Monday, April 21, 2008

Nature incorporated

Technology will enslave humanity when reproducing
becomes a clinical procedure, when the natural family
has been separated into it's nuclear parts, and all
references to mother and father have been purged

from the rhetoric of education.

Elect man as they enemy of the Earth and he will proudly
walk into subjugation.

Plato, this is your world.

The architecture of generations has brained us with your corner
stone. I have an objection. Nature is not perfected but justice
marooned when the seeds of life are lawfully incorporated,

when the domesticated have become automated and finally
homogenized.

In Utopia there not peace but lasting death.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Green

I thought I would never
long for the days of barcodes and social
security numbers; it was such an innocent

time. Living came naturally; we lived for one
another. I was clothed in reflections, the
lure of years with it's celebrities and molotov
cocktails fashioned from the sacred
geometry of bubbles and revolutionary

Earth movements.

Our thoughts were trolled by
insurance companies and meter maids. The hello
thank you easy credit handshake

was slow deadly and neutral.

Given a choice of four answers
for every question including N/A. I'd
choose N/A N/A N/A every time
but it was no use.

The lights were fluorescent

dull and green.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Fence Door

If this moment were a tunnel I would shape it into a horn
each note a pole shift in minute time
like the gold in peripheral heat lightening
revealing the wreckage of the most distant
and obtuse recordings of Beethoven you ever heard.

For every color gleaned from ancient poetry
there is a bell tower and stained glass chapel
built on an old angry hill

where the vengeful Gods of the old testament
have their symbols and endless
empire upon the Earth.

If this moment were the wind in October
it would find a loose fence door to possess with
violent spasms and vent the spleen

of the world through the darkest
holy wood.

Microwave

I spend a second in your flair
like an intelligent animal
fascinated by chrome.

I change the channel; turn away;
turn on the microwave,
a sea of chemistry
moving between me
Beijing and the monster
movie clawing at my
heel.

The cat just ate a moth.
An animal crooned in the gorge.

The flow of instincts
is channeled down the
main wire blue line
crossing the red line
somewhere between a cell
phone tower and Starbucks.

I spend $3.95.

I spend my life in your
illusion,

distracted.

Psychic Driving

To hell with the price of gas and street light cameras,
I'll pass right through towns like these, through
clusters of restaurant chains and convenience stores,

Going nowhere fast, no seat belt or insurance
with the abandon of someone of who's discovered
the parade of marketing strategies psychic
driving to the center of what motivates us basically.

A fractal glistens in the rear view mirror.
I swing by the Teriyaki House but it's been leveled.
In the parking lot graffiti on the dumpster
is strangely appealing with the wabisabi
decay of rain and bird shit.

A Miles Davis quote from the seventies
skips on the CD player.

I make my way through Vietnam Town,
cross the bridge, in and out of other cars,
into a residential neighborhood toward
the kid with a split level home, a beat box
and a prayer flag above his door.

I offer him a poem and he disintegrates
from the unkempt lawn.

Back down the driveway, exhaust, fresh road;
I head toward the amber horizon the ghost
of what transpired psychic driving
well into the night.

The CD skips
all night.

Awareness

Energy is not wasted
when time is perfectly crafted.

The custodian of time is death.

The depth of a moment
is infinitely divisible

While absolute.

To Yolk a Rising Sun

There nightingale, purr a gentle gnarl
One last shrill to be shorn from
The loving recess of your breast,
A cockle's chamber of royal jelly

In the lavender pocket of your broth
There is a lark of becoming
Heathered by the dawn,
Where pass the pearls of starlight

Nightingale, spread your wings
An event horizon from where is feathered
Our cherished dove perched
Upon the broken harps of heaven