“BAWL ON, BROWN MAMA and I VOTED FOR MONTGOMERY”
by Troy Baillargeon

bawl on, brown mama.  teach me

teach me bad things, whatlike mercury

drops in a pint of lager.  whatlikewhatlike

children been dropped on their heads.

our schools are better than this.  redwood

canteens full up of vinegar, them

lanterns.  shirley bee(elementary), you was a mystery

to me.  gat me an ontellectual complex.

backwoods dreaming.  dreaming people

actually talked like that.  there was no

brown mama.  there was no montgomery.

there was Though a jester tooth, a melancholy mutilator

touches a beachfeeding

                              and the animals die

touches the stream

            and he touches NO thing

                                                                                                          loose-

fitting pale greenDressshirt

           almost he almost never buttons properly

       and his eyes is fullasand

from ten thousands of yrsago,

                                                                                                          long since, glass.

                                               with his           with his testimonial whine pitch

playing jokes on allahus

whoa who he what was once a high standing citizen pursuing dayschool

now finds him a joke under Mt. Gomery's MASSiveavaLANCHE.  dealt with

this jester, his was a thoughtless high and his was a testimonial whine pitch filtering out all the all the all the work what makes jack such a dulldull boy all the harmony when harmony wasn't expressly implied as havint hav'n BEEN