural masks that depress them each morning
at the foaming mirror.
ῼῼ ῼῼ ῼῼ ῼῼ
For intermission they hired Lorca, Miguel Hernández,
Juan Ramón Jiménez & Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo
to keep the juices flowing.
ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ
Encore featured Duane, Eric & George on slide.
ж ж ж ж
But the Dippers, carpe diem, scooped up leftovers
from previous Thanksgivings as though faith depended
upon them, which it did, & polished them against a
Marshall amp wandering the stage like the short chap
in Waiting for Godot but, otherwise, out to bend, twist
& de-crucify the word called love.
Alan Britt read poems at the World Trade Center/Tribute WTC Visitor Center in Manhattan/NYC, April 2012, at the We Are You Project (WeAreYouProject.Org) Wilmer Jennings Gallery, East Village/NYC, April 2012, and at New Jersey City University's Ten Year 9/11 Commemoration in Jersey City, NJ, September 2011. His poem, "September 11, 2001," appeared in International Gallerie: Poetry in Art/Art in Poetry Issue, v13 No.2 (India): 2011. His recent books are Alone with the Terrible Universe (2011), Greatest Hits (2010), Hurricane (2010), Vegetable Love (2009), Vermilion (2006), Infinite Days (2003), Amnesia Tango (1998) and Bodies of Lightning (1995). Britt’s work also appears in the new anthologies, The Robin Hood Book: Poets in Support of the Robin Hood Tax, by Caparison, United Kingdom, 2012; American Poets Against the War, Metropolitan Arts Press, Chicago/Athens/Dublin: 2009 and Vapor transatlántico (Transatlantic Steamer), a bi-lingual anthology of Latin American and North American writers, Hofstra University Press/Fondo de Cultura Económica de Mexico/Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Peru, 2008.
Politically speaking Alan has started the Commonsense Party, which ironically to some sounds radical. He believes the US should stop invading other countries to relieve them of their natural resources including tin, copper, bananas, diamonds and oil. He is quite fond of animals both wild and domestic and supports prosecuting animal abusers. As a member of PETA, he is disgusted by factory farming and decorative fur. In addition asks, please boycott Ringling Brothers Circus until they stop using and abusing elephants for their bizarre form of entertainment called the circus!
Alan currently teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University and lives in Reisterstown, Maryland with his wife, daughter, two Bouviers des Flandres, one Bichon Frise and two formally feral cats.
Links:
http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/potw.html#fp1;
http://spectrumofpoeticfire.com/Reader%20Directory/Alan_Britt.htm; http://theliteraryunderground.org/wiki/index.php?title=Alan_Britt;
http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/morrison-on-saponia-and-britt/4556998367;
http://aliensareus.wordpress.com/ and
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=ttarezcab&v=001rUMZSB4OvtFAzyTcJtQzbO8B_vS9c5evaSstKkPGmEcjdmOOq3wQ7IplY9a_wMaJODvwC7O2R-lrmBto06w9uAel47rESQeVjSQeYdBJJC-pgeksV0L2VHkgsohQPsIy2LGwXnFwrfk%3D#LETTER.BLOCK6
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