Monday, May 30, 2016

Bound by pipes

“History is an array of idiots, sociopaths, murderers and bores, punctuated with an occasional rational one – whose life is cut short.”

Empire bathed in fire
Each smile a grimace
Laughing by number
One semi-colon at a time

I can’t cotton to flames
To convey how Debt
Subjects itself to itself
Unquenchable diagram
Long face or miracle

These our islands
In which we rededicate space
All the more stuffed with Latin
Adorable Greek companions
Figments of fictive formulae
In the public professions
With less purchase on transitory life

Dear most-human Human
Who wiggles down runways
Who promenades
Dancing with the Ecclesiastics
The most pious or foreign
Colonials hitched to social ambition
To obscure privacy in sensational life

What trauma sleeps
In milder opinion
Mouth smashed
Distinction of noses
To sample the other’s blood

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Inflexible rigor (circular saw)

Innocent of flesh
No nation
Under ceremony or novel vantage
No stronger ardor

Poured out of Christ
Useless ungodly plaything
Fleshy hand innocent of Ephesus
Impossible sensation

How each patriot spells
Appeasement equal to
Distress in another’s name
Borrowed religion walled up in words

Some gadfly connects
To Lucian’s law
To a collision of rock & coin
To citizens as capacitors

Running from the ancients
In consequence to their queen
Clerics raised a column and crossed the aisle
Each bishop whose scepter

Usurps the fancy apostates
Idol-loving judge innocent of repose
His need for love loves love
Polished and taxed to perfection





Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Morosely arraigned (the younger)

Compare the suppression of princes

The terror of seventeen
They exercised six and entertained the Stoics

Every primitive
Every single family

The abolition of beasts sanctioned
Another commune
Miraculous shrine
As Socrates prepared for war

Let us drink to victims
Take profit from the listing ship

Take the city and denounce the king


Monday, April 25, 2016

Actuated by the various

Was it extreme to appear difficult
To walk with mistaken pride
& the guilt of temper

To situate the primitive roar
Restored to the merit of the bride
As bachelors possessed hapless

Officers of a latent noun
How invent the conspiracy in us
Lost or omitted in the riches of Rome

Philosophy blushed
It is the future
Obliged to turn sufficient numbers

Festivals exaggerate
As earthquakes downsize
Superior industries

Squatting progress in Garden City
Sustainable occasions among the profane
No longer suited to their example

Crazy Eddies unravel
And cross the line
Power in New Jersey air

Inflexible chant of love
Purchased splendor of all downy splendor
Feathered circles at both ends

Saturday, April 23, 2016

But first these words, dear apologist













It is first and words
The cornered clergy balk
Failing to engage the most
private Failing to detect
what faith never returned

Wonderful heretics
Smaller prejudice
Derided by art
Even the ties of faith
Happy cultivars
Of unresisting fashion

We lament the decisive
and toast to the office of supernatural bends
Let us (quote) dispense with their heads!
As credit improves
few barbarians perform in light
Exposing the sands
Pleasure resembles
Hand to hand
What nature insults as cause
Believing only in feet
In the accurate exercise
To work the course
Immortalized in devotion

A providence to love
Deeply effected

Its horror ate that church


Friday, April 22, 2016

By shy, a leading gesture

Panels of lost truck. How belonging lands in gossip – cult of shrinking assertion. How we sit, with pets, in the triangulation garden. How there is no meadow where deciduous debate prepares for fall. How life pushed thru until its given frame bursts.

Impulse jumps ahead, incapable theatre fighting shy of each iris – a blur open against corrective vision.

Foreclosing any loop of progress, demonstration hurries us to an opinion. Her Portrait of Stalin sketched in stark lines. Each utterance part of the fabled body. Ahead of the opulent flourish, above an obstinate body, she bites her tongue.

Each occasion assists the great. Proof of proper nouns. Action in intervals, violence in the motion across. Impossible daemons spent in bishops.

It’s the same analogy to the same cause. Precincts liquefy in thirds, your distance banked to my bank. It’s the conversation claim on a considerable church. The undaunted portion is filth.


Thursday, April 21, 2016

Century of exceptions (infernal alt)













Languid monsters
acquire hostile style
Arms insensibly shortened
Monks faint if obedience offends
Belief in the progress of verbs
In infancy no truth admits
Charity and moderation
By precise sums men
among causeways admit
propensities for greater error
Sophistry of the most vigilant
Secret bishops of the eminent stain