on a bright fall morning
in the parking lot at work
i sit in my car
interesting ideas emanate from the radio
over the weeks
with a gel pen (pilot g-2, 05) i jot down notes
onto the back
of a used post-it note—a scrap of paper
coffee stained and tattered
folded into quarters
the backside sticky edge, holding it together
(collecting dirt particles)
i unfold it; unstick it
in-order to add
to my previous writings on the back
on the front
is a preprinted, nag-note template
filled in
to read:
to celeste from mom call about portrait retake
remember and thank-you boxes checked
on the back i have written:
a ghost
boy
s. african
conformity
contagion
breathing
in sync
great robot tutor in
the sky selling snake
oil
cannot read
body language
psychology of
school shooters
the notes are for later; to think about
since my mind
is preoccupied at the moment
preoccupied
with fixing my broken blogs
hacked
to now receive porn site solicitations
through a compromised, comments filter
; a pandemonium of zeros and ones
i have much work to do
but it will have to wait
until work is over
listen—the drum beat of war
thumping
drowning out the voice of reason
the history of man
is the history of war
don’t worry it’s a just war
limited war
religious war
“a time of war, and a time of peace”
jihid
no worries, it’s just mechanized war
war on terrorism
war on drugs
war on christmas, once every year
war on your neighbor
a minimal level of collateral damage is acceptable
war games, “treating people just like pawns in chess”
singing war songs
“war! what is it good for?”
driving war profits, collecting war trophies
conventional war according to the rules of war
the military industrial complex, subcontracted war
corporate war in a suit and a tie
perpetual war for perpetual profits
proxy war
defensive war (the best defense is a good offense)
preemptive war
war powers act
a war president spending political capital
drinking bottled water out of crystal, in the war room
no war tax, no war rations for the undeclared drone (air) war
what ever happened to war bonds?
don’t speak of class war
be my war bride
my civil war
guerrilla war
war of resistance
an insurgency
war of independence
war of succession
revolutionary war
the people’s war—power to the people
lost in the fog of war, giving friendly fire
hegemonic war
brandishing a war club and a war bonnet
tribal war
telling war stories—counting coup
hot and cold war
wishing and hoping for a bloodless war, for to receive war reparations
beating a tired old war horse
a forgotten war
bot weapons and viruses of cyber war
information war
psychological war
leaflets raining down from the sky
a war of words, jockeying for the spoils of war
shivering in nuclear winter
mutual destruction of a nuclear holocaust
world war III—total war the war of the worlds
eradication: a new kind of war, where everyone is a suicide bomber
a war of attrition
“desperate times call for desperate measures”
war pigs wear the faces of war crimes
war cry—let your tears fall for the innocent victims of war
i thought i heard a whisper
coming through the trees
was it you talking to me?
outside of the leaves
holy the human animal
coming down from the trees it was you, coming to me
coming out of night-terrors
electric light and stun-guns
baptized in the wars of
machiavellian autocrats
who want for too much
ice sculptures and learjets
trinket traps,
manufactured barriers
that separate and keep us apart
you, the soft-bodied vermin
of binge and vomit,
leave me pockmarked
with your poison cesspools
at your invisible hand
i know the violation
frequent, fractured & broken
you lay me down to waste
why can’t we play today?
the time when you dreamed
of flint and fire
of the sky god and stars
i nurtured you
now look,
you lock yourself away
in artificial life
ignore my cries of anguish
underground
my depression runs deep
fracking to the surface
thoughts of suicide
will i always be like this?
will i ever be given, the time to heal?
have you forgotten?
planets are born and die
just like people
i need you to return,
from whence you came
—return to the trees
and take with you, your knife
from out my side of twilight
tender leaves bud hands
waterfall body blue-green
smooth as speckled river rocks
in the name of brilliant sky, whale is taken
while gathering details from the canoe-man’s
bone tipped lance—purified in ceremony
seal-skin bags hang full from the rafters
paddles that end in points, for self-defense
carved ovoids in wood to pass before plato’s fire
projecting human shadows on the cave wall
the dead bear is placed on a throne beside the chief
offering the bear food and drink before eating him
inside the polished cedar box—the sun’s promise
dried crusty sea salt on weathered skin
desiccated souls hang from a line
white men in wooden ships and rum
destruction in the presence of crosses and seagull circles
starfish, killed in their sleep, litter the shoreline
ceremony of seaweed, daughters traded for marriage
potlatch people return to their wooden lodges
to dream under blankets of cedar, the dream of whales
foggy morning lake has risen from the land
to obliterate the defined edges
fish float to smudge & smear
with minimal effort all contrast is removed
the shapes of trees and houses are swallowed
—into the murky depths of a fisheyed world
when it’s right in front of you
but you don’t know to dodge it
you were once floating gray weightless
until the manatee was struck by the boat
the propeller, cutting flesh deep to the bone
like sharp teeth striking your forehead
and a colorless world wants to seep inside
to replace the blood lost, on broken-glass stillness
see the late morning sun, head-on collision
burn the floating lake from the aftermath
to expose confusion—taking off his twisted-metal skin
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