Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life

Poems
by Joel Daily

RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY

     for Derek Jeter

You all                caboose
T'other worldly
Talk biz
Almost very durable
The insideout
El Senor Leghumper loose
(people in general)
Sweet thong asphalt
(office bldgs in particular)
Wear a wire Fastball
Once more time           noose
Quote professionals unquote loot
True fact

FACE INCLUDE

     for Boog Powell

Helium barge
Uplift me
Tuff Tits           & pants
Tight enough to block
A horse out under the hoop

It's
America's
Favorite's
Psychotic's

"You gottum resume      you

                         gettum job"

Delayed funny
A case of
Now awash in the jet stream
Please advice

WHITE JACKET

      for Herman Melville

You think you know
Somebody then they
Tell you they want
To buy some property
Start chicken farming

          *

Leans on the squad car suggestively
I was like
A quart of saliva
Ulp
Precautious

HOME OF THE STROLL

     for Bernie Williams

To loiter in cig bloom
Homosapien tendencies on display
Conversate golf conk
Beside the melting polar (how ya doin) ice cap

Could've been hick spare
Along the diving board's blue vinyl edge
"gut reaction" to the dotted line
Utensil afternoon of "sure why not"

Who said "garden variety"
Who cut night time tossing & turning by 83%
Who as a former child sensed "crosstown bus flow"
Post cameo as a comma in the summer blockbuster PROCEDURES FOR THE OFFICE PROFESSIONAL

Slippery when slippery
Twice babed (pricey) under felony free sky
Remember me
     as I once
Not           as I were

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