{"id":1354,"date":"2025-09-06T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:28:14","slug":"journal-poem-62-by-marc-frucht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Journal Poem 62 by Marc Frucht"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Here is the 62nd Journal Poem\u00a0<\/strong><strong>from Volume 2 of &#8220;Journal Poems,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>printed as a very large Chap Book.<\/strong> <\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1359\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck-768x758.jpg 768w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck-1536x1517.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BlankBookJournalsAtopACassetteDeck.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/><em><strong>Journal Poem 62<\/strong><\/em> <br \/><br \/>Seamus is a famous name<br \/><br \/>No, I mean it is, but <br \/>That&#8217;s not why I just wrote that. <br \/>I wrote it simply<br \/>Simply because it rhymes. <br \/><br \/>Name us<br \/>Famous <br \/>Seamus<br \/><br \/>But of course <br \/>Poly famous is Poseidon&#8217;s kid. <br \/>Probably a distant cousin<br \/>Of Famous Amos<br \/>The God of Cookie Dough<br \/><br \/>Hark hark, the Lark<br \/>It&#8217;s getting dark around here. <br \/><br \/>Merger madness, Minneapolis and Milwaukee<br \/>Kresge and Kmart, Bush and Blair<br \/><br \/>And believe it or don&#8217;t.<br \/>He invented the Duncan &amp; Porter <br \/>Anti-Imperialism Yo-Yo<br \/><br \/>&#8220;Where have all the average people gone.&#8221; <br \/>&#8212; Roger Miller <br \/><br \/>April 12th 1989<br \/>Big Day. Big River. <br \/><br \/>Sirop Saveur Noisette<br \/><br \/>Have you new brake shoes <br \/>Or are you too broke <br \/>To BUY shoes? <br \/><br \/>Are your tires tired,<br \/>Or maybe they&#8217;re sticky stirring <br \/>Wheels in the wind. <br \/><br \/>Did your rear view mirror fall off<br \/>Or can you still reflect? <br \/><br \/>When it all hits too close to home<br \/>When the drug is so big it&#8217;s <br \/>Surrounding you&#8230;<br \/>As the machine eats 2\/3 of your soul<br \/>And since everyone except you<br \/><br \/>Seems so insanely into their<br \/>Disconnected sanity <br \/>Insisting that if you&#8217;ll only<br \/>Salute Big Brother <br \/>All will play out as it should.<br \/><br \/>When the world is ordering up anew,<br \/>As well &#8211; all of Alexandria<br \/>Begins imploding in a burn<br \/>Like a gigantic sucking, swirling sinkhole &#8211; <br \/>You begin to think that Metaphor<br \/>Is all that&#8217;s left<br \/><br \/>They&#8217;re going to keep sticking this pig <br \/>Until there&#8217;s no blood left to suck.<br \/><br \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/atizine\/journalpoem62\">x<\/a>] Hear the same voiced in at:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/atizine\/journalpoem62\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/atizine\/journalpoem62<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the 62nd Journal Poem\u00a0from Volume 2 of &#8220;Journal Poems,&#8221;\u00a0printed as a very large Chap Book. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Journal Poem 62 Seamus is a famous name No, I mean it is, but That&#8217;s not why I just wrote that. I wrote it simplySimply because it rhymes. 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