Open Mic at The Oswego Tea House by Peter V. Dugan

Rock-hopper Koala
a showboat showoff,
one of the real neophyte off-white
hot pants flappers.

Dances in an itsy-bitsy glitter
glass bikini
with the body of a brass wine flask,
suffers peg-leg stigmata,
recites sonnet texts from a silo oracle.

The accompanist Bristol Esau
(a snooker table pen name)
and a member of the royal society
of radio cyborgs,
tickles the Tibetan Ivories,
performing unicorn boogie-woogie,
an operatic euphony
on a withered out of tune
stuntman organ.

Together they open woe,
open wounds, peel away
scabby scars of society,
impale inanimate lunar moths
with needles of pliable tantric
marsh mellow melodies,

Odd asps of modern art
highlighted in a toga opine annex.
Music and verse presented
in a nanobot nutshell,
spiced with nutmeg,
saved by hell’s bells.

Peter V. Dugan is the current Nassau County Poet Laureate, NY (2017-19).  He has published six collections of poetry and co-edited Long Island Sounds 2015 and Writing Outside the Lines poetry anthologies. He has received Honorable Mention from the American Academy of Poetry, LI Bards Poet Mentor Award by the Bards Initiative and he has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize. Mr. Dugan also hosts a reading series, Celebrate Poetry at the Oceanside Library, Oceanside NY, an open mic for teens and college student, It’s poetry, baby! at Sip This Café in Valley Stream NY and a reading series, Paumanok Pirate Poets, at Starbuck’s Long Beach NY.