“Mars and Pluto are enemy cousins” © Claudio Parentela

 

In the Desert

Jesus went to the desert
for thirty days n 30 nights
of the Slim-Fast challenge
N He was lookin’ good
He lost a lot of weight
n denied the devil 3 times,
“No more cheese puffs for me”, said He, finally…
n He got his hair n nails done, too…
n got it goin’ on
He had that nice tan now
n He’d become a Palestinian, too
and He was also a woman
since He was everything
and nothing at all, except a construction— n could be anything—
n S-he was ready to Lean-In
S-he was a real live honest to Golf
bourgeois Jesus Jane Christ…
N S-he loves the Rich
cause that’s where S-he works,
n S-he loves the Poor, too
‘cause it’s good P. R. and a tax dodge,
n S-he buys the petit bourgeois— cheap
and in bulk at Wall & Broad, but also on ebay n esty
where you can find the very best of the— “un-natural”— followers
(… and because it’s always cheaper
if you buy your grossest grosses and your bulks
in the un-natured wild aggregates of the empty sets of
the “spiritual” & the a-historical improvisors and fabricators
that “angelic” artists always hope they’ll one day turn out to be… )
Or, anyway, says Jesus, “season to taste, but leave some on the plate…”

 

David Earl Williams, the Absurdilachian, writer of absurdist anti-dada dadaist poetry, was born deep down near the bottom of the Ethnocentric Gorge and grew up on the banks of the great Ethnocentric River just like everybody else who was ever temporarily alive. His chapbook: Everybody Lives Here One Night At a Time: Hillbilly DaDa Poetry (for sure as hell rollin’ in the aisles, barkin’ at the moon DaDa-Dogmatic times… ) is available for purchase at Wet Cement Press.

Born in Catanzaro (1962-Italy) where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, digital painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, textile artist and freelance journalist. He has been Active since many years in the international contemporary art scene.