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; […]

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 […]

Merging

I come bearing Flame and SwordIron, steel glintMaking divisions and distinctionsI pour the subtle fire ever transforming I write the elegy of fallen empires and utopian dreamsThese mythopoetic things I imbue with force I am the wind and the thunder in the nightFeminine, fierce, rejected, merging These words I forge into websThese webs I weave […]