Daily Archives: January 16, 2009
I Kissed A Goat
Sometimes, you fight doggerel with more doggerel…
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I Kissed A Goat
Katie Perry kissed a girl
Then alerted all the world
Half the planet sang along
I think that she got it wrong
When she stopped to think about
What he’d say if he found out
She should have told him to fuck off
And find a boy to kiss himself
All this over one small kiss
From cherry-coated chapsticked lips
Do us a favor and write a new one
And this time, get your freak flag on
Write one called "I Kissed A Goat"
Or "Did It With Oprah On A Boat"
Or "I Never Liked Boys Anyway
And I Kissed Her ‘Cuz It Felt OK"
Transgressing stale old boundaries
Might make some coin from wannabes
Or rile a Fundamentalist
(Who wishes that he’d seen that kiss)
But most of us around these parts
Believe in kissing from the heart
And whether your boyfriend minds or not
Is totally beside the point
Islanders (last draft for a while — not feeling it anymore)
sanctuary
is often disguised
as lava
boiling out of the sea
in poisonous fog
where hell breaks
the waves
surtsey
rose like this
the galapagos
the azores and canaries
and all of hawai’i
paradise found
rising wreathed in toxins
from the gaping seams
of tattered old
pangea
we barely waited for them to cool
before we landed
the old world had
its dangers too
