Tuesday, June 1, 1982

GRANOLA MAN


Roll over Sonoma granola man. This bed only carries one. 
Take your aging frisbee and press it between the leaves of a book. 
I don’t want no nacho eating macho cowboy sitting on my couch. 
Take your four-wheel-drive bronco out of my kitchen. 
And tank up somewhere else.

I don’t want a new age mechanic who gets to his garage by noon. 
Take your blackened hands and monkeywrench 
and tighten someone else’s bolts. 
I don’t want a new age man. 
I don’t want a ménage à trois. 
I prefer even numbers. 
Give me a rock ‘n’ roll man and a boogie woogie night. 

Don’t give me a poet. The next thing you’ll know 
we’ll all be splattered in the public domain. 
Take your typewriter keys and pound them out on someone else’s flesh.

? Gotta be spring but when? 1980-82

No date, no clue other than it’s written on the back of a press release for Jim Kohn, who I think was a classmate at Sonoma State in Expressive Arts. He was director of Ali Akbar College of Music in Fairfax. I wonder if he hit up on me and I got annoyed. I do remember the frisbee. It was red. So that places it at Sonoma State. Since during 1979 and 80 I wrote in my big journal, and this is on a loose piece of paper, I am guessing that it was written in 1981 or 82. And the tone is closest to what I was writing in June 1982.

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