world
Buddhas of compassion everywhere
Please release us from your spider’s cradle
Peaseblossom, Mustardseed O pray appear
Deciders: return to your neutralized stations in the shadow world
Your language stops revealing anything,
instead revealing the nothingness of all things
Can we dream our own melancholia for what is irretrievable?
The Deciders think the troubadours were a problem
Erasure, a suicide pact
Magic doubles deceive you
The stuff of your sex and the projection of mind…
This is normal and sinuous
They are taking you apart in the time/space machine
Reading one upon another in fulmination of other lives
Don’t go crazy, Original Anne
Let’s go excavate some poetry
on papyrus in cuneiform magnetic tape
solid-state memory
save on the cloud
faced by an electronic pentameter
“
claw out some poetry eyes?
”
save on a cloud
switching code in the runnels
circling a moat devised as a first-front defense aporia keep moving, keep dancing
mountain shifts
ice crystals form on her duplicated mouth
a forked path on forehead
more streaks on screen bank
which way to caress a broken brow
familiar as your deadly Belle Dame sans Merci
reels of orality
chalk, obligatory calcium
in marrow of women who wrote in ancient diaries
bemoan their Heian imprisonment
shape of crying like a mourner
you could establish in humility this pose
“shape of a mourner”
who are we kidding?
when Deciders cheer inside
break sound they said
manipulate pitch
vocal cords
phonation’s
a discourse
for the impostors
what is language?
“
We use it, don’t we?
in our copious memos, in our ‘releases,’ in our
power documents
in our homilies to the world
cliché quotations on
life
suffering
the passage of time
on Patriotism
on the need for downsizing
on ‘tighten your seat belts’
on finding the childlike naive spirit of servitude within the workplace
don’t look now while you are looking away we will replace you
with our own poetry, our mission statements of despair
”
This is a template application for the Deciders
images of rows of normative coffee mugs
as if we are having a pleasant chat over
a freshly brewed cup of virtual coffee
Hardest problem in science
is the origin of language
“
we bend science
,” they say
prelinguistic system among primates
our early human capacity for song
level of public trust
to sing your song
bend or break it
in ritual/speech evolution
100,000 years ago to
Homo ergaster,
the first human to vocalize
“
can we find her and bend her over?
”
“
vocal grooming, could be low-cost
”
“
is she vocalizing? is that all she does?
”
language not separate adaptation but an internal aspect of
something much wider
human symbolic culture
without it you die
low-level marketing and publicity Decider has the bright idea of how to encapsulate his vision of “poetry making”
“
Aha,
” he thinks, “
a lone rocking chair at the edge of an ocean, then you can make what you will of this desolate nihilism: will she submit?
”
phonemes produced on the outsides of our body
shed skins to be nameless
decided the pipeline that will change the cartography of living things
deciding the Grand Canyon
hundreds of water bodies threatened
endangered habitat of whooping cranes
pallid sturgeons
decide the future of American burying beetles
decide assault weaponry, blood on hands
decided the model of air, water
of earth
of fire
in
empire
offer a truced tribunal, tear down the wall or they shake within your cacophony the end of wilderness
memo: we need a commission for the scrutiny tribunal
Deciders of all accounts
took the stratus off a poet-face (stratus = layer)
kept her in a cage
cumulus more of heap like severance pay
cirrus = mere curl of a hair resembles coil of sound
double bind
decided our debt to one another
was it not
humanitas
&
caritas
?
none of that, they