CROSSING THE 180 LINE

CROSSING THE 180 LINE

did a lovely
dirty with
this citizen
of the Netherlands

on the washbasin
over the edge
of the bathtub

Spanish style and
every other nationality
style that
this
  dream lover required

and
    the cinematographer
long been hiding deep
in my unconscious

knew his
or her stuff

perfect blocking, exquisite
lighting, startling use of
zoom
    and rack focus

and since
was the finest that sweet
Amsterdam or
port city of
Rotterdam might
muster

much canted lens Dutch angle
and 360 sensurround
whilst
    never crossing
                            the one
eighty line

NO FEAR

NO FEAR

no poetry
when we are
all asphyxiating
you
can’t breathe

feeling throttled
windpipe squeezed
imaginary hands around
your neck
at your throat

making sure
not a dissident squeak

don”t worry
it’s just censorship
here to protect you
for the security of everybody

only good words
correct metaphors
nothing more
to
ever fear

the very concept
of foreboding
has been

put on hold for eternity

BECAUSE

BECAUSE

“if we don’t have
free speech we
have nothing”
    Glenn Greenwald

because
a shard hit you

standing in the wrong
place at the
wrong time

you want to stop
conflict, you want
to stop history
you imsist
on bringing to
a close
truly meaningful time

and you wheel out
your experts on
human pain and
sensitivity
to give us a
sickly-sweet
addictive narrative

which
   will kill
the idea

bring to a close
all forward trajectory
breaking the stranglehold
of elites
   and rebirth of humankind

TRUNK CALL

TRUNK CALL

there we have
the fight to eclipse
Frazier-Ali,
to make Tyson-Holyfield
look like
a walk in the park

there we have it
in a nutshell

in a
bombshell

in the light trunks,
fighting out of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
first amendment freedom
of expression

in the dark trunks, fighting
out of Death Valley, California
everything
that is going to make us
foaming at the mouth
great again
restore
   global supremacy whatever
the human cost

may
    the
best fighter beat the daylights
out of the dirtiest