Saturday, June 25, 2022

AS THE ROVER SAYS: WADE THRU IT

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOONCHILD!!!!


This blog is for you, including the cartoon. 


Did you know your birthday is on LEON? Which is the opposite of XMAS (aka NOEL).


HAPPY LEON!!! The angles did sing!


You were 40 when I met you (which was old enough) but now you are 65 — a very significant age.  This means we have enjoyed many years together. Many, many years! Holy shit! 


LEON was always a difficult time before I met you, but sharing birthday adventures with you has made those memories pale like an Indian ale in the Floridian veil of humidity (< beautiful poetry)





Remember our first birthday adventure in the embalming room?

You were such a trooper 

until i whipped out the trocar… I found you on the fainting couch

later…


Other birthday adventures have included live music, 


dead air, drunken tour busses & sober stay-cations


Angel wings singed onto scapulae by microwaved rocks


Crab-legged bacchanalia 


Saturnine tantrums that left no hallmark ,  just bitemarks on the cigar box


Followed by cop cars to bring you bags of Substance D


(followed by cops to bring the big D)





Speaking of poetry…


I don’t know if I ever gave you this poem I wrote about you & your unusual relationship with phonetics, but here it is —


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Your Unspelling


      Is part of your charm


As a writer, you’d think I’d find it abhorrent


A dealbreaker! [w/ a single totalitarian mark]


       But no, you’ve been a source

                       of inspiration


                             &


                         revelation


Happy accidents            tapped out


                    by alien hooves


                               covered in paint


The moment the helicopter              chooses to hover


I see the brilliance   in your refusal      to acknowledge


                    the insane vowels of country Deutsch


followed by the detrimental silences

                                                in English 


                              Of all the things         I love you for


                                              this is number 3

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All right… it has been a joy to be blessed by your Moonchildishness for so many years! I love you! Let’s eat cake!