The percussive poems of Stripper in Wonderland move from birth to death, funk to hip-hop, and racism to religion as Derrick Harriell explores the life of a modern black man transplanted from the American Midwest to the Deep South.
Harriell summons the ghosts of the past as he deals with the realities of the present. He carefully winds images and words together to produce powerful, often graphic, poems that inform our view of one another as they punch through our assumptions.
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STRIPPER IN WONDERLAND
17 Floors
not enough to hold all this wonder enchantment
delirium sprayed on hotel walls like
skunk cum you coil my spine like
stripper thighs on pole slide down stories wet
deep into adolescent dreams I croak
again and again I naked except the burning
record in my throat on repeat we on repeat
a glass jukebox we break we never
break dance with collapsing rain how it makes
this shit mellow dramatic the way Hector weighs
outside lobby clenching a blooming Ruger
as if itâs your throat just like he clenched
your breasts on your honeymoon
how you confessed I clenched your serotonin
thereâs a bullet with my heirâs name on it he crouches
the Aztec warrior plays the tlahuitolli like lightning
like electric guitar
delirium sprayed on hotel walls like
skunk cum you coil my spine like
stripper thighs on pole slide down stories wet
deep into adolescent dreams I croak
again and again I naked except the burning
record in my throat on repeat we on repeat
a glass jukebox we break we never
break dance with collapsing rain how it makes
this shit mellow dramatic the way Hector weighs
outside lobby clenching a blooming Ruger
as if itâs your throat just like he clenched
your breasts on your honeymoon
how you confessed I clenched your serotonin
thereâs a bullet with my heirâs name on it he crouches
the Aztec warrior plays the tlahuitolli like lightning
like electric guitar
Pop Found the Apocalypse at the Bottom of a Bourbon
you flickered your tiny cop flash
light the dope fiend sky eyes
flying saucers you swore you saw a halo of orbs
over projects said some thing came to you
in your sleep rubbed whiskey on your belly like
vapor rub asked if you wanted to go
down the wormhole deep where porn stars glow
on sister planets where the rabbit hole drops
you deep in dark matter shits you down
waterslide like childhood dust burning your eyes
like beauty you knew things
we watched Alex Collier lectures for leap years
I started to see them too look Pop theyâre right there
at the bottom of my bourbon benevolent entities
orbs radiant disc sleek sexy alien love
notes in our funky ghetto blue who knew
greys abducted the ghetto too you knew
it wasnât just crap circles in cornfields
for every gangster was a twin a galactic hovering
the earthling like cosmic censorship hypotheses
impossible
light the dope fiend sky eyes
flying saucers you swore you saw a halo of orbs
over projects said some thing came to you
in your sleep rubbed whiskey on your belly like
vapor rub asked if you wanted to go
down the wormhole deep where porn stars glow
on sister planets where the rabbit hole drops
you deep in dark matter shits you down
waterslide like childhood dust burning your eyes
like beauty you knew things
we watched Alex Collier lectures for leap years
I started to see them too look Pop theyâre right there
at the bottom of my bourbon benevolent entities
orbs radiant disc sleek sexy alien love
notes in our funky ghetto blue who knew
greys abducted the ghetto too you knew
it wasnât just crap circles in cornfields
for every gangster was a twin a galactic hovering
the earthling like cosmic censorship hypotheses
impossible
Bound to Relapse
tubes bound aged brolic to bunk /
bound to suffer /
bound to blues /
bound down on luck this evening /
if she lady / she one you sexed
broke / in another Now you bound
another broke / they broke domino
collapse bound your liver / bound
by bound / stripper crucify
your brown bound / until you believe
youâre free as birth / bound in belief
youâre flesh again
bound to suffer /
bound to blues /
bound down on luck this evening /
if she lady / she one you sexed
broke / in another Now you bound
another broke / they broke domino
collapse bound your liver / bound
by bound / stripper crucify
your brown bound / until you believe
youâre free as birth / bound in belief
youâre flesh again
1000 Deaths
sub-howling woofers woof Brooklyn tragedy / the moon pops a fantasy
through this roof / this how gods lean / Mayan spacecraft pilot like
time traveler / abiding rap star like / tableau of smolder
the joint burns / a permanent print / on this leather
her abiding / a permanent print / on this swagger
you wished you stroked genieâs lamp / with fire
shot down every werewolf vampire and Godzilla
in the goddamn galaxy / and tonight / thou shalt King Kong once more
once upon a time there was I / at a stoplight / with a Jeannie
and her Manolo Blahnik / booming âHeart of the Cityâ / and you
riding envy / mechanically / like a Ferris wheel
like a goddamn bull
through this roof / this how gods lean / Mayan spacecraft pilot like
time traveler / abiding rap star like / tableau of smolder
the joint burns / a permanent print / on this leather
her abiding / a permanent print / on this swagger
you wished you stroked genieâs lamp / with fire
shot down every werewolf vampire and Godzilla
in the goddamn galaxy / and tonight / thou shalt King Kong once more
once upon a time there was I / at a stoplight / with a Jeannie
and her Manolo Blahnik / booming âHeart of the Cityâ / and you
riding envy / mechanically / like a Ferris wheel
like a goddamn bull
Rapping with Ghosts
translucent projection before me / you stand
awe-centered / a jammed flag
in my head / stinking of Bloody Maryâs
garter belt
how did you get here / find me
in the middle of this bedroom / we talk
I donât mention what he did
to you / donât mention the gun in my lap
for days / I would find him / I would kill him
then kill him again
you said the other side
was orgasm before cigarette / said your kind butterfly
like eye blinks / I watched you drop stardust
from your mouth / blow flashbacks in beads
like bubbles
awe-centered / a jammed flag
in my head / stinking of Bloody Maryâs
garter belt
how did you get here / find me
in the middle of this bedroom / we talk
I donât mention what he did
to you / donât mention the gun in my lap
for days / I would find him / I would kill him
then kill him again
you said the other side
was orgasm before cigarette / said your kind butterfly
like eye blinks / I watched you drop stardust
from your mouth / blow flashbacks in beads
like bubbles
Bigfoot at the Edge of the Projects
itâs wrecked itâs brain 3 years and chomping /
flicked suicidal raccoon and possum from its belly
apathetic / ever since it made that bad left
then right / then abandoned
the stench of river and rock and waste / the concealment
of leaves and tree and vine and carcass /
holy growl how it crooned the watchful night swoon
in its day / how it invisibled right before
hunter and tourist and lens and moon and ghost /
how its forefathers warned of gun
and carbon and neon and tattoo and smoke /
how it climbed night for months of nights
christened its chops rare / wooly chest beating
salivating at creation / what made such
angelic stench / how it found itself amongst angelic
stench at the edge of the Hillside projects
enthralled / its mitts committed to a corner of Four
Roses and refer ruins
flicked suicidal raccoon and possum from its belly
apathetic / ever since it made that bad left
then right / then abandoned
the stench of river and rock and waste / the concealment
of leaves and tree and vine and carcass /
holy growl how it crooned the watchful night swoon
in its day / how it invisibled right before
hunter and tourist and lens and moon and ghost /
how its forefathers warned of gun
and carbon and neon and tattoo and smoke /
how it climbed night for months of nights
christened its chops rare / wooly chest beating
salivating at creation / what made such
angelic stench / how it found itself amongst angelic
stench at the edge of the Hillside projects
enthralled / its mitts committed to a corner of Four
Roses and refer ruins
Taxi to Airport to Airplane to Taxi to Hotel
baggage tremble in trunk like mafia hits / I want to swim
with fishes / Hades ...
with fishes / Hades ...
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- STRIPPER IN WONDERLAND
- ASTRONAUTS IN MISSISSIPPI
- PIMPING THROUGH ETERNITY
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