BE ADVISED

BE ADVISED

be advised
that in the extremely
barely (jacking
up the adverbs
here for
satirical purposes) event
of loss of  fuselage pressure

no oxygen masks
will drop
down or spring out
from anywhere

so suck it in
hold your breath, try
not to breathe

or strangelet
let loose leading
to total collapse
of the atmosphere

or catastrophic
overnight magnetic field
reversal

or immediate
climate change aberration
or caldera magma explosion

being a poet, a writer,
I have not the faintest
idea what can
be done to avert
disaster, reverse
damage
or otherwise somehow
mitigate above-
referenced impending
extinction level event

on remedial action
any and all possibilities
just draw a blank

now
    given that we all knew
from archeology, paleontology,
climatology, geography

that one
or all of the above
with the critical assistance
we have given
were
    quite obviously
bound to happen

be advised
that regarding
safeguarding the continued
existence, long
term survival of
this our species

preventing the fucking
occurence, ensuring it
could not happen
in
the first place

I happen to have
the odd
         few
radical proposals,
legitimate ideas
could not happen





FEEDBACK

FEEDBACK

“and so cold”
William Carlos Williams

just want to say
you wrecked
my night
my day

my week
my month, my year

my death
      my life

playing
like that
coaching like that

do you
not know?

is it not
amongst the so
many things

you do
not know?

CONJUNCTION

CONJUNCTION

I am writing
              a poem

and the world is fucked.

I am writing a poem
but
the world

     is fucked

I am
writing a poem

however, although,
the world
                              is
                      fucked

am writing
notwithstanding, despite,
in outright opposition to

the
   world

being fucked.

I am writing a poem,

have written a poem,

just trying to establish
the precise conjunction.

SO SURREAL

SO SURREAL

O (for black hole)
it has become so surreal
so much
   tunneled under I no
longer feel the ground
to be
   safe
       under my feet

no place to shelter
no place to hide

they sow fire and death
from above, supersonic vampires
(must give our
    instant mistrust to
mythology
        of eagle)

so
  messed up and mixed
the blood that God (so you
tell me)
wants
   to keep apart
        churned together so thick

and who can
demarcate, who can divide

madness from reason, demonic
from divine
     Heaven from Hell?

and you don’t
   have to read up on rapture
to know we are
in Hell

except that place is pure evil,
unmitigated by
                this stupidity
                              that we
see all around us, bombarding us
from all screens

definitve of humanity (no not
science
    or philosophy)

and there are
        chasing the white rabbit
wondering why

no sign of Oz

just bad stand up politicians
so horrible at comedy

should say

              truly terrible
and leave it at that

O for black hole
(this Universe not going well)