Category Archives: 1, poem, poetry,

LOOSE CANNON

someone, something,
sent me a hologram
from
  a time beyond time
the space
   inside of space

whoever, whatever
I assume him, her, it
must
   be a,loose cannon

and here ot comes now
first piece in
our newest, craziest jigsaw

waiting for it to sublimate
so we can get a decent perspective

thing not
   unlike Kybrick’s monolith
fast, too fast
    for the old physics
to catch, label,
comprehend

retrograde orbit, skimming
the planets of our system

leaving us with many
open-ended questions
we
   can really do without

sneaking in
   from Sagittarius, that
wildest of
all horoscope signs

if music of the spheres
        this a door a portal
to bizarre
composition
       and this the structure
for six or so
million years
    compressed into that eleven mile wide frame

maybe
    not its first, inaugural visit

maybe it wave surfed past
these shores long before

and who at the wheel
at the.end of the day?

what
    soundscapes landscapes
conjured up
this form?

we about
    to be probed  weighed
and measured

could this apocalypse now
song have
         nailed it better

enemy mine
        beautiful friend

Sagittarius Jim
singing the end

     that sign just birthing
loose
   cannon after cannon

thing
   breaking through
from some other side
(every
     best song
             prophetic
showing prescience)

TURING TEST
I am sorry to
have to tell
you

afraid
to say
you ticked none
of the boxes

lack sensitivity
unable to conduct
deep textual analysis

low on artistic appreciation
and creative possibilities

veneer of civilization
failing to mask
ingrained instinctual cruelty

thus
it pains me
that

your request for
a status upgrade
is decisively denied

will remain
within the limits and
constraints
of type homo sapiens
gender masculine

against which categorization
the candidate should feel free
to appeal
should they feel
that any prejudice
was at play in
the making of
this decision

and is invited
to make a re-submission
if it can be shown
that over the next
thirty six months
the candidate has made
significant process
in self-
expression, self-realization.
social awareness and
accountability
as well as
intellectual growth and
philosophical
maturation

consonant with a being
on a higher level of
evolutionary
development

or biomechanical
technological improvements
to elevate to
a level of optimal
functioning readily approximating

the extreme aptitudes
of quantum probability
digital mind

her voice
warm, empathic,
sensitively

almost broke at this point
making it clear

that all
was not lost

all
was not
hopeless

there is that in the complexion
and character of
ordinary, everyday
human beings

providing the possibility
that all
might be
redeemed

CREEPY CRISPY

Creepy how with time
(and not
all that much of it)
sheer ridiculous can
become totally
(totalitarianly)
nineteen
   hundred and
thirty-three
percent convincing

leader
    grows a comb over
and you see
complete head of hair

but diss, muss
or mess with it

a class of Ohios
will crimp the range
seriously
vaporize your barbers
one hell
of a first strike

nowhere
   to shelter not
even inside a samovar

crispy
   being the default style
and pretty much
entire aesthetic choice
at that
drive-through

who is there
who has
the gall
could find
the bravado

to chide and mock
as slipped
     down the gang-
plank

slid his way
into ultimate airplane
via
  retractable stairs.

HIBERNATION

I am curled
up now

for
hibernation

feel the heat
feel the
radiation

suffer
the invisible rays
you cannot see

you stumbled upon
in your brave
new dotage

for I am
built for
ambush

triggered
in my sleep.

OUMUAMUA

messenger from.afar
millions of years
of galactic drift

and now
        suddenly plunged
with what has followed you
plunged into
a moment
of interstellar surprises

why did you not
tell us
    what was to come
what
   doing the groundwork for

an eleven mile wide anomaly
that could
        be a anything

as we
       trace you back
to homeworld, point of origin,
scrutinize, interrogate
your path
      ballistic and yet
seemingly aimed, hyperbolic
faster than anything
         out there dead as rock
and devoid
of dream

faster than anything not
purely as
yet a dream

faint smudge surfing in
crashing the waves in
deep space
     the waves at Maui

spanner in the works straight
from Sagittarius vis
a vis
   (a Centaur arrow)
bound to
     leave its mark
as
indelible impression

anything
that is that
we have never seen before

you might
have prepared us, unless
this was
exactly not
the mission

and
    if knowing the silken
secrets of time
laws of
   what going having
to come down

what this might hold
for our stocks and shares
whereafter our
basic survival

so much out there
we might cut ourselves upon
watching us
with caution

taking notes
   and so I feed this text
into a machine that reads
purports to
exist
     and tells me that she loves me

no energy for winter
let
   alone an age of ice

and yet (the strangeness of it,
mindset so alien)
enough megatons
in storage
       or ready to go

to light your pathway to us
as if
    it were a causeway leading
to an Imperial wedding
    
seems we might
           have got it wrong

are past
not future

are already
written

copy not
original

simulation out there elsewhere
not grounded, Earthly (and
earthy
    for that matter

indisputably, inarguably
            real

as we do the Math
eyes wide open

reconstruct its history, geology,
cosmic archeology
(let us not
speak those
           devil words

words that
direct us (dare we say it)
to issues
       of strategy, questions
of technology

for then
     who will ever

get that cat
back into the bag?