To be spray-painted, etched, scratched, scrawled, drawn or crayoned on bridges, walls, walkways & garbage cans in & around Buffalo, NY
from Basta! v1n2 (Fall 1997)
Longo, (not) long ago
Morton Feldman, even less longo
for 2 years I lived in Cindy Sherman’s smile
Leslie Fiedler, I like it!
Charles Bernstein lives in NYC
F. Scott Fitzgerald slept in my bedroom
I slept in Elbert Hubbard’s (infantile) boardroom
Joyce Carol Oates, take it to the streets
Ishmael Reed, tell ‘em where to stuff their foetal impetus
Christine Baranski’s polish gut
Bob Creeley Creeley
A.R. Gurney is a hysterectomy waiting to happen
John Schuck––what a beautiful name, what a beautiful face . . .
Michael Bennett, been there––
Lucille Ball, having a ball!
Ray Federman is God
Tony Conrad, syndicated in dreams
Tom Fontana once tripped a girl in study hall
Dennis Tedlock put me in a headlock
David Milch––say the name, cause a minor explosion somewhere in the city
E.B. Green is a pig in slop!
Louis Sullivan was always drawn to the center
Frank Lloyd Wright was never wrong
Amos Poe slept here 1st
Susan Howe, show ‘em how!
John Barth, how long’s the C-C-Cadillac of yr former self?
Charles Olson begat 3,000 poets in this city alone!
Howdy Doody, Surrealist prophet
Paul Sharits taught me how to shit and piss
Lukas Foss made a mess of his own last name!
Tom Dudzick likes his laughter bittersweet
Ani DiFranco has ears where her arms should be
Donald Barthelme vanished into his own hiccup
I took a 2 week tour of Mark Twain’s moustache (it was okay)
The whole history of European architecture fell through the hole in Joseph Dart’s waterfront bucket––
We killed McKinley/ We killed McKinley (so nice I just had to say it twice)!
Frederick Law Olmstead took a swipe at Buffalo, so Buffalo pumped him full of dreams and vision
I take full credit for Niagara Falls