hmm  Dinah-Moe Humm

yup  --  thats just what the doctor ordered

And he knew it

because he was taking lots of orders from doctors these days

Dinah-Moe was prescribed as an antiallergenic

an antidote and brilliant red iodine for September 11 itches

as was Montana

though not that the state would ever agree

the doctor ordered them taken back-to-back            

                                                                           Dinah-Moe   and Montana

as surly backfires lit

to try and stymie the encouraged flames          already thirteen years old 

which were likely to burn on and on in the minds of people 

who didnt know any better

and distilled in those other minds who did  but just cant seem to let go

and thereby allow it

to infect the little childrens heads with what the good books said

Zappa was his bootstraps and fresh shoe leather to patch or replace the soles

worn out

the booze to strip away the hoarseness of voices who cried aloud

whose embittered rage and words fell inert

in likely dumb or deaf ears

                                                                                                      

they were unable to quell the Rage and the stoked surfeit fear

that was harvested

and spun wound and woven into cloaks and hoods and blindfolds too eagerly taken up

or all the sharp lies

their tines and needle points piercing

penetrating

betraying the sacred Trust

twisting

and turning the pliant cogs of sense  into nonsense

yah  Zappa was dead

but because he kept playing his songs 

Zappas efforts helped him try and erase the war bluster

stir the tie-dye for jumpsuits worn by Guantanamo detainees

and try to keep dirty fingernails from scratching at the scab so the wound might finally heal

to become a scar of simple remembrance

than a bleeding Clarion regurgitated year after year

after year 

1344,  Friday,  12  9. 14