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Alan Harris at Poetry Express

Alan Harris at Poetry Express
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Alan Harris has been an actor and a stand-up comedian, which might explain why his "poetry" sounds like it does.  He has lived in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and would someday like to live in Cranky Corner, Louisiana.

COSMIC ORPHAN

I dreamed that I stood naked before Fred and Ethel Mertz

Who told me to stop watching so much TV

And listen more to the noise of the holiday methadone-addled poor

And see if I can catch a glimpse of a glimmer of a glint of a shard of a fragment of a sliver of

       hope

 Amidst the jostling for position of Jesus wannabes dipping their fingers in bowls of digital holy

       water

While their collective flickering morality intermittently illuminates the compulsive saluting of

       Napoleonic beat cops who are just doing the job they were hired to do

Which apparently includes hassling the ever-multiplying numbers of cosmic orphans

Who can only stare blankly at the overrated reality of mega-mall fascism and masturbatory

       politeness

 Their ears ringing with the hipster lingo of the day-glo soccer mom

And the demands of infants to be taken off speakerphone

Their to-do lists awash in reminders to update their self-destruction

Before returning to their refrigerated apartments

Where Fred and Ethel Mertz await

Somewhere in the world

Every second of the day

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