–Book 1 nd 2 of The Shopping Mall Poem of Arabia–
—Book 1—
Here I am trying
something new
totally after leaving the Moroccan mares
for a Persian Gulf camel- the sea creatures
who devour their other after the reproduction ceremony
set down now to have a cappuccino
pack myself into winter gear
for death and to position myself
to feel soft flesh next to ice
out off of the desert
now to reline notebooks
with tales of the physical properties
of phalically prominent
posturing young men or youths
in pantalone di cavali
waiting for an assignment in yet another shopping mall poem
Dubai is the
kind of place
where when they come and say
“and you can have a car, a home, and all the money you ever dreamed of”
you go!
Wearing a cologne by Thierry Mugler
called Pure Coffee
parking lot attendants
soaked in the turn-out
of 120 degree heat
gush sweat
their bright yellow jumpsuits drenched
sand blowing fans everywhere
Two guys in Armani jeans walk by
one his muscular ass fits into them
like a city block on the cul-de-sac of the mall avenue of fancy shops
At the Armani café sits two
I thought it was they
but then they come down walking the other way
but going over the two diners are gone
and indeed it was and then they weren’t there
and it was they
He smolders
they smolder here on the Gulf
Construction of the Shopping Mall Poem
is twenty four hours a day
by order of the Emir
and it goes up because of the coffee
Just like once did Manhattan
and does Manhattan
and not only is a date cheap here
it is entirely free
On the Sahaab Oman
The Omani The Armani
Oh I mean the Omani boat
An Omani barque
in the port of Old San Juan
During 1992’s Gran Regatta Colon
on the Armani boat
people were wearing fine line sipping subtle cocktails
elegant sailors
all of it had a feeling
as if it were out of the Video Rio
of the song by Duran-Duran
in San Juan in 1992 for the gran regatta di Colon
Dubai desert airport
globes made from the surface of semi-precious stones
finding the UAE on a sphere available here as the curve of Arabia
comes up across form Iran and a little further off across the water fromIndiaandPakistan
On the simulated mountain
all must go down
in the special four wheel drive people mover craft
and with several aboard including myself
the vehicle takes its’ course
and with my swift and keen eyes
after a brickwall explodes
I guide the guide to miss the large patch of cracking thin ice
Down the Grand incline in the all of the mall now
people who weren’t expecting to have more children
having had them appear younger
An Argentinian painter and his wife
a septuagenarian dentist and his better half
he looks (is?) so much younger now’
his hair having gone black form white
Take the dromedary over to the pharmacy
Ishmael takes you into the dessert
off of the flight deck and into the mall
I am thinking in rewind
every snack bar in every polished mall in emirates
is a no-fly zone
Dubaifrom the sky
like another las vegas as strip mall of the mind
flying in hot forBangkok
or in the earlier paintings of Santi Moix
managed mirages in duplicate vertexes and vegetal ferris wheels
at the line of depth where time hits the water
and in you are in and out you are out
blue skies or in if in a sandstorm
which a lady blogger on trip advisor might mistakenly label fog
and then try and pick you up
Dubaifrom the sky yet another mirage
in and your in and out you’re out
Wearing the long robes of apostasy
this writer would now saunter through the mall
in the next scene to be filmed here
The Souk Nazi
Up in the sky high in the Burj al Dubai
where the tower bends in the desert winds
so that the structure stirs and shakes
and now to get up there and shake the hands of the shaking sheiks
and lets hope the Sheikhs keep on shaking
up there where the high tower meets the desert winds
De Vrije stopover
get high into the sky
and come down de vrije
on the way toDubai
popover to the stopover
cafe for some pie
or turkey on rye
on your way toDubai
The vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry sheikhs
an albino arab leader, a black arab leader, and an arab leader in pink robes
and if the last of the three were spill like like a malted onto a McDonald’s tile floor
a strawberry sheikh would be
it would be a strawberry sheikhdown
or strawberry sheikh down
but only now for a play on words
if either the vanilla or chocolate sheikh capsized
Now go out into the dessert for a pack of camels
and I wil meet you back in the mall poem
Never turn the hand backwards against time
and thus the watch becomes history
the wind up winds down
if increments of the Earth’s orbits
were transformed into diamonds
and then pulled form the carpet
oh! Genie of the bottle
we are here waiting fro you to appear
three wishes
not three more near misses
Here in a carpeted cordion
under a sheathed glass escalator
mall employees and shoppers sit
a lady in a bhurka with a young son
an Asian woman her face made up, her hair pulled back,
a pink scarf tied almost tightly around her neck
and complimenting her muted lipstick,
while a big pink pocketbook placed under her folded hands
rests on her lap
she in turn knows the guy to my right who is also in black
who also knows the smiling dozing off guy to his right while next to the
him is a black man with a moustache who has his eyeglasses resting on his forehead
and to his right is another older Asian woman in a melon summer pantsuit
carrying a Starbucks takeaway bag
and then we are back at the younger Asian woman with the pink pocketbook resting in her lap
and the lady in the bhurka with the young son who is looking at me
and then here I am
I am obscene retail –
where sex sells even as it doesn’t exist
Round and round
on the bus
and on the slightly changing loop
of BBC headline news
around the elliptical second floor mall stage
above an incision in the floor
looking back down at the ground level
‘never go backwards against time’
so it is all the way over to a chocolate expresso place
to after a candied macchiato at the back end of the loop
go back forward and descend to a Roberto Cavali store
which offers none of the theme park distractions
his place does on the Via Della Spiga in Milan
I can feel the lights go out of me in the hallways
The forty virgin Megastore
Virgin recommends Virgins
Keep walking through life with an X on your back
‘Target’ by Ralph Lauren
now after having had café mocha and a chocolate pudding custard confection
I am leaving
as got up the Asian man against a slice of ornage of a seat with backing
Virgin didn’t recommend seconds
The shot heard round the shopping mall ellipse overlook
the sheathed glass escalators
central cash infusion
Salon de the –you have to be swilling to die
The golden curly locked Russian gargantuan
toting the sinous East Asian prostitute
and or girlfreind
points out a store of lingere
or loosely ftting dresses
and suggests that this would be good for her
following this couple through the mall
other East Asian women from the pattern fallout
but a second couple is in tow
with a less burly Russian man
who has another East Asian girlfriend
in black shorts and a matching rhinestone studded belt
they cannot not all decide which way to go
through the mall
and as this writing fallsout from behind
he makes mention of the second girls Rose Tattoo on her arm
Waking up in the morning
after a dream of avoiding wrong way oncoming traffic
there is an accident ahead on the parkway- So I turn on Morbid
(now if your’e going to be morbid be all the morbid you can be)
at the Forty Virgin Megastore- forty of them or so not to be exact
well whose being exact ad who’s being exacting like for a safety deposit box
which doesn’t exist in the personal identity theft lottery on the internet
I can feel the light go out of me in the hallways of the the Jumeriah Palm Atlantis
(I remember the Honorable Gunther Weist saying(”I throw big party for Sol Kerzner at the Plaza”)
while the only people left with money during the downturn Nouveau Riche Russians frolic in bathing trunks
and look at sealife themed beach ephemera
There is o saving myself
I have gone back to the contract
between God and Abraham
and been driven into the dessert by Ishamel
and now I don’t even know if he is going to want me anymore
The buildings are a forest of incongruent novelty
come in all shapes and sizes like the tour guides the double decker concern puts on the bus
Russians step onto the stage like the Poles in Death inVenice
thought the here the Bangaladeshis handle the Poles
The two color all covering though leaving room for the face watersuit for observant Muslim women who wish to wade
perhaps a dip in the ocean or a drop into the pool mindful to look after children
available now in the Abu Dhabi wing this Emirati shopping all poem
and no drinking water during the day no matter how hot it gets
remember now it Rmadan
and during the day eateries are closed during this month long holiday during the day
in this shopping mall poem
though you may be able to sneak a water from the Chinese girl at the chocalatier if you hide it in a shopping bag
shhh! she’s just over there
The Emir opens the metro now
Sheik Maktuhm opes theDubaimetro now
The stations look like giant winged insects
with feet to the street and the mouths for the tracks to come in upstairs ajar
Sheikh Mahktum opens the driverless metro
the Sheikh opens the worlds’ longest driverless metro now
In the valley between incongruent architectures
I missed my mark
which was a Jumeriah palm and from which Ishmael took me out into the desert
and expecting an amusement park all I found was a temporary camp
Trajectories
Smoke rings
Olympic rings
the deep long furlongs, the straightaways
the flights taken out and over
a reverse which came in when
the victim was caught looking
the travel back
the vortices of sky, smoke, and haze
theis new building a newtowerofBabel
our reasons for rounding and arcing
for above it all it all comes to be seen
out over and around
and there stands the Burj al Khalifa
winds over sky , vortices, the Bird’s Nest Stadium
the vast coverings dividing now the forms visible
the Burj al Dubai now the Burj al Khalifa a name changed
as a thank you to Sheikh Al Nahayan from sheik Maktuhm
a movement takes us one direction
then another in another
never with winds over sky
do we know what shall be uncovered
the great stalk gone pyrotechnic fantastic
the sheiks shaking in the shaft
the desert blown the cover blown
the coverage thrown , uncovered? The veil unkown
Dubaian overwrought fantasy constructed
at the cost of other’s contrition
spoilt over estimates
as if undertaken by a Long Island Princess
the flattened father has no spine
Ishamel took me into the desert
I made it to the oasis
the death cab will not pick me up and take me to the airport
— Book 2—-
A truly toothpicked towering creation
Laid upon marble bread layerings and foundations
The Burj al Turkey on Rye
with a piece of black lettuce
Representing Tom Cruise in the latest installment of Misssion Impossible
Hanging down over the side
Was never Bahrain
Strapped tightly in
From overhead
After heading over To Ferrari World;
Beautiful boys frolicking with their parents in a seaside pool in Fujairah
Canon balls no such thing as Modesty
Bus tour guide comes by smiling
Scandinavians Russians
I am caught across From the Mall of the Emirates
by the recreation of the old souk
and have to make it across the road for the book signing
by the exiled Prime Minister of Thailand Thaskin
Only so much vanity to bask in
An Emerati needs my table and I am up and around still able
“Poverty’ is the tome’s label
The United Arab Emmerichs Andre, not Jeffrey, actually it is
Larry, Gagosian who leads The Abu Dhabi shiekhs
Towards giant Jeff Koons cracker jacks rings
Well after all oil came out of the ground
Like the prize out of the stencil on foil covered box
and as the woman with black hair In a black top
Behind the wheel of the black Audi coupe automobile
Will tell you Via her liscence plates “I Love Oil”
The Burj al Khalifa the Shiekh shack baby yeah!
The clothes are almost unwearable
The heat is just unbearable
Sex sells Where it doesn’t even exist
The empty quarter is the one the person walking next to you picks up
the one which you missed
With the Bridge of the Horns
Eventually will come
Transcontinental access to the Haj in Mecca
Via a mass pilgrimage overpass
and Super cities on both sides of the Red Sea divide
of the world’s longest suspension bridge
Has been was is Bin Laden is not Aladdin
is not anon laden Tarek not Osama
In and on the Horns of Arabian and Africa
Where the situation is starvation and is not
Tonight at the Khalifa
The Burji Boys tonight
Tom Cruise is on a mission
Tom Cruise is a muscle hanging off of the middle
of the of the Burj al Khalifa
Tom Cruise is a Burji Guy
This poem is not about broke out of work malfeasant poets
who couldn’t get fucked by an Angry Jesus
if they were part of Occupy Calvary
and need to be put up against a wall and power hosed in black golduntil they resemble a deep South Aboriginal
or coal
This Shopping Mall Poem of the Emirates is going up 24 hours a day by order of the Emir
But, offers connections to “Other Desert Cities”
Such as
Doha , Qatar
Palm Springs, California
Tuscon, Arizona
Tripoli, Libya
Marrakech, Morocco
and
Las Vegas, Nevada
Otherwise once deserted cities
Such as
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
New Orleans
and
Detroit
Tucumcari, New Mexico
Other Deserted Motels Upon the Fruity Plains:
Tucumcari, New Mexico, U.S.A
Other deserted cities
Upon the fruited plain
Seafood and other desserted cities
Upon the fruited plain
Other deserted cities upon the fruity plains
Other deserving cities
Some deserted cities are in the desert
While other deserted cities are on the fruity plain
Russian boys in speedos
In repose I suppose and the feeling grows
To do hot yoga in the Emirates I suppose
Just with more clothes
The Bridge of Horniness
We will cross that bridge when it is built
There is a place called Queens and also a Queensland
The first being the borough of Queens in the city of New York
and Queens county in the State of New York
But, there are probably other geographical entities where the plural or plural possessive
Becomes the name
Though, in this case it was not a plurlaity
Rather, a possesssive
The Queen in question
Having been
Catherine of Braganza
The Queen consort of Charles ll of Great Britain
Who had too many beers?
Archie Bunker, too many people had too many beers
Everywhere it seems except for in the Emerati Shopping mall Poem
Where the beverage can only be had at your hotel or your hotel
In the shopping mall poem
In this the best of all possible worlds
I would rise up again into a Vanilla Sky
A Gold sneaker turnaround
Mercedes electroplate corridor
Tom Cruise was a missile who grabbed at the shaft of the Khalifa
and did not let go
Everybody screaming holy Murder over at Barney’s over Gaga
but as far as artists go Barneys as far artists go thats Matthew
Artists performance and otherwise are going ape shit over the GAGA boudoir
Supoposedly stolen from Colette Lumiere
However Barney’s the high end retailer is owned by the Government of Dubai http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23barneys.html
A place where Miss Germanotta
Just might wind up standing in the cooler in her meat dress
Well to do
Yet unemployed youths in Dubai
Come to play video games
Here in the shoppping mall poem
Opacman first and foremost
First and foremost Opacman
Target is by Target
But, here in this poem target is by Ralph Lauren
Dramatized scene wear for those high bounty prizes
Engaged in all that was about to have been
Oil ministers, black market businessmen, teroorist hit squad leaders
Ex-government chiefs in exile
There is more to the Mossad than does not hit the eye
The Mossad is now friends with the Emerati Shopping Mall Poem
Whilst before they were just people they might know
There is no cash bar in the casbah
To visit other deserted cities that is the fruity plan
The Fantasy sprang from where fantasies spring
The Magnolia Bakery at the Dubai Bloomingdales
Is that the first stop? On the No Sex in the City Tour
Macadamia nut parfaits
Bananas tiered off into the terraced levels
Of palatial gaming facilities
The Spun sugar
Of fancy restaurant fantasies
Caramelized action figures
Sculpted with the precise instruments
Of an Epicurean engineer
To place a super confection atop a layer cake
Rounded by white chocolate buses- double decker
Meanwhile “Other Dessert Cities”
could be the name of a producer of ornate confections
or simply a miniumal bake
in the valley Coachella
but, if you gave the title to a sort of faded pretty boy publicist
organic mail order business frontman
exotic twink chasing pool lizard
then bommeranging it may or may not find financing with or without you
The strawberry Sheikh now emerges
Saddling a White Arabian steed
My Sheikhs are not Shaikhs
As sometimes spelled incorrectly
As entered into an internet search engine
Now this poem will eventually
Cross the Bridge of Horny Horniness
After years of going back and Forth
Through countless rows and mazes of corny corniness
But, rest assured it also goes form shore to shore
While the core remains intact
Because while it goes abroad
It alson comes tot otur the inland Empire
and all the outlying moonscapes of the Southwestern United States
and much more so including the California Baja
So like Jeremy Lin it must
Work not only the backcourt
But, the entire inlaid floor
I am going to Home Omar’s Heaven!
Palm Greens,
Palm groins
Tom Wolfe likes to make use of the word loins
after staying at an embed and Breakfeat
you can always make your way back here
Unfuckenkhiifable
Were the fireworks for the opening
of the Burj
Oohs and aahs in sequences of light
Oohs and aahs into sequins of lights
Light sources moot
A humming bird leaves the tree
A fortnight in a courtyard it should be
should have been
can still be
This humming bird has left the courtyard tree
Where once a light was flickering
The toy dog still yaps
Grabbing the leave bearing rise for support
The multi directional songbird
Scrambles to escape almost bouncing
before making this winnow
A pack of ugly coyotes resides in Desert Springs
and is always on the lookout ffor illegal aliens
who come in the form of chihuahuas, who are often unattractive as well
While back in the Emirates you have to know your dunes and dont’s
While in an American mall you leave a gym steam room to cool off by an ice skating rink like from city to indoor ski slope in Dubai and then stop in to be a market research participant and eat multi flavored multi colored licorice twisted together as cable for broadband a peel apart tripartite confection followed by endless questions typed intot he computer by you and a three dollar reward plus free entry to a comedy show from hot to cold to hot! hot! hot!
Rodolfo Guglielmi Valentino
in an act of apostasy became the Sheikh of Araby
So how can this bard help but fashion himself the Shopping Mall Poet of the Emirates
With a whole glorious poetic epic of monumental enclosures ahead of him
It’s a tabbouleh rasa
A frozen glass on a warmish day in early spring
makes on dream of skiing in faux St. Moritz
While a dust storm blows through outside
Snow and ice
I am down with ice
Skiing inside oh that was nice
Experiencing hot and cold is a buffet
Sometimes best saved for another day
A family from Abu Dhabi and one from Italy
Are both aboard the double decker tourist sight-seeing bus
and together I say they are Ferrari World on Yas Island
They had met on an earlier bus and were back together again
and at least all of the suns were ablaze smiling
Fireworks in brushstrokes of Édouard Manet,
In the chapeau of the actress Mery Laurent
Black black streams green blue
for the stage is set for pyrotechnics
When the Dubai sky is a chapeau noir
What was your first date? Was it a cheap date?
Was it a ripe date? Ready for date rape
The Caliphate is a salad state
I am not gemaphobic
I will put on the robes and tell others to move it! move it!
I don’t want to go see the al Shababet
After all it is not Italian ISIS
You have to know which direction you are beheaded in
Shaved as if hotel supplies accordingly suffices
Gonna land somewhere and pull a next book out of the crisis
Falafeller Center, “Let There be Chickpeas”
How do you pay for shawarma?
Ask for the chickpeas
Well here comes the chick of whom you wanted a piece
and she is not pleased
Here comes Captain Salad bar
Tabbouleh of the World
You here animal noises downstairs
and you are informed that is Saudis
who want to pay you $150 to bring
some sheep to the airport
What was your first date was it a cheap date was it was a ripe date ready for date rape
Caliphate, its a salad state
The burj al Khalifa cordially invites King Kong to pay it a visit
The continuous line which extended out after beginning as the arc of a plane in sky sky headed to Dubai and drew itself out farther as the drama unfolded as pictorialized by the artist Aratsu and went onto full rotation traveling full length around itself as the encircling pennant which became the upper circumference of Bird Nest Stadium in Beijing in 2008
Now it was handed over to be streamed as spray paint from an aerosol can as participatory graffiti as part of “Public” sculpture exhibition at the grand art fair in sub tropical wonderland handed over by the long talk conceptual dane to the shopping mall port to go around tbe piece the crowd created to paint now! to paint!
Abdul Rahman soup
Got taken down by the shake shack all shook up in a shake down like all the sheikhs came tumbling down in King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s sheik up when the the steaks are high some sheikhs are up and some sheiks cine down…. But in the immortal words of leave the alteration salon quickly “shake it off shake ut off”
Al Shabaab is stopping in for some kebabs but sometimes the al shabaabs are the shish kebabs
Caliph fornication
Everybody is leaving to join al shish kebab nine Somali terrorists run through by a thinnish elliptical ovoidal spear
the al-shabaabs’ the shish kebabs
every buddy on the list who is pissed is showing some interest that they wish to swish and become a shish calling all kebabs
Isis, crisis, Human sacrifices
Terrorists who follow conceptual art
Beasts who work in the tradition of Chris Burden
Costumed, caged, doused, set ablaze, burnt alive
Bulldozed buried and resurrected
As propaganda
To get the most out of a ghost town
For the 2022 Fifa World cup Doha, Qatar is the host town
Do you know where your Hadaaded?
Do you know where you Hadaaded to?
Do you like the things that the Arabian Shopping Mall Poem is showing you?
California good down to the last Crip
the Salton Sea good down to the last sip
I watch Talalabision
Now in Dubai they have a Shake shack
So you can sip shake with an actual shake at the shack while shaking in a sandstorm and what’s shaking sheikh
Now at the Milan expo they had a grand Eataly where as in Madison Square, Park in New York is it is where you original shake shack is across from Eataly so that being in the lawn was there a shack shack across the street from Eataly by the great tour guide and eater Steve zorilla I was asked I answered no but it was across from the UAE pavilion in the sheikh were shaking over there
Dubai school the musical
Is a trip through the Empty quarter as difficult to survive as a relationship with a Jewish woman and as dry
But to return to all scents male Bedouin nomads and camels
And to become gaunt for this jaunt to travel through the great Arabian Sands even through the salt flatlands of quicksand to arrive at the mirage of the palatial mega mall
Drop Facebook.messenger and take to the dromedary like Thesiger
Be Important enough to have no comment upon you at a paid symposium appearance by Dr.
Kissinger
Qaboos wants your caboose
Have an awesome time I know that their best guides will be able to find the lost components from the Peacock throne in the words of the great David Bogaisky Ayatollah you so may you not sing the great flock of seagulls line Iran so far away settle down have a few and may you beheaded back well informed and well, well rested Well Oils well which which ends with well
The United Arab Effeminates
Red Sea Restop
Having crossed the Red Sea and on the other side now
the forces of Pharoah are caught up by the waters re-walled
Moses and the Jews do not carry forth right away
but dally to party, relax and unwind on a vista overlooking the Sea
just as this poem has taken out time to re-calibrate
Red Sea Rest stop Moses you have parted the waters
now let them go, but, now that your people have gone
don’t let the Egyptians come
but you too were once Egyptian
Though now the Tribe has stepped on over the line
story to resume at another time
The last available enuch
Women in Saudi Arabia are being allowed to drive automobiles for the very first time,
Mecca a right turn
Mecca a left turn
Some even might get the idea to go all the way to Abu Dhabi, UAE
Singing what Sheikh Mohammed al Zayed al Nahan must have been kicking when he decided
That in fact that
What I need to do is find myself a brand new Louvre
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud has a big Krushner
In the Kush, In the Kush
Jared Kushner in the tush
They took Prince Talal out of. the boardroom of Twitter
And placed him on the Riyadh Ritz Carlton Shitter
