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Got Abstract ?
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Better get abstract
start to see this feckless world
eviscerated …. as is…..
strictly in phallic images that
stand erect in the face of
human nature being ejaculated
to cum like acyclic paint left
under a heat lamp
of stubborn ignorance.
Better get abstract
Yeats knew it
as WW 1
the war to end all wars
was merely a mechanical
dress rehearsal to Beckett’s
End Game 30 seconds
over August Hiroshima
Enola Gay
was somebody’s Mom
after all.
Better get abstract
for the days
looming ahead.
Cain will
slew Able
again as
the cradle of civilization
blows away
in nuclear
ash
and our Rubber Eden
the new Jerusalem
of comfort and ease
mendacity and greed
genuflects out of need.
Better get Abstract
You walking
You talking
Al Camus
Canvas
You.
Gone Pollock
splattered.
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Better Get Abstract
Uncollected 2/2012
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Your Jar of Corks
…..is missing this lid
absent in the burning bridges
run out of rope
in the hangman’s shrug
the coarse fibers rub.
After the trial
after the Kangaroo court
is in recess
will the foreman please
read the verdict ?
Your honor
sir
we find
we are now
a hung jury
but clearly ready
to do our duty.
So let him dangle
till there is this
snap of the neck
of all his memories.
Suspend him upside
down in the town square
afterwards by his
Mussolini heels
and allow all the
sallow amusement in
the jeers and squeals.
and there will not
being any containment
further to consider
other then your
hand left snugly stuck
in a glass mouth
sealing it all off
reaching
for the corks at the bottom.
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Uncollected 2/2012
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Can I ask a Small Favor ?
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Desire
will sow
the seeds
of regret
into every
thoughtless
reckless impulse
one succumbs to.
Locked down emotions
escape and will
eventually lead
to the inevitable quarantine
of a past love
like some toxic entity
you picked up
on the door handle
of a rest room door.
And washing your hands
of it now
Will not help
You can ask
Lady Macbeth
about that
or perhaps even
Pontius Pilate
and while we are
in the neighborhood
let’s just ask for
a small favor….
the truth
and the consequences
just this once
without justification
or contrived filter
unlike the severed head of
St. John the Baptist
that Salome ask for
In exchange for doing
the dance of the Seven Veils
for her lecherous
step-father
Leaving even Herod
left scratching
his head over that one.
I recall him asking her
incredulously….
But what would….. you do with such a thing ?
Salome smirked
shrugged…
I want him…..to ask for it back.
So in the end
much like a decapitated prophet
the truth will be known
and all the guests
of brutality
at her most
grotesquely best
are unanimous
in denial
about all this.
Desire
will sow
the seeds
of regret
into every
thoughtless
reckless impulse
one succumbs to.
Uncollected 2/2012
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