Tuesday, June 30, 2015

I Pray From The Foundation Of The Steps Of Heaven - a shuffle & read poem


(shuffle cards & read - here's today's layout)



I pray from the foundation of the steps of Heaven - a shuffle & read poem
   

     She is the foundation,
     the steps are in my heart.
     When we walk together
     gratitude swells about her in every way.
     We are slow together
     always is always
     in love together.
     I pray from the foundation of the steps of Heaven
     She is the foundation
     Heaven is here
     that she be lifted up.

larry goodell / placitas, new mexico

Monday, June 29, 2015

Speech! a shuffle & read poem . . .

envelope for Speech! I just discovered it by the window splashed by a little rain.



(this is one chance layout)
people can read a slip in the order they've been given it. especially in a circle
it seems to work.

I've done several shuffle and read poems, probably starting with "Making It" which is a 7 boxed definition of poetry (making it) . . . one poem is called "Pope" - - - who's the Pope, are you the Pope? etc. But for public school classes I changed Pope to Poet and it works just as well, or better.

Here are some! See Poems On Cards 

Larry Goodell / Placitas, New Mexico

Monday, June 1, 2015

Hymn To Wealth - Manuscript and Typed Copy 1977



Hymn To Wealth


0h wealth can you be hymned in 
I have none –  no wealth, no hymn. 
No him no her, wealth interred.
   Give me pocket samples of your P bombs 
    oh wealthy oil-destruction magnates. 
    Isnt the P Bomb succeeding the Cobalt.
All the combined black bags of
         millionaire astronauts 
         & nautical scientists 
         oil drudgers & 
         uranium poly-glots 
         All the combined excreta of Amer-Eurasian multiblllionaires
         in one black bag 
         descends over our heads 
         drops down on all the ministers of the Lord
         asking for wealthy tithing, 
Oh excreta of the myth monsters 
robbing us of our dreams. 
We poor people ask 
for our considered decency again 
Christian money-makers' outhouse the church of their dreams.

I sing the hymn to wealth —
I love you for the art work you gave to museums. 
I love you for museums.
But I sing no hymn to you for the personal deprivation 
Of my daily life.
And I refuse you my dead body over which you will descend 
like vultures of critics, English & art departments 
over the dead carcases of poets & artists.

Hymn to no hymn. Merry Christless Christmas 
Hymn to no wealth. We 
are happy here on earth with our sprouts & poverty
as well as we can be.
Hymn to ourselves alive in the struggle of loving, without jet trips or 
flights to the Moon     or Mars     or Mataztlan.

Hymn to the center of the dollar, the hole. 
All holes are holy 
& see clear light.

larry goodell / placitas, new mexico / 15Dec77 

from Sun In The Mountain, poems 1977.

Hymn To Wealth, 1st writing on 3 by 5 card and napkin, then typed poem with sketch for performance . . . 15 Dec 1977 . . . forgot to do it at performance with Coyote Dance Collective in Santa Fe's Center for Performing Arts so the hanging stuffed garbage bag "headdress" simply hung there on stage, unused . . . (just a memory). The 1st writing almost always takes precedence in my way of working, so I'll probably revert "Mataztlan" to "Juarez."

My dad came over from the N.M. State Legislature to hear my reading, probably the only time he ever heard me do my poetry. His comment was, "You certainly gave the establishment hell!" Love to all, Larry Goodell / Placitas, New Mexico

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