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Historical Insignifcance
Garrett Clancy
lAM: unemployed once more , 4
th
time in past year, which is 100%
tell-me-somethin'-I-don't know info
as
I AM: an L.A.-cliche, AKA failed
TV writer, with lone 6-years-in-past
credit, but 2-day is 2-day and
I AM: on Zuma sands, sweating
ass in yellow plastic chair.
I AM: sans sunblock yet again,
I'M: still on Prozac, AND
I'M: reading something calculated
to make me more attractive to some
Baywatch beauty-type, though she'd
need a degree in contemporary Lit or
else won't recognize name of author
of same Grove Press tome, which I
hold, but don't read really- a ploy, as
I say, to gain the interest of some
boobs and brain dream-combo and
NOT the fully-dressed man with the
John Brown-wild, granite-colored
hair and beard, who, as he stands
like darkened dew-fat cloud between
yours truly and the warm-as-raisin­
toast sun, is fucking with my George
Hamilton, and who claims
1
I am your biological father
and who has tracked me here to this
spot, he further elaborates, after hav­
ing received tip from faux-Jamaican
accented mama answering the tele­
phone at 1-900 psychic thinggy - but
he could just as easily have found
my# & my address after B.S.-ing
some nosey neighbor, Crazy Kelly no
doubt, she with aged tattoo of weep­
ing Jesus on Pillsbury-Doughboy
white left ass cheek, latter and its
twin in serious need of Thigh-Master
action to point that Jesus, when Kelly
sashays in satiny G-string bikini bot­
tom after leaving my apartment
door, disappointed yet again, shim­
mer-moves and appears to be face
from LSD flashback (Vermont, 1979,
Neil Young plucking acoustic guitar
in converted cow pasture, and me
speaking aloud to any funhouse-mir­
ror-faced fellow concert-goer nearby
in fluent German, I think, having
never studied same) all wavy'n shit
and Kelly always slapping at same