Saturday, December 27, 2025

The cowardice of all

The shit
The caked crust of filth that films this world
The scaffold of lies only the high believe
The evil
The cowardice of all.

What confronts is the grinding maw
A gate of knives, hammers and rollers
The life from here architected by treason
The evil
The cowardice of all.

The delusion eats its tail
Waves censers in worship
Of its own undoing
The creed with which they poisoned the South
Drips as theology from stitched mouth
The evil
The cowardice of all.

So weak of mind we give our minds in fear
The stolen structured schizophrenia so exactly
What is to be done. Who will do it 
While these routines run and run
The evil
The cowardice of all.

This epoch is derelict at its outset
All shuffling papers in banality of amargeddon
When called upon, where have the good gone ?
The evil
The cowardice of all.


Monday, December 08, 2025

Ayutthaya

Ban Chiang pot. Thailand. c. 600BC
I, a traveler from an antique land
Where the jungle parts saw a red brick stand
Sat atop it, two folded legs of stone
The torso shorn, still held command
Over a cityscape of rubbled brick
Red stubble of sacked streets and Wots.
Upon the walls strewn thick legs and arms
Split naked bodies carved of rock.

Still standing were the bell shaped forms
Lords entombed in solid brick
That ape masons from before their dawn
Who thinned and cooled the muggy tropic.

There, repeated by a hundred hands a hundred ways
Still dusted clean, a hundred shattered visage lay
Who's smiling lips and downcast eye
Knew well the folly of all earthly works
Sabbe sankhara anicca.
Mint growing from the cracks.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Shrapnel 529

I believe a racoon dog in the forests north of Wuhan Is the one true typo A lost bat, shivering in cold, a thousand miles from its tropic home The dog sheltered the bat They rested curled with a civet cat Then together, got high-pressure diving suits And journeyed to a deep ocean thermal vent. The one true typo lives on

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Anti-inflammatory literature II

The joy of wang
In front of a bus
Is lovely.
Look at it, ready
Firm, pretty
Settle astride.
You can keep your hat on.

Saturday, May 31, 2025

First they amplified the evangelicals

First they amplified the Evangelicals
And I was drowned out
Then they amplified the NRA
And I was drowned out
Then they bought shares in an unregulated tech
That resonated extreme views for revenue
And I was drowned out.

When they amplified me
Everyone was deaf.

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Anti-inflammatory literature. No. 1

A twilight shawl
Of fireflies that flit
Among the passersby
The skies of this
Winsome spring
Are lovely in their cowarding.

Softly the square slides
In hush
A zephyr and a passing brush
As potters go about their whares
And Escher builds
The Town Hall stairs.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

I ran my mouth off

I ran my mouth off To ears of cloth Shouted from rooftops When you could hear a pin drop.

I graffittied walls round and about
The council whitewashed each pic.
When I spoke out
The listener got sick

The listener looked on in fear
R-loops on their BLA
Like enemy was near.
Bones in the eye, the ear.