FURTHER ODE, A LA CRISP: SUR LE ROUGE

I spent hours poring over books and reading about rouge;
a color that I have always loved: it rhymes with ‘Moulin Rouge’
and scampers towards the front of my brain as once upon a time
upon the television screen scampered in equal measure a stooge–
each of three: Larry, Curley, Moe–
one screams in pain, one jibber jabbers endless, one forsakes his toe’s
largress it swells in pain like yodelee dee doe–upon my word its vexing unspeakable–like
Bees in Brautigan, Septembers in Faulkners; Idahos in Hemingway and
so many other things, unretrievable; but wait!

I can scarcely contain my enthusiasm or remember it for Rouge–as one remembers
Toulouse-Lautrec! His art more real than counterfeit, his spirit dismembered by
an unloving father, a hopeless mother, and a city unrequited–
if that be Paris, let it be
ignited! Well, no harm done there: it already was–bathed
in iridescence, it walks around uncrippled and fine and almost haughty like a
heavenly venereal disease: attached to swarthy peasants!

That’s why Lautrec will always be Rouge’s Main Man–
filled with romance and spirits and diseases unfurled,
like a drunken nightguardsman sleeping, curled,
face down so by the sun tanned,
ever so prostrate on an icy blue
and terribly expensive
and even overpriced,

yes, yes yes: catamaran


all artwork, except likenesses of Lyndon B. Johnson, by Crispy Flotilla ® 2006

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