Mike Topp
Mike publishes frequently in RealPoetik and Exquisite Corpse.
He can be reached at mike_topp@hotmail.com.
HE
He always brags about his huge duck.
He is a Woozle. His name is Peanut.
He enjoys pantaloons more than he should.
He is dead and therefore unable to come to the phone.
He has a figure like Marcia Brady.
He has an extra Y chromosome.
He has a really nice skull.
He has a face that makes no sense.
He is not worried; he is in the title.
He sure hopes that’s pudding.
He is surrounded by adoring housewives.
He tampered in God’s domain.
He is the clown who makes the dark side fun.
He tried to kill me with a forklift.
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EXISTENTIAL VOID
existential
void
where
prohibited
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Alf,
NO!!
A STRIP MALL
All You Can Pay
Very Bad Things
Oh Boy, It's a Girl!
Dear John
World of Photography
Nosy Guys
Two Birds One Worm
Sorry Closed
Meditation With Colors
Red strength
orange vitality
yellow clarity
green renewal
blue relaxation
Indigo Dedication
Violet, harmony
white wholeness
silver intuition
gold aspiration
shit brown
Miller Lite
cancer
FIVE POEMS
Poem No. 6
martober
Poem F
sexual water
Poem XXX
chorpatélico
Poem No. 7
rubber policeman
Poem XXXI
pimpavonillas
MY FAVORITE QUOTATIONS
Ford salesmen don’t shoot Chevy salesmen.
Meyer Lansky
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Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer.
Gaetano Lucchese
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I like to be by myself. Misery loves company.
Antonio (Tony Ducks) Corrallo
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God is a fucking fag.
John Gotti
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Mother is the best bet and don’t let Satan draw you too fast.
Dutch Schultz
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I told you a million fucking times. I don’t like being called Gas Pipe.
Anthony (Gas Pipe) Casso
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A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim.
Dutch Schultz
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Crime doesn’t pay--well, not like it used to.
Joe E. Lewis
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Jeez, I could go for a slice.
Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo
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DR. BLOODMONEY
God is dangerous,
reason God is dangerous
We are all mutants
Tomorrow will be less
I’m on 14th St. and 1st Avenue
Vat’s the qvestion?
----NURSERY SONGS
THE IMPLANTS GAL
I don’t care how dumb I be,
Twenty fools will marry me;
If twenty won’t, forty shall,
I am my mother’s implants gal.
SIEGFRIED AND ROY
Siegfried and Roy
Were two pretty men,
They lay in bed
‘Till the clock struck ten:
Then up starts Siegfried
And looks at the sky,
Oh! tiger-tamer Roy,
The sun’s very high;
You go before
With the whip and the chair,
And I will come after
With a sore derriere.
WHO GOES THERE?
Who goes there?
A day trader.
What do you want?
A glass of beer.
Where is your money?
I forgot.
Then get lost,
You drunken sot.
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN
There was an old man,
And he had some crack,
And that’s half;
He put some in his pipe,
And smoked it in the hall,
And that’s all.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
Somewhere along the line, they get squashed down. Then something
happens that promotes change. What is important is that I project an
image of success at all times. I like to watch movies. Watching this
movie about the unbearable beauty of a white plastic bag turning in
the wind that arrives before a storm, I have an ideal in mind. Like
a Greek ideal. There is an entire life behind things to see.
Somehow. This afternoon I saw "American Beauty." I've seen Kevin
Spacey several times before, but, well...I loved "American Beauty."
It's good I'm sure. Though I'd never seen it before. Perhaps what I
really need to do is quit my job or pump iron. It's something to
think about. And I've already read "The Nature of Things." I'm
really terribly tired, you know. Daily every day I must go through the
discipline of overcoming unprofitable thinking, for I don't know
why. But I do. "I do." Maybe from a metaphysical viewpoint I could.
Frolicking has never been so depressing. Conspicuous consumption
makes our love stronger. Gardening always takes a back seat to
science. I know what I need: to understand the harmonious mind of
God. So I can see where he went unharmoniously. See? There is so
much seeing to do. And already today I'm so terribly tired. Note to
self: Always get a contract when working with a dark, omnipotent
power. What else could I do? I'm going to buy a CD which voices a
healing, life-giving message! Or else a Barry Manilow CD. If only I
had a CD player, I'd buy both. If only I had the money. You see, I'm
not asking for anything to change, really. I just want to "see" as
is. The movies will lead us out of despair by making us see. David
Denby said something to that effect once. I read it in quotes. I
think. Not certain. Couldn't be absolutely sure. This I know:
I remember all my life. Raining down as cold I am. Shadows on the
hills.
Faces through windows. Crying in the night. It was just another.
It was a foll, it was a fool, it could be alright now perhaps.
I can't be making myself of your bat.
Oh Mandy you gave me and you gave that keeps shaking I need it.
I remember all my life. Raining down as cold I am. Shadows on the
hills.
Faces through windows. Crying in the night. It was just another.
It was a foll, it was a fool, it could be alright now perhaps.
I can't be making myself of your bat.
Oh Mandy you gave me and you gave that keeps shaking I need it.
Yesterday I was gone to make it.
Oh Mandy you gave me and you gave that keeps shaking I need it.
Oh Mandy you gave me and you gave that keeps shaking I need it it it.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
VITAMINS
Vitamin B6: Good for insomnia, male impotence, and fatigue.
Vitamin E: Good for skin tone, teeth and bones, male impotence.
Vitamin A: Good for new job, loss of meaning, Communism.
Vitamin C: New research indicates this should be avoided.
Vitamin B12: Hesitation, repeated inevitableness, and insanity.
Mike Topp