Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Plot


To be drawn

From the forefront
Back into the ground

When least expected
Gentle reader,

So simple,
So profound.


Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Logos Manifest

Time

And time again,
It appears

In the annals
Of our evanescing

Unrelenting, cliché-ridden
Dream. 

Sunday, September 26, 2010

To the Nihilist, Too

who says
he has nothing
he needs

nothing
but his self
to give

himself up to,
this offering
will have to do.


Saturday, September 25, 2010

Found Patient Index Card, Harborview Memorial Hospital, Seattle, Washington, 1976


Breast
               cancer of             the breast, meta-
static ca.                   of
axillary lymph nodes.    Butchard,

             Maude died 3-29-48 photo X-
                                                             ray of lumbar
spine and pelvis, chest
photograph                    when
granuloma is cleared                up return

later

                 return in three months
return in three
                           months return
later

return
in one week X-ray
therapy to

left axilla and left neck X-ray therapy return

in four months
X-ray stomach

and also axilla

return in two
weeks return in one
week failed

appt.


Friday, September 24, 2010

B-U-R-D-E-N S-O-M-E B-E-A-S-T-S


Such brazen nonsense coming

From such serious heads, you
Think they would take the time

To weigh their every word before
Letting their tongues enlighten away.



Thursday, September 23, 2010

From Here to Eternity: Dead Ringer at Boot Camp, Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo, May/June 1965

You never knew Jean Genet served a stint with Uncle Sam, did you? Well, just as some things are kept under wraps for various deceptive reasons and some appearances are meant to be intentionally deceiving, i.e the bogus name-tag with that implausible soubriquet, this authentic looking photo recently discovered jammed between the thin slit left between weathered floor boards in a safe house somewhere in Europe shows the great French writer staring at us from that infamous Middle West boot camp's PX photo booth. Observe, if you will, that famous full-of-meaning slanted glance he's throwing our way and the way his cig forms an artful ringlet that has just wafted up to the bottom of his trademark horn-rimmed glasses. As if all the above weren't enough to throw us off the track, he's also adorned his left hand with--of all things--a US high school class ring!*

Excuse my use of what might seem smacking of hyperbole, but from here to eternity, this is what I'd call the sublime art of subterfuge. 

*It has yet to be ascertained as fact, but rumor has it that the phrase Tell Laura I Love Her is engraved on the ring in question.



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