Frank wrote this poem about Noni Howard for the event, Voices From The Underground, which featured contributors to his zine, THE CHEROTIC (r)EVOLUTIONARY:
Voices From The Underground
Friday, June 27, 1997 7:30 p.m. at Modern Times at 968 Valencia Street in San Francisco, California.
THE CHEROTIC (r)EVOLUTIONARY, a zine of all possibilities, presents VOICES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, an evening of readings and music by a wide range of agents of cultural subversion … featuring Dorothy Jesse Beagle, Barbara Golden, Noni Howard, Jack & Adelle Foley, K. Atchley, Frank Moore … plus special surprise guests. If that is not enough, everyone will get an autographed xeroxed piece of art by LaBash!
NONI DOES EXIST!
By FRANK MOORE,
June 23, 1997
Everybody here has secret identities
of superheros terrorists criminals artists.
Everybody here is in disguise.
Everybody here is intimate friends of the well-known.
Everybody here has a secret cave of great influence.
But nobody ever expects/suspects.
We are that good!
But there is a legion, a myth, an old wife’s tale…
Noni.
If you travel deep into the underground,
you will come to the cross roads between pleasure and torture.
Here you’ll find Noni,
the taboo queen.
Gravel voice of hard drink
that can fray your skin off
layer by layer
with beautiful sandpaper words
which give you orgasms of pleasure
while making you bleed.
They say she is a nightmare creature
that can rip your balls off to your cries of delight,
rip them so gently.
They say she has unspeakable secrets
and slaves of both sexes and even satan
herself bows down to Noni!
And they say this wild creature Noni comes out
of her dungeon cave into normalcy to walk among us
in disguise.
I never listen to what they say.
But I believe,
hope,
that Noni does exist…
nightmare risk taboo queen.
I’m searching for her…you, Noni!
Then Noni wrote this poem in 2001 for Frank:
FRANK DOES EXIST
For Frank Moore
dressed in the colours of the earth
your mind swells my imagination/
Prophet, Poet, Producer
of the blossoming flowers
of our eternal youth
you are there
to celebrate every
awakening.
such joy that we live for !
to see every moment
bend, twist, explode
into EONS of light
your thought makes
it all happen.
You are the thought
and the happening
at once.
you
are there
already.
Noni Howard
3/23/01
For Frank Moore
