Deep Throat

 

I think of W. Mark Felt on his porch,

waving to reporters.  Saying, “I am

the whistleblower.”  I called a book

I, WATERGATE once.  It was about

Richard Nixon.  Disgraced former president.

 

 

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Left one step ahead of a shoeshine, two steps over

the county line.  W. Mark Felt—people don’t know

who Nixon was, who Ford was, who the neocons were,

and what the Project for the New Ameriican Century was.  It was a map.

It was a blueprint.  Thomas Frank calls the Republican Revolution

The Wrecking Crew.  He says they knew what they were doing

and how they meant to do it.  We watched a documentary last night

about Jack Abramoff, Casino Jack and the United States of Money.

It was disgusting.  A guy made a movie about me and cannot show it.

Marketplace censorship isn’t news, it’s business as usual.

Plus, who am I?  A disgruntled loser.  An injustice collector. 

A man who wants to be abused.  Tom DeLay, dancing like a man

who plays with himself.  Gay lifeguards.  Rehoboth Beach.  What’s wrong

with this picture?  They won’t just destroy you they’ll ruin you.

The hippies were right.  Me and Brenda look like

B. O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie.  Marjorie Main

and Percy Kilbride.  Ma and Pa Kettle.  Kilbride, suffering from

Alzheimer’s disease, run down in the street.  Dies.  He was out walking,

with a friend.  Taking his constitutional down Hollywood Boulevard.

They made a movie about me and then didn’t show it.

It wasn’t censored, there just was no interest.

When Nixon went to China I had him say, “I…am…a Pekingese.”

A play on “Ich bien ein Berliner.”

 


 

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