All the Birds Call Your Name As They Land on My Kitchen Roof

• Andy Partridge, born sixty-five years ago today, XTC (& Dukes ) in innermost rotation of My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game,
• also notable: my collection was played at Earthgirl's request every Kensington to Frederick to Hagerstown to Hancock to Cumberland to Morgantown to Washington to Wheeling to Zanesville to and from Bamgier to visit Planet at college, and (thank Baal for shuffle) each time through better than the last.
• An email sent yesterday about yesterday: Adding, like advil, Timicin.
• Also too: Who leaked the galley of my Knausgaardian autonovel to you?
• I bought White Music at Sights and Sounds in Gaithersburg, opposite Grace United Methodist Church at Walker and Frederick, 1977.

• I can still replay in my head all 385 miles of Kensington to Frederick to Hagerstown to Hancock to Cumberland to Morgantown to Washington to Wheeling to Zanesville to Bamgier, I love much of the 385 miles of Kensington to Frederick to Hagerstown to Hancock to Cumberland to Morgantown to Washington to Wheeling to Zanesville to Bamgier, I never need to drive the 385 miles of Kensington to Frederick to Hagerstown to Hancock to Cumberland to Morgantown to Washington to Wheeling to Zanesville to Bamgier again.
• Click for more XTC.
• TODAY'S SHITSTORM! (Psst. Trump was sulking plus afraid his hair would get wet on live TV so stayed in hotel room, watched Fox, tweeted, called in sick on big deal re: using dead soldiers as props for Capitalist glories, 
• and while it's true if a Democratic POTUS did this every fuck defending Trump would call for the Democratic POTUS to die slowly, cut out his heart and let him watch it stop beating, please shut the front door, they all have their scripts and a job to keep,
• and I want my American POTUS to skip all commercials using dead soldiers as props for Capitalist glories, don't you?)
• I never designated an Egoslavian Theme Song Nine, it's been years since I designated Theme Song Eight, would probably need do research to remember designated Egoslavian Theme Songs Three thru Eight, but ta-da, Egoslavian Theme Song Nine!

Q&A: INSURANCE

Alicia Ostriker

If time is an arrow, what is its target
          

If a Flexible Flyer is the sled I had as a child, when may I become a child again
           

Do you need help digging the potatoes out of your garden of insults
            

Do you plan to vote in the next election
         

Is our country headed in the right direction or the wrong direction

             and what did the bulldozer tell the yellow helmet’s ear
         

Which part of your body is like biting into a ripe peach

             which part shames you like a rotten banana
           

Would you like to find out how to lower your interest rate
           

When you go to heaven how old will you choose to be

             will you have cocktails on the well-watered lawn

                         where Bach conducts Bach
          

Will you still chase after the Grateful Dead
           

Is your life like air leaking out of a balloon, or like rain falling on a pond

            dot dot dot      dear pocks     pocking the surface     dot dot dot
        

Can it be like snow falling on the ocean
            

Can desire drown you like syrup over pancakes
              

When an ambulance siren wakes you at 3 a.m. do you feel relieved

            not to be strapped to that stretcher

                         speeding toward the grim unknown

                                       do you then snuggle next to someone
           

Are you satisfied with your detergent
        

Can you name a more perfect irony than the new world trade center, sacred icon of

            capitalism, revered lingam of profit, soaring above the 
memorial pools

                                        of people killed when the first towers fell
                 

Can you describe the scent of dried blood
                   

What about the smell of iron chains in your cell

             can you sing the threnody of the maggots
                    

When I removed my mask did I frighten you

             like a drone crossing your sky
            

Are you satisfied with your auto insurance
               

When ecstasy approaches why do you resist

             What are you afraid of

                          Can you please unbutton your shirt now