
YES YES YSSS......BALE?
Hafez agreed to waste money on the gulls picking off ticks on the rhinos
June 28, 2002
The Iranian
What did the first drawer unlocked contain? A drawer full of faded roses and
lost ysses on a yellowed...cigarette burned sheet of paper...the last words of Ulysses...ysses..."The
FIGTREES in the Alameda gardens YES and all the queer little streets and pink and
yellow houses and the ROSEGARDENS and the JESAMINE and GERANIUMS and CACTUS and Gibralter
as a girl where I was a flower of the mountain YES when I put the ROSE in my hair
like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red YES and how he kissed me under
the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with
my eyes to ask again YES and then he asked me would I YES to say YES my MOUNTAINFLOWER
and first I put my arms around him YES and drew him down to me so he could feel my
breasts all perfume YES and his heart was going like mad and YES I SAID YES I WILL
YES"...It was fun he said and pissed on the old green bus and his heart stopped
on an unlucky number 13 in cold, old, mean January...was he ever young in Dublin?..."How
sick, sick, sick I am of Dublin! It is a city of failures of rancor and of unhappiness.
I long to be out of it"...to die in Zurich after visiting the outhouse where
he had a fantasy about becoming a published author with a perforated ulcer at fifty
nine..."O Leopold lost the pin to his drawers , He didn't know what to do,
To keep them up, To keep them up...(two sluts of the Coombe dance rainly by, shaweled,
yelling flatly)"...big swollen clouds and long thunder when James Joyce of Rathgar
South Dublin shoved Ireland behind closed doors, ran out the front on marble steps
always washed white...a pedofile priest in black and white hurrying by...he knew
it all by heart and had an itch to change his underpants...suggesting a far different
James than the one drinking Irish whiskey on Sunday outside La Maison Claire near
River Liffey...the wind was sitting in the west...I made him a tuna sandwich with
love...he looked here and there for red slippers...no mayo...to skip off to a thousand
and one drums...a santour...golden poppies...canary gloves and lavender trousers
off to. to. to...pee in the streams by the willow trees...tatooed, tossing and turning
and thrashing over the sounds of Persia he decided to go with me ysss blue poppies
and prophets of rage with a healthy taste for wet dreams under phallic gold domes
riding uncastrated adult male horses to death far from gangrene emerald isles..he
was as paranoid as f*ck in the rubble of Persian jewels pressed into Naranjestan
murmuring moslem prayers together with our shoes off...an Irish bull in an English
chinashop...never shat on a shamrock...In Shiraz we wanted to raise a herd of African
black rhinoceroses...fencing in a large patch of grassland...releasing some rhino
onto it and leaving them to their sweet sins to multiply...Hafez agreed to waste
money on the gulls picking off ticks on the rhinos...it was just a soft cock delusion...we
took vitimin B and peed on the canvases turned them green like a Japanese landscape
when we unlawfully watched the purple rhinos pouring real rhino cream to intoxicate
the anus gloomy chambers of St. Patrick...in a red fez with a cadi dress coat and
a broad green sash Hafez admitted to not showering in a week holding Joyce's catholic
confessions for killing his mum...a bulldog growled...he couldn't be happier...salvation
was at hand...yellow flowers drunk...sticking her with a hatchet...sobbing ...the
bluebagsof rose and rose of disfigured words...they had the same literary agent...they
had cribbed some of the bestselling books doing lines of cocain...weird...funny asses
bleeding from their noses...the Irish-Iranian coincidence accused them of bogus writing
in heeless slippers...unshaven...their hair ruffled like faded flowers in Hafez's
home perfumed Shiraz damask roses ...the city of solemn mollahs groaning with rotten
livers eating power bars...singing...burn...burn...burn...the sun set ...the dark
came down and the evening star hung out over the caravansara...James and Hafez rounded
the last dogleg into town passing lighted Persian windows...they tried to read the
map but a dog barked and the light went out...a man with a bald head sat crouched
on the stone seat of the entrance smoking his evening opium by candlelight...Hafez
and James joined him bringing out their pipes from their donkey bags...limping from
the long walk...laughing at the naked moon...singing verses "Hafez would be
alone with his sweet song of the immortal lonely ones is he whom solitude and silence
have made strong"...while James tried to escape from four fierce dogs going
for his white smelly Irish calves in black socks...on a tray came rice, khoresht,
yogurt and vodka with mint and red radishes...the moslem prayers had been sung at
sunset and they fell asleep ...who let out a roaring crack blunt dull slight moonless
lied...they spent two hours over breakfast James catchong up on his notes of Persians
in Shiraz in broom closets...and who the f*ck farted...give us a tune James...one
of the old sweet songs where the dear old Shannon flows...James held his hat over
his genital organs waving his slim ivory cane with a violet bowknot...a noserag peeping
out of his waistcoat pocket dim past ...a boy in boarding school snotgreen...he could
almost taste it...he had a blister on the sole of his foot that felt as though a
rusty nail had been driven into it...spanking a bare ass...they were followed by
school boys on their bikes whispering and hissing...where were they from? What was
their name? Where were they going? Why were they walking? ...shadow roads in the
woods farting and pissing behind mud walls smelling yellow...discussing poetry Iriah
and Persian...catholic and moslem...they made a beeline across the back of the bathhouse
and passed over the old bridge where a man sat with a brazier of coals burning in
front of the bend...there was no barbecue in sight...James said I'm gonna get naked
and watch porn for nine hours...tight pants filled with Sodom and Gomorrah lured
in Shiraz...ridiculous Zands buried in sand...beheaded...buried alive or suspended
by their feet for days over pits full of rotting offal until what the f*ck they died
of suffocation or retched their innards up or took their eyeballs out by the wooden
door with nails in it with knockers dangling for men and separate round knockers
for women...James jiggedy jigged an Irish jig...breathless...amorous delights in
the tower needing two in a bush with big titties...which was a real conversational
starter on the fringes of the cemetary...it was a hot summer night ...they looked
everywhere and never found a party...damaged the two stoned dreamers...shams ud-din
and James fell downstairs after being pushed by their mothers who yelled GET UP KIDS!...I
put back the faded roses and yellowed paper full of yssses and locked the drawer...balebalebale...pass
the Courvoisier...bale?
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