The miserablist

Every selection, every decision, is a little violence. The artist who cut off his hand to display it in a self-portrait. The end of the hand in contemporary painting. A phantom limb.

Here comes denial

no possibility of change

Here comes eyeroll

They said leave no footnotes

they said don’t fire until you see the whites

the eggshells the blood orange communes

Let us extinguish light and shadow

Let us reverse cinematic shock

& abolish magic machismo

They set out to destroy thatched huts

social compunction until sodality goes poof

until heroic fade to black

Frantic circuit to synapse

Remember the empire state

plates handpainted irradiated

They said believe nothing

they said manipulate yourself

Motto for self-cannibalizing hole-in-one

Leaderless flak jacket

immune from stunts and strategies

our puritan misanthrope refused to look back

I liked your interior stylesheet

almost no punctuation

commas but no periods

If I embrace the alien

literature

I’d stand six feet under

We succumbed to Occam’s signature cut

& fell in with the in crowd

his emoticons her Moby Dick

Here comes denial

no possibility of change

Here comes eyeroll