ONCE AS A CHILD AND LONG AGO
Once as a child and long ago
I was in love
with the idea of junk
with Peter Pan and Cheerios
and the sacred high of the great TV
and blue songs
which Bob Dylan sang
…the morning! Mr tambourine
…to be lost
beyond such hollowness
and cold
in places wet with smoke
in tropic places sweated clean
like Juarez is in Mexico
…a daydream this…a day dream that
…the closet where you pet the cat
and the sixties first announce themselves
…that decade of the childish elves
and winter settle with its snows
and evening settles with its joke
and we are dwarfed
and we are small
with little reason for it all
…our coffee cigarettes and tea!
…our opium in a bubbling vat!
…our caldron like the deep blue sea
….the wine we taste while we must die
once as a child and long ago
like a cold tear in my mother’s eye.
ONE SMALL THING AMONG MANY
Even a hundred years of history
shows the dramatic rot of the soul’s metallic layers
…thick rust for the nails in the railroad ties
that serve as steps
to a house settled in the thirties
and slowly built upon
with sunroom on the side
and a slew of landscape windows.
The Haymont though is built from over a century
as a suburb of the down town
where the railroads meet to transport passengers and tobacco,
soldiers, slaves, and what like
as far south as the highways reach these days
or more likely
to some northeastern harbor.
To decorate this beastly drive
into soulless modern oblivion
one needs impressionist classical music
piped in free from an online station
….the explosive jazz of Gershwin
or Debussy’s slow musical landscapes.
THE POET HIMSELF
In late life
a booze-oh born mid-twentieth century
….and awhile beyond
the new century’s turn
has learned to swim
in the dizziness
of anti psychotic pills
late at night
where computer light
flickers
the way candles might burn
and music fills such a burning sight
and paintings glow
from a labor of love
on the walls where they show
a meaning like blood
on some beach
like snow…!
HOLY PORCUPINES
The sound of the ego’s sin!
chattering rain
on a mound of tin
outside
of the mortal sleep within.
The voices tell me that sleep is evil
…the sharp pain equates
with the orgasm which elevates.
Such is this new religion of ours
blooming black in Spring
like mushroom-flowers.
THOSE WHO LOVE THE ARTIST
Rachel is an epoch soul!,
a hero of the heart
in places where the muse has gone
…those places that I choose to go
or gazing on her art
ablaze with summers won
….for summer has the truest song
and Rachel’s heart is always young
…I worship it in wintry ways
and listen so such journeys done
with longing dense with fire and prayer
as only comes from wintry days
which love that warm internal nude of summer
on which those who love the artist
choose to gaze!
WHAT COMMUNICATION MEANS
He liked
being dead
and quiet
like all rhythms untouched in their grace
…found a work of art,
a poem, and song, a dream
more of a blessing
and more of a mule
to haul the cart of life
than what the God head and its power inspired
…along with killers
and the punks turned out
in any filthy prison
which makes the same sense of sex and money.
Bigger than an orgasm!, these easy days
of art and meals
devouring heart for heart
nature and the raw hips of a woman
in the lazy slow burn of any artist page
learning and forming
the essence of the age.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES ON EVERY STREET
A mild summer
amid the floods and melting glaciers
of our current age.
where the seas shall rise
and overcome us
inch by inch along the shore
…money is the means!,
of such a wondrous suicide
succumb to baking sun
or the deep brown oven of the air.
I am the dog of your heaven
…the hound of all of your spacious skies.
It is enough to say that I lived and died
beyond the modern curse of global war
and into the disease of corporate religion
…this poisoned dove! this sickly pigeon
sent along the Internet
…its planetary wings and wires.
Oh pornographic terrorist!
Oh Jesus and Mohamed
of a million floods and fires.
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