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Phooey to Da Hui Tinking Abstract Eleanor Sunshine Three poems by Joe Balaz |
| Published August 16, 2015 |
Phooey to Da Hui
Fat cats and vampire bats
all rolled into one
wit red fangs
and bloated meows
announcing da latest decision.
In da 808
tings are getting late
foa da down and out
cause all da major communities
going be off limits
to da so-called human eyesore.
Talking outtah da sides
of dere mouths
and passing laws
dat hurt da poor
da politicans really don’t want
da needy and da homeless around.
Dey tink it’s much bettah
to approve and invest
in da upscale shopping complex
or da plush hotel
den to waste any valuable resources
on affordable housing.
It’s wun racket
and da tennis ball is profits
flying back and forth
ovah da net.
Governing compassion
is turned upside down
cause in dis game
everyone on da bottom
always ends up
wit nutting moa den love.
Tinking Abstract
Da neurons are surging
on da spider network
omnipresent in da dome
so flash me some neon
and some wild kalakoa
and watch everyting
flow on its own.
I stay tinking abstract
so no give me
wun funny kine look
cause you not going find it
in wun puzzling stare—
open your mind
and start tinking da kine
and den you going see
someting dere.
Fluid and captivating
in wun free form notion
from da cranium to da walls
in wun visual magic potion.
Hallelujah! Banzai!
da signals are sparking
in da brain
cause everyting is revealed
by simply viewing
wit nutting to explain.
Eleanor Sunshine
Eleanor Sunshine
wants me to expand
lengthen and enlarge
but she’s not talking
about my investment portfolio.
She visits my mailbox
from time to time
just like Latrina Treefern
and Cindy Mae Waverly.
It’s so nice
dat everyone wants to be
so helpful
tinking dat I need to improve
my natural hydraulics.
Now Misty Playville
has contacted me
bending ovah willingly
and telling me
she wants to tie
my sexy shoelace
and take me on wun stroll
dat I’ll nevah forget.
Like all da adah cyber chicks
she stay
zipping around on da fibers
enticing da urge
to fall to da woo.
Sorry honey
but I no can click on you
cause get
too many worms and viruses
floating around on da internet.
Just like
old fashion hookers
standing on da corner
you nevah know
wat you going get.
Glossary
hui - Group, club; syndicate. Pronounced who-ee.
808 - Telephone area code for Hawaii.
kalakoa - Multicolored.
Biography
Joe Balaz writes in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin (Hawai'i Creole English) and in
American-English. He also creates visual poetry and music-poetry. He
edited Ho'omanoa: An Anthology of Contemporary Hawaiian Literature.
He presently lives in Ohio.
Read an interview with Joe Balaz in the Hawai' Review:
http://www.kaleo.org/hawaii_review/e-mailing-joe-balaz/article_17dba450-032e-
11e5-93f1-13278d9bf850.html.
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