SAME
heard a cough
emerging from
a sarcophagus
was
either in a museum
or the Hall of a Kings
then
and the logic of this
was so screwed up
it was my sarcophagus
and I was entombed
but the figure in
the museum in the Hall
was
distant from me
by years in their thousand
the issue of same
not here an Aristotelian thing
SICK GLORIA
“O quam cito transit
gloria mundi”
Thomas a Kempis, 1418
does the fracture of a glacier
mimic the collapse of a bank?
I confess to having such
a sense of the correct sound
chaos makes
across its great typologies
of disaster and rupture
an ear for the music
dissonant or not
made when yet another
of the passing glories of this Earth
crash
SKY CITY
cities in the sky
beneath the waves
circling the Moon
dug into
the rock on Mars
towering structures of
steel and
glass
not for me in my lifetime
this realization of
all we
did dream
not
for me
but
for you
maybe
maybe these
wonders
for you
or your children
or your children’s children
if you
have
a lifetime
and they
have any
kind of
existence at all
SKY CITY
cities in the sky
beneath the waves
circling the Moon
dug into
the rock on Mars
towering structures of
steel and
glass
not for me in my lifetime
this realization of
all we
did dream
not
for me
but
for you
maybe
maybe these
wonders
for you
or your children
or your children’s children
if you
have
a lifetime
and they
have any
kind of
existence at all
FURTHER
You are so far away now
and so substantially your light has dimmed
it is only possible to observe you
through acutely magnifying
optical devices
soon given the speed
that I am travelling
relative to your crawl
will have aged
you aeons
and my fellow travelers
will be drinking my good good health
with the advent and
on the occasion
of
my next birthday,
FIELD
find me in the quantum
vacuum
for if you do not, if
you fail to
then I will find you
will watch as you count your
store of hours, minutes, days
getting spent
blowing kiss after kiss
to blur, to spoil,
cloud that mentality
of linear trajectory
and when the light comes
wave after wave like
warm sea washing over you
know that it is I
who once was something
different entirely
know that it is I
realize it is
me
soft surge of
energies can
cannot be
NEW LEAF
How can you be
bankrupt
when money
is invisible
hypothetical
unreal
when it is no longer
worth the printing paper
or,
when laundered
its weight in bright, seductive
coca leaf
(green
for green)
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
Edge of Tomorrow (film) Fringe (TV)
POETICA
I wrestle with words
mud wrestle with them
take on every kind of figure
of liberation and repression;
tag-team fight with tigers
real and paper
never win however, my
career pretty awful
bereft of any victories
perhaps something
in the mud
consistently on
their side, already purchsed
to favour
when I get down and dirty
never really thought
how down and dirty
could
play so dirty
and the great gods of
our body politic bound
to cheat
as a matter of principle
anything in that sub-sphere
vaguely harmonic, barely
poetic
going to get the absolute
skew-eye when it
comes to
judicial image
as framed
smoking gun when
we go to VAR
(all that mud
they get to sift through)
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
TV: Fringe, Suits, Lost, Film: Citizen Kane, Arrival, The Godfather I & 2 , Edge of Tomorrow, Now you see Me, Avatar, District 9, The Three Muskateers (1973) Skyfall, Tristram Shandy (A Cock and Bull Story) Gladiator, The Parent Trap, Master and Commander, 2001, 2010, Blade Runner Staeship Troopers Repo Man Robocop Budapest Grand Hotel Goodfellas, Empire Strikes Back
poems 2 die for