HARDON

HARDON

got a hardon
hardon
of power
(because)

can bomb
anybody
am free
at
to bomb
everyone

can rewrite
your history, burn
your first draft

dig
down
suck
out

make a ton
of boodle
from these rich
resources

which you
have no
right
to have
who said
you could have?

so weak and meek
and painfully pathetic

how are
you going to stop me?

if I take
what I want
what
the law
says
is mine

my sacred, inviolable
legal right
enshrined in righteous
universal law

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

snake eyes
double slit experiment

tell me if
it is your inclination
to elect to
become a
particle

or go
with the flow, stay
open-ended
undecidable

the physics
here so bat-shit crazy
yet irrefutable
undeniable

and so
I find myself
not remembering myself
for how like Columbus
I sailed across, or
like Aphrodite
surfed
across

those one way ticket
dark waters

thinking of the choreography
underpinning the dance
of probabilities
can give me this blood
red
with iron
from the heart of a star

and every breath
a different life
a whole new universe

for your information
so many branching out
even as
we think, talk about them

co-conspirators, co-creators
of this
inconsequential thing (not
just) but
everything we are

snake eyes
twin slit experiment
something out there
dabbling in
uncertainty
taking our
precise measurements
entangled as we now most
assuredly are

IMMANENCE

IMMANENCE

oh the beauty of that innocence
pure cerulean of celestial sky

no alphabet
      before algebra

so no sense and therefore
no fear of darkness, aberration,
abyss, shadow

the code
       so clear, the space so
safe
no need to think ourselves
into the algorithms
of sanctity
and protection

and yet
     how might abundance
love
   define themselves
in the absence
of other,
     without antithesis?

the sky so pure
in its blue
turning
   tourmaline

the creatures mute
to our
    failing, our
destined misstep

drowning in an endless,
forever
           emergent wisdom
we can never
now unlearn

RODEO STYLE

RODEO STYLE

who would have
thought it
from heirs
to the Enlightenment

to rogue state Goodfellas
war of the jungle?
no shit
    end of sovereignty
congress, senate,
the administration

just
took a dump
on Thomas Hobbes

no good
just tearing up
the social
contract
need to stab it serial
killer with
an ice pick

need to go
chainsaw leatherface
to run
away with
that barbacue

fire
   on Fort Sumter
after Fort Sumter

robber baron
the world Texas
rodeo style

LEGEND

LEGEND

if this were
a raw oyster

raw
meaning alive

how would you
plot to eat it
(that wickedly satirical
Dublin Dean
did
   commend the bravery
of he who
first ate one)

suppose
it an octopus
(but not
the bright blue variety)
what tactics
of attack
    strategy to render it
a culinary masterpiece

but what
if some tentacle which
shared
   its misfortune
by getting
stuck in your tract?

revenge masterstroke
gourmet karma

unless by
the trinity, shoot
back from the dead
in Mary Shelley moment

St Frankenstein
of Assisi, lately native
of Haight-Ashbury

lover transcendental
of every genus of animal

under whose jurisdiction
what could be
       beyond consideration

receptacle of life
         before cuisine Holy Grail?

(MY) MORNING APHRODITE

(MY) MORNING APHRODITE

every morning
my morning Aphrodite

does her
thing
invades my island
surfs through the coral
finds
her way
to my shore

and there
star-like of a sudden
big bang explosive

colonizes my senses
imprints her mythology

and what a raw nascita
it is brings
her to
this narrow, desert place

yet at
night
disappears

before
a word shared, touch
preferred, revelation
of beauty

but then
the near perfect
probability

that with
dawn she
will return, again
find
her way here

so
best pity
the cosmos
which lesser
by far
set
to parallel this one

darkest place imaginable
darkest
space deep
inside me

where she never
dare come, must
never appear

K2 V2

K2 V2

sounds
like a breakfast
cereal but

that
a fatal mistake
much suffered
in the making

and me
soaring to the summit
on the blithe
stupidity
of imagination

find myself
reading that confounding
gravity book
about missiles, and rockets
corporate death cults
and
gross turn
ot technology

needing the insanity
of language
to V2 make
its point clear

Oh there we go
something launched
between the lines
dear Thomas
from the edge of this page

solitary single page yet
just one of some
plus seven hundred

the view
so awful
from up here on a great border
where one
might trace
the edge of the world

sink
deep into summit snow
get a handle
on its ending

PLACE

PLACE

in my mind
and my heart

bouncing between them
perfect poem for you

but these words slippery
customers
         ducking and
diving

going off at tangents
(threatening to)

but you
with all that
gorgeous gracious gravitas
having coralled
and controlled
them

sliding them
up down
sideways and crosswise
into
     place

DRONE ON

DRONE ON

drone on
drone on

meanwhile something
is screaming
from
Orwell’s grave

buzz buzz
something is
writhing
on Airstrip One
six feet under

terrible the agony
of a realized prediction
the text
      meant as satire become
seer’s prediction

the text on this headstone
rewiring itself, mutating,
changing fast
as share prices

what was once
envisaged and
received
as far-
fetched dysopia
now
    in clear
death spiral, cavorting
with extinction

the demise of the rationality
to see and believe

and you
with your
      unique way
with words

insisting this is the way
sole species solution

to grasp that power
we gave to the heavens
we
   ascribed to the cosmos

to rebuild everything in
singular
   one
supreme image

droning on
droning on
         (what left of
your intelligence
at best artificial)

inside
and ouside (both)

something is screaming
from George Orwell’s grave