by Rochelle Owens
I was at a dinner party a dinner party I was
invited to the house the house of the famous American
linguist Noam Chomsky I was at a Chomsky dinner party
a party given by Chomsky a Chomsky dinner party Chomsky was
grilling chunks grilling chunks chunks
of Portuguese chunks of Portuguese sausage chunks linguica
linguica chunks of linguica Chomsky was grilling linguica
hosting a dinner party an informal dinner party at
his house his house on Cape Cod in Wellfleet Wellfleet
he was chomping on linguica Chomsky chomping
chomping Chomsky chomping linguica in his house
famous linguist and anarchist too
Israelphobic pious progressive Jew
Chomsky radically chomping off chomping off then spitting out
a burnt black chunk of linguica chomping off then spitting
out a flawed and repellant ideology ideology
a flawed and repellant ideology chomping linguica in his house
famous linguist and anarchist too
Israelphobic pious progressive Jew
Chomsky radically chomping off chomping off and spitting out
a burnt black chunk of linguica Chomsky grilling linguica
hosting a dinner party saying the pro-Israel Jewish lobby are
the bad Jews Chomsky sucking a Portuguese sausage chomping
linguica in his house
famous linguist and anarchist too
Israelphobic pious progressive Jew
hosting a dinner party an informal dinner party chomping
linguica at charming Chomsky house on Cape Cod in charming
colonial Wellfleet Chomsky radically chomping off chomping
off then spitting out a burnt black chunk of linguica
Chomsky radically chomping off chomping off then spitting out
a burnt black chunk of linguica chomping off then spitting
out a flawed and repellant ideology ideology of a
famous linguist and anarchist too
Israelphobic pious progressive Jew
Chomsky radically chomping off and spitting out a burnt black
chunk of linguica saying members of progressive movements
who happen to be Jewish are the good Jews ideology of a
famous linguist and anarchist too
Israelphobic pious progressive Jew
Chomsky radically chomping off a chunk of bloody ideology
grilling it well done burning all the blood away offering
the chunks to his cronies Zionism equals Nazism chomping down
hard a chunk of bloody ideology Israel an isolated pariah
linguistics linguica ideology smoked tongue enormous respect
of leftists for Chomsky tongue chomping down hard and chomping
off a bloody chunk of his tongue bloody chunk of Chomsky tongue
gossip and slander Israel an isolated pariah
Gossip and slander loshen hora
Gossip and slander loshen hora
a chunk of bloody ideology
famous linguist and anarchist too
Israelphobic pious progressive Jew
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Rochelle Owens is the author of eighteen books of poetry and plays, the most recent of which are Plays by Rochelle Owens (Broadway Play Publishing, 2000) and Luca, Discourse on Life and Death (Junction Press, 2001). A pioneer in the experimental off-Broadway theatre movement and an internationally known innovative poet, she has received Village Voice Obie awards and honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle. Her plays have been presented worldwide and in festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris, and Berlin. Her play Futz, which is considered a classic of the American avant-garde theatre, was produced by Ellen Stewart at LaMama, directed by Tom O’Horgan and performed by the LaMama Troupe in 1967, and was made into a film in 1969. A French language production of Three Front was produced by France-Culture and broadcast on Radio France. She has been a participant in the Festival Franco-Anglais de Poésie, and has translated Liliane Atlan’s novel Les passants, The Passersby (Henry Holt, 1989). She has held fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and numerous other foundations. She has taught at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Oklahoma and held residencies at Brown and Southwestern Louisiana State.