TERRITORY
it puts us
in bizarre territory
the death throes
of a theocracy
when it calls upon
the angels
to save from
economic disaster
military
defeat
when they themselves
have the god button
and think
of humanity
as just
so much meat
TERRITORY
it puts us
in bizarre territory
the death throes
of a theocracy
when it calls upon
the angels
to save from
economic disaster
military
defeat
when they themselves
have the god button
and think
of humanity
as just
so much meat
DID NOT
I did not expect
the darkness
to have
such surveillance
I did not think
it capable
of flying in
at supersonic speeds
I did not think it would
smudge, alter,
shift and change
words
in the language
pull a veil
of incomprehension
over everything
we see.
FLIES
the Talmud says
the saving of a life
is the saving.
of a world, of
a universe
entire
I would not
go so fat
but
somehow, suddenly
the stars in the firmament
are going out
one by one
the stars
in our flags
dying like flies
INTERRUPTION
sorry for
interrupting you
for busting
your face open
and de-commodifying
yout soul
for taking
the gloves off
without
forewarning
the pain you
must feel here
must be
bare-
knuckled
how else to
instruct you
in the squalid
horror of the real
STING
I am
an insect
that stings
poised to stick
my stinger
in your finger
the instant
your finger
depresses
the button
adding my tiny
packet of venom
to your gross,
overwhelming
toxicity
on camera
you look so
good and clean
and morally
true
the cataclysmic,
apocalyptic
legions of
demons
photoshopped
the Hell out of you.
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JUST IN CASE
waiting for them
to arrive
some anxiety
no small trepidation
outriders
an advance guard
what are they
going to do with us?
the media
is making every effort
to reassure us
serious journalists
have ridiculed our fears
have downplayed
the comments made by
these forces
who swear by
all that is holy
they are
coming in peace
just bringing bombs
and bullets
tanks and rockets
just, as they say,
“in case”
MANDOLIN
felt mandolin
was indeed the best
instrument
to express
your nature,
capture your essence
but then
in hindsight
thrown by what
had transpired
came
to believe
the morning after
that all I had witnessed
riotously ensured
was best
translated via a Les Paul
Custom or
Stratocaster
will full array
of pedals and boxes
fuzz and wah-wah
COURT
wanted to
touch you
but you
always so edgy
feat
your body
too litigious
feel there
will be consequences extreme
and so
this poem I
did write
it
under
advisement
to plead my case
in your
high court
JUMBLED
my mind
gets jumbled
when I think
of you
discombobulated
through and through
I try to stretch my
words out
to maximum
meaning
words of little consequence
that do not
stretch the imagination
are of
little
pleasing