yvon cormier
|  | 1. Pen Piano
My left hand wants to speak
and measures the time
while my right hand
does all the talking
a stick-pen transmission
of life in tempo.
2. cold call blues
Back on the phone to gain
customer confidence to con
myself and earn more pay
as the brass bell clangs and
more callers yell APPOINTMENT
as more appointments are made
some break to the bathroom
to blow lines off the back of
the toilet to keep their edge
while my dial pad tones drone into
piano flourishes with a tumbler of
Dewar's over noisy ice
and Art Tatum plays Mine in the
blue room smoky recesses of my
mind as the next number rings.
3. The Hollywood Con
Times are so
tight for cash
a film producer
set up a mortgage
company where
he hired & planted
hard up actors and
actresses
as straw buyers
at ten thousand
a head
to play rich
land owners
to coerce easy
money marks
to buy imaginary
property,
& all plead
not guilty in
post bail out
Long Island
America.
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