House of Paine

crumpled george

   
 some
who know
 greatness
    shall
see
      the pit too  


 
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“ with all
the uncertainties
and 
the  great costs 
 involved
in any  enterprise
 based on new inventions 
what else can you expect .....
pioneering entrepreneurs
go bankrupt
and worthless money-lords 
rise on their ruins- ex suis ossibus - ”
                                      doc carl 

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  in 01
it waz
 the great  Gilder
 at bay

  its 2002 NOW
and

UGH !!!

 he’s 
a crumpled up hulk 
like 
a compacted fiat 


after 2 decades 
of rising wonderhood.....


what can one say

the telecosmotic
pioneer- herald
got 
  wiped out too

by 
a war party of
 bearfaced injuns

wiped all the fuck way out

right along 
with all the other
 E-frantic wagon trainers 

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 “depending on what
 he’s made out of
the sounds different
but whatever
 there always 
comes a point
in ever match 
when I can
hear him
 ping 
or 
 crunch 
or
snap 
or 
crumple
and
i know he’s mine 
for the taking”

              bobby fischer 
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 i heard gilder 
 on NPR
 last nite 

  george is snapped

he’s available 
 for the taking

he’s
crumpled

crumpled to an
ash tray sized
momento
of  not
so much greek 
 hubris
 as
old fashion
press clipping
intoxication

the 
self inflation bug 

fed by 
the gospel 
of 
american
skys the limit 
“ that I can  do “ ery 
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  the nasty 
 nasdaq thwackum
of   spring ‘01 
kept stressing him till
he  shattered 
 earlier this year

 today 
  he’s got shattered parts 
and crumpled parts

 i mention crumpled first
cause thats the bathos

the crumpling
 comes after 
the shattering


and 
 the shattered george
 is
well......

laff-able 

the
 NPR INTERVIEW 

FOR A FEW 
INTIAL MOMENTS

REPRISED 
THE SHATTERED GEORGE

 its 
like Don Knots 
like 
Deputy
 Barney Fife

 theres a 
wild mirth released 
inside you
by the sheer
 volume of 
his  jitter

you think

“ man oh man
did this guy
lose it
or did he lose 

jesus alive 
did 
the wall street
ever 
slam him  ”


george still
rattled ?

you better believe it 

and folks
remember
as H.L.
would say

the man 
set up shop as a wizzard 

if your selin
prophecy and such

an air of calm 
 confidence
is practically 
 job one
right

maybe even 
 the be all
 end all

jeez louise 

no wonder
the former 200 mill
 shop’s shuttered up
the mans own house 
has a lien on it 
and 
wizzard hat ?

well
it now 
sez 
senior dunce
on the front of it
in orange letters
 
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butfuck

the interview continued
and george 
 steadied down 
but the  morph 
step by step 
headed for 
a final stasis
in
 crumple tude
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one thinks of katz
and that old queen-harlot 

    “memories 
all alone in the moon lite 
  da da daaa da da daaaaa..........
..........................
   I was beautiful then..”

  a real eeeehh goowwwd 


and then a 

there but for the grace....


but fuck

 there
do
 go “I”

by the wrath of god

I do indeed 
go there 

don’t I

 oh well

indeed
indeed
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but herr gilder:

 he was once 
so so so much 

maybe 
I’m thinking
 of creating

 a monument 
a hall 
 in his honor

no a land
like walt gave himself

a land

guilderland 

it’ll have to be 
a  virtual land

“but of course”


stay tuned.......
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