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PANDEMIC NOIR ON THE DESOLATE HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE by Dr. Mel Waldman Pandemic Noir on the desolate highway to
nowhere & inside Bill’s
otherworldly outdoor café newly relocated & floating beneath the
El train where the Q & B roar
ferociously toward a black hole in Bizarro Country I watch
the fantastic flow of phantasmagoria nearby but why am I far away
drifting/vanishing in the postern of my mind? Can’t find my brain on the desolate highway to nowhere where I am trapped in Pandemic Noir in this ineffable hour & now I see a chimerical parade of
luminaries rushing slowly on the eerie highway making casual eye contact winking
& smiling sardonically & vanishing
after
cameo appearances Whom do I see? Is it really you, Federico Fellini & Thornton Wilder
Kurt Vonnegut Rod
Serling & Albert Camus? Is it truly you Dante Milton William Blake Dali & Picasso? Is it so? I don’t know What I see
can
it be? I watch the fantastic
flow of phantoms passing through Is it really you
Carl Jung &
Sigmund Freud? Is it true?
Is it really you?
PANDEMIC NOIR INSIDE AN OTHERWORLDLY OCEANIC DREAM by
Dr. Mel Waldman Pandemic Noir inside an otherworldly oceanic
dream possesses me & drowns my brain in
the bestial reign of trauma & crossing the Bridge
of Bizarro Country I see familiar ghosts on the other side of Un-Reality sitting at a round table & a disembodied voice
bellows, “Why?” In this fable Thornton
Wilder, the host of this diverse gathering, reads a line from The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert Camus nods, mutters esoteric
words about The Plague to a stranger & shrieks, “Goodbye.” Hermann Hesse utters, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, & Demian, reflecting, “Where is the
divine?” Harry Houdini confesses, “I never
came back. This is my sin.” Phantoms vanish Others appear as I cross the fantastic
bridge that grows unendingly & now Franz Kafka recites
an enigmatic line from The Trial about Josef K & cries out for Dostoevsky while the other side rushes
far away Shall I ever be free everlastingly crossing the eerie
Bridge of Bizarro Country? On the other side I see Sigmund Freud & his patient the Wolf Man & Carl Jung & Hermann
Hesse & bless Viktor Frankl
who utters, Man’s Search for Meaning. Will I find some peace of mind? Nearby the beat poets Gregory
Corso, Jack Kerouac, & Lawrence Ferlinghetti recite iconoclastic poetry. & Richard Pryor, George Carlin, & Redd Foxx crack sparkling biting jokes
that make the City Lights poets guffaw & ask for more. & William S. Burroughs,
Carlos Castaneda, & Albert Einstein wave to me as I sempiternally cross the Bridge of Chance or Destiny. Shall I ever reach the other
side? Shall I awaken reborn or die on the Bridge of Bizarro Country
each night again & again? Listen to the uncanny word that echoes throughout the universe like the sacred mantra OM.
Far away on the other
side of Un-Reality Thornton Wilder & Franz Kafka shriek Why? drilling a hole in the soul of humanity & the sacred word pirouettes
everlastingly across the Bridge of Chance
or Destiny in an amaranthine ballet
MY BROOKLYN VIEW OF A STARRY NIGHT DURING LOCKDOWN by Dr. Mel Waldman . On a starry night in Brooklyn during lockdown
1st year of Covid’s Un-Reality I come home after work in
the Healing Room a tomb
of loss & love & gaze at the stars through a long rectangular window
in my Serenity Room facing an antediluvian tree
my Tree of Angels like Betty Smith’s Tree
of Heaven & I see how beautiful the universe is how
magnificent & vast & forgiving & after death overflowing with love & rebirth
here on Earth & in Heaven
STARRY NIGHT IN OGUNQUIT THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE BY THE SEA by Dr. Mel Waldman Starry Night in Ogunquit the beautiful place by the sea & bathed in serenity I gaze at the stars standing midway on the Marginal Way the otherworldly cliff walk glorious in its gorgeous galloping beauty & grandeur above the bestial rocks & overlooking
the omnipotent sea & bathed in serenity I gaze at the stars & talk to the magical universe while listening to the whirling waves
crushing the rocks & crashing into inner space smashing un-reality & waiting for the
tempest to arrive Fully Alive & prescient like the preternatural ocean
below I know the storm
is coming but bathed in serenity I gaze at the stars & see transcendentally The Tempest will come & go & the universe will flow deathlessly after the vanishing
after death
VAN GOGH’S VIEW OF THE STARRY NIGHT THROUGH THE IRON-BARRED WINDOW IN THE ASYLUM by Dr. Mel Waldman . Van Gogh sits in his Lilliputian room of madness unblessed in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in
Saint Rémy celestial monastery of yesterday & through the iron-barred window facing east he gazes at the stars sketching The Starry
Night & other beauties again & again transforming the beast within & transcending mortal suffering If only we could
tell him who he really is his only sin not seeing his beautiful divinity & so Van Gogh gazes at the stars & shall paint The Starry Night
in the studio below with the cypress tree & Venus to its right embracing death oblivious of the post-mortem destiny that waits everlastingly for
him
Dr. Mel Waldman is a psychologist, poet, and writer
whose stories have appeared in numerous magazines including HARDBOILED DETECTIVE, ESPIONAGE,
THE SAINT, PULP METAL MAGAZINE, and AUDIENCE. His poems have been widely
published in magazines and books including A NEW ULSTER, CLOCKWISE CAT, CRAB
FAT LITERARY MAGAZINE, ESKIMO PIE, INDIANA VOICE JOURNAL, LIQUID IMAGINATION,
THE BROOKLYN LITERARY REVIEW, BRICKPLIGHT, SKIVE MAGAZINE, ODDBALL MAGAZINE, PABLO LENNIS, POETRY PACIFIC, POETICA,
RED FEZ, SQUAWK BACK, SWEET ANNIE & SWEET PEA REVIEW, THE JEWISH LITERARY JOURNAL,
THE JEWISH PRESS, THE JERUSALEM POST, HOTMETAL PRESS, MAD SWIRL, HAGGARD &
HALLOO, ASCENT ASPIRATIONS, YELLOW MAMA, THE BITCHIN’ KITSCH, SOUL-LIT, TWO
DROPS OF INK, and NAMASTE FIJI: THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. A past
winner of the literary GRADIVA AWARD in Psychoanalysis, he was nominated for a
PUSHCART PRIZE in literature and is the author of 11 books.
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