Chuck Luden


Chuck, with some guy from a band called ‘Cracker’ (is that you Sy, or do you go to the same hair stylist?)

The night is as long
as the pants
but time is nothing
but a passage from here to there

then why
is it important
to remember
if no one
sees the first time
there or here?

Charles Luden
3-16-10
at the Horse Barn

So what did I leave
on the
table today?
A red crayon.
A yellow notepad.
A small book of dreams.
A blue Mountain Dew.
That’s why I feel incomplete.
Well, maybe not the only reason.

Charles Luden
9-22-09
at Champps
on a post card


One for the Artist Steven D. Larson

Dusty Springfield sings
“The Windmills of Your Mind”
on the car squawker
She means…
Shit what does she mean?
A car approaches
Continues by
The driver stares dead ahead
The passenger, she waves
then looks away
Dusty sings another

Charles Luden
12-31-09
at Champps

Beautiful  Art  on  the  Wall

Oh
It’s smeared

Charles Luden
2-20-10

POEM  TO  THE  ARTIST  AT  THE  BAR

People are walking behind you
Lots of them

Nipple faces

Can’t be lost

The confrontation
Awaits
The proof
In a jar

Away
Then again
Here
People are running in front of you
A few of them

Incongruity
The city

Charles Luden
1-26-10
(at Grille 26)

rum_splash

FOOT  BALL

Screams of the fans
An oil is needed
It is rum

Charles Luden
12-31-09
(at Champps)

Literary Query, the Lazy Reader

What does it mean when you say this book
has some really good stuff in it and then
you put it on the shelf and never read it?

Charles Luden
12-31-09

kitchen-cabinet-drawer

The  Day  I  Decided  to  Write

I was going to tell you something
weird about myself
but didn’t know where
to begin

Charles Luden
1-14-10

clown

At  the  Paramount

Next week is next year
the clown woman bubbled
into my ear
as I stirred a dirty martini
and checked in the mirror
for butterflies

Charles Luden
12-29-09

How a Chemist Amuses Himself in the Off Hours

I’m developing the formula for a festive cocktail

to be named The Hemorrhoid Screamer.
All I can reveal now is that hot spice is involved.
Standby for Mexican toothaches in the new year!

Charles Luden
12-22-09

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Image, People of Walmart.com

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Mood  Swing  Tea

Sugar Plum Fairy dancing at Christmas time
Comes back to the radio out of time

Black pants ass on red green grass
Coming home

Women tied me up and down
Smoking into the rotary phone

Something crazy’s goin’ on
Callin’ me on and on

No one sees the closed window
But the Diaspora’s own

Charles Luden
11-29-09

scalpel_in_hand

Using  Your  150,000  Dollar  Education

The turd scalpel is on the lab bench.
The specimen is frozen.
The technician slices,
Records “gray-brown” in the lab book.

Charles Luden
11-11-09

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