Tuesday, December 09, 2008

The Liberecky Kraj Boys

‘…then the sky falling fell…’ said the alms man ‘…toppling abloom onto my head’. As no one was listening he repeated himself again ‘…then the sky falling fell toppling abloom onto my head’. Looking over his shoulder he said ‘…horror of horrors!’ At that very moment the sky fell toppling, shearing off his ear and leaving a bruise the size of a cow’s tongue on his head. ‘…whorer of whorer, damn you falling fell sky!’ He brushed the sky from his face and shunted far away far, a cow’s tongue bruise on his head. In Lodzkie the sky fell toppling onto the head of a man feeding pigeons in the park, the pigeons scattering every which where, a bruise the size of a cow’s tongue imprinted on the pigeon-feeding man’s forehead. A gloomy bachelor in a one-room bedsit folds his trousers and lays them on top of his cot, stretching his legs he sits in front of the window looking out onto the gloomy glum world outside. Waiting, he sits gazing out the window, a slay of murderous crows perched on the tanner’s roof across the way. If and should the sky fall toppling, he will step out into the day throwing his arms up over his head, protecting the soft spot where babies and retards are at terrible risk. The man feeding pigeons in the park throws caution to the wind and walks across the grassy meadow, his sac of birds’ feed held taunt under the clove of his arm.

The Redbridge Boys were in cahoots with the Ilford Boys who were in cahoots with the Chippenham Boys who were in cahoots with the Wiltshire Boys who were in cahoots with the Liberecky Kraj Boys who were in cahoots with the Liberec Boys who were in cahoots with the Gauteng Boys. The Redbridge, Ilford, Chippenham, Wiltshire, Liberecky Kraj, Liberec and the Gauteng Boys were in cahoots with the Kista Brothers of Stockholms Lan. No one save for Dejesus knew why the Boys were in cahoots with one another, and as a group in cahoots with the Kista Brothers of Stockholms Lan. Dejesus claimed he witnessed the Redbridge Boys and the Liberecky Kraj Boys having it out with the Ilford Boys and the Wiltshire Boys, then he witnessed the Liberec Boys and the Chippenham Boys having it out with the Gauteng Boys, who in turn were having it out with the Kista Brothers of Stockholms Lan. Dejesus witnessed the alms man having it out with a squirrel, the squirrel bating the alms man with squirrelfish banter. When he ambled closer to get a better espy, the squirrel jumped into the arms of one of the Liberecky Kraj Boys, scaring the bateaus out of all present. The day came to a caroming halt, all present finding relief in the dark forbore sky.

1 comment:

Joanne said...

That's a whole lot of cahoots goin' on there! Great fun...but do you really know how big a cow's tongue is?? I could check on my way down to the village (sure to meet at least one in passing) and let ya' know.

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