Mister Metamorphosis

[Ron. Lavalette]

Call me Looneyman Coffeeslut.

When you find me in the morning

long before the sun comes up,

(as if there’s likely to be sun)

when you find me at the keyboard,

half a man half asleep, call me

Fingerdreams Hopeful, call me

Resurrected Crashburn.

Yesterday I was Flabbergast

Downheart, but all my friends

(as if I’d had a friend)

loved me as I was, called me

Sameold Goodold when they

met me on the street, gave me

everything I guess they thought

a man like Hankernot Renunciation

might ever need.  Still, need

followed me everywhere, hunger

dogged me secretly. Tomorrow

(as if there’s no other day)

is another day. Tomorrow

you can call me Smiley Nirvana;

tomorrow I’ll be Karmic Bailout.

[Cita]

Definitely a performance piece.

[Teresa]

I had to come back to this to applaud my favorite "name" for you -- Looneyman Coffeeslut.  Coffeeslut.  So perfect.

[Sandra Davies]

Call me, less than poetically, gobsmacked.

I would like to hear this recited, and am reminded of the voice of an actor (whose name I cannot remember) quoting Dylan Thomas, not that I'm sure it is relevant, but that's how it's sounding in my head.

[Gita]

I'll call you Wordygerdy cuz you make music with words, man.  Brav-O.

[Teresa]

This is outrageous and outstanding.  Standing O.

[bolton carley]

really liked this - especially tomorrow's.  but there's something about a half a man half asleep that gets me.  great voice.

[Kristine_ES]

you say more in two names than some can stuff into sentences.  can i have some, too?

[Paul de Denus]

I'll have whatever you're having Ron-