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    I Clean the Chicken: Or, the Oeuvre
    I Clean the Chicken: Or, the Oeuvre
    I Clean the Chicken: Or, the Oeuvre
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    I Clean the Chicken: Or, the Oeuvre

    By Lester Scoggin

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    Lester Scoggin is a licensed major appliance service technician. He is employed by Stanwyck's of Tallapoosa, Georgia, where he has not missed a day of work due to illness for more than 25 years. Mr. Scoggin has received certificates of excellence from MAYTAG, GENERAL ELECTRIC, and WHIRLPOOL. He has been examined and is an elder at the Third Baptist Tabernacle of Tallapoosa. He and May, his wife of 35 years, have four children. They are Samuel, Stephen, Hassan, and Sissy, and they have seven grandchildren-Billy, John, Mary, Jane, Pat, Jameelah, and Musfir Muhammad. This is Mr. Scoggin's first book. He may be reached at www.americanpoetryalliance or les.scog@icx.net.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 16, 2007
    ISBN9780595898039
    I Clean the Chicken: Or, the Oeuvre
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    Lester Scoggin

    Lester Scoggin is a licensed major appliance service technician. He is employed by Stanwyck?s of Tallapoosa, Georgia, where he has not missed a day of work due to illness for more than 25 years. Mr. Scoggin has received certificates of excellence from MAYTAG, GENERAL ELECTRIC, and WHIRLPOOL.

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      I Clean the Chicken - Lester Scoggin

      I CLEAN THE CHICKEN

      or, The Oeuvre

      Copyright © 2007 by Lester Scoggin

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any

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      Cover Image:

      Diogenes by Ugo da Carpi, after Parmigianino

      (Chiaroscuro woodcut, about 1527)

      ISBN: 978-0-595-45493-8 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-0-595-89803-9 (ebk)

      Contents

      Palm Trees

      A Pot Of Basil On The Floor

      Waiting For The Call

      Punch Line

      Come Of Age

      Subconscious My AssCountenance The Kind(L)King

      (Untitled) Plum, Saffron,And Ochre On Dark Maroon

      Two Three O

      Little Helper

      Waffles!

      Observers

      The Monster

      Tiers

      Say What Now Now What Say

      I Clean The Chicken

      March Nineteenth

      Close Reader

      Chinese Cheese Disease

      Its

      Crocus

      In Spades

      A Missed Experience

      One Wild Warhooning(On Currin’s Rotterdam)

      Women Say

      To The Terro(I)R, Vale

      Hole Maker

      World, Unmask

      All Is Lost

      O, Of Mannish

      I Know

      On The Job

      Columbus, Oh:City Of Sausage Shitters

      Our Prayer

      Hot As A Pistil

      Rivet

      Sweetbox

      Gonnawanna

      Shoal (For Sure)

      Dreams Come True

      Krogering Girl

      Interview With The Poet

      Acknowledgements

      Blow high, or blow low, she was already ready for the breeze;

      and when she dashed the waves from her prow, and pranced, and pawed the sea,

      you never thought of her patched sail and blistered hull.

      —Omoo

      Herman Melville

      Acqua fresca,

      vino puro.

      Fica stretta,

      cazzo duro.

      Dedicated To

      Mr. Bill Stanwyck,

      Owner of Stanwyck’s Appliance,

      Who Always Told Me—

      "You take a chance the day you’re born.

      Why stop now?"

      PALM TREES

      The head of Michaelangelo’s David rendered as multi-colored dots; a pair of floating red lipsticky lips, superyellow corn kernels, a gazing eye whose lashes are mascaraed, locks of auburn gold hair, streams of orange juice, and a strawberry; waterfalls and fires occupying the windows of an impressive 18th-century palace; three naked guys hanging out in a tunnel; a mashed-up building; a boring building; a Woman of Allah; stuff written on a blackboard; a messy horse with bright eyes; Milky Way Dreaming; some kind of thing with some thing hanging off of it; a big head kissing a big cork or maybe another big head; a Mexican barbershop with roses and bullets painted on one of its walls; an ostrich with a giraffe’s neck and head or possibly a giraffe with the torso and legs of an ostrich; a Last Supper featuring bewigged drag queen disciples and a grinning Jesus in ankle-strap black patent high heels holding up a powder puff as though it were a communion wafer; three black men and a naked black lady doing the Last Supper; a bunch of Israelis doing the Last Supper; Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘Psycho’ slowed down to such a point that it takes 24 hours for the entire movie to transpire; a big birdman statue; names on a rectangular metal plate; German and English words on white office walls; towers; a snaking steel wall which convolutes in on itself and measures 400 by 3,165 by 680 centimeters; a whole bunch of big scary transparent intestinal-type industrial air cooling and heating tubes all a-dangly; a boring photo; another boring photo; another boring photo; some chrome balls; some kind of thing with light; some other kind of thing with light; a pile of what looks like garbage with what looks like two people on top of it; some rods; a giant stone egg that impossibly fills a room; projectors, hand- mirrors, glass-bells, and miniature electricity pythons; a Chinese lady sleeping; a Manet and a bicycle; two prehistoric dudes one of whom is unhappy because a tail is either being attached to or detached from his coccyx; a

      LIONEL

      train-set forest; Ho People; something about Atlantis;

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