Thursday, April 06, 2006

CHOMSKY GRILLING LINGUICA (PART 2)

by Rochelle Owens


To read Part 1 of “Chomsky Grilling Linguica” click here.


The voice   the voice   the voice
of the tapeworm   the voice   of an alien
in the house   in the house   in the house
of Noam Chomsky   imitating imitating   the flat line
the flat line   monotone monotone
voice of Chomsky   the breath of the tapeworm
blowing kisses   blowing kisses   along
the digestive tract   of the linguist   while
grilling chunks of linguica

          chomping linguica in his house
          famous linguist and anarchist too
          Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Deceit prances in   prances in   prances into   charming
Chomsky house   the house that Chomsky built   the charming
Chomsky house   on ocean side   Chomsky grilling linguica
grilling grilling   globules of fat   sizzling sizzling sizzling
spattering sputtering muttering
a secret tribal language

          chomping linguica in his house
          famous linguist and anarchist too
          Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

A secret tribal language   muttering sputtering globules
fat spatterings   fat and gristle   sizzling sizzling
exposing a flawed   and repellant   ideology   ideology
ideology of Chomsky’s vanguard of   judeophobia
passing gas   squatting   on his hobby horse
passing gas   the breath of the tapeworm   blowing kisses
belching platitudes   to his cronies   blowing kisses
along the digestive tract   of the linguist
the tapeworm   looping its segments
looping a noose   of Jewish self-hatred  an Uncle Noam
relaxing his sphincter   his flat line monotone
again and again   the voice of the tapeworm
the voice of an alien   imitating the monotone monotone
voice of Chomsky   grievous violations   of bad Jews
of  Israel   vehemently deplored   by the Wellfleet
Deplore Israel Organization   who are of
double standard persuasion   Intelligentsia
of Academia

          chomping linguica in his house
          famous linguist and anarchist too
          Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Intelligentsia of Academia   in their secret enclave
on Cape Cod   in colonial Wellfleet Wellfleet
with beautiful New England architecture   classical revival churches
where no blacks sing   where the word ‘WASP’
was invented   by a wasp   in the house   in the house
in the house   of Chomsky   in Chomsky’s house
the voice of the tapeworm   the voice of an alien
imitating the monotone   flat line   goose-stepping
Chomsky voice   goose-stepping   in a vanguard
of Chomsky judeophobia   the Chomsky tongue
coated with   fat and gristle   articulating tongue
of an ideologue   living high on the linguica   chomping Chomsky

          famous linguist and anarchist too
          Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

The tongue of   the linguist   swelling swelling swelling
ten times its size   the tapeworm segmenting segmenting
the linguist   articulating articulating   a flawed
a flawed and repellant   a flawed and repellant
ideology   Zionism equals Nazism
the body   of the tapeworm segmenting segmenting
generating generating   its body a language   chunks chunks
of itself   folding into itself   folding into itself   into totem
and taboo   into totem and taboo   folding into itself
the breath    of the tapeworm   blowing kisses   along
the digestive tract   of the linguist   the tapeworm
folding itself   folding itself
into the totem-scrotum   the totem-scrotum of a

          famous linguist and anarchist too
          Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Again and again   grilling grilling   chunks of linguica
the taste buds   of the tongue   of the linguist
goose-stepping   coated with peppery fat and gristle
the fat globules   of the Protocols of Chomsky
in his secret enclave   the house that   Chomsky built
his cronies chomping Portuguese   sausage grilling
Chomsky grilling   the breath   of the tapeworm blowing
kisses   the pornographic vision   of  Otto Weininger
and judeophobic Jews   Uncle Noams
the tapeworm   segmenting   segmenting   segmenting
propagating   propagating   propagating
blowing kisses   along   the digestive tract
of Chomsky

          chomping linguica in his house
          famous linguist and anarchist too
          Israelphobic pious progressive Jew


To read Part 3 of “Chomsky Grilling Linguica” click here.


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.