--- M I C H A E L   M A G E E

		for Nate Chinen

scratching epaulettes
bestill my beating Bad Business again
best get shiners

three cheers for the downy protégé!
and a chapeau for the promoter!
one more time with feeling!
like he needs it!

Rick Tate might be homeless
	seen blowing
on the corner, N. said

"make chaos out of no
longer tenable forms of order"

he did what for what?

under the skull cap's a skull
under the captain's a hull

would someone please wack the
seven star general with a lampstand?
angelic blowing for unwed moms
dubbed welfare queenism by powers that
busy beeist myths crated to quell

meanwhile the connoisseur butters
our hot crossover buns on the B side
this snot your father sold in Mobile

& RT's sax case like his
noise & O'Hara's heart is open