philosophy – poems 2 die for

IN THE BOX

there was nothing in
the box

no cat about
to wavefront collapse
lap dissolve

no Pandora
still in there upon
whom
we are all about
to pin our last hopes

truth be told
there never was a box
is no box
no such
thing
as box

(except as thing
you need to think outside of
think
your way out of)

nice to play
that
we are real, think
we are
real

there is a world of boxes
and stuff to put in them
structure, architecture,
form

to do this
stick this somewhere
pen it on
the page
send it across
the airwaves

world
starting to look
considerably less secure

yet, still a foundation of sorts
provided,
things that presuppose
boxes are real

WHOLLY FORGET

optical illusion

delusion
allusion

noise in every act of communication
guitar feedback
reaching
crescendo

and now you tell me
I am twisted like a Mobius
pretzel

me is that strain of
consciousness
that gets
filtered out

so many roles just
one actor

best in concentrating
of this taxing script

the other roles be
the ones to wholly forget

FLESH OF THE FAITH

some buffoon
they call and
who calls
himself
a philosopher
slipping between
jokes
and profundity
fires away

name of the game
dance
    of truth, not
so easy to work out
the steps
   world and self what
they want to say
for themselves
despite themselves
so damn intricate
so hard to
    pin down when
in this labyrinth every
level brings
fresh layer
of deception

and why
must he always
touch
his nose?

is that some
kind of tic, sign of
secret brotherhood or
silent spiritual homage
to H and L and
M his
forebears and yes,
masters

meanwhile I am continuing
this badly scripted
life story
my tale of desire
full of
twists and turns but
no story to speak
of itself

an iron wall
dystopian stuff with
digital chip on
the shoulder, chip
in the brain patriarchal
body guards
stretching between my
heart and its object
wherever that
object, whenever it
should
come into being

that the motor, engine of
everything should
be loss
and distance, incompleteness
and sadness

great for Slovenian
thinker, South African poet,
though
    getting it down in all
its harrowing
complexity
      could be an industry
might
not
    keep your warm at night
(flesh
    of the faith to
deeply
    hold on to) may
not even pay the rent at all

VACUUM CLEANER

there’s Plato

and here’s
a vacuum cleaner

helps you keep
the cave clean
get rid of all
those transcendental
appearances
some
great film director
must
have left
lying around

and here I am
dusting and sweeping
giving the place
a thorough
Spring cleaning

cleaners are always welcome
in every utopia
       just have to lie
about their
poetry
    cannot be afford to
get caught
with a scrap
    about their person

the Republic of Philosophy
has clear ideas
on the nature of text
and how
to determine
what it means

OXIDE

angles
are collisions

bespeak incidence
and refraction

can see this
check.it out
from the running time
of the Universe
and

all those iron-oxide
socialist red planets

elephant
in the room

no room
for the elephant

enough
room
in the elephant

space
to cover every surreal
contingency
short of nightmare

space to burble, jumble up
words bounce balls
and spheres and
jagged
pieces of
interstellar debris

around and
around and around

SUNSET

ONE ACT PLAY

THAT SLAVOJ

MUG AND BEING

five types
of bread

seven kinds
of beans

a bean smorgasboard on
a tiny toast

tell me Juliet
you are the expert
on the names
of things

could this bland name
cover
such a
stupendous thing?

or are we now forced
to jack up
our language
as common parlance
turns
cordon bleau, basic
foodstuffs
forget
their station in life
invert such an
ancestry to
plead
their case for
being haut cuisine?

once upon
a time
coffee was
just coffee

being
before essence
bean before
steam

and so much de Beauvoir
Sartre cafe existentialism
beat
poetry: Corso, Ferlinghetti
hinged upon it

but now
you need a handbook of
coffee phrase
and idiom, a coffee lexicon,
a coffee thesaurus

not just
spolit for choice but
thrown into
infinite quandary

whilst
business is buzzing
deals are
going down

brains going whole full
minutes without
delectable roast
flavour
indispensible caffeine
(unless caffeine
free because
trendy to be so special
stylish or
in caffeine
cold turkey)

to drink to take to eat
to go

dolce dolce rapido
latte expresso

sweetie
dear

would you like a house cup
cup of
house brand with

sublime piece oc toast
(actual piece of art)
and
the being of your beans?

Need your answer now
before
beford you very eyes

I percolate
become pure dream

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