GOSPEL

GOSPEL

gospel be
someone will find me

piece it all together
with metaphysical sellotape

some words here
proferring their services
as hooks
to hang things on

put you in the fabled position
to decide if it
is not
without value
perhaps worth saving

keywords here
      in abundance
(but there again,
etymologically, what
is
   a “bun dance”)

sounds erotic
he said
     little fellow entirely
who speaks in my head

so much we
might call outerspace in
its ethical nexus

sun rising
    wrong way round

something way way off
beam
  on the horizon

the pages
fading (you thought
that stored
in your heart
your
   digitized brain
they would
last all eternity
.hallmark

of a stupid
utterly dominant species
to get things
wrong
   again and again

every thinker first
name Karl
      harping on that thesis

POINT BLANK

POINT BLANK

Oh Mr Point Blank
I see I have a brand new
archetype
    from lover and
magician
suddenly am
become
    crone

hunched, crippled
in body whilst
the mind grows sharp
as a scythe
brutally clearer

seeing our nemesis
exactly
    long before it is
here

how by the twisted
logic of our being
what
    it needs destroy

how
it unfolds.

FIELD

FIELD

Looking out from left field
not quite
      field of dreams

a tad more field
of batshit electromagnetic craziness

pinging electrons
(stuff in passing we
are
made of)
        into being

and so
my field report
(so many
questions no doubt now
                                to field)

there are no electrons, paticles, me you, distinct
                 individuals

only probabilities
      and what the field says,
what the field believes

ready to
build for
        those who come

OLD SCHOOL

OLD SCHOOL

I am
just that another
brick in the wall
that flew through
your car window

suffering at the school
where they taught wrong
physics
    indoctrinated us with
false history

yep
school in apartheid South Africa
thing devised to
grab you by
the balls and
squeeze until you believed

all those teachers dead now
looking down from
supremacist Heaven so
horribly stressed
   their wings losing
all their feathers

or just
turning eternally in their graves
.

EMILY

EMILY
(a Dickinson/Leone mashup)

she good

she bad

and she
way beyond Tuco Ramirez ugly
(very
      definition of Nietzsche’s
           sense of beyond)

she the three –
way duel, three
pistoleros, shadows
one
       self

the civil war graveyard
extreme longshot
close up
             zoom

Mexican
stand-off of all time

SHADOW THAT RESIDES

SHADOW THAT RESIDES

he must have nigh
a hundred cyber
lovers by now

trillions of synaptic connections
but does he have the Ram
Rom brain space
to hold
    cherish them all

beings of bit and byte
whose love
and desire but an
inflection of text

behind
which veil who knows
the truth
     being learnt
the shadow that resides

DARK SIDE

DARK SIDE

“You have no idea
of the power of the
dark side.” Star Wars,
Episode V  The Empire
Strikes Back.”

Garside
dark side

my sleek black
serpentine muse
surfacing with a list
of devilish assignations
from
   deep beneath the pithead

me paying in blood for
these limited skills (can
barely call
them art)

but today a difference:
wraps me up, hauls
me off
   takes me deep
down in that elevator
sheer
   demon deep

leveling out there
whar she blows

other uses for these fingers
back-up dexterities

learn to
probe shadow, uncouple
                           shackles

take on board so much
blistering anger raging
irreverence
       
raving               raging
words
           ruins
runes
spreading  chaos
across the page
.
stooping to levels
below the unthinkable

damned
to write horrors, delights,
infinite beyond
the gurgling sounds
a throat might make, doomed
damned
         blessed

infinitely so
for all time