Tag Archives: pop culture

Footfalls

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Not a simple feat, to follow one’s own footsteps– I, me, her, repeat.

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Empire State

Posted on March 18, 2018 by John Biscello

Empirical scope, is all that we ask of fame– Steady now, steady. (Photo of Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick)

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If L.L. Cool J. and Sylvia Plath Had Gotten Down

Posted on February 19, 2018 by John Biscello

Listen to the spoken word track w/ music here. Don’t call it a Comeback— L.L. Cool J. wooing Sylvia Plath in broad daylight where they dance and get crazy theatrical doing the Lazarus (and doing it and doing it well) Sylvia … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged John Biscello, L.L. Cool J, Literary, music, poem, poet, Poetry, pop culture, rap, Spoken Word, Sylvia Plath | 2 Comments

Parity

Posted on September 17, 2017 by John Biscello

Autopsy report for all tomorrow’s parties– Death breeds parity.

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged andy warhol, Artwork, celebrity, haiku, icons, John Biscello, marilyn monroe, marilyn monrow, MOMA, painting, poem, Poetry, pop art, pop culture | Leave a comment

Lana Del Rey

Posted on September 8, 2017 by John Biscello

Lush, red, reposing to give Nostalgia its due– Stars wear ghosts for you.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, haiku, hollywood, image, John Biscello, Lana Del Rey, musician, poem, Poetry, pop culture, Stars | Leave a comment

Salt in our Wounds

Posted on August 13, 2017 by John Biscello

The Morton Salt Girl, refashioned in atomic yellow with a lavender dome of defense; a 21st century nod to flagrant fall-out and downpour that burns.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged fashion, icon, morton salt girl, nuclear, poem, Poetry, pop culture, rain, salt | Leave a comment

It-Girl

Posted on May 25, 2017 by John Biscello

Her shadow projected at higher volume then the radiance which enclosed her in a cast fit to bind.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged andy warhol, celebrity, Edie Sedgwick, icon, It Girl, John Biscello, Light, Poetry, pop culture, shadow | Leave a comment

Pop Culture

Posted on October 23, 2016 by John Biscello

It is a little known fact that the year in which the plague was invented was the same year in which Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. When pressed for comment on either the plague or his groundbreaking … Continue reading →

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Spool

Posted on October 23, 2016 by John Biscello

Quartered and dissected in a recursive plunge, she, the candy striped It girl, fell from overexposed grace into a fractious spool of lost prints unclaimed.

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged celluloid, Cinema, Edie Sedgwick, film, image, john, pop culture, recursion, warhol | Leave a comment

Factory Maiden

Posted on June 7, 2016 by John Biscello

Recursively spooling the It-Girl’s Factorymade cool fast fade from the pinwheel galaxy of stars & soupcans– Mmmm mmmm good, for a hot fixed minute during the candyrigged reign of Warhol the Ain’t– Is you is or is you not Aint’s … Continue reading →

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