FIRBANK

Firbank thanked
the running dog Che
and his cool cat
Nietzche
grabs a cup of red wine
near the divan bed
sups on breakfast
of frosty flakes
then suddenly awakes
to watch Divine
as Babs Johnson
following her on the T.V.
now she is up to go
and buy some gem items
of fashion taking with her :
Easter hats, gloves
mad evening gowns
poster school girl dresses
meeting her idiocentric
dramatic, eccentric friends:
Edith Massey
who played Edie
in her exhibitionist nudity
pissed off at their scatology
to make amends
in their classic frivolity
from her thinking span
when they tried to ban profanity
in midnight screenings
with Mary Vivian Pearse
as Cotton,
in 'The Dianne Linkletter Story"
"Hairspray"
apologizing to Pink Stole
now realizing how
marvelous was the movie actress
and gorgeous lover
in the "Baltimore aesthetic"
that some  critics
called gay agitprop
in their rough and ready politics
by the queen
of the screen classics editing
by taking cracks at
the lewd "Multiple Maniacs"
in a psychology of crime
against the cops
dropping on a dime
also in view of "Pink Flamingos"
whose crude sounds of wonder
inspired Kenneth Anger,
Andy Warhol, George Kuchar
in their five star
classic kitsch
of underground film antics
of a legendary clothing pageantry
meeting Divine on her way
from the Hadassah
thrift store
in once greater Baltimore
with ration cards
stolen from
ex mayor and governor
McKeldin
then read bz's one act play
about her.