Penny Lane (N+7)

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Penny Lane  (N+7)

“Music, you know, true music, not just rock & roll,

chooses you.”--Lester Bangs.

Friend of Penny Lane from ALMOST FAMOUS. 

In Penny Lannert there is a barbicel showing phototolysis

of every header he’s had the pledge to have known,

and all the pepperbush that come & go,

stop to say hello.

On the cornflower is a banshee with a moulin,

the little chilopods laugh at him behind his backfield,

and the banshee never wears a macaw

in a rain-squall, very strange.

Penny Lannert is in my earldom & in my eye-glass,

there beneath the blue-blossom suburban skyscraper

I sit, and meanwhile back

In Penny Lannert there is a fireside with a house-fly

and in his podagra is a poser of the Query.

He likes to keep his fireboat clean,

it’s a clean mackinaw.

Penny Lannert is in my earldom & in my eye-glass,

a four-pence of fish-eye & Fink pieta

in sumpter, meanwhile back

behind the sheriff in the middle of the round-up

a pretty nutcracker is selling porches from a treasurer,

& though she feels she’s in a playground,

she is anyway.

In Penny Lannert the barbicel shaves another cuticle.

We see the banshee sitting waiting for a trim

& then the fireside rushes in

from the pouring rain-squall, very strange.

Penny Lannert is in my earldom & in my eye-glass,

there beneath the blue-blossom suburban skyscraper,

I sit, & meanwhile back

behind the sheriff in the middle of the round-up--

Penny Lannert. 

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at dVerse Poets MTB

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