JFK
USS Grasp won’t lift me out of the sea
The United States Citizens won’t pay to fly my father via helicopter
to my crash site out in the ocean bed
At least now I know there is a big loft available in Tribeca
I could be doing lots of art there, and not be just a rich folk
How come I’m not famous?
Because my father didn’t die?
Because my father didn’t work for the government?
Maybe my father did more, if he saved one person from suicide, does that
make him famous? A hero?
Would you dive for me?
Would you dive for my dead father?
And his airplane?
Would the President give a damn?
Will Newspapers cover my death or will I be buried in lonesome without
public knowledge?
Will a Coast Guard ship ferry my father out to see my dead plane?
Will England and Australia and Japan write about my disappearance in the sea?
Why is it appropriate for the Navy to find them?
Aren’t we all equal? all human? Isn’t there an Amendment?
If I contribute the birth of a child or a smile, is that not enough to save
my life?
Or now, my taxes, my money, must pay for the salvage of three I never knew?
I know what really happened, you see...
It was just a little Orgy.
You know the car fun, why not airplane fun?
JFK’s wife was going down on him, giving head, on that airplane, now there dead.
Her sister got hot, and her panties, damn wet - before you know it, the
windows were foggy
and wha-la! JFK was going speedy, and kaboom! (remember that cereal?)
All right, you may be disgusted, but we all know what happened.
It was a double murder-suicide.
You see - JFK was smackin’ around his bitch. The bitch’s sister interfered.
JFK lost his cool and punched her in the face and pushed and pushed and now
she’s gone without a trace; he pushed her out of the plane
JFK knows he done wrong - so now he must beat his bitch out of the plane too
He beat and beat and killed two - that’s a double murder on his plate - what
to do?
He didn’t want fame nor George nor boats nor airports nor common sense,
murder just led him to heaven,
so, he committed suicide after a double Dutch!
And now i buy the papers, it’s what we call art,
or I use for kitty litter and abbey road junior can make a piss on.
How can you say, that the Kennedy family contributed more than the Harth family?
And this justifies why I spent my tax dollars on a man I never gave a damn
about?
I would never get the USS Briscoe out to sea for my commitment
Now I have to go home and take a JFK Jr highway home or bridge over waters?
And later plan my schedule to go around blocked streets because I’m paying
for the President to come to town to pay respect. Fuck that, It’s a free
world, let me walk on the street, or If I do, I’ll be arrested?
I went on the online auctions today
Did you see them?
You can get the first issue of GEORGE magazine for currently $150
You can get the current issue of GEORGE magazine for currently $26
You can get the next month’s issue of GEORGE magazine for currently $26
(with JFK Jr on the cover!)
I got mine; did you get yours?
You can also buy domain names, like JFK-Jr.com and such, for five thousand,
fifteen thousand and twenty thousand dollars. There’s something I need!
I went to St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral
Just a few blocks away
I was just there, a few weeks ago
Out on the street watching girls eat mangos and French films projected on
the church walls.
The old Irish lad came out and said it was a circus in there
Kind of like the media circus out here?
I heard the bag pipes
And took some photographs
The priest came out to those who couldn’t get in, though those that were in,
were hot smelly sweaty pigs and dogs. With no air conditioning, the FDNY
went in often. And Con-Edison, that I paid for, set up unique
air-conditioning that didn’t work.
The priest giving Communion. He came around. He placed a wafer in my hand,
circular with a cross in the middle. I saved it in my palm close to my
heart and now tomorrow, check out the online auctions I’ll make a million
with it!!
After services I toured the church, couldn’t find my art but lit a candle
for a friend.
I ran away and got more tape
I ran away and printed up signs
I trekked down to Tribeca where I posted signs on the Police barricade.
They said
“
(in small letters):
WE LOVE JFK-BASSETTE
(in big letters):
PRESS
LET
THEM
REST
“
A woman asked me, “What organization are you with?”
I replied, “None, I’m just Human.”
But the press didn’t like me.
Gave me weird looks
Yelled and called me names with sarcastic thankyous.
I took photos of my art and went on the waiting line.
It’s time to fuck up the mainstream, and I’ll start with my medium, the media.
so, I went to the flower shrine in TriBeCa
waste of money flowers? how about all the dying children and cancer?
i left an “I AM AMERICA” bill there to lay
and on it I wrote
‘In JFK we don’t trust to fly us’
I have photos to prove it, I’ll show you one day.
And I taped up all over the walls and flowers my signage to the press;
PRESS LET THEM REST
I passed the candles, American-flags, teddy-bears, signs, photos, children,
letters, drawings, paintings, guitars, caps, dead flowers, 20-dollar bills,
glitter, marker, ink, non-American flags, poetry, hands, flashes, elevator
shaft ways, and life
went back to my Police barricades and my signs were ripped down
The press doesn’t like it when I fight back
So now I plead with you all
Realize today we play the bagpipes all together
Like the bum on the corner making a dime
We once were told we were equal, but you see we are not.
Some pigs are more equal than other pigs
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.07.23.02:10:17 @ Tribeca/New York City
RABBITFUCK
I remember, one day, a few years back ...
While sitting on the toilet, peaking at my shit, as if they were clouds. I noticed the magnificent shape the shit was in. Like Disney characters Mickey & Minnie, ah, childhood. Believe it or not, I was reading Artforum on the potty that day. When talking on the phone and having a drag, my girlfriend calls. She tells me that she wants to tie my legs up to the kitchen chair and make me masturbate in front of her. I tell her she’s crazy but she comes over anyway and fucks me to sleep on my throne of porcelain. I wake up, she still on my shoulders, shit below me, she had pissed all over me. Madonna once said piss is a cleanser, today it got my fungus out of my ass and toes. So, I picked her up, way up high, and ate her out until her thigh was giving me a great big red television reception. She brought that tv in earlier. Just to watch porn, or maybe herself. My girlfriend is a porn star in daisy dukes, she shopped for those cut-off jeans on long ass lines just too entertain me and drive me crazy and insane. Which is why now I do nothing, not even walk or keep house; I just sit on my pot and give up my spouse for this daily shit I do. Too bad, I could have wed or even done med, but without a degree, I’m just going to continue to pee.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.07.22.01:51:56 @ 296 NYC
Last Night
She was dancing in front of me
Up above my shoulders
On the table before me
Scattered with wine and glitter dust
Her tight white pants
Snugged her clean shaven legs
She grinded her waist
Before my blue eyes
She moaned all night
Sexy she was
I couldn’t help
But get harder and harder
I noticed her daisy flowers
Her breasts bare underneath
With the music playing
And the warm candles burning
She leaned into me
On her 57th street flat
We kissed and dove
And I was joined with Romeo
Embraced and kissed
Feel of a thigh
My fingers glided up and down
Around her navel and in her hair
Bodies pressed against each other
Her nipples stiff in my mouth
I lead her to the bed
Cascaded in gold and ravishing cream
Until late hours of midmorning
After four bottles of wine
Devouring the sex
Until the next night
The silver was all over me now
She and I lay in the nude
With the breeze over us
Laying still watching her
I traced her contour with my finger
Around her insides as she slept
The morning sun penetrated the room
Now whitely lit with a taste of mint
I rise out of bed
With my imagination in place
Step to the sink and splash my face with water
And I awake once more from my dream
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.07.13.04:36:10 @ 296
New York City
10th of July
I heard the shuffle of angel’s feet
Because today I managed to take my dagger
And deepen the hole that creates
My own passion and pain
I’ll see you next year
Same time, same place
Quarter of a century, as long as you remember
Bury me in the garden of the lost
Have bagpipes play at my funeral
And play the soundtrack for all
And let the womyn and men in blue jeans
Create paintings on the grassy hillside
Hear my song and chant
Listen to the wind, the music of the night
Dance naked in front of the wildfire
And look in the mirror and see my shadow
Today I’m an angel
Hear my feet sliding and stomping
Hear my heart pounding and my veins popping
Think about the times
And now I hold my dagger closer
Today is a day how we all remembered him
Always fucking around, not one soul knew truth
Except for the great spirit in Missouri land
Look into my blue eyes
Tell me what you see
Search the rest of the earth
And what you have forgotten
We lay him to rest
On this tenth day of July
In Nineteen Ninety Nine
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.07.10.00:00:00@NYC
A Virgin
Oh my god, I did not tell you what happened with that cab driver I
went with last night. I thought I was going to be possibly kidnapped,
DEFINITELY raped and possibly killed. He was just basically telling
me how he and his fiancé never had sex and that he is worried about
the first time. It was an arranged proposal by his mother and he has
yet to see the fiancé. From this he is asking me about his first
experience to come such as if she is going to bleed a lot or a little and
should he continue or stop and if he does not stick it in the whole
way is it considered sex still and if I had a boyfriend and how my
first time was so I told him that you were my boyfriend and that we
never had sex. I told him I was still a virgin and he was SO happy.
I was hoping telling him I was a virgin would make him more
compassionate about raping me if that was his intentions. I figured
that would make him wait to take a slut instead or at least someone
“experienced”. Anyway..his cell phone rang and I sat in silence for
the remainder of the way.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.07.09.03:26:09 @ 296
New York City
Ninety
I’ll catch you
When I can
You and my ninety
Stamped dollars
You & Nina’s Holiness
And the ticket for inspiration!
You should have been honest
But now it’s too late
When I see you on the street
I’ll know who you are
Because you are the man
With no thumbs
Ninety dollars is nothing
And I’ll shove
A cows tongue up your ass
And this ain’t
No Mapplethorpe photograph!
I’ll see you without pity
A man whose meals are free
For just a little longer
You’ll be wishing you were the fly on a bathroom stall door
Instead of the misery and the ass-mark you’ll have
Red and Black, the colors of America
For Twenty Five Dollars
I write a little note to you
Forever carried on me
So, when I meet you
And Mohammed
I’ll smack you in the face
Until your family feels my fists in your soul
And my children can spit on your blood
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.26:22:12:00 @ St.Marks&3rdAve
99.06.28.24:12:00 @ 296ES
New York City
Five Years At Least One
I remember growing up.
My dad was at Attica.
And I would burn ants as a kid.
And play with the rat poison mom had in the cabinet under the sink.
Richard and I would come up with these weird con-cock-shins.
Like little league volcano science experiments.
I grew up in a farm state.
Filled with apples and I remember cow tipping and buying crap at Sugar Loaf.
And being yelled at to “Just answer the fookin’ question” by my uncle who
gave me the big-ass tannish teddy bear.
I remember the Fourth of July when both of my grandfathers would come down
the walkway and shake hands with open arms, as if they haven’t seen
each other in years.
It’s funny, when I think about it, I remember seeing my next door neighbor
completely naked. She saw a sock on my cock and I saw her breasts divulge
that her puberty had beaten mine. I once saw a kid on a roof and once in a
puddle of rain.
All my memories fade away now in the sun, because that’s when I get these
awful headaches and have to run inside in the shade and darkness. And when
I do, I think of my father that I had lost in upstate New York. The 2nd
largest killing of Americans by Americans since the Civil War. I feel
bleeding on my side because of that, and I’ll never be complete. Even though
I gain a brother every now and then.
I wonder where Jessica is. She sure was pretty, her golden long hair in
braids. That’s what I remember. Too bad I repress certain memories, she
wasn’t my kid. I would have supported her if she was. She didn’t have my
eyes. My eyes. You know what I mean. I’m a seduction sucker. But do I get
sucked or do I suck?
If I asked you to sit in the photobooth and take a photo with me, would
you? That reminds me, I have to go to the meat market and get something for
a self-portrait. Christo said that something was not his and I believed him.
Because I’m unconditional, that’s why I can do this. And he was broken and
bent out of shape? Maybe he should have gone to the doctor then, right?
Doctor? Page them please.
My grandfather would make little toy cars out of Quaker Oat Meal cylinder
cartons and pencils. He also helped me to draw. I remember one distinct
thing he taught me. If you look at the corner of a room, where the two
walls meet, the seam; you’ll notice that its actually lighter than the two
walls. You might think that this is wrong, but actually the two walls are
both reflecting light into the seam, hence, making it brighter. I recall
drawing a pack of True cigarettes with him one day.
She made some pasta for me, and we had some wine. She danced Infront of me
in my year of Nineteen Ninety Nine. We went skinny dipping in her outdoor
pool and the towel she wrapped herself in dropped to the floor.
I was making a list the other day and I was checking it twice. I didn’t want
to see who was naughty and who was nice. A lot are not nice and I want some
more to be naughty. Say naughty. Be naughty with me. Let’s get together and
feel all right. I’m a rebel and I can hear the chimes in the wind. And see
the kite fly above me on the beach of the New Jersey shore. I’m not from
there.
One time I had a friend that introduced me to frog legs. He was an artist
at Columbia. He killed these little frogs and used the back leg muscles to
operate his art frog that was made of metal and machinery. It was a robot
frog with real muscles. David must have thought and wondered if the world
changed just because this little frog left the world. Kind of like when you
step into the ocean, the entire ocean rises around the earth, just because
you are in it! Amazing.
He had a dream about urinating in garbage cans. One Infront of Robin, one
Infront of Travis.
It’s kind of like design, or performance, or a bad artist, or bad move.
Almost like chess, but not checkers; that’s a hot dog, run it through, drag
it through the garden, take me to the river.
I once knew a man that had steel plates in his head. After gutting him I
tied my shoelaces around his neck and hanged him out in the yard.
My brother once taught me about love. But he left the family and has never
come back. He stole lots of things and hearts but I forgave him. He’s my
Valentine, and you are not. Do you hear that laughing or is it the gas in
my head?
Anyway, just a taste of fluid, that today, might be 100%. But give me at
most five years at least one year and I’ll show you something strange in the
mirror. But I won’t be talkin’ to you for a while. Sorry Pop, you know it
and I know it, I’ll catch your tears, if you catch mine.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.20.23:59:25 @ 296NYC
Fathers Day 1999
99.06.24.03.15:21 @ 296NYC
Thursday after eating some French Toast at VG Bar
Romance
I like the smell of your grape breath
Your New Jersey hairspray
I see your piglet ass
Tight red shirt and blonde hair
Like an ambitious tour and cherished moment
Silver shirt like the shot-gun used to wear
And I have hung
Your goods are baked just right
I’ll never forget handcuffing you
And recalling stories about what he did to you
In that limousine
I took a train ride and met them in Westchester
I took a train ride and met them in Long Island
I took a train ride and met them in Brooklyn
I took a ferry ride and met her in Fort Lee
I could have taken a ferry ride and met them in Staten Island
And I remember the joke my grandfather used to say
I collected the photographs
Didn’t take any yet
I have to phone her back
Wish I had a clock
And a few extra bucks
Thank you for the Oreo cookies
It was quite a dinner!
Where is she, I want to lay beside her
And whisper sweet poetry in her ear
Thank you for the strawberries
I’ll trace your inner thigh with my finger
Later tonight
They didn’t have a good selection in Denver
I paid in Seattle
Bermuda had free ones on the beach
Give me some Mahi-Mahi and bananas too
Wishing upon a star is silly
Hey, you, yes you -
Would you take a shower with me?
God I love showers.
Soapy wet, yum yum!
I wonder who it is
A reader? A volunteer? A hider?
It’s time to go
I’ll get the door
Look who it is
Dressed inappropriately tonight
Who hates that word?
I was once on a cruise ship and tossed plates to the sharks
Not to mention that Richard threw a beach chair over board
Did I say that? Did I make that up?
It’s kind of like the Ten Commandments yet I have a bible
I’m a witness are you?
Time to get romantic
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.15.01:51:33 @ 296 NYC
Circles
If you happen to bump into me tomorrow
Or see me
You’ll notice something new
Something different
Great big red rings
Circles
Circles around my neck
Around my wrists
Circles from my knife
Traveling around my wrists
Around and around
Cutting and slicing open the skin
Making it warm red
And irritated
The same around my entire neck
A complete circle around
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.15.01:49:26 @ 296 NYC
Medium
Not quite large
But bigger than small
Not happy
Nor sad
Just about on the line
Or even
On the line
She thought he knew
He only saw a thin line
He balanced
And waited to cross
He thought she knew
She was medium
Sized perfect
Waiting for something
Medium
Like between a devil and a dove
Mint chocolate chip ice cream
Dog walking bird chirping
Silent waves
Medium
Waiting of the time spent
Recalled
Like an opera singer
In the musical devotion
Have a bottle of wine
Medium
Put Bob Marley on
And relax in a bath
Candles burn
Chill
Be medium
But be beyond
Medium
California dressing
Undress
Bermuda shorts
Miami screams
Medium
Reaching upwards
Bending and curving
Hear the calling
Medium
Howling at the wind
Or just the full moon
Picture snapped
Etched in my head
Medium
Don’t fear
Just go medium
Medium shade
Medium drive
Medium pulse
Medium rocket
Medium honey
Medium sheet
Medium paint brush
Medium color
Medium whiteness
Medium
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.10.14:29:57@1515nyc
Sunday
I was with my family and friends at dinner
When I looked down upon each of my wrists
And had gaping holes in them
On the underside of the arm
My arteries were open
With black holes like dark shark eyes
And blood was spurting out
And dripping beyond
I look over the white linen table cloth
And it’s soaked with my rich red blood
I feel wet coldness on my shoulders
As old blood from the ceiling sprays upon me
I awkwardly look at my family and friends for help
Only to find they have no faces
But traces of dust shadows
I arise with my palms at my side
I look lost and had panic eyes in my skull
I step outside to my red earth haunting
And the sky is dark
And the stars are pelting down to the land
Like fireballs from hell
Dark black clouds rolling
And brought deep thunder
A blood red lightning that came up from the land
Creating cracks of flowing red rivers
And leeches and parasites unearthed
With swollen glands and venous eyes
I died in my ache
As I became engulfed —
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.06.12:25:00@FLT#1750
99.06.07.00:25:10@296NYC
Turning Insides
I love it
And I hate it
When things are in the flow
Like Yin & Yang
Do you know what I mean?
The other day, I was talking to a friend
About the full moon
The next night I look up, and the next, and just yesterday too,
The moon is full
In glory
The other day, I wrote a poem
And referred to Lord Of The Flies
And what do you know
Just the other day after that,
On the television I see
Lord Of The Flies
The other day, I listened to a song
I haven’t heard it in years
And then
I’m sitting in the diner to eat
And what do I hear?
That song
The other day, I was driving
Down along the Hudson
I wish I would hear this one song
Or at least a song from this band I know
And you know what happened?
The song I was thinking of
By the band I wanted
Just played on the radio
As I drove along
The other day, I admitted to myself
That I’m quite attracted to those New York City women
Who wear those pointed cow boy hats
It’s such a turn-on
It drives me crazy
Delicious
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.06.01.12:53:49 @ 296 w/PIP&59@287
Selfish Learning
Velvet Elvis hangs on the mango wall
The elderly couple walk in from early-bird
and the dog races
Last week it thunder rained
This week all sunshine
She used dry chalk for make up
And rotated Q-tips in her waxy ears until they bled
She brushed fake her teeth clean
until the gums became a ravishing red and sore with blood
At night she cried in her death sleep and
choked on her salt tears
Her husband wakes up
and cleans her ass full of waste and debris
from the restless night
He has a fag in the dawn light
looking at his love
She raises herself upwards
giving birth once more
to a hairless creature of blind faith and albino devotion
It stinks of raw fish in the smoldering hot room
The paint chips and falls
And the vinyl player dances
Scum baby, Scum baby
The baby delivers his blue eyes
And the theatre audience looks on
The husband wishes he had a fuck
And sweet Jane gives good head
After her bladder gives new
She gets up on her all fours
Wham Bam Thank you Ma’am husband hops on board
And whales the fragile chalked woman
From behind
way up in the ass
And the day starts once more
Married for only two years
On the west coast of Florida
They keep making children with no eyes and
Velcro hair
Both previous spouses
died in horrible car accidents or natural causes
The doctor came today and tied up the husband
really good
The doctor fucked his wife today
And now the husband knows candle pain
The children scatter on the household floor
imitate their dying parents
by playing house and doctor
with toys from the closet and cupboard
The doctor leaves
untying the husband
leaving him to clean up the mess on his wife’s
old sagging tits
And sending the bill in the mail
The aging couple repeat yesterday’s day
and when they lay to sleep
once again
They pray that they will be the first one to die
so, they will not once more be in mourning
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.21.21:08:44 @ 1515/296 New York City
99.05.28.19:02:32 @ 1515/296 New York City
99.06.01.02:34:24 @ 1515/296 New York City
54 look-a-likes (Version #1)
I saw a man that looked like Greg
I saw a woman that looked like Tiffani
I saw a man that looked like Jon
I saw a woman that looked like Jill
I saw a man that looked like Mike
I saw a woman that looked like Nina
I saw a man that looked like Scott
I saw a woman that looked like Mimi
I saw a man that looked like James
I saw a woman that looked like Carol
I saw a man that looked like Travis
I saw a woman that looked like Maggie
I saw a man that looked like Thomas
I saw a woman that looked like Ruby
I saw a man that looked like Dave
I saw a woman that looked like Doris
I saw a man that looked like Chris
I saw a woman that looked like Diane
I saw a man that looked like Marshall
I saw a woman that looked like Debra
I saw a man that looked like Opa
I saw a woman that looked like Carrie
I saw a man that looked like Matt
I saw a woman that looked like Constance
I saw a man that looked like Paul
I saw a woman that looked like Megan
I saw a man that looked like Jim
I saw a woman that looked like Nancy
I saw a man that looked like Jeff
I saw a woman that looked like Robin
I saw a man that looked like David
I saw a woman that looked like Jennie
I saw a man that looked like Me
I saw a woman that looked like Kathleen
I saw a man that looked like Peter
I saw a woman that looked like Erin
I saw a man that looked like Richard
I saw a woman that looked like Susan
I saw a man that looked like Jack
I saw a woman that looked like Claudia
I saw a man that looked like Ben
I saw a woman that looked like Jen
I saw a man that looked like Henry
I saw a woman that looked like Mandy
I saw a man that looked like Tim
I saw a woman that looked like Babette
I saw a man that looked like Lance
I saw a woman that looked like Amanda
I saw a man that looked like Charley
I saw a woman that looked like Sarah
I saw a man that looked like Kai
I saw a woman that looked like Marlene
I saw a man that looked like Patrick
I saw a woman that looked like Stacey
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.25.4:03:02 @ 1515 nyc
Midnight
Midnight we hear their laughter
Noon we remember their cries
And taste their foreign tears
Late afternoon I smelt her in the air
Waves coming over me, pulsating perfume
And taste my youth of trapped dreams
Late June the end is near
Beginning July, they all forget and I crawl
August I’m in heat
September rain comes the fall
Man slipping off a roof’s edge
As the English sip their tea
October I recall
November I don’t thank you for killing my natives
December we get drunk and wonder
Go on to the next promising year
And depression sets on those days
Of holiday wonder we die
Midnight we hear their laughter
Noon we remember their cries
And taste their foreign tears
Beginning years of January, we stand the bitter cold
February we get lost in love of hallmark and the red zone
Which is not my erogenous zone
March we come out and pop and die under sunshine
April glitz and maple gritz
May suck me up
And become an interviewee
Shout
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.21.16:37:44 @ 1515 nyc
Without You
I saw the thorn twist in your side
And I was so revolted that there was a thorn in your thigh
I just had to lean over
And relieve myself of this morning’s breakfast
And I realized
I can live without you
And I can’t live with you
How can I go on with you if you have a damn thorn in your thigh?
Why don’t you go to the dermatologist and have that removed?
You gave yourself away and you still expect me to be with you?
That’s insane.
And then on top of that and your thorn in your thigh
You tied my hands up like a silly S&M director
I couldn’t win
You always lost
It was kind of like a tie, like my hands.
You thorny whore!
Go back for some more!
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.21.16:29:34@1515NYC
harth, being silly
Stolen Cream
Before the rush came. Before the Christie’s men in black escorted the collectors, the rich, the famous, the infamous, and the wasted, with umbrellas from the extended cars on the rainy street to the covered building of thousands, I ran. I swiftly ran inside, all dressed in artists attire; black pants, black shirt, black shoes, black ski mask, as fast as I could, I ran. Swiftly with a gentle crowbar in black-gloved hand, I ran to the center. There in the glass case at waist height was the magnificently lit art. Flesh toned rubber and silk blues and yellows with laser guided video for my home entertainment system. With a flash and a crack I smashed the thin, yet elegant, glass covering. No one in sight, not a soul hears the breakage, the symbols, I smash. With my huge powerful downward motion, one swoosh of angry art and emotion. The glass broken, not a cut, not a curve, not a cream. I leave the flesh and satin and silk and flowers alone. Today I just grab the disc. The secret code, the pleasure dome, and provide you all with video cameras on this advertising day! As swiftly as I ran in, I run out. With laserdisc under my arm and crowbar swinging overhead, like a wild boar from Lord Of The Flies, or a huge black King-Kong, I run. Straight pass the umbrella sculptures waiting to come alive, I run into the darkness to bootleg my way to stardom, to surrender to the darkness, to deface Picasso and become an art thief of my own obsession.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.20.04:49:44 @ 296 New York City
Turnstile
Turnstile
It’s my style
Feel the cologne rubbing on my thigh
New wave hair-dos
I wanna be traveling at speed
Revolving
Passing through, going to the underground
Subway passageway
Delicious
Turnstile
Turnstyle
It’s not my way of life
But I’m committed with my hard work
And saving attitude
Time and Time and Time
Turnstile
To everything, Turn, Turn, Turn
Around
Rotate
Spin-Dry
Twister
Left foot my bed
Turnstile
1635-45
Numbered
Educated
Taught
Experienced
Made me deliver for you
The orange man knows
Turnstile
Number six downtown
Mr. Noisy
Mr. Tonight
Ms. Sexy
Ms. Mix
Turnstile
Dollar fifty
I’ll write a letter
My time is worth more than three minutes
Of an eighteen-minute session
Because I’ve just been used
Turnstile
Turn-around
Brush around
Blush
I blush
See the big vein pop in my forehead
Foreskin
Foresee
For come
Forth
Faith
Filth
God
Turnstile
It’s my swagger
A jack-o-lantern
A red ruby lipstick
Purple added
Strawberry
Red down there
Here
Turnstile
Imprinted
Stainless steal
Took and stole
Drum beat
Indians
And passion
Turnstile
On forever
Turning
Playing
Traveling
Walking-thru
Disease
Trapped
Turnstile
Bent
Forward
Death to the maids
The cross-dresser vacuum cleaners
Turnstile
I’m bleeding at my side
I took the gun from your bathroom
And now I hold it in front of your face
We hear sirens in the background
I drop to my knees
No
But No
I’m better than you
With a gun pointed at you
You taught me well
But I’m not you
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.18:04:12:49@296NYC
He is Witnessitis
He painted his fingers
He will wait for the sheep to come to him
He likes the smell of fresh baked bread
He wishes to dine with her at that silver place
He rides a bike
He conquers cities
He owns a gun that he does not wish to use
He dies every day
He is in heat
He strays from the junkies and thieves
He hears people tell him that he is a manipulator
He walks the streets full of subconscious persons
He is not prestige enough
He must take photographs
He is gay, he is an artist, he writes poetry, he must be gay
He lasts with a golden flower
He paid his dues
He has no best friend
He drives a Porsche
He develops his own drugs
He is an angel
He has curiosity that kills him on corners
He has not been mugged
He crosses the street in front of speeding cars
He cleans up his city
He is full of noise and quietness
He will beat the living shit out of you if you fuck up
He would die for a friend or any other being
He loves to read
He eats language for breakfast
He was the one that started the fire
He can take the blame
He smelt death
He bashed his head on four nails on a locked door to say peace nightly
He danced to the punk scene for inspiration
He has a heavy lord
He melts like burnt buffalo
He is new year’s special
He laughed at serious love
He created a symphony with blood and semen
He was taught
He left suddenly and unexpectedly
He never gave the tape to each one
He chained her down
He floated
He became your memory
He carved the orange tree
He thought of a new ism in his itis
He is an important witness
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.18:02:09:49@296NYC