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Louis Shalako
Note:
To be read in a kind of Chris Tucker/Fifth Element Kind of Voice
Other than that, really, it's quite all right.
POEM:
There’s been just a whole lot of sturm und drang around here lately,
Baby.
Oh, yeah
All kinds of angst.
It’s like some kind of God-damned (Gotterdamerung? –
ed.)
No.
Some kind of God-damned funeral pyre, a flaming blaze of glory.
Gesundheit, by the way.
(What? – ed.)
Never mind.
Anyhow, it really is a freakin’ soap opera ‘round
here sometimes, Baby.
Soft soap, hard soap, soft shoes, the old Soupie
Shuffle, whatever turns your crank,
lady.
***
We be doing the Charleston, Baby.
Nose to nose
And eyeball to eyeball
Tender flesh
Rubbed raw.
All night, ya’aw?
Like dat,
you know?
Got the time?
We go.
It’s just a little party on the floor
Only it gets worse from there.
‘Cause you got you a sweet little ‘magination there
Baby, and it’s connected to the rest of ya
***
That’s all right.
Don’t worry ‘bout nuffin’
We is just gonna mind-meld for a while.
And then maybe you can tell me—
If you think it’s going to be all right.
END
Chris Tucker in Fifth Element. (Clip.)