Issue 6  • June 2003  •   Iguanadon

Ceraolo
B.Nice™
Daley
Gage
Kosiba
Manista
Provost
Walker
Tabasso

Joshua Gage

Deep Cleveland Lenten Blues

Chorus XI

It’s March
and yet it feels like Spring
and yeah, you gotta’ be
from Cleveland to get that joke
but it’s March
and yet it feels like Spring.

Lord,
we offer up praises
for pretty miracles
and women finally wearing skirts
because it’s March
and yet it feels like Spring.

Somewhere,
an iris erupts
through melting snow.


Deep Cleveland Lenten Blues
Chorus X

 fertility goddess groove
 on pedestals of clogs
 and she kicks off her shoes.
 man…you know
 she frolics through spring flowers
 dances down the rain
 and drums men into a frenzy
 with those this lil’ piggy went to markets.
 I should be riffing on
 Mark’s meditation reporter glow
 or Terry’s face on the verge of combustion
 but the only tune I can return to
 is the fact that she takes
 her shoes off in class.

 man….
 how much you wanna’ bet
 those toenails are painted?