Apr. 2005
William Levy
 

William Levy (born January 10, 1939), known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy.

Before leaving the U.S. in the autumn of 1966 aboard the R.M.S Queen Mary, Mr. Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania. In the sixties and seventies, he was founder and chief-editor of many magazines such as: The Insect Trust Gazette, International Times, Suck, and The Fanatic. Recently, he served as European Editor for American glossy fanzines High Times and Penthouse Magazine and as an associate editor of Amsterdam zines Het Gewicht, Ins and Outs, La Linea and Atom Club. Mr. Levy has been a regular contributor to Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse and Libido and is currently publisher of Transactions of the Invisible Language Society series. His meditation play Europe in Flames was also featured at the Festival of New Radio in New York. In 1998, Mr. Levy was awarded the Erotic Oscar for writing at London's Sex Maniac's Ball. Mr. Levy's alter-ego, Dr. Doo Wop, can be heard weekly spinning groovy music across Amsterdam's airwaves.

Mr. Levy currently lives in Amsterdam with his wife, the literary translator Susan Janssen (translator of many works of Bukowski and of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby).

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Dear George W. Bush
EDITORS NOTE: “Dear George Bush” appeared in Billy’s Holiday: Ten Lampoons in Verse (Amsterdam: Transactions of the Invisible Language Society, no. 10, 1995) under the title “Dear Newt Gingrich.”

Americans Abroad
salute you
for energy and ideas
in trying to form
a more perfect union
as leader
of the
global economic
co-prosperity sphere.
Democracy to be
exercised perfectly
must contain viz. Borges'
Babylon Lottery
severe penalties
as well as perks:
coupled risk and hope
in draconian measures.
Our proposal for
affirmative action is
to broadly extend
the death penalty.
In the interest of
good governance,
in the interest of
equality
(giving more white
males a chance
to be topped!)
mandatory capital
punishment for
members of Congress
(each and every elective official!)
convicted of
felonious malfeasance
in office. Instant
executions
at public rallies
immediately after
the sentence is passed.
No appeal.
Hanging would be the
most florid
and traditional method,
punctuated by a
festive pluralism of
electrocutions
firing-squads
crucifixions
injections
auto da flames
hand grenades
D&Qed by Harleys
hand grenades
swallowing hearing aids
lone gunmen
armed illegal formations
rebel police units
buried alive
whips
garrotes and guillotines.
These terminal
term limits would be
televised as a salutatory
lesson to all
the nation's
classrooms during
school prayer time.
A far-reaching
program against crime
combined with edifying
comprehensive education
without new taxes.
Finances for these
illuminating spectacles
can be underwritten
through a government
auction on the Internet
of souvenir body parts
from the condemned.
Thanking you
in advance for
your consideration
of mayonnaise.