1.
“An aeroplane
in the hands
of Lincoln Beachey
is poetry”
sd Orville Wrightfirst to fly
upside down
Beachey wore
a diamond stickpinhis last loop
dumpd “the divine flyer”
into San Francisco Bay
2.
“To Slim Gaillard
the whole world
was just
one big orooni”
wrote Jack Kerouacsd to date
Ava & Lana
Slim wrote a dictionary
for his own language
playd piano
with hands
upside downhe sent us
out there
with the floy floy
3.
“I wish
I looked
like Richard Gere
in the gravity boots”
sd Dan Brownplaying a gigolo
in little gray shortsGere hung
upside down
to combat age3 decades later
guys still do it
to look like him
4.
“inversion therapy
or
flip text
maybe
all looks better
upside down”
I told
the bricks
beneath my head