Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics (NSFW—Issue 45, September 2014)

Douglas Kearney

MY POPS KNOW THIS JOKE

...and it’s deep, too!

[laughter]

upside down telescope


go the cocks among orkas, bottlenoses

and prophylactic-skinned dugongs

(tars see Darryl Hannahs in manatees

but tars see lots).

and first: this water sure is cold!

second topped that with low.

12-inches or a fathom, rock hard or if it’s


a kraken tentacle (hee) cracks the parfaited blues

swatch of Johnson

swatch of Cox

swatch of Woods

oh! the mmmmmmm-well

oh! the mmmmmmm-eau

two negroes at fishing

two niggas at a dock

two soul bruthas at the pier

someone’s always after a bigger fish

to fry, hooked on angling

and it’s deep, too


a mmmmmmmeasurement

(roughly)


of how long


it took


to get to the bottom.

PORNEGROPHY

THAT LOUD-ASSED COLORED SILENCE:
SCAT