Doug Draime- Two Poems

A Stormy Night As The Electricity Goes On And Off

The falling rain

sounds like a

huge crackling campfire

and the dog is

under the bed pretending

to be the cat

Everyone on tv

is dancing a weird tango

(especially the politicians)

and the radio refuses

to be coherent

A Brahms sonata

is waffling up from

the garbage disposal

and the thunder is

plummeting through the

Oregon wilderness,

screeching like Big Foot

with a shovel jammed

up his anus

The Earth Is Exploding Where Lawrence Of Arabia Once Slept

where he fought

and fornicated

where he turned

his heart to blowing sand

blood lust

running through

his aristocratic veins

his blue eyes full of

the murderous

future

Doug Draime emerged as a presence in the small press and underground literary movement in Los Angeles in the late 1960's. Most recent books: "Rock 'n Roll Jizz" (Propaganda Press) and "Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980" (Covert Press). Awarded PEN grants in 1987, 1991 and 1992. Nominated for several Pushcart Prizes in the last few years. He lives in the foothills of Oregon. Forthcoming, "More Than The Alley", a full-length collection form Interior Noise Press.

 

"A Stormy Night As The Electricity Goes On And Off" was first published in Zygote In My Coffee.