ELIZABETH (2009)
There I was, my dears—
Entering the Gates of the
Here-After surely dying
There in a hospital—
Room conveniently via
Televised TV screen above
That’s when she appeared—
Elizabeth the Queen sharing
Her pleasure at my Existence
That was one of those—
Uncanny filmic moments
Sometimes haunting me
VEEP QUEEN
ReplyDelete“I vant to be alone”
—Greta Garbo
Sleek & elegant—
Veeping victory over vice
Seeking a new scenario
No more Velcro, dears—
No more S/M Queens
Veep me up there, baby
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Greta Garbo—
Takes a delicate puff &
Finally she’s Alone again
Marlene Dietrich—
Such European chic class
Opioid Queen Bee
Zsa Zsa Gabor—
Queen of the Universe
Veeping the Solar System
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Greta Garbo veeps too—
So does Marlene Dietrich—
As well as Zsa Zsa & Eva
Zsa Zsa gets high—
She’s Eva Garbo’s junkie sister
But Eva veeps as well
Richard Burton veeps—
His way out of the clutches
Of all those Cold War spies
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THE SPY WHO CAME IN—
FROM THE COLD with a
Fag recruiter after him
Michael Horden—
Putting the make on him
Playing Asche the nelly spy
The Veeping East Berlin—
Burton finds out that he’s in
The clutches of Cold War creeps
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Yes, and Mia Farrow veeps—
The Dakota Hotel is full of junkies
And otherworldly secret closets
What Veeping does—
Is to open up all those secret
Closets like Minnie’s big mouth
The, Baby Boy veeps early—
Like Father like Son, my dears
Minnie (Ruth Gordon) busy bee
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All those weird potions—
Tannis Root’s no big deal
Nothing compared with Veep
Tyrone Power—
NIGHTMARE ALLEY carnival
Takes a puff & freaks out
Gregory Peck—
SNOW OF KILIMANJARO
Veeping there on the veldt
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Veeping Susan Hayward—
Seeking to comfort him as the
Bug-eyed buzzards circle & wait
Hemingway pauses—
From his usual whiskey & soda
To imbibe a puff or two
Then the perfect puff—
By Miss Orson Welles down
There in the Berlin Sewers
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THE THIRD MAN—
Veeping with Joseph Cotton
His lover boy back in NYC
But now high above Berlin—
The Decadent Ferris Wheel
Goes around & around
Veeping knows itself—
And so will you if you give
The perfect puff a chance
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It’s the only thing—
That helps Santa Claus cope
Thru Holiday Survival Stuff
So stylish & discrete—
I carry my Pen in my purse
Sashaying down Broadway
Cruising all the cute guys—
No more hookahs or joints
All that’s out the window
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The classic Egyptian Theater—
Up there on gay Capitol Hill
I felt so alone that night
Veeping & weeping—
For Philip Seymour playing
Miss Capote inside-out
Miss Capote paused—
Like for 10 years while the
Kansas Killers waited too
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What else to do—
In the Kansas Pen other
Than puff your Pen, baby
The Hanging of—
The well-hung Dick Hickock
Miss Avedon got in there too
Perry Smith veeping—
Escaping from the world
Puffing instead of hanging
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Pens write invisibly—
Veep Pens especially neat
Vaporizing frontal lobes
They’re not doing much—
Of anything anyway so why
Not Pen your Worries Away
Writers like Pens—
Especially Truman Capote
Writing like writers do