Mark Young

Those Character Arcs

 

The seemingly innocent romantic gesture of a young man
  has been hailed as a model for Public-Private partnerships—
some people simply never go anywhere empty-handed.

He was watching The Princess Diaries, an innovative,
  provocative conversation on all aspects of religion. The
fact is great films have been made with great characters

that do not change who they are at their core. It would be
  even better if he were British. They can invest in beautiful
umbrellas because they know they'll never just be left

in a cupboard unused. & does anyone know where you
  can get those umbrellas where the outer part is gray,
but the inside (rain-free side if you like) has the sky on it?

 

An old note from Wikipedia finishes off an unfinished old poem

 

If I used the jargon of the

business pages, I would begin

by saying that telcos fall out

of the sky with the regularity

of space debris. My economics

textbooks tell me this happens

because telephony is a market

with perfect competition, where

players enter when it seems there

are opportunities, & fail because

there soon become too many &

the smaller ones cannot survive.

 

Those failures can be spectacular.

The entry capital is often weak.

Each time a player collapses

one of the smaller players sets out

to seize at least a part of its

customer base.  Froggy is one

such player, & makes great use

of sky writing.  Weekends I

often see the ephemeral slogan

froggy.com.au blow away.

 

Today I am deep in thought

struggling to write a poem about

images.  I go out to smoke

a cigarette — I should use a macro

to record that line I use it

often enough — & see Froggy in the sky.

My mind wanders.  I substitute

Froggy for lines from songs & poems.

 

Froggy one so true . . .

Froggy, I’m with you in Rockland . . .

Froggy in the sky with diamonds . . .

What’s it all about, Froggy?

 

Where have you gone, Joe DiFroggyo?

"The founder of internet service provider Froggy was sentenced in the District Court in Sydney yesterday to 21 months in custody with 12 months non-parole for lying to finance brokers."

Australian Financial Review, Apr 16, 2004.

DNR

 

Tomorrow I will turn

off the life support

 

on the cauliflower. The

florets are starting to

 

darken, gangrene is

setting in, what point

 

is there in amputation

if it's just going to re-

 

main a vegetable for

the rest of its life.

 

 

64 Js + 2 for Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

 

jongleur jurassic jingle jaguar jalousie jade jabiru jigger

jerry juxtapose juice jemadar jaffa juryrig jolt jonquil

jersey juggernaut jam joke jettison jockey jihad joie

jazz jest jinx jetsam jerkin juvenile jess joint jolly

jain jacaranda jag jonah jibe jetty japan jacobite

jereboam jemmy jung jewel jingo jilt janitor

jerusalem jester juggle jostle journal julep

javelin justice jeopardy jargon jersey

joust justify jerboa jodhpurs junk

hajj



Karaoke Suicide Stomp

(A Tom Beckett Title)

 

Is there any known footage of Mitch Lucker stomping ...Yes there actually is! It's in the metal footage archives next to ozzy eating a bat and marilyn manson removing his ribs to suck his own dick.
Cauliflower_Cock commenting on Reddit · r/Deathcore 10/2024(?)



The AI Extrapolation

Google's all-invasive AI Overview beast tells me:

The song "Stomp" by Steps has a karaoke version available, according to Spotify. The title "Karaoke Suicide Stomp" likely refers to the karaoke version of the song "Stomp" and the potential for over-enthusiastic singing in a karaoke setting.

Here's a breakdown:

Karaoke:

A form of entertainment where people sing along to music with lyrics displayed on a screen.

Suicide:

This term is often used humorously in karaoke, referring to the intensity & sometimes questionable vocal choices people make while singing.

Stomp:

The name of a song by the band Steps, which is being used in the context of karaoke.

Therefore, "Karaoke Suicide Stomp" refers to singing the Steps song "Stomp" in a karaoke setting, possibly with a humorous & exaggerated attitude, which is common among karaoke enthusiasts.

Elsewhere

Has been made abundantly clear to those who’ve had the pleasure of seeing him live, where he totes an aggressive brand of participatory karaoke suicide. It’s just great. No other way to spin it.

Elsewhile

The else Statement. With the else statement we can run a block of code once when the condition no longer is true.

Elsewhen

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the late 1500s.

 

 

 

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty-five years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are the downloadable pdf, Closed Environment, from Neo-Mimeo Editions, Nualláin House, Monte Rio, California, & The Complete Post Person Poems, from Sandy Press, Santa Barbara, California, both published in March, 2025.