Monday, November 30, 2009

David Prater

The Germ! The Germ!

Love episode of a strange nature;
as usual, with badluck [sic] to meh.


- Bernard O’Dowd, writing to Walt Whitman.


i have a germ inside meh (love i have a gun
inside meh (bang i have a truth inside meh (

death i have a life inside meh (born i have
a seed inside meh (tree i have a leaf inside

meh (air i have a girl inside meh (oh i have
a heart inside meh (boom i have two germs

inside meh (blood i have a ghost inside meh
(peace i have a dream inside meh (depth i

have a charge inside meh (light i have a man
inside meh (shame i have a coup inside meh

(stop i have a breeze inside meh (chain i
have a fire inside meh (road i have a bomb

inside meh (we i have a past inside meh (no
i have a watch inside meh (yes i have a but

inside meh (worm i have a mole inside meh
(shock i have a plane inside meh (sky i have

a scene inside meh (egg i have a sun inside
meh (ah i have a you inside meh (love i have

a germ inside meh (love i have a germ!

5 comments:

  1. this freakin rocks. such great rhythm! and the way it cascades down the screen/page - it feels like falling, or sliding down a steep slope.

    kudos davey.

    did he really write "meh"?

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  2. Hello Adam, thanks for commenting.

    It does cascade doesn't it! I love the "meh!"

    Good to have a Victorian around these parts. I lived in ugh, Frankston, for a few years - many, many, years ago....

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  3. the cummings revival continues! bring on the brad pitt biopic! (& i dont say this fatuously - ee really did look like bp in one photo ive seen

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