steve smith
steve smith is a cleveland-based artist, poet & publisher.
his artcrimes series is one of cleveland's longest-running literary
projects. www.agentofchaos.com
Night Fragment
As has been said
The night weighs upon the city
In tired, fat insolence. Rat scurry.
Old papers flap down empty streets.
It is an ugly season. Full.
Day slouches in, in shameless anonymity
Devoid of great chained excuses of being
A voided has been of god, notion and country.
Unfocused without, we hunt worms within
To bait further cold excretion of reason, rationale.
Refuse refusing our naked nothing.
Cautious.
Strip steal by night.
Zen Over Zero
Dog week later in kitchen pouring
Coffee into my veins with a dull cup
A daze of morals and Moses
Whines and Rosicrucians
It's raining cats and gods
And I am a fine unman
Cannibal Saliva
\Marijuana and Mozart on a Sunday morn
Plethora of complacencies
Of tongue, beard, bush.
Poets fall down.
Dream.
Drown.
Myth Amerika
O Red White and Blueeyed Lady, I am
But a fey ray in the King Kong of your
Clutch, a dank doodle dandy, Jekyll haired
Hyde. For to spite your apple laid Annies,
Your tacky plastic seams of care slighted
Bellies begatting sewer, catfish cauls,
You fed my me my folly, bled my need
Of calling.
Beshat,
of fox on Farley.
Promise Land
Greyhound bound
To Tupperware City
Light like liquid Zen
Wars time, tatters tight
As tight asses tie
Meat neat man to kine, kino
Contempt of course
Playing Plato's barn
Blue bloods
Stabilize fish at 7
Mime the maam
Bamboo cathedrals
In wondrous disarray
Just outside real
Where the fat
Flee frantic
Fleece feed the poor
Competing EXIT signs
Dance specific disease
Rude crude
Plus tax
Bouncing Betty's
Slouching Bethlehem belly
Slips on guilt
And splinters
Smith 2003
9 March 1946 / Wallace Idaho / 6' 3" / 175
1940s
spermworm cruising
1950s
farm boy cow milker chicken/rabbit/hog waste remover
hod carrier
1960s
paper boy
car thief
sailor
electronics technician
poet
USNA midshipman
artist
hippie
life insurance salesman
husband
1970s
chemist
prison cook
bankrupt
graphic arts salesman
avant-garde theatre manager
bethlehem steel extraman
college graduate
newspaper film/music critic
milkman
women's shoe salesman
divorced
computer operator
dealer
carnival laborer
adulterer
church janitor
1980s
programmer analyst
drunk
condo owner
publisher/editor
celibate
1990s
near dead
sober
european traveler
2000s
unemployed
agent of chaos
|
