Loren Knows Tennis

Loren Goodman and I don't even talk on Instant Messenger anymore. I assume there is no need.

L: apples
P: oranges
L: grapes
P: corn
how are you?
L: wheat
P: cream

[Tennis continues...]

dream
butter
nutter
flankster
Frankenstone
mur
mur
mirror
image
topic
sentence
wheel
go round
purple
people eater
collapse
apse
clasp
phantasm
of the opera
of the dock worker
of the citadel
for whom this bell
for whom my rock
tolls socks
bowls clacks
and yet blubber
and yet exercise
and Yeti
and nets!
and Knicks!
and knights!
sway abominably
obstaine courteously
drain peevishly
frown sheepishly
sleep freakishly
prawn swimmingly
said Genghis Crawfish
said Sensei Fishsticks
as now fell
as now is
somehow like snow
like nose in a plow
to the people of Tompkins Square Republic
fists raised and descended repeatedly
to the tunes of Souza
John Phillip to the radicals
of the surgeon madrigals
quantum mechanics never sounded so good
bananas
cuba
tuba
cupid
loofah
ladle
yodel
midol
American Idol
Tylenol
my friend Lionel
Ritchie Rich
and his cousin, Reggie
Jackson, Jesse
Hilfiger, Adolf
Lauren, Franco
Versace, Hirohito
Gautier, Yeltsin
American Motors, Gremlin
Honda Civic, E.T.
Boris, Garter Belt
Mikhail, Panty Hose
Barishnikov in Bellbottoms
Platypus in Papyrus
Sisyphus in Shrapnel
Prometheus in Pompeii
Pompeii in Prometheus!
Schrapnel in Pompeii!
Love in the time of Cole Slaw
The Cole Slaw in the Rye
Slaw Vinegar Private Rye Sandwich
Vinegar Balsamic Plywood Branch
Pooty T in da House
on at 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
braille for the duck blind
dogs for agnostic dyslexia
Happiness
IS
Skedadle
to Seattle?
Tattoo paddle
cradle collateral
nasal rattle
pay for battle
Taco tree
spinach stump
Climbing the Taco Tree: Poems, 1991--2007
Eating the Spinach Stump: Stories, 1890-1904
miss you
i hope to see you soon
Popeye Revisited, 2008
miss you too, my friend
i am off to meditation
how is Seoul?
i will post this little dialogue on shikow
seoul is kind
snowy?
definitely needs warmer weather
no snow
just brutally cold
but they say it will pass by March 35th
25th
holey cow!
March 35th!
i know
i love that mistake, too
until March 35th, then...
yes
i move in two weeks
i will see you in three
into warm digs

see you soon