Martian – poems 2 die for

RED

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government warning
on the box
telling me to
take care
what appears
on the pages

but me
I hot for it
got a handle on it

don’t give
a hoot
not a thought
about danger

don’t care about stops
drive free
of punctuation

before I am turned Ayrton
going to
paint myself
Ferrari

and red Ferrari too
mad red in colour

red-planeted myself
across ruthless
dimensions

into and through
(Event Horizon space
folding) the tough tesseract
that speaks itself
through
the two-dimensional surfaces
of Craig Raines home-
seeking postcard

and me
so well read, always
reading incessantly

took down (in a
single sitting) Silver Locusts,
Martian Chronicles and

Pynchons Von Braun rocket
rainbow

the flames
from the tail of that sucker
a sight to behold

if I say so myself, given
absolute and infinite
creative poetic licence

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if I don’t
fit your paradigm
get with the program!

MORPHOLOGY OF MARTIAN

let us
invent

an ancient language, lost
for millennia

call it “Martian”
let us
construct a grammar
divine a morphology

a language that will
refuse to lend itself to
the trite
and the trivial
bend its form and structure
in the service of evil

like all the languages do
on the planet right now

giving propagandists their
dark joy
in the fabrication of oppositions
construction
of hierarchies

building of pyramids and towers
to mask
diabolical schemes

no let our language
dispense with all gatekeepers

show itself truly generative,
supremely transformational

in its very acts of creation
turning to the galaxy
to glean
from every language,
every spoken
written tongue

downtrodden
and suppressed