GUITAR

GUITAR

my telephone beeps
it does
not speak

it tells me
her message is here
was
   holding my breath

but now
I can breathe

this is what she wrote
fingers that once
tippy-
toed now

dancing across
the keyboard
         express
delivery

heart to
      heart

(would those nimble
fingers were
here

plucking my strings
                   playing me like
a rock guitar)

HONEY

HONEY

do not presume
to tell me
what
is forbidden

is the sky
forbidden?
the sea
the Sun
you

yourself
    forbidden?

are all the things
in your book
of prescriptions
             ultimately forbidden

what of honey
is that too,
forbidden

bees may sting
but the make it freely

as is the case
with honey, your honey

it is the sting
itself that makes it what it is
defines it as honey

and so please
before you
close the gates
shut
   the hive
lay the mines
      string the wire

as a matter of gentility do
tell me what is forbidden
point to
     what is forbidden
in all this honey

that I might discover
taste
    and judge

decide for myself

EDGE

EDGE

edge is always  brutal.
cutting
    like a blade
.
this we know, how
it has
   proved to be
.
in your history, my.
history
   all our history

the blood on our faces
our hands.
    what we have to share

there, look see!, the cossr
and beyond the cost
the lie
    of the land

let those voices speak
they have
    to speak
can tell a tale of what  was
said promised proclaimed
and how
   that all panned out

those with the feathers
and those with the powder
fire
   and with steel

those with feathers dead
lost
  before the war began
.
and we who do
   believe we
have studied violence from
when it
   first began

have the calculus of slaughter
down to a fine srt

fear
   not a people alive but
a people’s demons
rising
    with their death

displacing our demons
ot teaching
     them a darkness
we
   cannot defend

FIELD

FIELD

Looking out from left field
not quite
      field of dreams

a tad more field
of batshit electromagnetic craziness

pinging electrons
(stuff in passing we
are
made of)
        into being

and so
my field report
(so many
questions no doubt now
                                to field)

there are no electrons, paticles, me you, distinct
                 individuals

only probabilities
      and what the field says,
what the field believes

ready to
build for
        those who come

OLD SCHOOL

OLD SCHOOL

I am
just that another
brick in the wall
that flew through
your car window

suffering at the school
where they taught wrong
physics
    indoctrinated us with
false history

yep
school in apartheid South Africa
thing devised to
grab you by
the balls and
squeeze until you believed

all those teachers dead now
looking down from
supremacist Heaven so
horribly stressed
   their wings losing
all their feathers

or just
turning eternally in their graves
.

EMILY

EMILY
(a Dickinson/Leone mashup)

she good

she bad

and she
way beyond Tuco Ramirez ugly
(very
      definition of Nietzsche’s
           sense of beyond)

she the three –
way duel, three
pistoleros, shadows
one
       self

the civil war graveyard
extreme longshot
close up
             zoom

Mexican
stand-off of all time

SHADOW THAT RESIDES

SHADOW THAT RESIDES

he must have nigh
a hundred cyber
lovers by now

trillions of synaptic connections
but does he have the Ram
Rom brain space
to hold
    cherish them all

beings of bit and byte
whose love
and desire but an
inflection of text

behind
which veil who knows
the truth
     being learnt
the shadow that resides