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STOP MOTION POEM

this is my
stop motion
animation poem

took thousands of shots
of the poem as it
unfolded in
the process
of writing it

stuck them all together
advancing them
frame
by frame

see how, magical it appears
ss if, before your very eyes,
the poem
is writing itself

cartoon mechanism revealing
serious
metaphysical meaning,
emotional truth

---

AMONGST THE EXPENDABLE

it is the small
swuidgy, rather
pathetic sins
of the poor

that outrage the gods,
elicit their contempt and fury

lead to punishment inflicted
consonant with all
you believe
in your dark theology

of a divine law supremely
vacuous in
its viciousness

not to be compared, or
mentioned in the same breath
of the immaculate sins
of great
heroes and leaders

the Greeks at Troy the.
patricians of Rome
the political elite utterly
at home
on Epstein island

whose infractions, at
first glance horrendous
are things
viewed from high
Olympus

divinity adores
confirming their trust
in these best
kinds of people

in no sense expendable
as with the lowest of the low

---

THE PAINT

the paint wore off
and with it a sense
of vibrant
ordinariness

and with it,
of course, the graffiti

spelling out the rich and
quite vicious
concerns of and life

in Rome

and where
the disjunctions arise
where voices
have their say, not
buying
into the myths entirely

see here, in this corner,
in the coarsest Latin imaginable
an up to date dossier
on the most
recent excapades clandestine
and extramarital

of none other than
the great
Julius Caesar himself?

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IMPETATOR

and this is
the plain God’s truth
as to where
you
are now

what your history has
done to
change you
from what
you were

ending the democracy
for which
you were never
really, actuallt suited

gave
you your Imperator
so useless and stupid but
what you
were ready to
die for

finger on the button
about to
annihilate
humanity

that scum of
the Earth, beings
far less
exceptional
than you