Canada, (contemporary)
Pigshoe Diaries
You are wondering where your pigs are I have them in my basement tied up rubber duck taped and scared. In my need for good award winning poetry I am having them write for their lives this is there diary.
Signed The UBER FISH
Day One
Pork a chop lips now
- Look across
- The still black waters
- Of first day
- Stretching across the horizon
- Off gravity
- The geese take flight
- And fall back afraid to go south
- The sound they make the moment
- Of breath you know the seasons change at the sound
- Is gasssssssssp
- As they are sucked into the black violent oooze of the lake
- The sign reads in proper provincal parkenese
- Welcome to swan lake
- Welcome to the land according to klein
- And the line up of the tory blue ss
- Blue in the face cause there afraid to breathe
- Release emissions that might get them fired
- Ralphy the common man kyoto he can never pronounce quioxite due to the fact is foreign and spanish
- Raises his lance against the iron dragon chretien and misses
- Going the wrong way and ends up spearing a giant who thinks he is a windmill
- What is pig poetry
- It is poetry that dares to breathe the lines against the regime of king klein
- And his merry band who smokes coal and rolls out the barrel of oil monkeys
- And does not think there is a problem
- Once there was buffalo poetry
- I asked my friend if he was a buffalo
- He looked at me and said what
- A buffalo
- Are you a buffalo
- Syncrude has a patch of green in which there live these buffalo
- Six very terrified buffalo as tar sands oil machinery crash around them
- And in this act syncrude can say there environmental
- We are buffalo
- Symbols of the arts
- But if we speak out we are served up nicely on a bun
- At the tory stampede
- Quick slip under the fence
- I got the shears paint yourself pig as a pig
- They will never know
- What that glow
- Oh sorry wrong paint
- Now your glowing as brightly as the waters under ralph’s regime
- As environmental ministers never trust a guy whose roles as minisinister was to sell of half the forest.
- So be a pig send out poetry while you have a voice
- Cause I here there serving bacon next
- Cause alberta is no longer the land of beef since the
- Cows have died of drought
- And are as diseased and mad as the politicians
- Which don’t make good eating cause they taste of oil
- And baldy recycled ideas.
- And iam drowning no ballet feet cut off
- And hands firmly crippled in the swan lake
- And THE PIG POETRY CANNOT SAVE ME
- My bones are turned into the blood of war machines
- And profit
- And prophets warned me but we did not listen and this is our last
- only breath treasure it
Day Two
The pigs are not writing award winning poetry slaughtering them looks like a good idea
Remembrance for Old Pigs Lost
- Hold up your brief life and candle let it shine a lantern defying staining the dying hope and light
- Shout out Whisper in against the storms that ravage morning and chill night
- Be the element that howls rages and sparks against the sail shattered and torn
- Do not add salt to sea with your grief
- Make boxes out the wreckage of ship against reef
- Do not look so grim and forlorn
- Take out the drum and pipes dance away in mourning clothes of grey and black
- You mourn the death of the king of poetry for you think he is dead
- Cause of the red autumn leaves and the blood in the winter tracks
- His soul the voice light across dark in page is in echo hallooooo of mountain top and
- Is in the whisper of leaves so low
- The wisdom I carry in the philosophy and word he gave
- He kicks saints in the shin Robs the graves
- Jester playing games comes staggering out of pandora box
- For hope and jot knows how to pick the toughest locks
- Let us raise glass and voice
- For its is out choice
- To toast and cheer and make merry
- For is what you would do
- Oh king Iron John
- Iron John
- Iron John.
- Firer of words into spinning clay
- With idea and arrows of though well armed
- For you we wage war against the waning day
- And will tell of our valiant comrade and teller of tales
- Till the bones break and voice fails
- But even then nothing out lives
- Then ink the scratch of your pen
- To you Iron John
- To you is this poem windinay way
- A path that may lie covered in ages
- But true as your voice
- And word
Day 3
Decided to have pork chops today. I had them on the plate but all I could do was think about the pigs downstairs with there curly tails read to be threw up apple sauce all over my shoes
X CAW VATION
- I am excavating my heart of words
- Taking out the sylullabies of hope and courage
- Till all remains the toxic gas and hisses
- Vowel pops
- Its time to wake again
- Brrreath again
- Be i live and gain
- New friends tall skinny girl name of ex love
- Who is dancing in this moment
- In this rain
- of thought
- I am never tired or collsasinging
- and Breaking into a vague light again.
Day 4
Pigs got into my andy warhol diary threw up the words while wearing silver wigs. I am sinGIng abba show tunes with them needless to say weird !!!
Haiku for fish due to copyright restrictions not the good restrictions like the ikea commercial bondage
- No poem for you uber fish chickadee
- For you see it’s the pigs not the fish who rule
- Poetry
Day 5
Got some good pig loving today. But it was me who squealed not the pig. Still have apple sauce in my ears. Pig said this is text to be read while a cd plays. If you ask me those damm pigs are seedy.
Urban Angel Graffiti
- Just like
- Just like
- Tokyo
- Watching the urban river flow
- Traffic of dreams and stars empty
- Toxic
- Can see why people strive for vancouver
- Like the golden buildings strive for the sky
- And it doesn’t quite live up to the expectations.
- Wondering about the ghosts of saxophone players
- And future parades
- In an amber glow
- I am reminded of finding my totem here
- The dragon fly a thousand perceptions a thousand eyes
- Disturbed by the fluttering of wings
- Not a dragonfly but a sparrow the common more miraculous
- Than the hand of god coming down
- Cause of that momentummmm
- I wonder where the angels lie
- I wonder where the angels crash
- I wander where the angels lies
- Sprawled out and off-key as my song.
- Wandering through the urban sun beat down
- I find the golden nugget in the
- Centre of clown dyke daze
- More of what this city is about than
- The retro grade fitting of our flappereque parents
- And grandmas going to the shirley temple of her youth cause it was never cool to dress up down or sideways was our motto we are in for the rides.
- I meet my friend who talks about the flies gather
- red around dance
- this man she knows
- And she is sick I tell her it’s the heat or the world
- Everyone’s getting sick of the tilt a whirled
- And in the carny game called life you know its so so fixed
- I wonder where the angels lie
- I wonder where the angels crash
- I wander where the angels lies
- Sprawled out and off-key as my song.
- I enter the church to find the word
- Remember how an angel sat in the loft and wrote down
- Everything he felt and saw it was mostly about the free hot dogs and coffee
- No I forget the exact phrases but the moment of the music of our lives
- I have carried around for so long
- I try to enter the santi tea of the cage and am told staff only
- They send me packing down the road to the bissel centre to find where
- The word lies
- The center is far more open than I remember and I paced off the street again
- In my white rabbit late daze
- And I know
- I wonder where the angels lie
- I wonder where the angels crash
- I don’t have to wander where the angels lies
- Sprawled out and off-key as my song.
- Cause its right here in the sacred heart.
- And people give there holy words of the street
- May it catch and seep into the roots of the church
- And give resonance adding to the hymns on Sunday
- The drum circle on Friday
- The shaman tells of his life
- In the sacred circle of social work and institutionalization
- Youth tells of the lack of food and spirit
- How the legacy of poetry shines brighter than the lonely
- Streets of gold in buildings
- And the jester tells of love
- I journeyed with the jester into the heart of sanity
- As he went from raving poet talking about punk rawk
- Bad landlords and cockroaches to gardening and cottages by the Lake.
- He was a master of prose but he was nervous at this first wrestling with the word.
- Oh fucking hallalalalalalalalalalyah
- I wonder know where the angels lie
- I wonder knowwhere the angels crash
- I wander know where the angels lies
- Sprawled out and off-key as my song.
- Its in the word
- Its in the bone
- Its in the flow of 97 street
- Lined not with gold but various forms
- Of hope a far more valuable commodity
- And across the street mary holds onto her hope
- And vietnam firmly telling jesu’s across the street
- Down jump junior boy don’t jump you have to be crusadefyed
- Jesu’s stands arms out wide I told yah mum
- I told yah mum I don’t have to dye my hair in a mohawk to rebel
- I just have to live and tell
- I wonder where the angels lie
- I wonder where the angels crash
- I wander where the angels lies
- Sprawled out and off-key as my song.
- Its here its here this is where the angels lie
Day 666
Devil sock puppets rule the universe.
Remember the golden girl
- On the swing trying to kiss sky
- Legs wide thought of boys crossing
- Them never there
- The creaking and the singing
- Creaking and the singing
- Smack of concrete
- As she tripped and fell
- She was held and its rocka bye rocka bye
- Hush everything is going to be all right
- Daddies here
- Remember the silver girl hair shaved off
- Crumpled up like rag doll hold you beaten up
- For being queer
- Junked up and eyes open wide
- The creaking and the rocking the sickness
- Never stops
- She never wanted to kiss the sky
- She wanted to feel alive and fire again
- But I hold her and the world spirals out off
- Control
- She walks through the buildings of glass
- Is some young girl for a daddy for not diamonds or pearls
- Mockingbirds its meat for rock
- Slaughtered and the pigs look on dead eyes
- Cause its not there daughter
- This little piggie goes to market
- This little piggy ends up a prostitute
- And there both white meat
- Remember the golden life
- The headlines want the young the glorious and the big guns
- The history want the young the glorious and the big guns
- And we remember in plastic and hallmark flowers
- Which pacifists put a symbol in and says it’s for peace
- The flower itself is peace
- Alive on flanders field
- It is life after the loss of a generation
- It is life after the choking gas and the piss in pants
- And the realization that your grave in blood and bone and mud
- Or maybe alone and shivering in a flophouse
- Your pension not coming through
- And you put on the old radio
- And remember dancing with the ghost
- Of memory staticing over
- Damm the war of freedom is never won
- Or glorious
- My heart breaks for all the silent wars going down
- And there isn’t a sound for its not old nostalgia
- Hey boys remember the good old cold war
- And the fear you will be a shadow on the wall
- And all the while another falls under your feet
- And you think another drunken indian
- I think it’s another casualty of the silent war
- Do you question the spiral the dance
- That’s skyrockets young blood into siouxide
- Greater than our race for space
- They think the only way to kiss the sky
- Is through racing faster than the dogs
- And smashing in
- Young metis buffa low jump is what we should call
- The high and level bridge that’s sepe—–rates us
- Press arm to arm blood to blood
- Life to life
- Raise up your brother from the mud
- And into the stars
- Do judge or say it’s not our problem
- Look with reverence at the white crosses that mark
- Where ancestors are buried
- Not across from power plant
- Everywhere the snow falls
- Is the mark of remembrance
- Don’t try to pin it on your lapel its will
- Melt carry it
- In your heart
- In your heart
- In your heart
Day 7
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Help me I am tied up and the pigs are sharpening there knives. The alberta beatnik is a prophet and I am going to experience a trace willan nightmare WEEE WEEEE
LULLABYE OF GAS
- Hush little child
- The future future
- May disturb you
- But there is the sun
- So so bright
- Holds up skinny arm
- Of revolution
- Against the moon
- Sing in silver of cossack blade
- No the white russian handkerchief does
- Not change into the river red blood flag
- Of the bolsheviks
- It’s held over mouth
- As you die like your grandfather did
- Hand over mouth
- Identity on breast
- And the lullaby of gas washes over
- The hissing the missing and the trees are bare
- Nothing grows and the fruit is bitter
- This is the lullaby of gas
- The night is shoot out
- No stars black the colour of lakias coat
- Little dog you knew all the tricks
- But what happens to all the good little dogs
- It the same as four telling rabbits
- You seem them skinned in the sickening
- Pulses addled and quickening
- The hamsters earnestly turning the wheel of bureaucrazy and racing
- For the claim space
- Said you died after a weeks
- It was only hours
- And your howl stretching folding time and prophecy
- Told of the red star collapse sing sing sing into the black velvet hole of capitelltell tell ism
- And the only thing left after your guts exploded
- Was the lullaby of gas
- What happens to all the good little dogs
- They eat bad fruit and die shivering in yours arms
- Harsh and cycnical lights all for the cause of betterment
- Who’s a good little doggy I can see your brains
- The stars of it glowing dying out
- Young peterburg rabbits sit in the greek café
- Talk about how they were thrown to the european wolves
- And american coyotes left to fend for themselves
- They didn’t know how to eat or vote for themselves
- And mother ussr frankenstein was returned to her original pieces
- The heart and conscience strangely missing
- All of this for the blue jeans and going doing south
- So you can get fucked by the american cuban missile crisis
- Cause the president doesn’t know how to keep the missile in there pants
- Other rabbits there lines go back to the boot
- On there necks the lash on backs
- Turned into the general with the bad eyes
- Looks out of muscovite apartments drinks fine brandy eats
- Brie watches the masses collect for bread rotten in there mouth
- It wasn’t democracy the people clamored for
- It was the right to drink pepsi or chokes
- You the sound of the gasses a hissing
- No it’s the sound of the communist revolution
- Mark and Engles and Grouch and Thomas More spinning in there graves
- Once the fruit looked so beautiful but when the apples was divided some had
- Whole orchids in there pockets and watched as there own mother starved off another taste
- It’s the lullaby of gas
- But the bear she has grace
- All pretty dancin in the tutu
- Never mind what keeps her on her hinds legs
- But the shackles re rusted as the sickle
- That was drawn against the young Ukrainians throats
- By good old uncle joe
- She urges her young to dance to
- Then senses something’s not right she bats it lovingly
- And the bears head goes spinning off
- It’s a short clown in a bad bear suit
- And then she dismembers all her young while still dancing away
- Takes the blood paints it on her lips to look pretty
- But the man in the tall tall hat and the funny beard
- Plays away at his organ
- The song so beautiful to the bear’s ears it makes her dance and dance so merry
- Actually the song is off-key and scary
- About when his younger brother burned his room
- In retaliation for the times beaten up
- And how the younger brother actually managed to defend himself
- And beat the older brother back for the last time
- Now the younger brother tags along like little brothers do
- Takes his stick jabs it into the bear’s ribs to make her dance
- And all of a sudden her guts come out
- And its only gears she is only a automaton
- Once she played chess
- Will the uncle in the top hat
- The pieces were glass and when innocence and power was played
- The pieces filled with the colour black or white red or white
- Or even blue not matter it was blood the drove the pieces
- And not the life the energy the spilling of the seeds
- Was the killing of the fruit
- The wind rustling in the barren trees the lullaby of gas
- The bear and the uncle are married now
- The marriage vows exactly the same
- She ain’t good at doing dishes she breaks them
- And he is looking haggard and bruised
- The scars across him a mark of honor
- For she still dances
- No children though He taught them to shoot from such a young age
- And they all marked each other in the sights
- Shoot out the moon and avert stars in nights
- Until all they had was each other for the targets
- And the fathers hand in on the gun
- The brains across the floor
- Children scattered like there bloody dolls
- And the sound is the door creaking the oven left open
- And it’s the lullaby of gas
- No fruit will spring from this earth it’s far too barren
- But the heart of the grandmother is found in a mayonnaise jar
Day the fish is ate
The fish was delish. It went well with a good orange glaze. Made us sick to our stomachs though. It was actually rotten and fruity.
James Bondage
- This is the piece I performed
- When I decided to penetrate the vagina
- Monologue Auditions
- I was dressed in a slinky black cocktail dress
- Emphasis on the cock baby
- I was more a bloody queen than Carrie at the prom
- And equally ejected
- They threw me out the door saying
- I was to vogue cosmopolitan they don’t want super models
- They wanted a real women and who says sarcasm is dead
- Only chivalry is dead only when I open a door and the girl walks straight into it
- Speaking of girls me and two of my closest girl friends were walking to the roost one day
- And as I passed through the door one of the big drag queens turned to each other and said
- I though it was a group of lesbians
- Never dress like a soccer mom in one of those bars
- Complete with the Mrs. Robinson Cruise so survivor
- Instinct for young piglet aka boys
- Cause when there young and beautiful at the roost that means there straight
- Or so says the oilrightworker when I tied him up and showed him a thing or two about Kyoto accords
- I could be talking about the gay cup
- Yes that’s right football is gay
- There more tight ends and white lines
- Than a night at the boots and saddles
- And when you’re done you go the locker room
- get soaped up in the showers
- And grab each others asses
- And you think there’s nothing manly about ballet
- Least we are not wearing green and gold
- That screams Ethel mermen
- I could talk about National rodeo weak in the knees week
- O was hanging outside at rebar
- Cowboys walk by friend yells out yeeehah a bunch of redneck hicks
- They turn and look at me
- One of them sidles up to me and looking at me in my finest
- Andy Waracholicblack attire Boy you should be in movies
- I reply I am Pornos
- And boy I could rope you up and
- bust your bronco all night long.
- Once upon a time there was sue and bill. They were unhappy so bill became sue became bill. They were unhappy so bill became nancy became bill and became ????Needless to say there were more balls passed around than ping pong at a gberiling convention.
- But I am not here to talk about fairy tales
- There is a woman who smokes word
- Slow mellow ganja tunes that
- Makes you think and sex and wet beaches
- And the cold winters of disappointment
- Who jazz Diaspora of the relationship profiling
- Is black and white key turning balls a churning unlock
- The whiskey bird cause she’s free and warbling freeedom and beauty
- Tonight.
- The birds environmental
- Though
- A whole tree was there in my pants
- And woody the woodypecker was nowhere to relieve it
- So I walk into the John
- And her brother walks in
- And he like I cant believe she read the sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx poem
- And I was red in the face
- Trying to hide my Cuban missile crisis
- With my hand the effect of her poem
- I know where my balls are in my pocket.
GAY 69
Holy blistering mumwumps the fish came out my ass. Spewing apple sauce he tied me up and made us write this poem. With love snowballing and teabag the lovable pigzz.
- Mmmm mmmm mmmmm
- The goober fish is looking at the digital whirled
- Spun out and giddy
- All the beautiful corn
- That he can handle
- Wide open golden fields of corn.
- The goober fish is scared off a conservative board
- The whacks him over the head and tells him he is a bad bad fish.
- The fish is not a post modernist he is a big stick expressionist
- Or by the marks on his skin an impressionist
- Oh yah the fishy wishy fishy wished is afraid that one day
- He would look artistic with an orange side of kelp and some glaze.
- A man looks over the fishes shoulder says that sick
- At the modern primitive fish with hooks through his lips
- And another man with a forked tongue.
- That’s a look easier done by joining the conservative alliance party.
- Now that’s a party that can be no fun to join.
- Or invited to. All of a sudden the hyper annoying kid whose party it is a first gets replaced by the suave hip man who so modernly right in view of homosexuals that he would never get caught in a dress that time in college was just a fluke and the bar he though the girls at the door were really tall.
- And the fish is scared closets are way to frightening has dreams about going through discovering the white white singing abba disco tunes and this is far above white lines and black traffic buzzing.
- The fish is scared of the knife of self doubt that bones him deep.
- The fish is scared the gee I eight the world will eat him too.
- This man says cutting your tongue like that is like a woman cutting of her sons arms to make money.
- And we do this in the everyday as our lives fuel the corporate aircraft of greed
- And we welcome the crash in the trade centers of our lives cause it’s just another excuse for the world.
- Yes the goober fish is scared.
- For the g8 surgery
- He wakes up all pretty thin lips like some superstar
- Big breasts just like his dad after sitting on the couch and having to many beer
- And that rockstar walk just makes him queer
- For all the beauty of a face lifted world the inside is still rotten.
- Why does the g8 sound like Jihad cause it’s a holy war against the poor the underclass.
- There nothing holy about war.
- You end up with the absence of a generation.
- Maybe it’s the in the lost that you find god or mohamad or buddah
- And what is the world needs now is a new mcdonalds and the fish can never get it right.
- Left or middle the fish doesn’t know what school the swim in and creates a new revulsion.
- Has dreams a about a third eye beauty contest and he knows just what to do
- He begins to eat the head
- Then the fins
- Then the tale oh the goober fish is
- Eaten the goober fish is eaten
- Before the gee I can eat the world eats him to.
Day Pi figure this you expected ten
Me and the pigs are getting married and having post surrealist kids. Got rubber duckie tape and utensils for the honeymoon. The meal is strictly vegetarian alberta beatnik stew.
Painted Breath
You expect dialogue from the metasockpuppetphiles performance guy (NOTE TO SELF MAKE IT LOOK AS IF YOU ARE READING FROM THE PAGE)
Instead enjoy these painted breaths
It’s the end of the pig as I know it and I feel fine
- Breath 1
- A famous indian journalist said the best way to see
- america is by bus at night when the rates are cheaper
- I agree but for me the best time is the bus rush crush traffic
- when the characters of your book are defined in the lines of sight
- and the weary and hopeful come together in a moment and monet
- of destination
- Breath 2
- I have murder and midwifery on my hands
- Theres hope in the kitchen fridge and defeets
- In my dancing the creak and cracking is my back
- Minds exploding and the fires in my belly
- Oh this art to choke hearts
- Is growing wild and this song is firm upon my tongue
- It tastes of paint
- It’s the end of the pig as I know it and I feel fine.
- Breath 3
- Holy daze and mountains
- Throne of gods
- summit of graveyards explorers ghosts wail turn to
- Monks Ohm and the turning of prayer wheels
- In all in a moment of sand
- A mandala that’s fades into the blessed now
- Then why am I upset at the monsters
- Abominable they do exist
- They have there logo Pepsi and coke
- Plastered over your base
- And the cradle of civilization is defecated and defeated by your paint
- But there is no taking away of this rash
- Poisoning people culture with your corporate greed
- soda pop cheaper than life itself
- the new weapon of bio no logic warfare
- The mongoose lies skinned
- You the cobra promise jobs and charm
- But in your search for the clearest water
- You drip your venom into the well
- And see nothing wrong with the people
- Dying for its your property to do with as you please.
- There souls gather in the butterfly tree
- Copy right Owned by the microsoft cells dissolving
- There is no going back only into the dust the atoms
- That form into the dow of chemicals
- It’s the end of the pig as I know it and I feel myself
About the Poet:
“Jagger is the transformer of poetry. The eighties cartoonamaniac of verse. He changes shape from the cowboy poet to the ubergoober fish to the metasockpuppetphilises. Be scared or scarred. The only quotes about Phil that are adeqate are, ‘He needs help,’ and ‘I think I understand him and that scares me.'”
– satoreye [aka: Phillip Jagger]
Philip Jagger (contemporary) is a Canadian artist and poet based in Edmonton, Alberta. Jagger is a member of performace group, The Raving Poets, who blend live improv music (courtesy of the world-famous Raving Poets Band) with poetry. The group can be thought of as nouveau-Beat, and an update on the jazz-riff versifiers of the previous century. [DES-11/13]
Additional information:
- The Raving Poets – performances here and on iTunes.
- More about The Raving Poets.