Friday, December 11, 2009

"Modernism-Postmodernism"

These are two sub-poems that are complementary and meant to be read as one piece. Three dashes will indicate the transition.

A tribesmen at night
On a hill
Looking to the stars
-A firelight-
Strange fabric statues
Twisting up up up to the stars
Gangly limbs
scarecrows to the old ideas
Alone-alone
Whizzing comets
The stars are your deity
You say, from this i will make my world
Singing! Chanting! The animal heart!
No
the human mind
there lies the soul
there lies emotion
the bed of humanity reason feeling being
Alone-alone
Listen the whistles of dreams in the thistles
Bloodied and battered
Mud and jeevecreeps (a product of your past)
Thumpthumpthump
Drumming!
Singing! Chanting! Dancing! The human heart!
Alone-alone
, from this i will make my world

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A sooty slutty soul on a hilltop
Decayed vestiges (the ruins of totems)
No sir im no human im all i am
imnoperson
-chemicals over a retinal glen-
feelie-touchie-what/do/i/mean.
Nothing at all
whoa
whoa
wow neat rocketship
who made it
not i
some gods i guess -who cares-
barricade my life
seventie years tied up then death
then oily inky death
no material
sand in the sieve
no world to make or past to counter
ten-sixty years of fast food
no identity
no i
no ego (not to something greater, but to my purchase)
only id
i am not me
i am a customer
pleasureSkin withinEmpty

Social Schizophrenia

Thursday, December 10, 2009

"The Queen"

Hail to thee!

High Queen of Wisdom!

Grand Matriarch of the Scrambled Soul

There is no other

So like a mother

(Course, mine was verbal gadabout)


All the streets of stone and filth

Should be bannered

A fete, for you

For you!

Yes, divine right proves it

You are supreme in wit

And justly the author of our lives


The anarchists say

“Down with the queen! She is morbid! Dull! Stupid!”

But I say

“Nay! Up with the queen!

So beautiful, classy, clever, and duplicitous as could be!”

You are, per our insignia, “Kreativ und Absolut”


You are as Newton was

With the prism of your mind and the light of an uncertain sentence

A rainbow of magnificent missteps is produced by your Highness’ lips

Long live the queen! Long live the queen!


Of course, royalty is the first against the chopping block when the revolutionaries come to collect.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

"Manifest Destiny Day"

Hurrah to you, O Pioneer!
Saddle your horse and gather your wits
For today is Manifest Destiny Day!

This is the East
Old as its corrupt settlers
Angry as an Iroquois arrow

That is the West
Grand as the ancient redwoods
Promising a new future
A new land in this land
(Which is not their land/Or his land/Or her land/
Is not yet my land/
it is your land)

Your land! To hold! To inhabit!
You can settle
And spread
Yourself to the Eight Corners of the Earth

You come from the East
The old, withering East
It'll be fine
It will not change
Has it ever?

Few deserve to be a ranger
On the prairies, plains, plateaus
You, however, are the quick sort
Who: Can, Does, and Will.

Let yourself grow tall
May the mountains know you as a-
A celestial being

So, to California! O Pioneer!
For today is Manifest Destiny Day!

And when the East calls
As beasts of burden tend to do
(Who can resist this hollow, tempered creature?)
Then know that as pioneers need companions
Some person who can see them eye-to-eye
And match them tit-for-tat
Know that I, that fresh-faced youth
Who doth grow a bit starry under your gentle phrase
Will welcome you back
With a procession of kinsfolk
All who do not question
Nor doubt the full potential
Of you, O Pioneer.