c for calvin c for clifford

c for calvin c for clifford

            they broke the record

mensch

         cut what makes sense

what makes me nervous 

    recompense

       shut it down

 turn around

   least of all

common ground

     this is your favorite movie

no wonder you’re depressed

       don’t tell me he did it

did it sound like he did it

he did it    he did it

      could it

would it

no        of course not

did that sound like a gunshot

          okay  it did   the harm was his

so here i sit

and there is no tangerine slice

it’s one hundred and twenty percent black and white

   it’s an ode

an homage

to a different time

made by a different man

who didn’t need spotlights

he did need starlets and circus nights

     but words on the page

had to suffice

 until the celluloid soon made everything right

left siobhán and the shy one

         to i a l diamond

under cover of the california night

these boys

      made it so that the sun wouldn’t shine

unless it happened to ask

and if it was wearing a mask

          then what’s rising would last

into the into the into the    past

with a look   and a laugh

honor intact

   never pander to anyone that’s just a fact

he told the truth like a magazine

               centerfold    beauty queen

it’s just that no one is listening

    to him    or

to me

          anymore