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PROUDLY

PROUDLY

proudly
exactly at the moment
when angels fell

he
stood up

  on his hind legs

put away
monkey business, childish
                              things
dropped
   his prehensile tale

at which,
   clock started ticking
for all obedience points
accrued
    for infraction
points dropped

strewed the veld
with the detritus of
every hunter-
gatherer

         later agricultural event

leaving bones to
be picked
                  by such as
Dawkins and Harari

bounding across new landscapes
from horizon
        to horizon

virus
of conquest
so much space to acquire

DUE PROCESS

DUE PROCESS

give the Devil
his due

saw him hauled into
court for
every human rights
violation in
the book

mainly because
he wrote the book
(proudly proclaiming
we are
    still
   only half through it)

been up to his crimes
against us
    since the beginning
of time

which i am here
to spin as
  errors of omission, simple
misdemeanors

with this battery of lawyers
up against us
how on Earth could
guilt be proved
beyond
reasonable, terrible,
existential doubt

and with jury
of peers from
    the ranks and files of
humanity
carefully conscripted

and that Jagger-
Richards song fatally ringing
in all
    our ears

a convinction on
even the slightest and
most trivial and
totally indefensible
political offence
amongst all
of which he
stands accused of
commiting since
the dawn
of time itself

impoosible to get
the court
sure

to reject
   upon which, as I open
my case for the defence,

would
   bet my life and
immortal soul itself

so give the Devil his due
his day
    in court and

trust the process

INCIDENTAL

INCIDENTAL

farm told me
(all the leaves, plants, creatures)
we not
integral
we incidental

not the place to
which all road
and rail leads
like we eternal
station central

no
here where green
proclaims its domain,
its power so
insistent

may flash
a hint, a glimpse,
of that
we forsook, place
we abandoned,
upped
and right out left

a paradise, albeit the odd
viper eyeing me out there,
studded with
the occasional ambush predators

GALLERY

GALLERY

I paged through my AI art
gallery
whilst you were busy
working at your craft

reports flooding in
of genocide and
impending nuclear confrontation
not enough to detract
you from your task
of penning the perfect couplet
and then perhaps, who knows?,
sky’s the limit
a further lifetime might well
need to be devoted
to the first draft of
what holds so much promise
of one day becoming
a most exquisite haiku

shining like a jewel, a gemstone,
amidst all the rubble
and detritus
of what we once were
a beacon of light
to draw us together throughout
the years of hard nuclear winter

perhaps
    tattooed on skin and
thereby passed down
through the meagre generations
of survivors
  more effective as message
that painting
sculpture
could ever be

which very idea I put to
my AI artist
     in a flash of
miraculous intelligence
bound
   to come up with something
a little off-putting since
still somewhat aliem

yet wondous nevertheless,
worthy of its place
in my gallery
    never
    to be seen again.

LIVESTREAM

LIVESTREAM

I was
a walking stream
of consciousness

a stream of consciousness
walking with a cobra-headed
hard red-wood stick

treating myself to
a slow circumnavigation
of the heart of the farm

on YouTube meanwhile
much screaming & pontificating
about red lines being crossed
and slippery slope
to no tomorrow

tactical nukes even
as we speak ready for
testing
   being wheeled into position

men in their Strangelove
think tanks think
it’s just
  a game of brinkmanship
serious
high-stakes bluffing

and me in my Cassandra moment
thinking about the pressing
of that button
to remove the surprise
from smugness in person

it’s wonderful, what
it can do, what platform
it affords for
all career launching

a prestigious degree wreathed
in ivy league ivy

how in such hands, how
safer than safe their
algorithm would
wish us to feel.