GOSPEL

GOSPEL

gospel be
someone will find me

piece it all together
with metaphysical sellotape

some words here
proferring their services
as hooks
to hang things on

put you in the fabled position
to decide if it
is not
without value
perhaps worth saving

keywords here
      in abundance
(but there again,
etymologically, what
is
   a “bun dance”)

sounds erotic
he said
     little fellow entirely
who speaks in my head

so much we
might call outerspace in
its ethical nexus

sun rising
    wrong way round

something way way off
beam
  on the horizon

the pages
fading (you thought
that stored
in your heart
your
   digitized brain
they would
last all eternity
.hallmark

of a stupid
utterly dominant species
to get things
wrong
   again and again

every thinker first
name Karl
      harping on that thesis

SILLY ME

SILLY ME

silly me
how silly could
I be!

all the ills
of the world
I do allow
to make
me
sickly

so please
do not simply
condemn

if in this
fall
   from grace
I do

maybe
vomit up the odd
poem
    or two

perhaps
quite hideous

possibly
outright
               sublime

silly not to factor
all that is genius into
the chaos
          of big picture