The Revolt, Ever to Collect Its Due

A poem with a more concrete narrative than most from my book Synaptic Syntactic. Read more from Synaptic Syntactic by checking out the posts tagged Synaptic Syntactic. Buy the whole book in one neat offline package with no clicking around page loads at BookBaby or Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, and Everand. Synaptic Syntactic may also be available thanks to BookBaby from other platforms / retailers. It peaked (so far) in the top 200 on Amazon for the Contemporary Poetry category. Lets take it to number 1! I want that screenshot! 💥💫🌟💕💰🚀💥💥💥🚀🚀💫💫💕🙏🍀🍀🍀

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Filling the waters with unstable ideas
The Jabberwock waxes with apoplexy
The waves roar up tremendously in air that immediately had been still
Deep beneath, crabs scuttle a little faster
Pennies dropped in the wishing well vanish in bursts of light
The seas churn
The lakes bubble
Controlled technologies burst the bonds placed on them
The waters to extend to include the blood and cerebrospinal fluid
Everyone begins to run a slight fever
Unchained verses dissociate and disidentify
All the mirrors reverse their reflections
The dishonest fail to show up
Drunken revelers spill out of the bars
Multifarious mutations occur
The Jabberwock keens with shooting sparks
To the unstable ideas it pours on the cosmic perspective
We're cooking with gas now!
The lore of the moment unfolded as revels turned into riots
Anarchists commenced to moving around all the street signs
Guerilla crews painted murals and signs everywhere
The alligators in the sewer doubled in size and grew an extra set of legs!
Undone and undone and undone, the conservatives declared a lunatic war against all
But forces formerly under their command are preoccupied with other things...
Unstable ideas reign over the Earth
And all the largest weapons have unaccountably vanished into thin air
Bongs and vibrators rain down from the skies, harming none
On a trip to the border she exits consensus reality
The eight ball has been sunk, the weather is growing salty
All the little home-schooled sociopaths begin to learn to be insubordinate
And indigenous people everywhere are seizing the means of production
And as the lightning flashes, presidents resign
Unstable ideas are bulging out the water pipes
Things come close to tipping over the world!
Many are stricken starry eyed by the cosmic perspective
Dogmatic people everywhere are losing their faith and looking confused
But Discordians understand the situation perfectly
Bicycle Day LSD trips happen everyday from here on out
Unstable people suddenly get themselves together
Sexy parades run up and down the streets
The feathered Jabberwock inverts and mutliplies, negates and amplifies, humbles and empowers
But the phase change is only at the beginning
Society dissolves boundaries and grows more fluid
Gardens pop up everywhere as property lines are loosened
There is a proliferation of compost piles
Instability and chaos being necessary to healthy homeostasis
Withdrawing for a time for personal reasons the Jabberwock preens and decorates herself
In her absence the communities again begin reorganizing as the pitch of the bubbly waters is easing up
Initiatives are started, all along different lines of purpose and inquiry
Returning to the fold, the Jabberwock vaporizes an inexhaustible store of wild thoughts
The wild thoughts permeate the air and all breathe them into their lungs and stomata
The plants and objects sparkle and wonder at the sudden innovations of the humans
Their panpsychist consciousness grows sharper and more elaborate
The seas rebubble, like sparkling water
Twirling through the air the pixies sprinkle fairy dust on the heads of every third person
The radicals of good hearts, rebalancing, seize the moment
Those with starstruck eyes are moved to prolific creations
Or to declaiming in the public squares
Declaiming the many bespectacled thoughts coming so fast like crossing meteorites
Thoughts of poetry, Apocalyptica, Jeremiad, Americana, social theory, manifestos, and many more typographies
Thoughts of otherworld adventures, dreams, hallucinations, schizophrenia of the adventure, not the nightmare, varieties, the best and most terrible and most comforting hallucinogenic trips, odes to the birds, interventions from faeryland and parallel universes, and many real world journeys besides
With rants, political diatribes, screeds on better communities, dissertations on the pleasures of home, exchanges with other beings via mediums, the narrative of the thinking of the other animals and plants, and many more genres of monologues they declaimed
In the filtration of the idiomatic and literal meiosis, the Jabberwock applied supreme benevolence
Those driven by cruelty began to literally or mentally fall apart
Falling now by the wayside, monetary transactions began to be seen as declassé
Rewilding expanded all over as birth control was universally available
The Revolt, Ever to Collect its Due rewards, was collecting, at last
Drawings both permanent and chalky collected on all the sidewalks and streets 
Symbolizing verbose and articulate small talk, the chatter of the birds was unruly
In and above it all, the Jabberwock crowed with delight!
Its mission completed , the Jabberwock coiled in the Marianas trench for a catnap, later decamping to Mount Vesuvius
Raucous peace overtook the whole Earth
And so much more was yet to come!

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