Bio

Scratch                                   NYC old guru
Don’t rent me out as a mosquito detour ooh


Non             want
Geritol, Vermont


From crazy brat reading Krazy Kat
To Kafkaesque this Kafkaesque that


Never saw “action” ransacked my dance act
Came up with                              a nance act


Trek                   aids
Sped up the decades


Loved                         ones
Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reruns


Full of      blubbery residents
Watching  rubbery  Presidents



And me, the figure in the carport, the proverbial carport
Unrafeened Laff Fiend                 dreaming of a far port


Of Chinatown torsos and fizzes
What                                    is is


Fields                        unfenced
Tomato plants to brush against


Heliotrope
Dope


A whiff      tease
From the Fifties


Went around           in a fib haze
Never went through a lib phase


My whippet wants in                                                                            is in
Keeping tabs on bug-bite scabs                                        sniffs at my skin

Poems by Kenward Elmslie are used by permission of The Estate of Kenward Elmslie.