as my mood improves so my verse decays perhaps the time is now here to broaden the spectrum write on the world instead of my own small concerns . . . how many ways does the sun shine one drop of water or snow on crystalline veins of green winter leaves the simple needs of […]
Year: 2012
Rogue Wheels
Many types of wheels have we Cogwheels, rollerskates, sprockets Unicycles, compact discs Loops of logic, rhyme schemes Escape wheels and vortices [ – _ . . #! . . _ – ] The matrices, they do not multiply The pieces will not fit Paradoxical players split hairs [ – _ . . #! . . […]
Rogue Whales
rogue whales ply the ocean the psychosomatic sea #! pink, purple, white bearing machetes, brochures, kazoos & ubiquitous LSD #! they shake foundations key your car never mow the grass #! rogue whales lurk under highways leap up to take unsuspecting prey sliding down the Way that passes logic or understanding #! rogue whales, you […]
Psychotomimetic Counterpoise
A counterbalancing weightAn equally opposing forceNewton’s third law The Psychosis opposesThe Psychosis BalancesThe Psychosis at odds with the world The balance of the world’s symbolic consciousnessTipping right into senseless automatismTipping left into mania As the man on wire we walk As the dancer balanced on Wall Street’s bullPoised amidst the onrushing riotEntropy wrapped in chaos; […]
Contagion of Mass Behaviors
You can call me crazy, and shred my vanities –But know this, I don’t play games Driven by products,We with our spectacular manias Marching in lockstep to catastrophe Enforcing ideas of ‘right’ or ideas of ‘cool’ Fashions secular and religious become little voices in the mind Domestication puts the little cops inside your mind But […]
Furry Creatures
Domestic animals are the confident onesWildlings know, and are skittish of all of it Do you want to be one whocheerfully walks to the slaughter? Or one who chooses silence, exile, cunning and victory?
Tyranny of Perfectionism
Finding the papers of an injured one on your desk,You say:Gaps in employment: Lazy.No facebook profile: Dangerous.¹ Involuntary termination: UntouchableBanned for life –By HR’s conventional wisdom Then you fume aboutThe lazinessOf the unemployedTo yourself and on television and in government You require intrusive personality testsFor the most ordinary of real-work jobsSee it to it that […]
Lost in Mist 