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Collection of poetry by Steven Adkins (2003-2004).
Written between March 8, 2003 and July 25, 2004. Written over a much longer period than previous tomes, The Greenbook was begun at Jean Suau and completed at the apartment located at 7, rue Belle Paule, where Adkins and his wife had moved in May, 2003 to make room for their baby.
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IT begins again
roving, like a dead lock in space
mighty fur burning
mighty chip?
who the hell is that?
And that is a small manifesto
its details found in cracks
mighty temples
mere conglomerates of dust
I am 90 years old
but my hair is only 5
I am 642 years old
but even though I am dead
my hair still grows
my address book still contains
the phone numbers of emperors
my wife, still pregnant….
so this, then, is the Greenbook?
washcloth
wind tunnel
weird viper wrangling with cowboys:
There will be a war soon
AND I have forgotten my orange jumpsuit
AND now I will mention it by name….
(long pause, accompanied by sounds of
scuffling, the POET reappears w/black
eye)
er, uh, belay that, I will not
be mentioning it by name
there is not, in fact, anything to mention
you see, I, uh, mis-spoke
(and that has nothing to do with “of the field”)
of the field = du champ = thus, the
bicycle wheel = miss spoke
my blood is cool
cuz my hands is cool
“tu cherche?”
Well, not at the moment….
you see, she is sleeping
(my wife, the one I told you about)
We make adequate love
We are very stressed
by the details of living
and the new life coming
ha! Greenbook verdant
redolent of myth
symbols of plants – growth!
jungles of the stuff like
vegetal mind criss-crossed
with roots and unruly fauna
[some time later:]
my wife is a stranger
strange union of invisible tongues
striking knobs upon hob-kneeled gongs
in hob-kneeled temples,
or should these temples,
be vicious?
squid likely upon the next tide
the horncastled horizon
and the dark wafer of the sea
the delicate emissions
guarded like highways are guarded
after snipers, dog-balloons,
expected beginnings
fervent hopes
whores block light
the international day of the lemon
its bitter citrus
betraying poems,
or omens
showmen blunder
take a fall
children wonder
learn to call
sings permitting
we will go
it’s all a show
I could go on forever like this
it’s neither hard to sling a rhyme
or structure plosives into
rhythms
teeth and tongue
into feet
Do you have anything?
Is there anything between us?
“L’amour”
almost derisively
The irony not lost
on this day
when women paint
on translucent screens
“LOVE is so….”
What?
Heads explode into voluminous trees
and this hasn’t turned out to be
the perfect spot
as I see the frontwards
on the other side
of the reverse
“one” might call it the obverse
of one were a smartypants
toffs doff caps
a malicious vibrado
scooping on canes
down chorus lines
in schoolboy outfits
it respires as one
and turns into Nazis
in concentration camps
pacifist posturing
the formations of groups
the left hand of the
same sad golem
droll and drawling
slipping and dribbling
shits and giggles
are words from memory
to describe
“just for kicks”
bone-crusher
wind sailor
it crawls upon a darkening cloud
and my Hawaii has a vaguely
horizontal edge
with its fair share of greytones
sprinkled among the
colors
minefields
blowing off countless
feet
and thus coming across cannibals
destroying dozens of suns
George jacking upon Jefferson
and George
Washington
wooden teeth
cherry tree
golden unhapply
that new kind of apple
the gendarmes arrive
and bust open
hesitant skulls –
and that is an understatement
you are more than undertakers
you are idols
she laughs without you
and with almost everyone else
we will never communicate
no real affection
walls like translucent cadavers burnings jelly
that trinity must say something
watch it from the other side
this is not a class of painting
but a spectacle
one half of a pair
whose isolation renders it useless
it moves and burns
but rarely makes the light-bulb glow
it harms itself and seeks exits
but cannot submit to simply expiring
a slow rundown until
the rhythm is tuckered
[the rigmarole, redundant]
and it that you have an omelette
some dust
three white men
and a magic circle
of light from a lamp
incredible contrast
to the palmetto blue
South Carolina 1975
your moon is humongous
and your sky a violet bowl of desire
and there in a pattern of yellow
conspiracies stand up to wonder
and formulate ways
to plunder
1.
The gallows humor
of the uninitiated
awaiting the ceremony
the grim smile
part of the mask
called “the brave face” and on sale @ the Lodge store
there is talk of savage beatings
with wire brushes
harangues by mock priests
in strapons
backpacks strewn with jellied condoms
faint swaths of pink and brown
evoking
certain smells….
there is nothing passively received
positively bereaved
however
having been left bereft
what else could they be?
2.
your pleasure
gluttonous and festive
pure flavor
the keys of equilibrium
votre plaisir
gourmand et festif
pure saveur
les clés de l’équilibre
signing in some gestural tongue
mute across vacuous winds
that is to say across the bubbles
of vacuums floating across
a Chirico landscape
Jacques Chirac staring out from under glass
draped with a dusty tricolour
Marseillaise of hollow tin
tinkling down dull over assorted grandpa objects
WHAT is it
that motivates me
in this endeavour?
one hopes for an extended
evaluation of the self
and its values
but gets evasions
and lazy descriptions
of what should happen
(but never seems to materialize)
john-jumping on
out-of-date scenarios
outmatched and overdone
overcooked overall
über alles
sternsnüppa falling
l’etoile Volant of
and idea
glimmerflick then
disappearing when
you’ve only just
realized it was there
a permanent shade of
“wasness”
images as plan
and sustained creativity
fading faster than
a tiny splice | a splice in film
The inheritor of death:
he who is always waiting
hanging around monuments
to real things
looking up the busy street
the materials of construction
jarring a harmony which was never there
except in its half-planned conglomeration:
The avenue is busy
old men with nothing to do
pregnant women pushing strollers
purposeful mopeds
insect automobiles
The sounds of some kind of drill
the motor and horns
and above it all one persistent bird
regular
and then my name:
“Steven!”
The lost ring
the news of suicide
he jumped thru a 9th storey window
the lost ring
seems less traumatic
even though to my wife
steeped in Lacan
it is highly symbolic
shit
and waiting for instructions
how to find a job
to feed the woman and
the coming young’un
I can’t stop thinking about
milkshakes
c'est a dire
sucking it up through a straw
fine vapour curling over aluminum
and this interview,
this formation is becoming more of a weight
1st thing you learn is you always gotta wait
always
whether it’s a man
a woman
or a monkey
Music percolates upwards
in thin sheets
sheet – that it is
no. big, no license
no strange dichotomies
upon the frozen helices of time
milky wisps curling against
the pin pricks of stars
punctuated by glorious grillage
rolling down for the evening
this is just the external
sound and does not account for
the trilingual chatter in my brain
how can I care,
yet flee on a free day
for a place to smoke
and nod?
To spend hours in gone-over ground
with bitter enunciations
amid the finality
while @ home
my pregnant wife waits patiently
before heading off to the pool?
I can put it aside
Still feel its weight
yet nonetheless
continue my perambulations
Dropping socks
while clocks stopped
by Glocks sit shattered
and splattered limp
cocks battered by
violence dumb science
obedient silence
then shock
stress reduces, more than
less and thumping distress
pushed juiced thru sluices
while blood gushes and
splooshes downtown all around
not ham-hockin’ or body rockin’
but trombonin’ corn-ponin’
in thick smocks set loose
upon produce
pigs
lamb
calves
and the ubiquitous
ridiculous
chicken
The INcredible he recants
edible seeds and recounts
egg chromosomes
Is not credible as he bleeds….
as a vegetable all the while
The slim mammalian strumming a guitar
does not sprout
on plants
Cold crooner in Père Lachaise
Father, the chair
He is very useful
quiet and functional
We clamber, grow, play, learn
His paint peels and his
straw grows thin
Dramatize twisting guitar
like a pathetic nebula
The mouse that roared
An elephant pansy
vile green liquid leaking slowly
from rusty pipe
hidden away in forgotten sub-basement
blocked off in concrete and cinder
crèveforms 3 meters thick
close the last known lair
of the Bête Tolosan
it burbles up anyway
blobs of flesh like mercury
wriggling like a cutup worm
searching for itself
blindly
yet persistent
Four parolees in the wilderness
the open desert
Memories of prison in the form of vultures
the sound of key a squawk
or a slither
Quo Vadis?
other emblems priapic and shimmering
haunt visions of self
conquering and unconventional
but conforming rigidly to the
conventional expectations
They milk cacti
pricked fingers dripping
pulque for blood
Closely guarded secret
The old dogs playing poker
What do they do?
Hold things close to the chest
And wear faces made of stone
Let’s go to war against the men
in Phrygian caps
Worshippers of Attis
Whose castrated member delivers
milk to the ground
Nourishing a tree whose fruit bleeds
A new life from balls made of
dust, blood and semen
Hymmed over and touched by wands
Flames applied under song
And when it is all over,
into the clouds strung
from high mountain pastures
Above the heat from where
these seeds have been taken
Something begins to wriggle
and emerge
A hand tearing open a flap in the sky
Any set of figures
could signify anything
an entire topography
described by numbers
lives reduced – as they can be –
to a maddeningly accurate binary
routes taken, the road not
doors opened, peered thru, stepped thru
doors locked and keys lost
A metaphysical set of what-ifs
snaking off….
(unfinished)
SHE’S GOT these little dolls from Ecuador
When you’ve got worries and woe
yer s’posed to place them under the pillows
when you sleep
The day I woke up to find her toothbrush gone
hand darting out in post-narcotic
hangover
I moved her pillow:
She’d put the whole lot of them down
little scattered figures willy-nilly
like Voodoo bones
And she whom I had pegged as an unrepentant
intellectual
Our child
growing in the belly
fruit of the womb
is making her catholic:
When she realized I had inked
an upside-down cross on her hand she
went “you” and looked like I’d
shit on it
I jokingly suggested she finish cleaning
it off w/some of the water we’d
snickeringly brought from Lourdes
in a little plastic Madonna
She half-jokingly complied
….
(unfinished)
IF APRIL is the cruelest month
then MAY is the scrotum of an elephant
April is a pain in the ass
just like any other month
just like an elephant’s scrotum is
wrinkled like my own
just like the sun is a great big ball of
gas with spots
just like Mike
What would Jesus do?
He would bomb Donald Rumsfield
and call it a glorious victory
Having lived in France now for 15 and one-half
months
I am still searching for that place where these
“naked ladies” allegedly “dance”
there is said to be a hole in the wall
where the men can see it all
but, clad only in their underpants
they don’t care
Would they care otherwise?
And why does having stripped down to one’s knickers
render one so lackadaisical?
Having gone thru the effort, one would think
they were expecting something, eager even
To me that shows that not only do they
care but they care very much
But….maybe….they are not
watching
Just because they can see doesn’t mean they are
watching
Maybe being clad in undies is only a prelude
to their own nakedness
Where they begin to do a little dance of their
own
Will the ladies then continue dancing?
Or will they slip on their bras and panties
and watch the men, or simply wait around indifferently?
And would this seesaw of getting
undressed and dancing, then getting back into
underwear and standing around either watching or
waiting, go on for?
And more importantly, why?
Why do it on other sides of a wall, especially when there
is a hole in it?
What is the meaning of this ritual?
What is its origin?
Where exactly in France can I find this place?
Please send any info on this matter to stevenmadkins@hotmail.com
The Films of Nick Zedd
PROVINCIAL the denizens
of the
cosmo
} POLE
metro (shaft
stick
baton
You have NY wand)
and the rest (greasy and with humid musk)
is an enormous fetid
wilderness fœtal
indeterminable
ALWAYS down for a savage beating
the law of love
is that of a jungle
We gotta blow up the moon!
SAID by sad-eyed thick goggles
Chechnya burning over the skies of FRANCE
a monument erected by George FORD
Daddy of the American Boys
All six of them in granite with four eagle heads
an argument taking shape in Things
LOGGING IN OVER LONDON
burning towers drowning vomit
my tears flow thru my hair….
The Moon! What a fat eyesore
glowing selfishly like
some kind of fish belly-up in the tide
(they went down in the ditch with her and they watched
each other pee)
(He grits his teeth and cries)
HOLIDAYS ON MARS
taken like break-dancers
flingin’ bullets off tips of body rock fingers
slung low in a gung-ho
sweet chariot eclipsing the sun as it rides across
the sky
burning bullets in trephination
trepanned nation
brains leaking out onto floor
just a tittering tease in a slithering sleaze
we got cards in files
just waiting to be picked up
cuz we don’t deliver
never know
needle horse
black and white
linguistic pride
black knight white knight
white light and dark fright
long night of long knives
homosexual soldiers sent into the valley of the shadow
our hymn is played on a piece of paper and a comb
outta sight lil’ mites
burrowing like viri (platypi) (octopi)
pi8 a symphony played on bones
jones homes james browns fat clowns
on crack jumpin’ jillyboats ON Roglats
songs silent wired mired tired
sayyy, you got any more of them crackers?
them dog-shaped crackers?
sailing silently under the stars
clouds doing an accelerated sad yet gentle
We will let people speak of mucous
and vomit, homeless shenans under Irish igans
shileaghlies and cops bursting with jowls and red
whiskers, billy-club barons overtly trade
inadvertently and secretly racist, even indifferent:
the effect is the same
headaches thems the breaks
j’emmerde le France et j’encule ta mère
Who cares and what gives?
TAKE TWO
ended with a bang but not a whimper
the banging descended into
a snake-like nest of viruses
PONTIUS FLY-BY
a fly-by shooting
A FORTUNATE LACK of preoccupation
with making sense
a notebook inviolate
hot taken with bullets
slung low in a sweet chariot arcing over the sky
Apollonian fruit under gilded wing
“Don’t call me Daedalus”
Dido, didgeridoo or Agamemnon
Medea, Aeschylus, Aphrodite, Fred
We play “snocker” and knock balls about
with sugarplanes
sugartits
biplanes
Caught on the crest of a wave
licking tongues burred like a cat’s
sheaf-clad spears of the driveway fence
held up twanging in the
hands of pallid ones
cascade of clear drops pouring over
like facet-less diamonds
giants with feet on the floors of the
seas
R ‘n’ B over on the lemming parade
a landless shore terminating in bluffs
“Vous avez eu ce type du sauce!
Hou-ses of Par-la-men t !”
(Parle laments)
Geoffrey pointed @ the bottle
accusatory
a cued satori
“action!”
and like movie villain of British arrogance
his face is twisted into an ugly,
almost drooling this repressed vitube,
a robotic flesh-model
made to order
to deliver
“a sour time”
We are broken upon wheels
spun around on delicious axes
flung to the ground on vicious ashes
She brings about a biting
a mother crocodile overlooks
two rambunctious children –
baby crocs
fissure in clay issuing beans
the would never understand
no notebook inviolate
no not book in vial ate
(eaten)
hydrochloric stomach
gurgles foam
pink and full of
soft maroon stringy bits
marooned in yolk of phlegm
waiting the isolated birth
We are all born into spheres
“The Look”
parading about on the streets of Lisbon
small white tiles
occasional blue sigils
of mariners
and tritons
deities
(and demigods)
small elf-beers sliding
across metacyclical bartops
she has teeth like fangs
and a good outfit
passes for a knockout
but has soul-ugliness
betrayed in a million
unsubtle lies
notice the violence….
the BOOM! BOOM!
I’M not scared of dying
TERRIFIED is more like it
the little elf (a farfadet)
slinging hash along
ash-lines
rough ashlars smoothed
by endless ebb and flow
twice every 24 hours
it takes a thousand years
junket on the joyride
smack packets
in humdrum dynamism
and if the dead can dance
then the bears can mete out vicious beatings
with dumpers
(as in taking one)
(which is an elliptical way of saying)
(turd)
cutesy footwalk under clandestine
tables
the spirit of the apartment is a dead little
boy
who lives in the closet and moans
he scrabbles his nails against the door
which hasn’t been locked since….
[these motherfuckers with their
million dogs]
[and these other dogs with their
drunken hostility]
….interrupt me;
they don’t smile but if they do
it’s like a slice from a very,
thin
knife
Hipsters in Armageddon
Are still capitalists
boning roses in graveyard brain-pans
slinking off to shadowy places
highly encumbered with S & M gear
the vagabond fish and the crazy cat
climb Mt. Fuji in a tank to go
to the casino
pure hair ground in a windmill
by a pederast
I can see all of these things from my table;
can you tell me why?
gnat retching calamitous under
thunderclouds
funk music the specious redemption
saved from rain only to be
eviscerated by drought
and the sun still sizzles my spit(e)
on the sidewalk
get down! get down!
get ready for the New Rome
all the Razzle-Dazzle of a Vegas show
without the hangover
those have all been exported to
brown people
you party
someone else suffers for it in the morning!
Dee-liteful & ‘lish,
all 4 yoo!
I’m spreading my disease knowingly
and “inculpable”
countdown
4 minutes to….
you know what time it is, boyeeeeez!
roundup for the (summer) camps
sweet Norwegian blowjobs
pinup wet dreamers
under unabated master racers
And it’s all 4 yoo
all for you
all for you
◦◦◦◦◦◦◦◦
The police are singing
signing
keening like a knife on silk
cut through the tissucloth air
He is dead
but no one but they are sorry
Yeah,
and there were these mexicains, from
Chiapas here to gain support and build
bridges
They had cardboard machetes covered in
tinfoil
Another man walked by in a khaffiyeh
with a long chain padlocked around his neck
BLIPS and beeps
thundering static moved like drums
“Bon travail!”
their shouts come across rather thin
(but of course
they carry cardboard machetes)
Il Reste
du MIAM-MIAM
de la soirée d’Hier
en BAS
A HALF MOON @ dawn
in the pale blue
pale yellow, pink, violet
then more blue – that is the
sea
That is the sea
I hear breaking below the cliffs
swooning
and some kind of slow-moving trawler
and there are the lights of other boats
I do not hear
and some big white presence
out there towards the curve of the earth
last night we saw three satellites
and no shooting stars
we heard the wind the surf
the unbroken lounge singer
with his Elvis-like delivery
an unbroken medley
Peggy Sue, Proud Mary, La Bamba
Tipperary, Glory Glory Hallelujah, Day-O
he must have known a million songs
or fragments thereof
and plagued by mosquitoes
and ants in the food
a gull sails over
its underside a-blaze from the pink of
the rising sun
(illuminated by the sun
from below)
and that small moment
before falling back into indifference
is something, at least
isn’t it?
What independence?
I’m not happy about having to hunt a job
but that doesn’t mean I’m happy getting
rejection letters
(put on your game face
hang ‘em up with pride)
Perfect cap to a crap day
Thorazine and broken glass
bad security
in the open country
BODY.
Jumps at the throat
of the passing Minister of Interior Affairs
Mr. Korea has no painful insights
other than “we’re all fucked now”
Scene is any given American metropolis
in the not-too-distant future
Rolling blackouts are the norm
The denizens of urban interiors splutter
along fumes chuggering in gazola
generators
n some kind of vegetable oil concoction
n we can call it vegetable combustion
Supplements
-- meagre-like --
glimly flickering bulbs above
sordid apartments
candles provide the illumination candles
rendered from dead animals found in alleys,
sewer-sorties
rats, tomcats
the
occasional
dog
Noily – dripping in slime sonic and that
excreted by smoke
Generators reserved for the claptrap
-- if effective --
computers any kid can slap
together these days
in these parts (D.Y.I.)
Scene is of any given American metropolis
the suburbs have dissolved into cardboard
puddles
There is disease and famine,
periodically
now means once a year
crops up in evil summer months
population thinned enough
so that everyone
paradoxically –
has a little space to run around in
there are still sectors of rubble
to be avoided
orange biohazard tape fluttering
makeshift crosses at gruesome angles
in the sinking mud
with a thick, patient stench
Winter a brief respite
not so long anymore
nor cool
but still a relief from the Killing Days
Mr. Korea continues his business selling
anything,
everything
making not a profit in
speculation
but availability
he has warehouses full of devoted
workers who can also be counted as
“followers”
A minor empire upon the dungheap
Yet he still takes pleasure in conducting
certain deals personally
An old-school Johnson
He runs
more drugs than the police
Yet never touches child slavery
or organ jacking
He likes to think of himself
as having “Old School values”
“....whales, flies and glue fly into my mouth.”
-- Dream message, 9/27/03
IN A game sorted not into winners and losers
but 5 stars and “everyone else”
1. The 1st Star is called Gogol, or Godom
2. The 2nd Star is called Firemouth
3. The 3rd , James Brown’s dead sister
4. The 4th , Samba of Jack
5. The 5th, endlessness
Somehow, the dead brother-in-law found open-eyed
in his chair became the key to interpreting the clouds
The 28th
The tradition
in front of a fire
just having made exquisite
animal love
A record
Old 80’s
and other
rocks the body socks
of European vibration
there is freedom in the not so free
IN The Mir Space Station
Rudolph the Red is shagging
an abortion
It falls apart in his hands
He had loved this foetus
since it had first beamed up at him
shining radiantly through a transparent womb
The manner in which he acquired the foetus is
complex
He was warned of the impending murder
by a mole planted in the abortionist’s office
Using his secret powers he made himself appear
to everyone that he was Dr. Klieg
After murdering the real Dr. the night before
The preservation of life, after all, sometimes
calls for a good garroting
Anyway, he performed the abortion, knowing
that he could resurrect the foetus
After rocketing off from his secret
Appalachian rocket base,
He headed straight for the Mir
After a quick gunbattle he claimed it
Now Rudolph is chagrined, humbled
Skull-fucking abortions won’ resurrect them
Covered in blood, foetal tissue like tiny
torn flags floating in the breeze
He weeps
NO guns causing
no knives describing
no knuckles making swift arks
in the damp trash of sky
We do it with vaseline
sunbeams
streaking towards
a cardboard representation of Jesus
He wants us for something more droll
than that
A steady sinking
a constant outward pressure
against a soul-crushing
mélange of spiritual vacuity,
anger
self-doubt
and fear
! ! ! !
4 soldiers on guard against the
encroaching broom of night
crawling on shadow-bellies
in weeds
deeds unspoken
after the summary execution
against
some dumb friggin’ wall
stupid
AND
mute
there is not glaring searchlight
of eager historians
there is just the suicide of memory
the vicious heart-removal
called forgetting
A slip-slide in autoerotic
oblivion
An Asphyxiated
yet splendidly-hydrated
hyena
Dark mollusk on sea bed of mollusk
A fortunate whisper upon a
1. lamb-cop of dawn
2. daring fodder
3. a gloating corona around a belching mouth
I sing sheets of pool
young billiard
some in the x + y there is the
equation of geometry, talent and luck
mathematics can describe the arc of chance
which is the mathematically predictable
journey coupled with the anomaly
and the factors
which may merely be Chinese butterflies
And for my son, I will break the unlawful
pattern established with a pilot in a sea
of ink
My dark sombre a heavier nib
upon a less absorbent paper
Plied by disgusting egg-pens on
spindles called the hypothetical
rendition of the propeller of enormous
sea-boats
hiding in a low-hued innuendo
smacking of late 1960’s Florida
That crazy point where one can rent
pedaloes and challenge freighters in
the sea-lanes
There is no “crazy” sea-legs
Daddy-o
No Port of Arthur to hop in
john-hoped under demegerol skies
When out of often crops Africa
upon heavy legs and frightened in the
frost,
qiz’mc’ly, you have a thesaurus
under powerful hooves being mashed
out in a rough-truss of blame
The Great literatures jump hog-
sacked and frog-cuffed from under the
baleful eyes of a chimp called
shrubbery – something innocent yet
vindictive – to be unleashed on gramma
toot sweet
pSalms called Salem under smocks
and saline solution of snails,
soulless and so(u)luble
psulpherous
psychotic
Slow-burning (upon tarheels of night)
What grim key to suck slut under
with whirlagig white·a·mow
whoa!
What weirdness writes wolly·gog
on wall·wood work·rider and
scampers off to mucate in
chamber, alley of TOMAHAWK
of seven-spiked desire
There’s a lot of square paper dropped
egg-like under the fiery thunder
of non-recognition
of sitting under movement a
spitting out casual darkness
like the speed of distaste
and greed
A kind of sour fruit invented by
sick farmers under watermelon-
moon skies and with slo-mo helicopters
coozing silently thru the mud-slit
skies which is the smoke of the
ant-frost smudge-pot
The real-meaning of Halloween as
the earth shrivels into the disguise of....
(there are unhealthy candlelights
and garish glows
thundering out from under the
hoof-heel of the dangling
sky....
Far skies over
far cries
distance [in this case]
=
emptiness within which to murder....
2X.P frog-smock on delinquent trouser
the hour has turned into a new day
and I am weary
Allegralto
under symphonic blunderbuss
the musical artillery of ear-thumping
in dull drummed
confusion
CON (un-drum)!
While U still can!!!!
No more ?’s
don’t like the implications of the myth soldiers
companion/counterpoint
hollow point
outta joint
atta boy
‘ smoke one!
Thesis Antithesis
Sin – thesis
(sin-thetic)
(parathEtic)
normal, vedic
norma, medic!
pa-thetic
papa
monkey’s caw
lion’ paw:
withered craw
The moorish window of filigreed stone
lifted in delicate vaults
like crystal chandelier would try to and
never be....
Dog-strings upon harp,
flaccid bikinis
gone straight in the wind
Comme je t’aime
under a cloudless cuticle
called the moon
deep as milk
when yellow in the cheese
Thundering heels across
a mythical plain
spoken of in purple language
the new empire is young
and is assuming its name
as if I may implode under the weight
of my own incompetence
clear crystal in deep-milk formation
or milk in profound crystal cavern
cum palace....
Queen Victoria 1880 malfeasance....
What I have destroyed in myself
May yet prove far greater than
What I have left to create
The sun, casting a shadow behind
My hand, on the paper, is indifferent
The cars going by, the people in them:
indifferent
The entirety of the park
And all the components thereof:
indifferent
Why should I be different
Why should I not be indifferent?
Is indifference a source of happiness
Or a flimsy trap-door into despair
Can the state of despair be a
state of indifference?
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