the burlesque poetess(s)

poem-a-day week24 “Delicate deli inappropriacy in ascots & bowlers”

October 11-17, 2010 week24: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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(re-demonstrating how not to stash money your first day of busking in broad daylight)

164. October 15, 2010 (fri. rain’d out buskin’ lead to Brookline flyering/debauchery)

Desire is matched by
The distant rhythm
Telegraph the breast
This tasteless catechism
An anxious calm

There will be no copper jingling
As it tumbles out of hat, hair
Loosened into small change
Twisters as our tips rain onto

Boutineer, bound breast, sidewalk
Stage too damp in this Oh, Boston
Storm means roaming Friday night

In flapper cape, in character to flyer
Flaunt kamikaze song at the Jewish
Neighbourhood’s sex shoppe?

Let me regale you with linen napkins
And kugel samplers- delicate deli
Inappropriacy in ascots & bowlers:

Nearby hospice patron
Speaking at a Friday night volume
In a rather rowdy restaurant

We normally love the place
But it’s just TOO LOUD tonight
Repeated to waiter, manager, busboy

Until we finally notice
Their untouched soup and wine
(If we’d been fastier ruffians

We’d have pounded it and toasted
Them L’Chaim! on their way out)
You can’t kick Semitic gem’d gesticulations

And youthful jazz hands out of a booth
For being queer(ly dressed) and bubbly as greps
Water, giggling animatedly ‘bout fisting

In cartoon voices vaudeville bespeaks
Folks rather spiffed up, you can’t point us out
As those rough lookin’ teens with silver topped canes

Lesbros in chimney spout tophats! The one with
The nose ring and monocle! Tattoos and cuff links!
It’s how the boisterous/bourgeoise

Get away with any everything
Isn’t it? Starched & collar’d delinquents
Matzo ball robber barons

Of your calm soup and crackers evening
Paying customers as pretty as we
“Get away with” enjoying ourselves, entertaining
Anyone warm-blooded as bouillon broth

(top italics are ‘poems by removal’ i wrote via The Passionate Life)

the rest of the poems li(v)e below!

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show tonight shameless reblog

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A SHOW TONIGHT TUMBLE xxxo

Heywood Wakefield sent a message to the members of The New Jew* Revue.

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Subject: Barry Manilow! Madonna! Oy Vey! Ticket still available!

Tickets are still available for the show! We’ll have them at the door at 7:30pm. Bring your parents! Barry and Madonna are going to rip it up JCC-style!

You’ll be there, right? We’ve arranged a date for you…Don’t worry! They’re lovely! So smart…you’ll love them.

Oh! bring extra dollars for the raffle and the lapdances. Seriously. Hot Kosher Lapdance action. You’ll schvitz.

Did i mention i’m being auction’d off for a comedic lap dance? i’m gonna be your latka grand-mamma! it’s a charity thing. i may have Hebrew confetti.

#wordnerd-ing & new jew revue

Wordsmith.org word of the day: enfant terrible

PRONUNCIATION:
(ahn*-fahn* te-REE-bluh)
[* these syllables are nasal]
plural enfants terribles (ahn*-fahn* te-REE-bluh)

MEANING:
noun: A person, especially someone famous or successful, whose unconventional lifestyle, work, or behavior appears shocking.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French enfant terrible (terrible child).

USAGE:
“Once an enfant terrible, who as a young filmmaker challenged censors and outraged conservative critics, Koji Wakamatsu has not mellowed so much as ripened.” -Mark Schilling; All’s Unfair in Love and War; The Japan Times (Tokyo); Aug 13, 2010.

synchronicities! i’d just written this descriptive blurb for that no-good vaude-villian “the burlesque poetess” who alongside/in addit’ to the tiny instruments is going to participate in Truth Serum’s “New Jew Revue” 10/17. so yes, my blurb included a phrase i’ve never properly used before, but seemed to fit. and lo and behold a few days later it is the word of the day! i feel erudite. or like an erudetritus collector. anyhoo, enjoy our PR blurbs. i have fun writing them. i may (i hear tell) be doing some wordsmiffy-ing for the TOys soon, too…

jojo, The Burlesque Poetess
Known for “accidental fanny flashing” (Boston Globe), naughty verse in her knickers and $1 stripping sonnets, the “erudetritus”-collecting comedienne/enfant terrible will be “Burlesque Jewess-ing” with tales of Hebrew school trauma and poems on speaking “Frebrewlais!”

website: http://jojolazar.com

Meff ‘n’ jojo’s Tiny Instrument Revue
Retrosexual renegades from the “stage shtetl” of the Army of Broken Toys banter like Muppets over Pesach memories, renditions of Ukulele Ike songs rife with “euphemnuendo,” vaudevillian interpretations of glam rock, and original musical delinquency.

website: http://bit.ly/tinyFB