the scurvy tunes of alonzo riley (2)

    A kiss
    from Rrose
    Sélavy:

Eros wishes
to remind
all striding
mortals:

    Capital
    Is Not
    Superlative.

    Take Time
    To Tend
    The Roses.

    Else You
    Will Be
    Spanked.

    When I Get
    Around
    To it.

    *     *     *

Dear prisoners,
we’ve come here today
bringing music up
to your prison walls.
By our little
concert we want
to show you
you haven’t
been forgotten.

We aren’t enough
today to throw
these walls
and give you back
your freedom.
So we’ll come again
another day
with our angry bags
and pipes.
Back we’ll be
repeatedly
till we bring the day
we’re strong enough

to break you out.

    *     *     *

First revolutionary
tasks: 1) Take out
all surveillance cameras.
2) Learn the local
flowers & birdsongs.
3) “Read, read, read!”
4) Sleep naked.

Romeo Clandestino
suggests Aikido.
Yoga for the masses
is also sage.
Comrades and lovers
need bodies they
can bring to bear,
respendent,
lithe as cats
and ropewalkers.
Romeo says: parcours
for the young
and quick-healing,
simple bouldering
for the oldsters.

Artistry.
Mind and body
finely balanced,
glad-making.
All the arts
in their slow-
unfolding secrets
are potencies,
personal and
collective.
The struggle is
demanding.
Ergo,
one does not live
by one century
alone.