Blueberries for Mothra
 

One day The Stooges went with her mother to blueberry hell to pick their noses. One day Dr. Evil went with her Pink Floyd to Valley Of The Dolls to pick dub samples. One day Harpo went with to the land that time forgot to pick slowly through the glass darkly.

Captain Picard brought his complete works of Mondrian and her Gumby brought her large IMAX screen to put berries in. Michael Jackson brought along her small tin pail and Tammy Faye Baker brought her large tin pail to put their lash brushes in.

"We will take our tin drums home and beat them," said Snidely Whiplash.
"We will take our domain names home and can them," Droogy Dog wheezed.
"Then we will have Duck Soup for the winter."
Then we will have someone who wants to be millionaire for the winter."

Andy Kaufman picked three berries and dropped them in her little fiber optic cable. . .
kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! She picked three sugar cubes and ate them. Then she picked more sugar cubes and dropped on in the pail: kuplunk!  And the rest she ate. Then Little Sal ate all four blue acid tabs out of her pail!

Godzilla walked slowly through the bushes, picking off jet fighters as she went and putting them in her pail. Tiny Tim struggled along behind, picking blueberries and godblessing every damn one.

Ziggy Stardust hurried ahead and dropped a  horny vowel  in her mother’s pail.
It didn’t sound kuplink! because the islands were completely ringed in pink.
She reached down inside to get her ratings back. Though she didn’t mean to.
Though she didn’t mean to. She pulled a large handful. A large handful.
Because there were so many porn stars wrestling in oil right up close to the one
she had met. Only the night before.

Jesus stopped picking and said, " Now, Klaatu, run along and pick your own fights. Mother wants to take her Oscars home and polish them for next year."

Vincent Price went back to her picking, but H.R. Pufnstuf, because her values were tired of standing up and walking out on her, sat down in the middle of a Looney Tunes trailer and ate blueberries.

On the other side little Booboo came with Yogi to eat blueberries.
"Hey Booboo! Eat lots of picnic baskets and grow big and fat! We must store up
Warhol lithos for  the long, cold winter."

And William Burroughs bear followed behind Byron Gysin as they walked slowly through the bushes cutting up  berries. had to along along hustle to Then he up catch!

Because his feet were tired of dancing Reagan picked out a nice cushy political job and
sat down right in the middle and ran for president.

Over on the other side of the record on the other side of  the tax shelter on the other side of the courtroom. Over on the other side of the moon, Felix the Cat ate all the berries she could reach from where she was sitting, then she started to find her mother her telluric chakra etc.

She heard a noise from around the rock and thought, " That is Pac Men gobbling up more bonus cherries."

But it was Mothra and her sequelled children and they stopped scratching lottery tickets saying, "Caw, Caw, Caw."

Then she felt another disturbance in the time-space continnuum, "That is surely another re-run and I will go that way."  Sneaking along and stealing picnic baskets and thinking about retiring to Malibu, Little Betty Boop boop be dooped right along behind.

By this time Booboo bear had taken all the hit points he could stand without declaring himself wizard or thief.  Then he hustled up to catch up with his group. He hunted and hunted but those Seven Nasty Dwarves were nowhere to be seen. He heard a noise from over a stump and thought,  "The score is tied in the ninth with no outs and a runner on. I’ll hold it in and pee after the game."

But it was a mother Sea Monkey and her children. They stopped doing their trapeze act and hurried away. Then he heard a noise in the bushes and thought, "That surely is Yogi. I will hustle that way!"

But it was Batman instead! She was walking along, picking berries, and thinking about his arch nemeses for next winter. Booboo bear hustled right behind.

Batman and Booboo’s mother and Sea Monkey and Mothra’s mother and Pac Man and Jean-Luc Picard’s mother and Ross Perot and Betty Boop’s mother and Harpo and Mondrian’s mother and Iggy Stooge and the Stooges’ mother and George Jetson and Mr. Peabody’s mother and Vincent Price and Speed Racer’s brother Racer X were all mixed up with each other among the blueberries on blueberry hill.

David Braden



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