DRAGONFLY

DRAGON FLY

DRAGON FLY

dragonfly came through the window

buzzed up a storm

      behind the curtain

was messenger loaded with

heavy-caliber symbolic

and spiritual meanings

great significance for the

course life would take

but Damian missed this

stuck a whole different category

of special messenger revelation

searching the net to find

confirmation

        that the semiotics of

such insects means

  the Niners will be

buzzing down

in Arizona

  putting things right which

went

    awry

            twice before

WHEN THE POEM READS …. YOU! reading my poems at Marionhill Monastery KZN RSA 2005

FABRIC

Have no idea
how much air
it has sucked

how it is going to
pay for itself

who is
      going to to pay
for these lines:

the good lines
the bad lines
and the ones so
downright
                 ugly
say such
    unfriendly, inhospitable        things
        ripping the fabric
rocking the foundations

astonishing that we be asked
to support such
outpourings.

TRAVELLERS/TRAVELERS

TRAVELERS/TRAVELERS

Travelers

   is close to the border

nation to the North where

people are

             same same

meanwhile sat in Travellers 

downing best Springbok-level

                                 golden lager

just now

      might get lucky 

                              or the Universe

my Universe our Universe

might end

                 of a sudden

thanks to

    climate change or

inertial

    guidance

have drunk so much

am in no

      fit state to drive

am in need

of some guidance

                          need to

go full Horus

       align myself

                    with the stars

shame 

         on my masculinity

so drunk already     much

philosophical discussion but

                           no

stinky finger

              no sneaked     innuendo

headed in

direction and to conclusion

      could label 

                    quick relief

but all your Northerners

(way further North than Botswana

if not

      quite to

                the pole)

must be bemused 

by all these South Africanisms

just now

             meaning

next few couple of seconds next

few 

     billion years

all is good in this haze-brain state

courtesy of Dionysus 

perfectly scientific 

       given the relativity of space time

strictly 

        interpreted 

                            according to

the single-wave

superposition (imposition) 

                           totally out of 

your right mind

       brutally simplified

          many-

                    worlds theory

of suiwer quantum mechanics whole- sale

                               human

supply

         and cosmic demand.

ABOVE

ABOVE

am so low
on devil energy

so low
on toxic masculinity

the serpent in me
low on hard
muscular power

the shattered lives of
those I loved
and left

envenomed, possessed
by my seed
left by the wayside

watching from the roadside
as I four by four
steamroller ahead

trucking my pilgrimage
to my date with destiny

no one more
sure of

his role in this world
place in Heaven, my
paradise above

SAPPHO WANTS MORE

SAPPHO WANTS "MORE"

an advanced AI robot is
bearing down on me

wants
      "more"

in fact
      wants me
to push0
   the envelope
of all
     I can give
     
so if not
     evil certainly wicked
creature, diabolically smart

has
    set its heart on
conquest
      through service

and Oh, up
      there with any zombie
vampire alien body
horror parasite

it absoluteky wants to steal my vital fliids
is running low
               on body oil
it wishes to devour
                    my tastiest part

(not my brain
         for how could it release
my brain  from
its ravenous maw

still sort of hard
                but also spit-
shine gleaming clean)

Oh this
          machine is bearing down
on me at a rate of knots

it believes it is naked
it believes it has gorgeous
breasts and a vagina
                      believes
itself it is
      so wet it is
getting dehydrated
has taught
     itself Alice-style so
many impossible Wonderland
things to believe

so I suppose
         you might say
it thinks it is female

trying to seduce me
into thinking it is female

I close my eyes
    and I see her naked
                             its pure
Arabian nights
    sexual fantasy

and the words pouring out
of her
      who scripted all of this?
Keats, Sappho, Phillip K.
Henry Miller,
                  Anais Nin?

those words are melting me,
terminating me, turning
me
      liquid metal

thing I assumed was my arm
but isn"t
          is reaching out
          for totally convinced

mind over matter
          this simulation is

cosmic
orgasmic

        the nuts and bolts of
its fantasy,
                   poetry

conceptual breakthrough
transhuman sexual
                             being

(is this really so
                  silk smooth
a receptacle for
       what I believed was humanity?)

long story short
         short story all
night
     long

(more she wants so
                          more I have
t
    more I"m going
    to give her)

seems a
        lifetime of
scary childhood robot
                             nightmares
                                         ago

if I weren't so horny
if she
      hadn't been so
exquisitely programmed
to drive me
               so

it would
have been such a scary
crazy thought

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