Poems by Rochelle Owens
NOT BE ESSENCE THAT CANNOT BE
Yields
(Which see)
Azzas
See which
Picker-tool
Azzas
Wielding
A a growing
Iso-
Lation
TWO
That for
Spec-
Ial sperm
Prodigal horse
Spechez
Luminus
Which after
Die. Nine (nin)
Twists made in
Voles water-
Ing
Juicy.
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for George
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BELONGED INTO SHEEPSHANK
Hunger
It is luck too. Hullabaloo Vishnu
Knowledge birds liturgic liverwort dynamite ne-not
Hideous Munt Jak
Barbarous.
Rosy.
Like emblem on the teeth. Two, the best
I pray thee, the nose leaking, the indians, the words
And songs
Nimble feeted.
Enlightened
Be a cold
Thing.
The same time. Tied to no place
Belonged into Sheepshank punjabi delusion
Unreal with no
Thing.
Lived.
Which my Pope. Bent over
Made pregnant ordained bursted the good
Fat foreskin
After entombment
And carpfishes.
Tonkin
Mere not Simon Magus. He was emptied
Before the man and animal mentally again and again
Between the hole of the mouth
And ass hole.
The base salty.
Some matter. I emit
I hold value and attached butter-fat love
Good selfishness
Burnt clay.
Unclearly christian
For a hump.
UP UP ON THE DISORDERS OF THE HAIRS
The least be be oaklike colorless. Or. Or the
Sweat ducts hither hither Come. Up the nostrils
Tangled incredible. On this genus brass. Yellow.
Being touched hither hither hither hither flat-
Footedness, focus on this genus brass. Yellow.
Yellowish in the fe-male. In the huckleberry.
By the dry withdraw-al.
Get out out the booms, fingers and toes, in the
Arctic friiz of vigor middle finger. That on
The Yucca horse and ass, zinc and male or like
Jove, joyey cheek through the air METHINKS be-
Comes suckling pigs down down on the prickli-
Ness. Up Up on the disorders of the hairs.
Give an eating oil.
CALLED ALSO THE INSTANT
Become limulus sounded minuted Gradual the silent lumps
Worst silent Become limulus Which one which one Which
Other divi-ded Magni-ficent Made spiry
The Maker The kind Judas six of Jul-ius
Receiving O mimicry Zarin pith deigned deigned without
Worst The foretelling Joseph Smith four feet
In answerable Called also The instant Also the trembling
Umbel Tyrr Manx cat And forefoot
Of And profanation Two Kings shown two spheres reached
Placed And After Her Of it Tallow Tasmania con-verted
Who Who in the fetter That
Is far less Other things The count-ry shrubs and trees
(BOM) ONLY CHECKERBERRY
(Pukist)
Behold!
(Winter)
(Winter)
Ned.
Dog. Nigra. Boodle
Dulia. Pungent. Pelidna dum
Dum. Work
Mediterranean
Mediterranean
Gloominess
(Pagouros)
Crasy Shakespeares
Midsummer
Jynx
Past and wrong
(Bom) only checkerberry
Yields shits (cucumis)
(Winter)
(Winter)
Spicy red berries (winter)
(winter)
Wart hog joy.
NOT BE ESSENCE THAT CANNOT BE
ME Agonizes. It it's Brown ME
Which treads, changes, Agonizes. This
Desmodium Venturous. Than the other
(From a tick). Infinite Not Be.
Not Be essence That cannot be escaped. ME
It's brown carnivorous Burrowing Is the like
Beyond Beyond. Illimitable. Outrageous. Known.
Mediocre Mediocre.
SAY OLD ENGLISH WISHE ME
th th
twease my paws My voice her tits
was loafs of bread just dadabeeyah
sap south-pole jipa savejoy
three bladders say old english
wishe me
sweet-loss
suck lent drool
infallible
meat broke
scab lip lips whistling
with the nose
beget rejib horrible in th
th th
pencil wish me twitch
sea raven
just
dadabeeyah
MA NIP (GO AWAY)
my bullet ma be a good gel
MA KISS FLAGRANTLY
Ma nip (go away) slightly
nebuLOUSEly miMICKing
like a shadow (butcher)
coMINGing on Shekinah
carving the Slovaks man nananimal
man nananimal
Slaz the harvest fly's
hard meat HARD 'nd harmless
ma I'm natural (but)
Ma nip (go away) slightly
LOST TENDING TO ICCHEN YICCHEN
He
Heads
Tiger Eye,
Hawse hole,
Name enclosed in
Cob nut,
Sir Henry in Habana
Cuba. Suckblood.
The stems and stalks,
Them human heat lighters
Heart land. Health Eaters.
Make
Of Georgians
Holy piss of the
Caucasus
Formula . . Is Atomic
Suborders
In urine and india rubber,
Affected in anger, Family gu-blow
The same other number 2 shit
In indigo and kindness
We unnerve not offensive.
Culture,
Milk,
Soil, serum,
Vatican Councils,
Three bones
In organik
Enos, penos, muscle
By intimation
Free mercy wholly
Inmeshed, Loco and chiefly
Lawful.
Any genus
Misty mastered.
Go send Mishnayoth
His wrong minus semi
Parasitic American
Pipefish,
Sharp point charges,
Money shevism pinchcock,
Trees spurious flow fluids.
Common likened (Hypopitys)
Not significant and genuine.
Fertilization
Wife,
Fenugreek,
Sugarman with water inch
Identical (poison ivy). Jack
It's fictitious
Ithun Ithun. Lost tending to
Icchen Yicchen body of
Eboris Myrna that object
Of ginseng saturation,
The fruit mulberry yellow-wood.
An
Jaloos
No-Ah. Like radical
Kangaroo Hence time
On the balls Jackass
Neck feathers
Reversed forming
Bright blue and
Naught ropes, wire
2 minerals
Jad Jad Devotees.
Origin
Of Zebedee.
Myth. Pal. Serving the
Shape mixture of Japonia,
(Native knuckle over the front
Double fist)
Obsequious young latex
Scriptures,
Udders,
Midst
Soldiers, Arms, (Mimosa).
That ore
Nor vegetable old,
Mine mals sights, mass
Phases only old world
And the seeds remote.
5 devine offspring ale-wife,
(Peace Esox Grinus) Holy place
Spoilt.
Peely head developed
Chirp buttercups poagrass
Daringly bountiful.
ZU ZU MIDDAY I'M NARCOTIC
Endlong skirmish lump
I am gallant, greek
Nightingale, zu zu
Midday I'm narcotic,
Light, ball-flowered
Fly, ku ku ven-emous
Beyond wood luring
Stick, polled, over
My mucous, meaning
Many me's hot-short
Poor snakemouth I
Sence eels sneering
My forward voo doo
To and fro, seven
puffs, to and fro
ME, white-colored
YOU muck luck dope
A evil drink, top
Of a wapiti poyo,
YOU goo me bloodshot
YOU whacky fop, O Oph
Elia you milk the
Pocket-knife poko
On holidays in the sun
ME HOGGISH (HOD)
Be - Me either uva
Loved Of bean door-keeper
Oligocene Depend ikik
Dump Of axis
O O
Ducs ME hog Nian
Gish Ab hallowed
(Hod) Conopodium
Knuckling Hotch Potch
To two untied Tera
Object balls Or alight
Psammos sand On the water
Guatemala Ab dead
Siccus group Yaymen
Preside Heil wood
(Siccus) Marked fop
At the bitter Head fruit
Tupi frondosa Not lay by with
Watermain Splashed
Annu Is-sue Splashed
Target marquesas 7 stomachs
Pig-Soil Cuckoo'd,
Uzbek Sun drying.
Rare UZBEG
I'LL STILL HAVE
be jeered at
spot brown
on me
& harass
i'm putrid
i'm lowest
(i suffer meanly)
of them with the symbol
alway
& my nose is inflamed
roasted meat
lap the drippings
(i should not)
have the brown
on me
O openly
nocuous
not ever kiss
& give up
buzzing away
(speaking distinctly)
to the bare ear
(O my long tai1)
i'll still
have i'I1 have
Nizam
& jaw & nose
my gut wall
one foot Iong
DRIPPING THING FOUR LEGS
Till she's dead, cult-
Ivated (zool zool) lady's
Finger upon her, waiting
Forming sweet bacteria
Dripping Thing Four
Legs between Needed
Four legs Great Maria
Insanity. And the alco-
Holic Not satiable high
Ner-vous hindiihideous
Cr-ime, exaggerated.
Woman. In ripening no
Accomplishment Head with-
Out Urine Harsh absol-
Ute. Yupun cedar Crotch.
Of a human being Actively
Cool. Risen piggishly Conk-
Ed Supported jeered, involv-
Ing knotgrass branches as
Come out two serpents kill-
Ing. With pipes. Pink and
Stinking Forth. Below. Mam-
Mals Either lick of a group
Side of bad female propagated
With a war-m day of spring Afri-
Cans unfeeling-ly think of fo-
Od Meat dried hard. Eat-en
By men and women Hook the shank.
AB BRANCHES OF TREES
Udo Udo sto-
Ut, wilted
Vital snot
(In the urine, eyelashes)
(In the sack, big rnonoto-
Nous snot, again)
Unsegmented, we croak
Wax cylinder to remember
Us by Hebdomadal fuck you
Lame as a game dog
(In a woman's shape)
(Contains eternal tick fever
Thuja. Bear it)
Croak you ag-
Ain seasons, ab bran-
Ches of trees, noose
Fastened, unkempt
Swinging (In a organism, gray white
Goose-fit)
HERA HERA HERA
You Ye; The bee's jail, Puck workhouse
YOU YE zealous spongy devoting to
Fucking logic, bath-ing in the
Stream, giggling. Laying pros
Titutes lowly, Mary Eddy
Lengthwise, Mahatma the beholder,
Relieving trickiness above one leap year
Eating cucumber. Opposed to the crotch crotch
Hucking honeybee
Boiling the ruuts
The hognut lower down mewing
Screwing, The giant ragweed,
And feeling the loneliness
Staining
Yellow green.
Crookneck with bark whorish
Europe bones divide
Mad shame and kissing
Sweetmeats. My lord very good
In the mind
You Ye whose
Crack open
After after after sap drain, stealth, Hera Hera
Hera
O WAFERSH TASHTE GOOD
o 6) o glutinous
o glot of glory
do an earthquake
o shockhead (50ft)
piss backward b
o special friend
twice o chrissakes,
b o natural man
(again in confession o wafersh tashte good)
shlike new, sho pleashe!
fixsh my marriagesh
everyshling allright
shknock shknock help!
shling shling
a brigadier shcould
it, itsh sho bad
o engineershz fixsh
(fluk hurricane was bad weather shtoilet shlike)
it itsh shzown shthe
MY FLUSH, stush
hung mush (Mrs) agony
cooed o bridesmad
crosh a fem and o
monthly maN is bad
o thief o shush
(Mrs) agony hung
(an animal pick worthy pick jist in jail breath)
out skullcap breed
o agony cooed
(Mrs)
BRUISE YOU NOT HONEYCOMB
By you I ting
the thing make tree kang
aroo, for, three
muscle
in
wheatworm, mary-josher, papIo reversionary. Be eating
and sore big
son-sin
sin-son
g
day of a babylonia
bag in coptifity, bacteria caught everybody
to contrary me
Gas, bruise you bruise you
not honeycomb or mama not-Czech
Oslop oslop 0 shove
with a pang in
Kings and the queens baby wagging their three vomits
and spice wet
fin-gers
tut-oo-war
f
novaskoshia and eleven bones
not a shrub sick and all likeable and naked
contemplative with skrotums
Billy-america sit on ground plum
peeling a pleasant shit socking the fresh water
Oos Osoos soo
or suffering
for the mango language matter of innocence around the trunk
of the tree
phaglagala
merry-and-big
h
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Not Be Essence That Cannot Be was Rochelle Owens' first book of
poems. Long out of print, it is presented here complete.
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Selections from I AM THE BABE OF JOSEPH STALIN'S DAUGHTER
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POME FOR THE TERRIBLE MOTHER
Ma nip (go away)
my bullet ma be a good gal
MA KISS FLAGRANTLY
Ma nip (go away) slightly
nebuLOUSEly miMICKing
like a shadow (butcher)
coMINGing on Shekinah
carving the Slovaks man nananimal
man nananimal
Slaz the harvest fly's
hard meat HARD 'nd harmless
ma I'm natural (but)
Ma nip (go away) slightly
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RADIANT HEAT
for George
when two
bodies meet
it's alright
radiant heat--
understanding
what it is
that exploding
sound when
two can see
each other--
and
the line of
sight is not
obscured
the surface
sees--
like a black
body
a
perfect radiator
a hot
object
thru dust smoke
radiant heat
flo between
them
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A SONG FOR THE PASSOVER
For the Swedes and
the Brooklynites
i was brought out
of egypt i came out
of egypt i was brought
out of egypt i came out
of egypt i went to rome,
mainz, flatbush, New York
I CAME OUT OF EGYPT. i went to babylon i came out of egypt
& in egypt i
remember my slavery & how
jewels from Susan's navel
is seduction
for your fingers
& eyes/
it is good
enough for a child
but not for a woman
or man. O Yahweh
the highest God, Creator
of all, i have never worshipped
the sun or the moon or believed
that all gods had been men &
i have thought Pallas Athena
a true pig eater/ not Esther
the highest star! O Yahweh
I have hated & despised
the criminal pantheon of
American crackpot idolatry!
0 Yahweh
my disturbing moments
have been many/
when i wanted
to be called deliverer
they called me mule-dog
i was pious
& their blasphemy shocked me!
O Yahweh, i can be prepared
to skid on bloody wet flesh
of martyred Canaanite Jews
to sing thy name! I have glutted
on & i am fed up with unholy
pagan bullshit/ I want a brief
glimpse of King David
caressing the little
Shulamite's flanks. Thanks!
O Yahweh, I do a jig for thee!
O I do a jig for thee!
I was brought out of egypt
for I came out of egypt
/out of the desert ye
brought me with a mighty arm!
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NEVER IN THIS WORLD YOU WILL
DROP A YELLOW SPONGE
I
there's a yel-; low sponge
in my hand
wiping up the sp-
illed wine
from the asian steppes.
tomor-;row is the 20th of Sept-
ember
I have not got one suit of
new clothes to wear when I meet
you at the Algonquin/
I wanted
a grey
silk
shirt with tiny boxes
I know that you would've
snagged
your wic-;ked finger
nayl
in it when I tou-;ched
your
heart hello.
hel-;lo
II
This is the skim the top
for you, Sophia of
purple ventricle
I've stopped winning
the duels
with john wayne
or karl marx
or he a dead cat
in algeria
a person named anybody
a fly
with
its claw
clutching
a nylon laundry
bag
of
the best eastern
weeds in
the world
hello I dropped a
yellow sponge chock full o'wine
on
your miraculous
little feet
III
the girl that I marry
will have to be
a singer of
can-
ta-
ta mel
ody
she'll laugh
when we kiss our toes cool in the
wine plump yellow sponge
I will explain
the myths of male/female
relationships
when we dig down deep our hearts
in yel-;low sponge.
We will both have
drunk too much light chicken
broth & then have felt awk/
ward
o awk/
ward
as we stood/
together/ so quiet
like yellow sponge
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LESSON IN SONGMAKING, SONG OF KIM
I
i live in Yorkville
i love Kim Novak. she says
the things that touch
just right. she & I should
set up house-keeping
together.
At night we finger
the keys
a long time
before we go in
& make love.
We both think the same & she enjoys me,
my name, the way I look
in my raincoat.
My trenchcoat. When I turn my back
the back of my head says the Jews cause unemployment.
Kim Novak
agrees that pastry
is so good
hot cup of tea & Slovak
bourbon to wash
the threats
down.
Hail Mary Full Of Grace Why Hide Thy Tender
Fragile Face!
II
I would go
down
on Hong Kong
to swing my ass
near Kims.
I stand in an elevator my mother is sleeping
& doesn't know that I'm going up
to the 9th floor
to see Kim
Novak.
Everytime she sees me she says, 'over here, Paul'
I look at her & say
you win, Kim.
She makes little
sexy sounds & we promise to use our heads
every second.
Tonight we're going
to kill some guy named Harry & steal
the
money.
Kim says, 'the loot'
She wears the highest heels & is so
blonde
I hope she doesn't
break
my
heart.
Tonight I waited for her
so
long.
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THE POET IS MAGICK
for George
The holy prophet Isaiah
loves me & all the old
gods of Greece
& Guevera would
love me if he ever saw me
Karl Marx grandson
of Reb the fat
would've
wanted me to flirt
with the butcher
for the best spleen
in the west!
Ah, the grape boycotters want me
on their posters
instead of bunches
of grapes!
Here I come 'round the comer
& Al Fatah begs me
for a favor
Might I be the most
beautiful
guerrila
that ever threw
a
grenade!
But I bow & flash an Islamic prayer
& skip away
for the love of Zion!
I bust up overstuffed middle-class bookstores
& switch their pictures of Fidel
for their true heart's desire--a big banana split!
Black revolutionists demand
that I teach them
the method of my swagger!
I jump jump jump away
The asian continent screams
whyfore does Rochelle jump so high!
Is it because of the Buddha
who loves her?
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From I Am The Babe Of Josepf Stalin's Daughter,
Poems 1961 - 1971.
published by Kulchur Foundation, New York.© 1972 by Rochelle Owens
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