Catfish McDaris

Beatniks and Hotdogs

There’s not a whole lot to do about death but die, her
nymphomania turned Quick into a kleptomaniac, the
little black dog in red panties howled at the blue moon

Quick heard Ginsberg went to Colorado, Micheline
was playing with Skinny Dynamite, Burroughs was
eating lunch nude and practicing his aim, he killed his
woman in Mexico City and only did thirteen days in jail

Kerouac got so pickled he swallowed himself and ended
in a giant whiskey bottle, Bukowski was at the track
checking the nags and ladies, Snyder left for the Far East

Ferlinghetti was eating Coney Island hotdogs, Ed Sanders
was Fugging around playing a musical tie, Janine Pommy
Vega was tracking a serpent, Ray Bremser sold his hat

Wanda Coleman made the voodoo angels fly, Charles
Plymell heard the buffalo cry, the tiny white dog in a tuxedo
shimmering with diamonds and sapphires lit a blunt.


Catfish McDaris has been published widely. In the Louisiana Review, George Mason Univ.Press, and New Coin from Rhodes Univ. in South Africa. His work have recently been translated into Spanish, French, Polish, Swedish, Mandarin, Arabic, Bengali, Yoruba, Tagalog, and Esperanto. His 25 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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