klipschutz's "Italiante Lullaby"
klipschutz is the pen name of Kurt Lipschutz. Author of, most recently, Mr. Congeniality ( 2021) . Before that: Premeditations (2019). The Erection of Scaffolding for the Re-Painting of Heaven by the Lowest Bidder , long out of print, is a collector’s item. He has co-written 100 songs released by Chuck Prophet. Along with Jeremy Gaulke, he edited Four by Two . (A complete set (12 issues) of the handmade minimag resides in the Special Collections Library at UC Berkeley.) Prophet/klipschutz continue to move Temple Beautiful: The Musical forward. klipschutz lives in downtown S.F. with Colette Jappy and three cats. ITALIANATE LULLABY Plutarch came later , Insistius insists, smacking the white marble with an open-palmed grotesque arthritic hand. The Principessa nods and glides away, out onto the balcony above the River No, where indifferently encased in taffeta, she plucks my heartstrings like a breeze, with her boredom, breeding and alarming stature. Far below, toothless witches beat rugs...