I had a terror...
       I could tell to none;
              and so I sing, as the boy does
by the burying ground,
       because I am afraid.  


                         ...............


Always there’s that country road
       winding outside a town
              July-red sun heading
down toward hills       And an old
       Chevy wagon sliding along like a yacht


                         ...............


PROZAC       PROZAC
       IN A CAN
              IF IT CAN’T DO IT
SINEQUAN
       SINEQUAN NON, baby?


                         ...............


Said Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
       to Mary Baker Eddy
              Come with me       sweetcheeks
and I’LL show you
       laying on of hands!  


                         ...............


Out on the porch
       in a straight-backed chair
              she’s a done-for daughter
of someone’s revolution
       A shriveled ancient woman


                         ...............


...Sh...It’s
       a delicate subject...


                         ...............


I do not like thee,
       Doctor Fell  


                         ...............


YOUR ERRONEOUS ZONE
       PULLING
              YOUR OWN STRINGS


                         ...............


Thank you for the surgery;
       it was not
              so painful as I supposed.


                         ...............


ADAPIN!       ADAPIN!
       Take an ENDEP look at
              EFFEXOR        or
MARPLAN       our
       plan       their plan


                         ...............


Once Mary Baker Eddy
       fell on the ice in Lynn
              the good ole U.S.A.
was never
       the same again


                         ...............


Shhh...It’s...
       If you give one
              you can bet you’ll
take it flush
       (it hurts!)


                         ...............


The reason why
       I cannot tell  


                          ...............


She’s on the porch
       A loaded shotgun leans
              against the rail
She knows someone approaches
       lost and luckless


                         ...............


What do you call what you are
       when you’re wiping your kid’s
              bottom with your right hand
and your mother’s
       with your left?


                         ...............


EAT YOUR WAY
       OUT OF FATIGUE
              THE LAST CHANCE DIET


                         ...............


And the old Chevy wagon smacks
       a dirt-white mongrel stray
              then drops
never slowing
       below the next knoll


                         ...............


Once Mary Baker Eddy fell on the ice
       her little lack of grace
              set her down in a place
that jarred her into making her case
       and set her up in lace


                         ...............


But this I know
       and know
              full well   


                         ...............


Try lamb’s blood
       on your door


                         ...............


Bet you’ll take it flush
       (it hurts!) in
              the emotional
fanny       especially
       when all the deaths hit


                         ...............


ELAVIL       yourself
       ELAVIL
              ESKALITH        your
mood       back
       to NORPRAMIN


                         ...............


Beware the Angle
       of Death!


                         ...............


The screaming mutt       trying
       to run       only
              spins
on ruined
       hindquarters


                         ...............


But this
       I know       and know
              full well   


                         ...............


Someone’s coming       lost and luckless
       carrying an empty gas can
              as he walks
the dirt road       The ancient woman visions him
       passing the cemetery lost in weeds


                         ...............


GETTING STRONG
       GETTING
              YOURS        HOW
TO GET
       LUCKY


                       ...............


...and the noise
       in the pool at noon
              excels my piano.  


                         ...............


That ole Malicious
       Animal Magnetism
              got me
bad       real
       bad


                         ...............


Especially when all
       the deaths
              hit all in a
rush...it...you just wish
       it...


                         ...............


So if its
       TOFRANIL       just
              let the TOFRANIL
get going      get
       going


                         ...............


HOW TO GET
       TOUGH
              WITH YOURSELF
THROUGH
       INVERSE DYNAMICS


                         ...............


http://www.primenet.com/prayers
       Anyone
              out there?   


                         ...............


What do you call
       what you are?


                         ...............


Hills, sir, and the sundown,
       and a dog large as myself,
              that my father bought me.
They are better than beings
       because they know, but do not tell...  


                         ...............


And there’s always
       that lonely country road where someone
              fits one slug into a pistol’s chamber
all the while looking
       through eyes of a broken-backed bitch


                         ...............


LITHIUM       LITHIHER
       LITHITHEM       WELL-
              BUTRIN?
WELLBUTRIN?       ZO?
       ZO?       ZO...LOFT!


                         ...............


This link is ecumenical
       An optical scanner
              takes your prayer
and converts it
       to digital pulses


                         ...............


POSITIONING       THE BATTLE
       FOR YOUR MIND


                         ...............


Hey!  Whaddaya get when ya cross
       Malicious Animal Magnetism?
              Wham!
Bham!       Thank you
       M.A.M.!


                         ...............


Blood of the lamb       The Angle
       of Death


                         ...............


Someone out there passes
       the weedy graveyard        Someone whose feet
              are sore        whose throat is parched
Someone who glimpses through trees the flash of metal
       and hears the quavering of a hymn


                         ...............


TOTAL VISION       STOP
       RUNNING
              SCARED        BE
FIT       OR
       BE DAMNED


                         ...............


And the digital pulses
       modulate a microwave
              transmitter


                         ...............


When Mary Baker Eddy felt
       those kidney stones tear
              she said        Doctor!       Doctor!
Shoot me with the morphine!       There!
       There!       Right there!  


                         ...............


So whaddaya get when ya cross
       Malicious Animal Magnetism?
              Your marbles
blasted!  Your bananas
       split!  Your poles reversed!


                         ...............


This I know
       and know full well
              I do not
like thee
       Doctor Fell  


                         ...............


And the transmitter feeds
       radio energy into a huge
              dish antenna
which beams the prayers
       heavenward


                         ...............


They are better than beings
       because they know,
              but do not tell...  


                         ...............


Hey!  Whaddaya
       get when ya cross
              Malicious Animal Magnetism?
A M.A.M.-moth munchin’ in
       your wooly underwear!


                         ...............


$9.95 and you receive by mail
       a handsome 8.5 X 11-inch
              Broadcast Certificate
suitable
       for framing


                         ...............


They are religious, except me,
       and address an eclipse
              every morning...
...and the noise in the pool at noon
       excels my piano.