Sympathetic Superstitious Avatar
I.
He understood the obvious
A way of swearing, without swearing
Instead of saying “Jesus Christ—market place X-Box!”
He’d say “Jiminy Cricket—events around the
Klaxons’ song.”
He’d say “Organized comic apocalyptic picaresque anti-hero
schlemiel!
Take it or leave it!”
II.
In some teeming cycle of departure & return
Breaking silence is the purpose
The function of—
The only man still surviving
Hailed by some
Described by others—
An attraction between atoms
A lung condition linked
To a tidal wave of dust—
He deserts you every day!
III.
“Hell, I was in Greece!” sd thinking blonde avatar
“Entrapping empathy
Under dark & lonely abstract theory
I would get bogged down
Standing before truth
Foretelling the events of 9-11 in spooky quatrains
Sidestepping theory
In Mass Market breaches of security
I dreamt the whole world
Was condemned
I cheated at a game of cards
Anticipating the modern & postmodern world.”
Stealing the Thawed Brain Back to Normal*
I.
He is finished
Who’d watched all the while
You hold him
He swims his paws
It’s kinda like
Pause. Look.—
The storm burst over the resinous pines
II.
A chunk of body of
A little wedding dance
& I’m tired of pretending like
Normal brain
Photograph
Disorder
Said no one in particular
I enjoy lying
But
To sight see is to
Bartender in hell
In the past I’ve labeled it
The day before—
A veritable scatological apocalypse
III.
Pigeons are spinning again—
A soundless wake
Of whiteout
Into enormous space
The maps are made
Everything speaks to him
A loud voice saying—
Myself crazy with
A garland of dandelions
Cannot drive him
Drip drip. Drip drip.
& to the pod most mellifluous—
Do you know how to break a radio?
Model it in real time?
I had thought the other night
Allure can perturb
An object
* Source text: In the House of the Hangman
#381, 382, 383, 384, 385
By John Bloomberg-Rissman
Raymond Farr lives in Ocala, FL. His work is widely
published in many poetry journals and blogs, both on line and in print. He is
author of 6 print books, the latest of which is Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths
2011), and two on line ebooks, chainge (Chalk Editions 2011) and Two Texts
(Chalk Editions 2010). He is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog.
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