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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

CHOMSKY GRILLING LINGUICA

by Rochelle Owens


I was at a dinner party    a dinner party    I was
invited to the house    the house of the famous American
linguist Noam Chomsky    I was at a Chomsky dinner party
a party given by Chomsky    a Chomsky dinner party    Chomsky was
grilling chunks    grilling chunks    chunks
of Portuguese    chunks of Portuguese    sausage chunks    linguica
linguica    chunks of linguica     Chomsky was grilling linguica
hosting a dinner party    an informal dinner party    at
his house    his house on Cape Cod    in Wellfleet Wellfleet
he was chomping on linguica    Chomsky chomping
chomping Chomsky    chomping linguica in his house

                                                            famous linguist and anarchist too
                                                            Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Chomsky radically chomping off    chomping off then spitting out
a burnt black chunk of linguica    chomping off then spitting
out    a flawed and repellant ideology    ideology
a flawed and repellant ideology    chomping linguica in his house

                                                            famous linguist and anarchist too
                                                            Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Chomsky radically    chomping off    chomping off and spitting out
a burnt black chunk of linguica    Chomsky grilling linguica
hosting a dinner party    saying the pro-Israel Jewish lobby are
the bad Jews    Chomsky sucking a Portuguese sausage    chomping
linguica in his house

                                                            famous linguist and anarchist too
                                                            Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

hosting a dinner party    an informal dinner party    chomping
linguica at charming Chomsky house on Cape Cod in charming
colonial Wellfleet    Chomsky radically chomping off    chomping
off then spitting out    a burnt black chunk of linguica
Chomsky radically chomping off    chomping off then spitting out
a burnt black chunk of linguica    chomping off then spitting
out    a flawed and repellant ideology    ideology of a

                                                            famous linguist and anarchist too
                                                            Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Chomsky radically chomping off and spitting out a burnt black
chunk of linguica    saying members of progressive movements
who happen to be Jewish are the good Jews     ideology of a

                                                            famous linguist and anarchist too
                                                            Israelphobic pious progressive Jew

Chomsky radically chomping off    a chunk of bloody ideology
grilling it well done    burning all the blood away    offering
the chunks to his cronies    Zionism equals Nazism chomping down
hard    a chunk of bloody ideology    Israel an isolated pariah
linguistics linguica ideology smoked tongue     enormous respect
of leftists for Chomsky tongue    chomping down hard and chomping
off    a bloody chunk of his tongue    bloody chunk of Chomsky tongue
gossip and slander    Israel an isolated pariah
                        Gossip and slander        loshen hora
                        Gossip and slander        loshen hora
            a chunk of bloody ideology

                                                            famous linguist and anarchist too
                                                            Israelphobic pious progressive Jew


To read Part 2 of "Chomsky Grilling Linguica" click here.


Rochelle Owens is the author of eighteen books of poetry and plays, the most recent of which are Plays by Rochelle Owens (Broadway Play Publishing, 2000) and Luca, Discourse on Life and Death (Junction Press, 2001). A pioneer in the experimental off-Broadway theatre movement and an internationally known innovative poet, she has received Village Voice Obie awards and honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle. Her plays have been presented worldwide and in festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris, and Berlin. Her play Futz, which is considered a classic of the American avant-garde theatre, was produced by Ellen Stewart at LaMama, directed by Tom O’Horgan and performed by the LaMama Troupe in 1967, and was made into a film in 1969. A French language production of Three Front was produced by France-Culture and broadcast on Radio France. She has been a participant in the Festival Franco-Anglais de Poésie, and has translated Liliane Atlan’s novel Les passants, The Passersby (Henry Holt, 1989). She has held fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and numerous other foundations. She has taught at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Oklahoma and held residencies at Brown and Southwestern Louisiana State.