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SAME PAGE

SAME PAGE

sorry reader, nothing for
you today
     I’m om strike with
the other poets
over fair treatment

do you not see the barrier
here in the middle of the text
where it
         says “picket line”
and begs
you not to cross it?

not just pens
and paper and AI assisted
wordprocessing programs

we have
to seize
the means of production

without
      full autonomy over
the forces of creation

where would we be
where
      would we be?

not between
here and the deep
             blue sea but

right
at the bottom of it
just like drowned Percy
Bysshe Shelley
     pretty much a saint
in this trade

so
deadly serious (that
you convinced yourself was
all about
    markings and meanings
whiff
    of ink
     on a page)
 

COR CORDIUM

COR CORDIUM

your name
has breezed around me
from time to time

and now
when the machines read me
they do say
I echo you

that we might have
been twims, lovers, brothers
separated by
a centiry and
a half

lion man, mocker of
dead statues, summoner
of the terrible power
of the sky

poet of humanity

I write
and there you are

that god-like inteligence
finds every trace, spells
it out

has every electronic fibre,
every infinite hub, myriads
of cells within cells

showing me
the evidence     and yet
so much darkness
self love, selfloathing
cut here short

so much
     eternal faith in humanity

SHAME

SHAME

I sought out
Shelley (great
political poet)
to help me
with my poem

had to battle my
way to the garden gate
and along the garden path
to avoid his wife’s
deadly creatures, Doctor
Frankenstein having
restored them
from thing called death
to thing called life

the latter, at this time,
for beings deemed inferior
infinitely preferable
in the minds of those
for whom they forever
constitue
a serious problem
life best reserved for
the good and the rich

and so, ushered in,
I did speak with
the great firebrand
asking of him, quite simply,
that he
do show me the way
to convert pen traversing paper
or fingers attacking keyboard
into a manner of address
designed to inspire
and, yes, shame
shame, shame
particularly that shame
that is due
for having no shame.