"General Strike" [by Jim Dolot]

And balagan and Milosz on jstor.
Certainly Danny Kaye was The Court Jester.

“This day” (Darwin wrote) “I shot me a condor.”
Who manages to say no to being quaestor?

And in Jerusalem, what is the new measure?
Zechariah 2.   The Duke composes.  The maestros

Generally struck down this whole orchestra.
And the chord, the long interval, is Shakespeare-Castro.

Because of polyptychs, or was it politics, disaster
Struck the General Strikers from the cadastre.

Yestreen, Torahs of authors met in The U Bistro.
Tzaddik, what untold mastery, Cholesterol Pollster?

What violence is done within all the test rows?
What worth, after your Censuses, your lustratios?

(Who, long dead, outpipes the Hasty Paperer?
What Domesday Book is or is not a roster?

On bikes with bamboo shoots, whose happy jousters?)
& is the acrobat is a knot in the air, a typographer?

What freedom in this world but the unrhymed rooster’s?
Carl Friedrich carries dawn’s K down on a poster.)

And Certs and Crest to brush our teeth, the Flosser.
To defy all surfaces, asters and pilasters.

And balagan and Milosz on jstor.
Certes, Danny Kaye was The Court Jester.

from the archive; first posted September 22, 2018. Jim Dolot's poems have appeared in Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms and The Stud Duck.

Comments

[Warren King]

Unusual poem. I'd like to read more by this poet.