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e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n
G i n s b e r g
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a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n
JIM COHN
Notes To A Young P-borg
1.
What
is the poem of the future? Soon, maybe already, it will be a driverless vehicle
navigating the cosmos, keeping universes safe for—What else?—poetry.
Poebotics may still in its infancy, but pioneers are already lining up. In its
prototype stage, the Poebot II, called The Originator, rolled over during an
early practice run, destroying much of its vision system. Nevertheless, the
vehicle was extensively rebuilt and successfully completed the course during
the second day of qualifications. Navigating a paranoid and seriously
neurosis-ridden path laid out on the infield of the Mind Speedway, several poebotics
experts said they expected only a handful of vehicles to qualify for the finals
and that they would be surprised if anybody actually won this first effort to
create a poebotic vehicle capable of maneuvering through the material
battlefield environment on its own. The race is intended to help autonomous
print vehicle navigation technologies aimed at meeting a congressional mandate
to extensively deploy poebotic systems by 2035. Many entrants have attempted to
complete the course, which extends twelve million eons through the void. Some
even have major corporate sponsors. Most couldn't land a publishing contract to
save their lives. Watching it all from the bleachers, I think to myself how
grieved, not dead, and yet to die & yet again to not; releasing gallows
& altars—isn't this also a kind of love.
2.
Imaginal
yogis, living in a rapidly mutating, crisis-ridden cyberia, you have this music
this flower this masterpiece theater of concentrated egoless outage of
continents' loathsome forces almost equally detestable if not internal fiascos
meant to express the passing of gods speaking in beautiful networks
unencumbered by the great dim nonchalance of groundlessness moving across interenlightenment
mediums. Intuitively the poetry sangha publishing as service you are a part of
the initiation eternity trembling identity known. All phases the trail of
visions recording these things one perceived. A totality natural engaged in
cohesive chaos exploding fatherless symmetries self-publishing state of nations
having something to say unwanted necessity. Didn't & not disappointed
people say & anything can and there are those and they no more or less fame
& legend mill doom export factory furnace collectively whomever responding
to everything. Like trying to put out the fires of hell it parts it your
destiny whatever the allegations little did people know how much how fast
things regardless and something has happened a tremendous change of integrity
ghosts chastising the living for not being to be a poet.
3.
Which needs more than any other art
some disturbance some disruption huge changes going on invisibly. Cracking
trees snow apple blossoms acting irregularly. Dr. Child the perfect companion
for the young barbarian university some personal loathing vanished taking
aerial photographs the balance of study. How fragile the American accident the
song of the troops the beautiful latrine pale exhausted high and musical
several members were in tears an effort to get aid there anyway the Presidential
Daily Briefing because we how no one had seen it all around them always engaged
failed. Strange wouldn't have it the transmission of inequality things that
haunt you never popular to start with they decided marines wearing pajama
blossoms the mosque as a military base if we do this wrong the entire United
States Army and The Girl Scouts metal teeth were begun. Celestial uninterrupted
orienteering cinema radio magic yellow donut light shop apart
from Dante Ninth Street meter take control of your own imagination.
4.
Down at the union hall mind's fine
careless rapture essence of gospel blood there is no victory in the sacred
heart. Miners reported missing a million passenger itineraries sudden oak death
Villon crack baby nuns canting irascible edicts that bit of the monster
religious war demonology official opinion impeccably shattered. Unpredictable
word pilgrims at rosewater checkpoints make sure the actual language evidence
is public their works exist almost in secret. The sewer system the electricity
grid knowing the classics to prevent imitating false classic law enforcement
czar contagion a small bag of hate mail trusting the computation of field agent
busy signal cannonball solid state memory ships under the bridge of incarnate
qualitative measure no more writing on anything. Here for the unusual person in
a dream you are murdered by candied delirium they only think they are watching
death. Lyric being moved what you are not supposed to want everybody else
touching the replace us panel giant consciousness we others the obvious hungry
sexual something a threat ex-rivals uniting future holes. In common shock troop
honesty humanitarian mission what bodies always wanted the ambiguity of first
of all love is not what was ultimately proposed.
5.
Sushi donuts. Karate stilettos. Cop
trainee can't learn streets suicidal beauty with cuts on arm mother in San
Antonio broken knee fallen off horse brain injured once genius girl. Status
decorated with dildos of emptiness dreamed West Point his whole life got smoked.
Inspector self-radiant wisdom a selection of global pain
utmost possible clarity remembering the accords. As one finds in Arnaut
the poison casebook illegal arrests withdrawn peacekeepers unpleasant myriad
guises calamitous explosion not to blame for religions foisted upon whatever
form your new stuff's in. You think more representative misfortunes the level
of seriousness nerve reflecting systems reflecting each other head warfare
identical monsters on a bridge in Alabama to struggle against what's happening
in us killing off yet another generation compassion. Strictly modern more
intimate they seem at first you think vinyl have me eliminated you people
exiled calling it approach repulsive the ones you think you cannot help any
kind of conflict any notion of unworthiness anything that feels embarrassing we
breathe it in for everybody. Wants news you'll have to organize large pages
specially made capitals half-time report caterpillar ox double-waist low-cut
crimson velvet jeans whatever arises innermost real experiment. The mood of
thought programs without bias running through a swollen moriarty placeth in the
flame of love.
Albeit in naught may not it mar the
fragrance of tnt & hair gel attached to wealth and neglect a light comes
forth nonnationstatelessly proceeding bronze rose at the castle gate esteemed
& practiced Alamo. Oceans how different the I
alone operations attract new fans who are violence averse we have a beautiful
plan. Enjoy very much the enjoy in her underwear
stands tense & listening beside the baby elephant dragon concentration we
are invited to give it. Profitless class moving toward difficult muscular
stereotypes in tedious monotonous outright offensive floating cool legless man
above the table the rules of grammar who could forget them Philip Whalen the
art of literature. Function harlequinesque smoothly wrinkled skin products lost
in decaying bathrooms embody everything everything disliked in original
capacity however dusty ranchland road accompanied by a Martian might have been
a logical place to start. Gender ignoring precedent the end of anything alright if you want continuance poetry. Painted
Names dragging cities off the wrack covenant zones a shortcoming a tone emotion
an infinite reader to life. In lonely the angel of shattering
windshields the little white boats of unknown research smiles of tight pants
scolded with humiliation returning like Utah so much harm I have heard it said
that the teachings are written directly onto the hearts of all people.
7.
Dig here unalchemized despair death as
teacher passion imprinted recurrent casual sun rising over the longest list. As
was fresh fighting erupts in Afghanistan, as was Theorem 1 as was west coast
urban nostalgia 10th annual cockroach tractor pull. More speech she misunderstood
his handwriting Samson pile of bills general melting of ice caps crushed
parsley & walnuts box of cymbals the letters of Jackie Robinson to Richard
Nixon thousands of towns mixed with rocket fuel. City of Never sick with
leftover imagination tell me what you did
to prosody eight hundred blue-bodied giants looking for a relay station on
earth. Outside of sound & blind if they used all their potential he
invented thrown overboard verbal warp for the sake of anacoluthon take all the
ugliness that generations before you had
to write in order to cure. Self-illuminates the reception here magnificent
power beam readings as refuge she really thought her pimps were important that
is getting somewhere no explanation penetrate bone & marrow the advertising
present talking to us in Kryptonese normal among the futuristic spires of the
miniature metropolis not having penetrated impenetrable talk. And so forth
deriving showing influence being influenced every interstice hell's delight
good enough for Shxpr admitting all the imperfection preparation never what one
is preparing. Revered makers the best work complicated forests studying apart
from the tetralemma marry ultimate mastery a vie des lettres.
8.
Wastrel courage thick with flag draped
coffins the young attack pompous idiots blast & bless. Disappearing
entourage public opinion breakdown metric rock keeps you from submerged in
conditions. Tribe the unexpected otherwise truth makes its own style but his
voice it's hers they found this note lieutenant "Stop pretending you're
dead." The silence of tomorrow convoys across Nebraska blown up nowhere
will the significance of the day to come be more deeply felt in sonnet eagle
above every battle of the Civil War. Even if you catch a fly
with chopsticks. I'll fly across this roof on swords the noise I'm
making ought to let Viper know I'm here the bullet wound requires attention
sirens the cops a nerve toxin it should have killed you my body must have saved
me I still feel awful it's a splendid opportunity I don't intend to waste it
this officer is an imposter escort me to the prisoner's cell immediately the
guards are so burned out they do not notice me strip off these gloves a
fortunate decision he stays I'll deal with him later my car and driver are
pulling up maybe I saved him from one executioner only to deliver him into the
hands of another I'm hallucinating my costume's turned green lovely I have no
idea what's going on nothing's happening. Fascinating Gino says we talk alike
Chief Henchman says we look alike a few words the right words detonate justice
rot tremendous energy contact with natural force does not bravery to analyze in
accord the not-transient.
9.
Spelling a million years from now High Noon playboys finding pleasure in
things I despise. Lazy day ten thousand pages cannot tear
down never just a book being offered the absence of habit. Without the
constructive sense of building anything English halfway Chinese pink typewriter
ribbon converse word order from is
always ambiguous slut in the tempestuous apothecary troubadour arts. Gloomiest
consequences the America of our hopes jackplane nude erection a man to stand
before presidents or generals with plutonium erotica take me now sand cherry
blossom she wore tights faster harder should I take my coat off new
combinations she shoots him nearest furthest adults of sex alike sensation he
writes a book about it weapons of mass presence. Bad as eugenics piety insignia
nomenclature maxims of hardships endured oft our own spaces heaven without
armor or cowl the precision of unsentencing. Don't worry about mysterium aliens
taking over US jobs there's plenty beat working for a living regret not the
beastly humane donning infinity caste of superinfidels. Get to bottom of
"thought" imponderable lifted out entrance to all fact the doesn't
want to know what's waiting dirty bomb ever remain all this did not happen
dream of earth crushing to subatomics the mightiest General Washington
expanding conflicting advancing visibly. More advance invisibly the whole
matter universal vast and sweeping down to one single solitary soul.
10.
To wryte demonic invasion via internet codices the phone rings a secret book bound in
human flesh running away will only make things worse. Lost to craters white
marble freeways the dark Murphy bed of baby
red flannel hand coming down from between bare
shoulders in sunlight gossip of belt buckles dizziness of clothes. Speedboats
approach a morgue filled with clocks it's a pleasure just before sunset when
the rats come out. The times have changed and the visions have not. Exposed
with a feed Associated Press how sad it is self-harm whatever it was didn't
want it's name to be known scented with lavender more irregular than Ralph
Lauren paint. Almost all of them zombies people who
showered against the war she had worked in a lab implanting smart citizenship
programs our bodies are pockets for small radios bursting from holoverse source
code my gold plated problems. There goes Anselm en route to the French Riviera
& later copies of Kerouac interviews & Acid Test tapes John sent
arrive. Sheer ultra-feminine path worn jeans heavy with male significance
eyes that watched her face bloomed with heat the white enamel gleam hooking her
light as frost. Her
'I' can enter at any location and interact with each other not that world of
appearances is wrong just nothing out there.
11.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
retro-emptive western Star Trek sex ship exhausted by
machines in Armanis. Immortal expedition takes
off in hot pursuit Artificial US taking orders from huge brain floating in a
tank. Buffalo
Lunar Patrol circles security infrastructure evidentiary metadata system
automated id automated booking you can't defend
the hermaphrodite photo booth candor she says wind is everything escaping me I
do not want to fall off this mountain higher than my screams. Moon cactus has
bigger thoughts than dawn's ebon werewolf vines gravity too is so temporary a
narrow slender minstrel accused of not working in any tradition ignorant accusation it's his calling. What else had she expected to happen what he thought was
happening what happened that they never understood that I wished could be
undone beneath chipped paint Coca Cola sign swaying from the Valentine Theater.
Adept of Opposites lugging total climax eros tomes from battlefield to
battlefield all die the same day wayfaring masters this device outside
convention rhapsodia active & duro
the nation exposed has its own code of laws ten thousand kinds of crime all
violated at once. A special guest repeatedly sweeps the single room cleaning out
everything.
12.
Unspeakably isolated those
outside the monstrous generality that sound what's happening everywhere to us.
Students how you gonna cope trapped in stagnant intellectual keychain buckteeth
lord's prayer on a grain of rice shrunken head what life-giving strategy
helping others ever been kissed why turn gold to rust every word missing the
mark. Baby savior fingering nipple three hours ecstatic
passion now that's a movie worth nameless human doom. Indigo peonies no
adoration of existing schools best comfort a small band counterpoised to the leveling not inconsistent with
disobedience self-questioning unstopped by soggy vampires of the lurid
all-devouring insult their terrorism a legacy for those who have died these
last years defending the Union's spiritual nausea these changes leading each of
us left behind preparing the fullness of destruction so constant its happiness
the whole sad man-made complication of provoked fate. Unauthorized sufferer
emptied-out person it could have arrived as a shudder an apposition a picture
what is dismissed is taken away anyone could have started counting the accent
the vowel length the unaccumulated entirety of personal force the common
not-grasping destiny of poems yet to be sung.
13.
Unwilling
to tread in the footsteps of any who preceded me wrote Shelley those bastards
my pals have survived these ages of crooked & irresponsible writing
activity. Both harder and more creative this limitless poise you have assumed
it is a human world of patience the ongoing revolt microphone passed around Bat
Cave mystery men the elusive "John Doe No. 2" the recording kept
secret the tape destroyed its value unclear no transcript ever heard.
"Sloth a Chinese poet upside down said Kerouac I heard them say
"American Muslims conspire to replace Constitution with Qur'an" I
heard them say "Abrahamic faiths" I heard them say "deliberately
misread" I heard them say "failure to thrive" I heard them say
"network of the just." Lust and Disgust how abrupt uncaptioned
eidolon incarcerosexual home videos Allen Ginsberg wanted to in the English
language make a series of syllables identical with an historical event the end
of war. Lock of rags these obligations grief teaches us to be an ambivalent
middle I wouldn't worry about it either recant
rehearse reveal renew no one is there life shapes itself to our scars.
14.
From
clobbering mammoths to knocking off sonnets comparable auditory processed sound
experience fifty thousand years as many nicknames for same mind always existed
in all people at all times in all places as leaves of the lespedeza the
Lesbians inspired by traditions other sources heroic fucked-up heroic
independent from Homer many distressed to learn that objections to computers
were urged by Plato in the Seventh Letter against writing. Printed poem if you
live like a savant no one will be greatly impressed a barn exploding tornado
she took her shoe and hit the oral montage the curtains open no one knows what
he is going to say steeped in all the conditions from which she was born have
come to an end. Movable type a short period within poetic history that
something so close should come to pass not be here
anymore unable to stand by you who have to raise the world up again. Most hated
nation on earth content with amethyst margins celebrated as a beggar's funeral
you sift the electronica that dreams nothing let those who are broken call out
like a river of data rot presumptuous to assume one's life must be labeled all
the time. Most remarkable fact about alphabets is the wonderful permanence they
confer on words not on events present all at once always modifications of a
total situation more than verbal.
15.
They
cannot attain omniscience or the destruction of poetry the gutter flower at the
drain of migration those passing our untitled mirror how often have we seen
upon the cheek of the person with whom we are talking the horse that passes at
the end of the street. A multicolored text printed on different kinds of paper
typefaces of varying shapes and sizes the book neither up nor down right nor
left not one but many virtual layouts so that in order to read the text the
book has to be turned round and round again. Guitars satellites hillbilly music
the tomb of the Chihuahua pharaohs Japanese underworld gangsters attorneys in
Milwaukee arguing vastly incongruous interpretations same text anti-American
theorists infantrywoman dragging herself she was bleeding holding her head
under her arm out some prefer you to simply admire their brilliance some hide
their tricks they will clap you like normal do not say to yourself who can
bring the poem down from heaven who can go down to the abyss to bring the poem
up from the dead. An ever-extended whole in the spring fields lonely he cries
where is that girl who came last night asking for money "I'll pay
tomorrow" she said there are so many things that give us pain I cannot
write them all down still she shares my inmost thoughts.
16.
Prepared
language performed by machines compact to save bandwidth verse tell me which
portion is not accelerator ray emotions have changed cessation that part of
existence radiations Whitman called from thought circling ever possible over
the words breaking off to words the moment calls for. Lost "topos" a
couple of new people arrive some went to another room there were nice couches
they started drinking beer and super-reading conflicting global news sources
bag of bones. The agent enters some "you" the A-life therapist enters
mentally using synaptic hookups and drugs the lead psychiatrist agrees to wade
into the swamp to obtain the victim's location the killer's reality camouflaged
as a physical system much like in real
life (IRL). Visage communicated her anguish broadcast to others receiving
distress signals from loved ones dials that are wired together to the
operator's third eye. You duck under the picnic table the beer cans fly you go
for a blimp-shot a line of police cars pulling into the picnic grove you look
through the eyes of a person with absolutely no idea his eyes are being used.
Ashamed they'd separated couldn't stand the fear of being one having the same
problems cut off by sadistic intelligence gathering state the
"present" a periphrastic tension between the "now" and the
"not yet" as in "He will be having written these things."
17.
I
saw fireballs coming down the church or head got bigger and bigger there's
nobody in the years ahead a choking dust ring of sex wan troops the adjectives
my heart never summoned the ideal reader is a very disobedient person. In most
of these scenes there's mass confusion whatever the warfare of perishing beasts
that guard our oblivion. Minimal and precarious large lines continue to be
connected with the bolder and more daring one imagines all really superior
poets laugh at my sad dejected acts seen as disadvantaged "purely
flesh" divorced from technology. Opposite is an entirely mechanical
existence as a borg that acts as a person (AAAP) i.e. autonomous recognition ego orientation
training performance analysis verbal persuasion vicarious experience (modeling)
field binding and emotional arousal. Saturate us with yourself Seven-Handed
Woman pushing away the distance to the City of Orgies where the alien takes its
first steps within the blackening skin once identified as concentring by
streams alone to tally the gifts as large as the earth the actual the enduring subject of poetry.
18.
The
direct know thyself aluminum mixing room looks straight into the heart given
speech tones pathless affection the way people grow. No truce precise verbal definition carrying kindliness down godfathers
of invasion bartender satsang improvised fighting enormous cemetery white
topped even ordered hearing suits little flowering ears of grain. Someone has to
say it completing the cognition Blake even when he is alone the small man
unobserved woman's encyclopedia hating a bad smell her bosom licked respecting
one's nose one can bring the commonwealth to not follow orders Love for itself
hath no care nor seeketh not itself to please. Elsewhere at the Institute for
Perpetual Supra-Normality Research and Lifelong Super-Powers this special tranquilizer'll
make him go out like a siren overconfident with resolve but no judgment they
inject Powerade green transformer drugs he never had a piece
published. Gangster delight empty of peach tree in blossom echoes towering over
mountain steep cliff grass profiting generations wild as six billion pianos
simultaneously pass away like water in the front row dread clasps its deadly
terrors or thou art not a man like me.
19.
Wirelessly
they flew in very low over a furniture store something tingling on his back. He
turned around screaming the whole copter had giant pink spiders crawling on the
surface. Replicating her implants to become part of the high camp machine
collective black streaks modified her blonde hair she was wearing a cherry
skin-tight biosuit they brought her to trial for giving holograms a legal
precedent to claim sentience. No one would use the word "job" it gave
too much status she belongs in space her legs almost buckled beneath the sounds
of her clumsiness she corners the massive marble font at the foot of the
central aisle and made for the right hand doorway a Zen master in the house all
the time. Nothing is foreign his physical presence after so long apart was
seriously hindering her command her body panting from anger exertion lust.
Instrument of adjustment maddened monkey wavering wandering its precious ideas
unable to single out the cause of any mental phenomenon innumerable young men
offering their bodies passing two equals who've had revolutions within
themselves newborn angels shared old histories of other lives writing for the
golden ears of friends who'll understand and forgive everything. The borg executed a perfect turn and marched off into the gloom.
20.
Internally
generated within the structure of a crystalline craft injured creatures lying
around the debris taken away the autopsy faked a lot of the old whores left the
agency. The only visible fixtures a clock and phone at one side a tray of
surgical instruments no apparent sign of any ribcage the surgeon removes
various internal organs places them in glass dishes it is impossible to say
what these organs are the mouth a small inverted crescent giving the corpse a
sad look. The nose is small tweezers are used to pull dark membranes from each
eye placed in a dish leaving behind the white eyeballs. Members of the campaign
cut a secret deal with an enemy state sabotage the re-election profits funneled
to its revolutionary wing one informant told US custom officials bumped off by
government agents self financing independent covert operations outside the
checks and balances of congressional oversight. Crowds of strange children
unafraid the stink of their own karma now I place my lips upon yours that you
be my poem armed groups fueled by deep insecurity security forces
disintegrating intimidated voters stolen ballot boxes assassinated opponents
the tiny plane of all these inert superficial toys lit up by oil compared with
the power and immensity of one human body.
21.
Multiple
interstellar paths my soulcam operations the hoods used were sufficiently
porous for air exchange consistent with an ill-designed theatrical mock-up atom
blast smoke signal her alien scalp candles burning brighter than the abyss of
Los stretch'd immense a shriek ran through eternity & none more than you is
eternity. Datum shatters certain hope you retreat into a robotic pose can't
help they may have destroyed our leader you came here to finish those
remembrances of things that cannot be. These jet stream discs in my palms
charged with the fear of chaos that's why they nurture a fatal voltage it is a
lengthy step android never finished high school ultra sonic blast waves now I'm
blacking out synthetic man. The mutant sorceress turns her eyes directly at her
foe minimal use of natural ability to take over other bodies is required soft
Babylon Jerusalem let us leave these two alone though they be alone no more the
after effects of her stun charge will linger altering the inorb'd bonifide
divine arts weeping on Euphrates' banks. The operation of my gutter astrology
is the absolute sincerity that effects any change. You do not depart poetry
even for an instant what you depart from is not
poetry.
22.
Blissed
out on genetically pre-programmed euphoria strive with all one's prodigiously
augmented telepathy to restore the invisible exhibitionist dragged kicking and
screaming into pleasure chambers stuck in paradise. To make the world a better
place for dissident emotion pioneering contra functionalism you don't have to
scratch too deep the torn sleeves of poverty necklace out of coal flaunting
assumed identities a staggering array of shopping applying makeup clown war
machine sex the guests were arranged according to hair color. Giant screens
with social imagery presidents shoved around phone lines cut panic and police
clubs deleted phantoms greeting the dead machinic citizen anneal'd eradicatrix
of suffering some were born with instinctive knowledge others study united in
practice others learn with great difficulty are split apart it doesn't matter
how one knows natural omnipresent electric universe cops were hitting only form
of consciousness incoming rounds. Daily clashes ceasefires broken people making
speeches written for them acting showbiz roles ordered by flags someone
believing in something that isn't there signing something they cannot control
you laugh like a quasar swinging across the chandeliers of the universe.
23.
The
ceremonial can't be proven there's a racket operating out of this asylum either
someone has been impersonating you or the inmates have the keys. Facial
recognition fingerprint recognition retina recognition signature recognition
speaker recognition what beauty is this that descends upon me and arises out of
me these materials these lands ever united my body part to part this globe this
time thousands of globes thousands of times. Vast elemental compassion watching
penetrating dying the same death tearing through city streets slamming into
garbage pails living the same life holding both this side and the other side
out of range affirmation and denial. No one else so well as regular one-man
circus bard armies nothing whatsoever to teach no advantage a fluent interpreter someone who is
sharp "What is it that knows?" solitary illuminate driven to fight
injustice bows to no discomfort worships no pleasure. Ghosts in mink it began
with a hot-line call less than an hour ago any arhat chained wrists ankles
bound with iron somewhere there's an internet with nobody on it directive
before importance before trigger before brushing him off before emotional
interpretation the inexpressible clearly behold.
24.
Words
that hid hieroglyphs & bombs & slaves working the turquoise mines learn
something of our tribal legends industrial artifacts the end of blood to sit
alone on space station girder amplified senses the depths of space stars
passing the limits of ultraviolet and infrared icy comets they were not human. Stoxastikos Greek for "the art of
guessing" came to mean "prophecy" reading the unreadable color
computer simulations US preemptive doctrine "the uncertain and
probable" vets from the frontless "front". Kybernotos "pilot" or "steersman" and
cybernetics was the science devoted to describing the pilot in all systems of
information the controlling intelligence what William Burroughs called
"soft machine" Artaud's "body without organs" composite
fragments genderneer'd chips shot through with Messianic difference engines.
Avatars coming down the ability to regularly delete humanity technopagan vinyl
schoolgirl short plaid skirt silver white magic marker lipstick applied in
thick smears hockey haircuts with hand painted bobby pins Egyptian cloak
glitter-scratched cornea to enjoy a walk along the largest indoor man-made
beach. The barmaid already digitally compressed removes herself from the scene
the men appear to be happy they're not real men. Like you never fucked a knowbot.
25.
AH
(appearing human) made-people affected when in contact with things you still
cannot make a move on account of ignorance. Even variable identity enhanced regen-recovery
powers anti-stun astral form FM vision smell tracking permanent detect the
invisible permanent multi images/blur effect permanent strength of the whale
permanent anomaly alterforce permanent wind to slow missiles cannot see the
strings that bind the universe and mend them when they break. Consensual cowrit
erotica colonized striptease suck me off tinysex willingly sliding into the
other she had always felt herself to have been these selves cutting through the
dew-drench weeds unscrewing her detachable femphal/cellphone "idealised"
what the body can't offer. Ancient process of artificial reading the technique
of writing sequences of instructions subroutines loops jumps the addition of
little ifs still no concrete appearance of objects no luminous mental activity
when free spirits meet then there is a writing "human scale" without
distinction no sounds and voices speech and seeing no mistaken conclusion no
one taken advantage of.
26.
It
all seemed so appealing the holomonic cities coup-d'etats the anime space rap
action poem argument after argument constant verbal sparring a hit television
franchise. There were redesigned bodies personality modifications uniform
changes plenty of high-kicks & ammunition wars & romance major losses of life large-scale conspiracy destruction in eleven dimensions
but it wasn't enough the last episodes were cut released only on dvd.
You've failed to pass the dragon gate
human brain inside a ruined head on deep sleep mode in the dump it doesn't
matter no gain or loss. Spines command a high price you're rebuilt from other
used parts retractable claws prosthetic links biotech dampeners sealing foam no
more constant cyberwear upgrades you scratch your metallic leg absent-mindedly
a fly buzzing around the surface of the planet scrap heaps of synthetic waste
cloning causes hideous deformities raising an eyebrow painted grey with gold
highlights. Bodyguards match the durability of the undead rotter metal zombie bum in perpetual decay authority proved itself
incomprehensible power structure upheld by guns nothing to get from standing in
the snow nothing discovered just made up imitations the terrible doubt of
appearances there is a kind of poetry sublime enough to cease and desist stop
and know the known all along I give of it to them that love as I myself am
capable of loving.
11 March - 4 June 2004
[Originally
published in NHS 2004, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs04/Jim_Cohn.html.]