Grand Occupation

tell Mia I love her hair

and Terrorizers

by Edward Yang in the American version

of two lovers

shooting up the place and nightclubbing

khakis and white t-shirts

Toronto '88

we weren't born to die

the way my Chrysler swirls your hair

throwing up pentacles

it's a Detroit thing

like talking in topoi because the years left us

lookback years

Harris Tweed and the infinite 70s

when voting felt real

and we could elect the king of New York

to lighten up

light us a joint

and unwind

talk about bond convexity

there are things you know and things you don't

but you don't know what you don't know

it's just like foxed pages

put on a shirt and some trousers

put your best dress on

Olivier Messiaen

they let us in what the heck

do we do now

everything feels the same

sweet and nostalgic

when the facade was the audience

and not the other way

sometimes I think she might be here still

that's why I called the house

to say she's here

I'm here

we're together and I'm still wishing you all the goodwill in the world

no matter what your letters say

Sally Ride

“Instant Karma”

or the little cream-colored envelope

with your two dads from Taylor-Bonney

and the drugs in the Triangle

we're all a little fazed

not thinking it could've gone this way

Gulf & Western manufacturing

Gulf & Western movies

Paramount Pictures classics

it was all that way not wanting to turn the dial

not wanting to turn away

from the truest things

1966

think about it

or just the dry hops from the glass

and think of all the busts from here to Fat City

which was Columbia in '72

when Connie Hall could light up a bar like nobody's business

and Dusty Springfield sang the hits

Jon Leon’s ambient multidisciplinary approach to the concept and aesthetics of poetry span the media imagination to shape a lifestyle that is poetic.