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Reruns
Splash!
Like
a rock, Elly
May’s
cake sank to the bottom
of
the “ceement” pond.
*
In Outer Space
Judy
Jetson spins
a
disc and does the Orbit
to
“Comet of Love.”
*
With a Little Grin
Morticia
snipped off
the
rose and placed the stem in
the
tombstone-shaped vase.
*
Patty to Cathy
“While
you study as
me,
I’ll leave as you, then go
as
me on my date!”
*
Housework
Samantha
looked at
the
dirty dishes. “Just this
once,”
she thought, and twitched.
*
New Year’s Eve
The
cork popped off the
bottle
and, effervescent,
Jeannie
overflowed.
*
Honey in the Flesh
She
knew how to use
her
high-voltage curves like an
unconcealed
weapon.
*
Batman and Robin
hang
by threads above
a bubbling vat of acid.
To be continued…
*
Model Children
Kitten
told the truth.
Princess
set aside her pride.
Bud
made right his wrong.
*
Island Girls
Mary
Ann dons one
of
Ginger’s dresses, but it
falls
flat on her chest.
*
Gossip
Gidget
and Larue
knock
heads as they press their ears
to
the princess phone.
*
Fred’s Breakfast
With
a club, Wilma
cracked
open the three-minute
pterodactyl
egg.
*
Puberty
Wally
pounds on the
bathroom
door. “C’mon Beav! You’ve
been
in there for hours!”
*
Fractured Fairy Tale
This
kissing princess
was
such a dog that the frog
she
smacked simply croaked.
*
Green Acres
The
smoke from Lisa’s
burnt
pancakes slowly blackens
the
fresh country air.
*
The Mod Squad
Julie,
Pete and Linc
bust
some thugs, then head back to
their
pad to turn on.
*
Like Bird or Balloon
Sister
Bertrille fades
to
a speck in the blue sky
above
San Tanco.
"Reruns" reprinted from David Trinidad's Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991). Copyright 1991 by David Trinidad. Reprinted by permission of the author.
9
Cigarettes
.............................(Bette Davis, All About Eve)
Awards
banquet: den
of sin. Lit like loaded gun
aimed point-blank at Eve.
*
Run-down
dressing room,
Kabuki cold cream. Enrapt:
Eves self-creation.
*
Phone
rings, 3 a.m.
Bills call from Beverly Hills.
Eyes wide to Eves scheme.
*
Next
morning, breakfast
in bed. Birdie, you dont like
Eve. Blueprint theory.
*
Fasten
your seatbelts:
perhaps the most famous cig
of last century.
*
Late
for audition,
rages onstage. Bushwhacked by
understudy Eve.
*
Stuck
on snowy road,
hair down, regrets misconduct
toward all, even Eve.
*
Cub
Room: the elite
meet. Great actress to wed Bill.
No more about Eve.
*
Back
at banquet: same
cig? Eyes Eve evilly as
she collects her prize.
Jacket 16 March 2002
http://jacketmagazine.com/16/br-trin.html
American poet David Trinidad was born in 1953 in Los Angeles. In the early eighties, he was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan and Amy Gerstler. In 1990, Trinidad received his MFA from Brooklyn College.
David Trinidad's most recent book, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve, co-written with Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2003. His other books include Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000), Answer Song (High Risk Books, 1994), and Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991). He edited Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos, and with Maxine Scates, Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. In 2002 he moved from New York City to teach poetry at Columbia College in Chicago, where he also coordinates the MFA Poetry Program and co-edits the literary journal Court Green.