In the 1990s, while lurking in the east coast art scene, wilder was fined over $50,000 by the City of New York for creating a poster that announced an experimental poetry reading. In response, wilder helped fuel a grass roots community in support of the first amendment in a battle over the rights of artists to create posters. wilder’s efforts were aided by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Auster, and dozens of other notable artists. This became a cause célèbre, led to pitched battles in Gotham streets, courthouses, and media outlets, and to a precedent-setting, art, music and literature affirming legal victory for free speech. Wilder’s continuing efforts to protect free speech have recently helped a number of artists, including household names, to avoid jail time. from Horror Sleaze Trash
#558: Picture Of A Materialist
Despising life,
afflicted by self-loathing, such a bummer …
so crammed in behind its wheel,
A Dandy-Chrome-Wheeled-Hummer.
#641: Silly Old Hound
What he cares for …
Acquiring Power.
Not much else
unfortunately.
A never-ending struggle.
Over & over.
Scrapping for material gain.
Wanting material gain.
Chasing Chasing Chasing
more material gain,
incredibly short-sighted,
Silly Old Hound
chasing tail.
Twisted in ten thousand ways,
So Very Many Silly Old Hounds
groping night & day.
Chasing tail.
They rarely do anything
other than this.
#344: Auto Idolatry
Longing to write for a major magazine,
youthful blogger speaks of it
shaking up scene.
Loud, brassy, shartruce green,
Cock-Rock-Blowhard Limousine.
Pistons pounding powerfully
like jackhammers, up & down.
Egocentric & vainglorious
owner of this boat renowned.
Reveling in recklessness,
clueless crackers circling ’round.
Jokers croaking, “That’s amazing!”
Scenesters deem it way profound.
Loud, brassy, shartruce green,
Cock-Rock-Blowhard Limousine.
Everywhere it goes
hot air kissing its windscreen.
Touting tastelessness a’ plenty,
bug-eyed noobies call it mean.
Loud, brassy, shartruce green,
Cock-Rock-Blowhard Limousine.
#67: Drilled In Mideast Dirt
Senselessy appearing
Four Clicks South Of Kyrgysztan,
G.I.’s towed in choppers
en route to a firefight.
Grunts are out protecting causes
Shrill And Un-American,
empowering the heavy-handed
tyrants of a distant land.
State Department Bureaucrat
serving with aplomb,
gleefully dispensing monster
bunker-busting bombs.
Missing targets wildly,
wasting tots & toddlers,
innocents eliminated,
leaving windswept bones.
One can’t help but wonder
how this comes about.
Groups of plain folks mutilated,
villages wiped out.
G.I.’s also shot up,
holes blown through their shirts.
Lives destroyed for oil wells …
Drilled In Mideast Dirt.
#89: The Playbill Labeled “Fauxbrow”
Viewing much from dizzy height,
finding world is in decline.
In reveries disconsolate,
Little Bo Peep Sits & Sways …
wishing for a rocket sled
to carry her away.
Initiatives, contrivances
otherworldly machinations
off of a conveyor belt,
electric incantations.
Pacing round ghost ship,
Keats & Percy Shelley
utterly intransigent,
bug-eyed mugs insane,
noting purple mountains
over fruited plains.
Clark & Lewis At The Helm
course correcting here,
apropos resourceful types,
twin cartoonlike engineers
Humming, “Dum-dee-dum-dee-dum,”
managing to minimize
pet peeves & conniptions.
Exercising mind,
observing, seeing all.
Taking note of players,
The Playbill Labeled “Fauxbrow.”
#11: Flagrant Business Sissies
Spotlight on the fellers
felling old growth trees,
profiting from taking down
homes of hapless creatures!
Unfortunately Financiers
screwing planet everywhere.
Paving Over Wetlands,
calling that a ‘win’
Corporate crowds,
a pestilence spreading once again.
Global Warming’s one of many
evil things they do!
Flagrant Business Sissies,
shortsighted money grubbers
flaring out in all directions,
Trashing Planet Earth.
All contents copyright 2014 by riff wilder, POB 210433, San Fran., CA 94121
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