Filip Marinovitch

(excerpt from:)
GREEN SPHINX LIBERTY: A Performance Text

…AND WHEN CONSIDERING LOBBY POLITICS
REMEMBER WHAT THE DOORMAN SPEAKS
TO ONE WHO WISHES TO ENTER

In this heat everybody who comes in here looks like psycho killers.
NEW YORK DOORMEN TO RECEIVE ANTI-TERRORIST TRAINING.
Earlier in the day it was so hot everybody who was coming in
was looking like wilted flowers.
In this cold everybody who comes in here looks like
THE CLOUDS IN SUPER MARIO BROTHERS.
When I hear noises outside my window
I think it's you coming to visit me.
But when you're human you realize who needs
integrity—we can build airplanes—
Burn sage in your room please—
What if your birthname were
The Only Galahad?
CLEAN YOUR GRAIL WHEN YOU FILL IT WITH GRAPEJUICE
IN A SCHOOL WHERE CLASSES ARE TAUGHT BY GLASSES OF GRAPEJUICE.
IN A SCHOOL ONE AFTERNOON—FIRING SQUAD—1943—2003—
SARGENT SCOOP THE SCHOOLGIRL'S EYES OUT WITH THIS SPOON
OR SEE YOU IN THE COURT-MARTIAL MAZE
WITH YOUR PERSIAN GULF POTASSIUM NITRATE
IN A SCHOOL WE TOOK OVER FOR THIS PURPOSE
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE HILLY BALKANS—

Dear UN,
you look like a big bright blue
swimming pool
today!
A big bright bluegreen
tanning lamp—
are you?

Dear UN—I am tanning
to death under the sun
you reflect
off your bluegreen banks—
Thank You! Thanks!


--PEEKABOO!
Who am I? THE DOORMAN—
DOORPRIZE OF THE SPHINX CAUGHT IN THE REVOLVING DOOR WHO SCREAMS…

A SONG OF THE DOORMAN TO HIS BELOVED THE CLEANING LADY OF THE PENTAGON:

My love
O come to
come to
LET IT BE GIVEN OUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A STATEMENT
I am faint with love
Love
and I am sick of love
and let it be given out
that I am grinding myself to butter
in the pantry
for I am with my Love—
Yea BELOVED
You are like a deer's nose—
YOU ARE LIKE THE CAPITOL'S SICK ROSE—
YOU ARE LIKE A GLEAMING SUBMARINE IN THE GROTON SNOW—
BELOVED
your hair is like goats
running down the mountain—
your tits are like twin gazelles—

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REAGAN
- THERE HE GOES AGAIN…

MONDALE
- I THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T GONNA SAY THAT AGAIN MR. PRESIDENT!
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LET IT BE GIVEN OUT THAT GIVING THE BELOVED AWAY
IS NOT AN OPTION
THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE U.S.
ARE BEFORE US BEHIND US AGAINST US AND UNBORN—

DANCE WITH A BELL

MR. SOFTY IN THE DISTANCE I HEAR MR. SOFTY IN THE DISTANCE
Mr. Softy calling—
Uncle Sam calling—
NO CANADA AND NO SCHOOL WILL HIDE YOU THIS TIME—
AGES 18 THROUGH 26 GET IN LINE—
A PHOTO-OPPORTUNITY—
QUICK GET THE QUICKLIME—

O I miss New York
O how I miss it
I miss wandering its trenches—
KISSING ON SPLIT BENCHES—

NEW YORK MON AMOUR—
INCOMING!
O SACRIFICE THE COW
IT WILL COME ANYHOW
DEATH IN NEW YORK—
THE RESIDENT BREAST—

COMING ATTRACTIONS:
CONVENTION THIS AUGUST
AND COUNTER-CONVENTION—
ANGEL WITH PLACARD WINGS ITS BACK TO THE DUST—

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--ARE YOU TRYING TO PICK UP AN ANGEL?
TRY AGAIN.

--What are you doing this weekend?

--NOW APPEARING AT MACY'S WONDERLAND THE GAZA STRIPPERS…

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O subway rails
of the F train
elevated
where rat and pigeon
mate and make SPHINX

NOW NOW
DOORMAN SING TO GREEN SPHINX LIBERTY

Ooh
That Green Lady
Standing in the water
With a torch
Ooh Green Lady
When you look at me
You're hot as Hades' Ladies!

go to transmitsu (translation)

Filip Marinovitch lives in New York.