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Hooray for Captain Spaulding: Meet the Schnorrer [a cartoon in words]

Joe BrainardNOTE: This poem written as a potential cartoon - lacking the drawings. Artists are encouraged to consider illustrating the following.  The paintings adorning these lines, by Joe Brainard and David Sallle, should give you some ideas.

Hooray for Captain Spaulding

I’m a poet not a madame:
ny name isn't Adam
and I'm not balding
My name is Captain Spaulding

the African explorer
(did someone call me Shnorrer?)
Hooray hooray hooray!
David Salle  Snowflake

In San Francisco,
I fried myself in Crisco
to signify my virtue,
and I collected books
by famous crooks
I'd like to sell to you.

Me!Step right up to buy
my early British editions
of classic sci-fi visions
because I'm just one guy
one die
you need two of me
take two to see.

You no want to die
now son
don't be afraid
of this gun
I no beg I trade
I’m a poet not a madame:
ny name isn't Adam
and I'm not balding
My name is Captain Spaulding
the African explorer
(did someone call me Shnorrer?)
Hooray hooray hooray.

-- Noah Count


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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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