words of a people aligned in their perfect order
untitled dream #3
we are west sixty-six revisited
we are bound
bordered between psychiatry and madness
and we celebrate in ceremony
counting one to four,
four to one.
in the arena of dreaming
a precipice with feet teetering
don’t look back!
playing Aeolian harp
singing our __________.
keep it simple, Orpheo.
don’t look back.
a love lost within scope of wandering
and vanished.
itself playing on bent shaft
itself a white lily
itself a love under guise
itself a nuclear proliferation.
– Hoc Scripsi
untitled dream #2, 2012
I was a wretch!
hit bottom when I refused to write this
no-more sentimental waste
(my brain isn’t big enough for this mythology)
in dream I live by the ocean
walking steadily on sands, shells
under stars, moon, visible planets
(all performing before my singular audience)
theme and variation on familiar interlude
treated to kitchen knives chopping boards
pieces abandoned and the night sky a deepest blue
(two typewriters humming and I am distracted)
struggle on step one, try not to wake
cacophonous malaise, the dream soundtrack
my admissions are deluded, so said
(Beethoven Sonata, NO. 23, underlay screaming)
I weep when I look upon Guernica
taste blood, harbor resentment at such brutality
turn away to self portraits and the ego
(clever deflection, tears, anger, id)
weep weep when I look upon sunrise
held in fraternal homosexual admiration
singing! singing, you are my sunshine, my only sunshine
(song of penance)
– Hoc Scripsi
two days ago the birds were singing
calling out for lovers
thinking it spring
today it is too cold to stand outside
unless you were getting paid
and even then…
Chicago winter in the 21st century
it rained yesterday and then
snow fell all night
but waking only to an inch of it
not worth it to shovel the drive
not worth it to get the mail
not worth it to smoke and look
at the grass peeking out from under the snow
even the windows are frozen shut.
January, 31st 2013
– Hoc Scripsi
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