J. Kerouac's "Pull my daisy..." appears to prefigure
U. Poe's "...pant your piece...." Defend or disparage...or both.
To you whose spiel'd eclipse the sage...?
Come, post your paw print 'pon the page!
To you who’d
preçis joy and grief...?
Come, limn your
lines along the leaf!
To you who’d
Cuisinart the crown...?
Come, grave your ground – here verb, there noun!
Like Jack insists
in Enter Laughing,*
“Always – always!
– write it down!”
To you who’d
peace talk underpin...?
Come, score your
scrawl upside a skin!
To you who’d
‘gainst the racists stand...?
Come, stamp your
sign across the sand!
To you who’d
mum a monster’s maw...?
At Potus pant your piece -- comme ça:
“It’s up to you to Ha-cha-cha..."
as Jack* to Ren* enjoy'd to jaw.
* In Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical
novel Enter Laughing, Jack Gilford plays protagonist
David Kolowitz's employer Mr. Forman. Delivery
boy David is portrayed by the wonderful Reni Santoni,
who died earlier this week.
