BOOKWORM

BOOKWORM
(for MARK Z DANIELEWSKI)

a mysterious book
appears

what am I saying?
a mysterious collection
of texts appears
housed
    quite compactly
in a mysterious bookcase
(in fact the fit between
books and
    bookcase
is,
  uncertainty theorem aside,
mathematically exact)

my fall from grace
was reading these books, taking
                          from this tree

though the fruit was gorgeous
waking up
          from violently lucid dreams
and vomiting over
                    the bedspread
I figured there might be some value
in the sacred prohibitions
                    against the blasphemy
of writing
              reading

but
  who wrote these books
and who wrote the words leaking
through the brickwork
      suddenly
manifesting themselves
on the walls?

I write down my dream
                      but then read further, find,
it was
    already written
suddenly the term “intertextual” is no longer
just radical polyphony of meaning
but being stretched and pulled apart
                                  by the conflicting
gravitational pull
        of dramatically dissonant worlds

I burn
    all I have written
                          the storehouse of my life
stacked in a pyre
    having failed the inquisition

we are
        all locked in a fiction, a forever
thread-creating, fabric splicing brain

stuck
    in
    either hemisphere

doomed
  to tell our tale

                leaves    pages
things metaphoric,
                  synonymous

left
all over the place

IN THEIR NEED TO BOND

IN THEIR NEED TO BOND
“Oh, Mr Bond!” Raul Silva
“Skyfall”

the rogues
want to prorogue

they want to
go Klingon
they want to buccaneer
they are the
best worst pirates
you had
rather you
had never heard
of

when ferocious alpha aliens
arrive to conquer in
(of all things) their mothership

they will be desperate to
host, put on
a show,
suicidal in
their need to bond

play footsie-
tentacle
    under the table

with these creatures
human, or alien,
nothing ever
      on the level

nothing
above board

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ONE DAY ON MARS

ONE DAY ON MARS

Mars bars
Mars bars

the man has been
eating far too
many
Mars bars

his brain
is reaching
escape
velocity

reading too
much Martian poetry

I blame you
Mr Wells, blame
you Mr Raine
blame you Schiaparelli

dug
  all those
canals
in is brain

and above all,
I blame you Mr Bradbury
filling his head
with Martian mushrooms,
telepathic Martians
losing a war
of colonial conquest

most basic parallel
with Earth history
a writer
strolling across
a desert
      plain
munching
        on a Mars bar
(overhead the irregular
shaped
      Phobos and Deimos)
might feel compelled to make

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WOBBLESY

WOBBLESY

My wobblesy body feels like it was made of TS jelly wobbles and was

dragged Through the Looking Glass in search of a body of knowledge

manga fans oh how all the animations allow you to stylize my body horror

They do not give out Nobel prizes for nothing come

Follow Me
I shall take you out deep into no man’s land to where the Nobel Prizes grow graphic, thick and furious like a jungle or an industrial complex

oh this thing entropy nothing on earth and under the spell of gravity can resist your will
under your Sith serpent
power
      avoid
  becoming aged and bent,
  crippled by time or
flattened entirely; rolled tighly  into a Prufrock ball
              silver-papered
collapsing under mass of own gravity or hideous weight

such as the case
        with its monstrous prosody
that
      cuts through carves through
sinew and line
    thar mighf be way better expressed
But I am consciousness, damn it,
and will
      not be so undermensch, slave
mentality addressed

and so will resist
have it in me: in my D and also my A
to pull a radical chemistry,  total
kitchen-sink alchemy
become blob of early science-fiction
horror
        terror of the cosmos eveb
with ridiculous prop  and

sans world-altering green screen
philosophy-rewriting graphic
(that
    book hollowed out
where Neo
      hides his truth
truth you
        have to see
        and feel)
and as blob

name up in lights and
star of the John Carpenter show
lovecraft loving myself
    (yet nothing masturbatory)

demigod of
            sexual psychosexual
sixties psychedelic acid
dissolving everything in my slow inexorable path
and
        then some
putting paid (style of
                          late capital
economic erotic orgasmic ectoplasm)
of all that
          Borg resists, fails your

cosmic Turing test of simple logic
suppliy and demanfd
        not to speak of Malthusian
stupidities of my sweet but stupid
biodegradable humanity
      float tp the surface stuff in
the primal soup and
        expendable offal connecting tissue
body fluods
    in event of war and advent  of
armanents’ industry

could cry for
this humanity
if I had eyes
      and I  had tears
lurking in the undergrowth in
alien camouflage
              so far beneath ice and
fire
    and blasted rock planet
of your proverbial, perpetual underworld
below, beneath and

                so incomprehensible
to ali
that is Aesthetics of  Guides and Gods and
old outworn mythology of
Anglo American poetry
                                          modernist to
a cataclysmic
            fascist  failing fault.

JURASSIC

JURASSIC

we grasp
we create

imaginary worlds
in abundance

hold up mirrors to
our nature than little
old Hamlet could never
have foreseen

would have
fallen off the stage
in pure
stupefaction
(and his author too,
for that matter)

and yet
for all this gnosis

we remain in essence
still prehensile

machine-like, true,
but prone to self-
subvert

and so, like the entire planet,
I was spellbound watching
Mr Spielberg’s tale cautionary

wondrous meditation
upon Mary Shelley’s theme

still
some of that ancient T-Rex,
velociraptor inside of us

the monstrous beauty of
these creatures
blazed across the screen

huge thrill
massive awe

but ultimately, big money,

every cent of which
drained out in sequel after
mindless sequel

these creatures
so passe, defunct,
dead
and threadbare

a different fable
here

about art
and story

and the death of
our species

to be
dragged out kicking
and screaming
into
the light of day.

GO

GO

Let me go
hunter-gatherer

my last breath
burning in my lungs

no need to cry out
try to communicate anything

just take in the light
sharp as the flint tip
of an
arrow

light like this
still a
mystery

and let them think
they have solved it
these
men of science

only for it to
bed to differ
take issue with them

who do see
how we continue
on that wave

one wave
capturing this life
bringing it
all together.

EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE

We thought the goddess
was here incarnate
to impart her blessing

we thought Aphrodite
but it was
time of Kali

wrong mythology, wrong
about everything

and you
hot-stove focused
when
I made my move

the chemistry I thought alchemy
much, much mistaken
this
kitchen stuff, basic
premise of our evolutionary trail

exchange of fluids, no
noble elements, grubby
hydrocarbons

no catalyst here for
transubstantiation
trans-
formation of the real

and we, after the greedy, grasping

clamour of our exchange

left wondering
where we were heading
praying
we not taking
our Universe, the Universe
along with us
for some dark ride

and Kali’s dark eyes filling
with the light that is
her darkness

needing
our little, paltry,
insignificant dance

to spur her upon
her cosmic charge.

WAYSIDE

WAYSIDE

Not a doubt
my script is being written
by a severe Russian novelist

giving me really poor lines
a Dostoevsky life

this piece here
being pretty prime example

poem, if that’s what
you can call it
falling
quite by the wayside

and me
wandering through life
seemingly without an arc
let alone
driven by quest, on
pilgrimage

following
the flow (if flow it is) of
words
wherever they go,
wherever they take me

with what false promise,
fatal lure
ot gnosis, wisdom.
sublimation

revelation
that I am no one’s fool,
no one’s text,
no one’s flawed or
anti-
hero, character-whatever

puppet told
to prance
and then put back
in the box

ECLIPSE

ECLIPSE

got kissed
by an eclipse

full
on the lips

nothing sensual:
something industrial
about the sound
of those
suckers locking
or truly confrontational
like the clash
of contending blades

and you
in your headset
oblivious to my
life-and-death love battle

having zoned yourself out
of the untidy range
of all the ambient
swirling noise
and feedback

waiting for the light, the
total light taking
too long
about its dawning

waiting
for new
colours,
different darkness

still
same old old playing
play
rewind
play rewind
the

tunes of our time
tunes of our time