Monday, December 20, 2004
Insomnia
dreaming or the
tapped process
remember – at all.
the feeling before
sleep? scratching
glass painless
fingernail tearing
through the quick
knuckle drop deep through
the mattress and
crusted bloody, hoary dirt
meets soaped, squeezed
skin passing
against the floor
meeting the warm-shell
Earth long forgotten
volcano imagery
hustles my genitals
waists sink and
breathing apparati rise
My body is an
awkward organ: heavier
than I remember
limbs bloating, a think apart
from the
thickening dream water,
leaves me
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
First Love (K Zinaide)
As the boat carries on
down dark waters beatings
aside chill and milk waves and
figures, deck-shadows and
star-reams - the females - white-
strong and ivory held
melt through moonlight
in quiet procession singing
from the leaning deck
Fa la la for my love is young
Fa la la for my love is young
Wreathing on again white flowers a
hymn for the water glass the boat
steadies on - leaving a
trail of snakes and open
river-polished flesh
Around the water is all acid coffee
house poet - Morose in its tag down
while the words beat
While up falls to down
down - down
And such
flails the lyrical water
Sudden is the break of spirits
tangible like shot glasses up -
is bottles, harsh corporate jargon as
the beaches give way to shore to
a flash of men hairy and weaving
as only white-capped male figures can -
rapt in the distance: a
keg and two-cent party cups
in the center of the
ass beatings, the ping-pong games
'They they are! One the shore! By the light
All horns and trimmed-up daggers' (gasp)
In all box-wine frenzy, the
Bacchins raize the air of water and snakes
Infuse the sweet bosoms on the boat
with obvious scenes, boring endings
(though two with candle-light vigils)
and hymn drops
to the shouts, the torn lace guess
they prick and cock to pieces
'Hey, Ho, I am young!'
'Hey, Ho, for I am young!''
And torches loom in neon beer
burning up the smoking shells
Eyes gleaming as eyes gleaming under
mini-skirt light
Tiger skins, chains of gold
Gold-laces boxer-briefs, we'll-find-our-bush-
alrights
'Hey, Ho, hey, ho, for I am young!
Hey, Ho, hey, ho, I am young!
Hey, Ho, hey, ho, I'll throttle you
Golden Showers! Hey
Ho, Hey
Ho, We'll triple team all
you Bitches!'
And maidens tighten on widest bow
Narrow their hips to skinny
strings - and silence - their throats
dead weight, eyes searching
as searching in the
pale moonlight
They cannot stir - the boat makes for
bank Against the better wishes
of better wishes
and boat controls.
Makes for bank? Slowly, under snake
plank wood and curve metes the meters
Coffee house beat and Tarot card
shiver
Down that track, Jack
But wait - the circle untested raises
alarm, patting out rhythm on hip-bearing
arms - And - What!! - Tenderly, page-turningly
Moon-light outliningly the
purest and fairest of maidens arises!
FRIGHTEN and HAIL-STORM the maidens assault
SPEECHLESS and HEARTSACKED by hymen tumult
MOONLIGHT and LAKE-LIGHT and glint off of gold
The girl with the bright eyes and HIPS of untold
- jumps from the boat! -
Men upon men upon man upon man
Twirling and Hurling and fire up the pad
Deftly and Deptly her spin takes it all
Dactyls and Tractyls and fractals agloat!
Five by and Ten the showl to their jowls
Words by and Lake by and moon upside down
Iambs and triambs and tertiary feet!
All into Rumble - All into Heat!
And away (away)
Back to the boat:
The sky which
blazes in heaven-like dark
Illuminates a lone object on the bank
A shirt-label from the Gap
or is that her dropp'd white-flow'r'd wreath?
The smoke trace of man sweat
hangs off shaggy LA carpet
under the wine barring heat - And far off
'Hey, Ho, this is that And
'Hey, Ho, this is this And
'Hey, Ho, here you come'
Evening in chaos, not the least on the boat
White Maidens a-faint, White Maidens a-choke
But instead of spilling lava or lifting up mushroom
clouds - let's just agree
it'
s a wreath on the bank
On The Petersburg Metro
For his breathing was
a thin blade against
gravel on the ground
tried to slip my now delicate
fingers under the black
plastic handle, no
crushed grit under
the ensuing leverage
gored my pebble knuckles into
fragments into now singular
now electric wrist frayed and
sharply stretching even the
young man winding his wooden beads
and cross looked up
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
K A- E-
If I were a girl, I would take you up in my arms
And dot your cheeks with kisses
Hold you tight around the hips
And laugh in the rain while pulling you along
There your teeth would shine too in streetlight
And eyes catch so much the rain hadn't
If I were a girl, would you kiss me too?
If I were a girl, could we play under the covers?
If I were a girl, we could laugh while closing doors
I would let you take off my shirt first
The first few moments
are clowns on top of wires!
Everyone has seen the
gloss program, t.v. time –
but here it is –
as close as your Breath!
It's tense, as tongue
taps grip and lips lap place –
They've learned new
tricks after all!
And then with the skill
of One No Longer Afraid –
there’s the plunge
of Nerve –
to the netless ground!
And – there – it's all heart
and blood, baby
Now who will take my love!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Vicadin, No Wisdom Teeth, Alcohol, 5/21
under swollen aspiration a
ruse of skirts, white panties, to feather the ascent
is peach cans and undrinkable tea
the breasts could be swollen
or just my eyes below the haunt
of shadow figures needing to alert them
that I have awoken, to sudden, grip
hips that repel me but here I’ll
press softly fingers to tackle
space, immense I’ll be helpless
in your myriad visions . there
slide reels of legendary flesh
that could knead brain ripe
at any untrusty moment
a peak at life beyond oddly returned phone calls
a peak of life but here I am
I’ll go boom boom
for all my meaningful passions
Friday, November 19, 2004
Though there is Rain Outside
We kissed, aware of skin
in slipped time her grey frock relied
on weight - her lips, purpling and eyes
stiff closed though-the-rain-beat
outside and a fire crackled dry
logs in pine I held her, a bracelet of hair
the gleaming eyes protruded through
the circles of my love But I will
not listen to them for she
has such red flushed cheeks
skin that becomes my nakedness
lips to tremble at my wrists
and more power than when
they would have called her alive
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Vozdootion the air was
Vozdootion the air was
cold and moist with oily spit
but not in the metro
where I hurried with
my backpack like a
plastic bag sidestepping
melting lumps of timidly liquid while
and dirt the girl sat
with an outstretched flare
of blonde a hand pining
for two Roubles and in
the other a tiny baby
Other days I had barely
noticed her or the
statue of Lenin sweeping
across Finskii Vokzal
fingers a slipping gesture
only today the man
in front of me handed her
a coin as she had it between
her breasts in spite of a
heartbeat and then again
a small white teacup
The Square of Lenin
they call it just that
Pining such a weak word
As is 24,000,000
maybe I deserve it:
the tear feeling just
screwed out of my eyes
her eyes did not ever skip
and the man walked on
adjusted his fur hat
as he stepped onto the escalator
Monday, November 15, 2004
Filthy Smut Movie - Protect our Kids!!
After reading more about onemillionmoms successes, in particular with ABC affiliates pulling Saving Private Ryan (and the FCC-emailin'-hysteria gripping our nation - where have you been?), and rereading my own recent blog post, I (or, rather, my elderly-woman psuedonym, Gertrude Cristophers, from Englewood, Colorado) also decided to get involved. Below is a recent submission. Now awaiting response.
First name: Gertrude
Last Name: Christophers
Type of Complaint: Program
Name of Complaint: Filth on TV
Network: ABC (?)
Description:
I wanted to write in to complain about an extremely offensive program I viewed last (our Lord and Savior, amen)-mas. I fear it may run again this year, much like that dreadful Saving Private Ryan. I didn't know how to take action last year, and so I pray and thank Lord Jesus that finally there is a site available (and willing to fight!) for conerned Christian folk.
The name of this film was, "The 10 Commandments," and particularly shocked me as a faithful Christian. It was also played at a time when children might be watching.
First and foremost, it was a film which portrayed a close relationship between God and a certain non-Christian race of people. To be showing how wonderful THEIR lives are with "God" (much like the trash our kids learn in school about Darwin and Evolution), is an attack by the Hollywood atheist elite on OUR relationship with our Lord and Savior. To be showing non-Christians receiving the Ten Commandments is, quite simlply, rewriting the Word of God and attacking our way of life. It reminds me of a story I heard on the radio yesterday about a girl in Florida who was laughed at by her TEACHER for carrying the Holy Bible.
I am also reaonsably sure this film contains hints of sexuality. What lesson could be worse for children than seeing this next to a representation of God?
What next, a film about how wonderful Allah is? And how suicide bombers will receive virgins in Heaven for murdering? It's fine if Liberals and the Media love Semites, but it's not something our children should be shown!!!
I think it is time for all serious Christians to take a stand against this filth. I've tried to locate on the internet who will be showing this movie come December, but I'm not very good with computers (yet). I would appreaciate any help onemillionmoms could make to take a stand once and for all.
Sincerely,
Gertrude Christophers
Luckily America has the best parents in the world!!!
Friday, November 12, 2004
Wendy's Honey
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Unward and Upward, Bush on Every Bullet!
love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn's early my
country 'tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
(e. e. c.)
Who says we have a different perspective on war?
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Thoughts on Losing You
don't worry, while I may now
hold your brain as so many
pulls of sensation, rough-shod
scenes in familiar places, or
smells, should you smell
with me - still able to animate them,
those will be gone, photographs
can be burnt, letters erased and
flowers made into drain water, and only
remain the too-good memories,
that hurt your stomach a little,
press crab-hands into your throat nerves
a little less every other week,
as well as the too bad ones
that friends hear about in the brief
sketches, and eyes flash strangely, turning
all of the me-stories into a tiny pill:
with dimensions, at least, you
can touch and measure
and save the limp associations
- found in stupid objects, name-games
nothing in between.
Monday, November 08, 2004
Commercial Critique: Michelob's "Swimmers"
Michelob's Swimmers : the camera begins with a slow pan on the toned frame of an athletic blonde and then moves onto her partner, an equally statuesque male. Located on the side of a Swimming Pool, encoding readiness, we are to believe they will "compete," in a ritualistic expression of modern gender relationships, with hints at the ritual of pre-sexual-play. What is the symbolic level of their interaction expressed in the form of a game? Perhaps initially we might want to ascribe it as a kind of comment on modern working status and the repression of women (ie entering into a game when the results are previously or "Genetically" determined). Our attempts to divine a simple correlative relationship is frustrated, however, the second our pair enters the pool. Any realistic prediction of the outcome of this race would surely favor the male. If they are a "normal, sporty couple" like any other "normal, sporty couple" (as, no doubt the commercial wants us to believe, that this is a sexed-up Everyman with whom we idenity and then whom we mentally access associatatively in our consuming of the advertized beer-beverage), then do we have a man ironically throwing the competition, given that they come out of the water side by side? Or are we witnessing the ultimate in surrealist expression? The latter answer is clearly the most satisfactory account, especially considering the severity of the features in the gentleman (a sign indicating his intentions to compete to the extent of his capabiltiies), and also considering the direction the rest of the text takes. As the couple swims along the pool, "neck and neck," as it were, the viewer encounters musings on the low-carb and low-caloric nature of the beer-beverage. But as we can clearly not take seriously the images we are viewing on the screen (or only as a kind of "hyper-reality" where our judgment of the physical rules of our surroundings must be suspended), can we take these claims with any measure of veracity? Or it the entire project of low-carbness being undermined? The reality of the commercial-world splinters even further after the turn in the "competition" (now we must put this term into quotation marks not only to denote the abstracted level we demand of considering the term, but also because we cannot be sure any more that any competition is taking place) when the coluple comes out with the 'butterfly' instead of the 'freestyle,' representing a complete inversion of the rules of the game. As swimming is structured, both formally, as well as intuitively (at least in the Western canon), butterfly never follows the freestyle and its inclusion here extends far beyond the Revisionistic and into that of the Improbable (however, given the absurd momentum into this point, maybe nothing less should be expected). The "commercial-hyper-reality" then takes one final splintering. The camera now focuses our attention onto the male swimmer, who finishes strong into the wall, looks up to see where his partner is, only to find her sitting on the side of the pool. What are we to believe? That she removed herself from the "competition", went to the side wall, climbed out, walked to the end of the pool and sat down before he completed his own sport-task (absolutely impobable), or that she beat him so soundly that she had the time-luxury to climb out and seat herself (equally improbable)? This represents a time-space rupture, which serves to further heighten the competition-reality and ritualistic ruptures of the earlier part of the commercial. The man splashes the girl, but why? It may seem upon pre-critical viewing to be that he objects to her action of "getting out of the pool" (dismissing the competition he has himself dismissed? This would be a 'straight' reading by those who refuse to play the absurdist game). However, his splashing of the girl - as a sexualized quest-object - represents his protesting against the unreal-nature of the Pool-World. He, as Suburban Man, is horrified in the rules of his everyday comportment breaking down in a kind of "speachlessness" (notice he speaks not a single line the entire commercial - his only form of expression is the "splash"). His "splash" is a signal of resistance and rejection of his "thrown-in-ness" into the "swimming pool" "competition," and further a signal of his personal trauma (compare to a Dostoevskian character who attempts to speak about his "illness"). Thus, the entire commercial can be broken down as a traumatic-therapudic testimony on the rules and codification of the modern experience, while "swimming pool" substituting by metonymy to be the "average experience of modern occupational existence." The women, as sexualized quest-object, is never reached, and has completely broken down in the hallucinatory Unreality of the "Swimming Pool".
Sunday, November 07, 2004
Ice is the second most solid container as of
course you know the stories of
the north young child young
men voyaging writing poems for
ice princesses they dreamt of your
father was such a man my child his
eyes like a fox's they
wore long cloaks and braced
their bodies to the ice's heart its womb their
fires were more for the love of smoke
than the invisibility they ate
they never tasted for
north is quite like a sea a garden of
waves caught fumbling in some crystal moment
of loved hating thought caught at
the moment when everything is packed under
only some men have ever returned the story
is an old one for north during days
of darkness days of sheer sparkle either
stellar or the hope the men planted in the
snow and caves and white like thumbnail corn their
eyes would change color you
see deep shades of red some of
leapordal orange aurorial and the ice
worked like slippery magic
Try not to let the nightmares in my
child
With unsteady pace it begins in sweats and
contracts of words in hewn times and little paces
it is morning and Poe is awake
and dizzy inviting-swollen birdless
sleep he is alone and his neck
is uneasy - muscle by muscle - when I chaught the door too long
its hinges peeled in such wooden tear -
to the ends of nail marrow -
and there can be no stars in this morning
of prayer outside the green
great tree holds Poe and his
time in millennia - and froths
miniscule life with invisible
branches labeled life and
love, (I felt the love but now I only have one memory) the rough
tatterings to the sky while the
little life lives on - building monuments and
even more promises while
Two Snakes, the lover and the dead, search for matches in
the tall grass or tiny beating hearts of nuclear triggers that is
Poe's tree and he twisted
slightly and felt hungry in
his fingers, hips unwound but winding and
it is morning but he does not sleep up
for hours and minutes in
his kitchen, played cards by himself
rak-rak-rak the shuffling impressed on empty kitchen-space
to urge any sorts of magic
or portent went on a walk to a closed cafe past the tree
but still inside it where the
battle bent with fervor on the street,
nearly deserted, the slain and
shorn sprinting arm in arm with muscular
calves to the log iron bar for vodka
and conversation with pretty
waitresses in short skirts hallucinations that Poe's tree was a
rose tomorrow they
will be whole again and back on again he stood outside the closed cafe
for nearly a minute, and then back
home, smelled
every puddle down the street
though he resisted
and felt the gaze of two drunk
women on the streetcorner disheveling old faces and baby eyes -
laurel tiaraed - steadying themselves against another one and his
pockets were empty save the crisply worn
note in his back pocket,
graph paper and black ink Meet Me
By The Cafe and We Forever Drink and Laugh for Union
and again so young Your Strong Hands
(The way I feel) she sat in the third room of the apartment not listening
thirsting and unrested / hideous lips when
she cried though
the windows beautifully repelling tired words, beautiful at that
closeness, such eyes this morning! and golden hair, Poe, golden -
here she reads novels in the tattered bulb light
burned her skin with faminous
little razorettes and forks she lit in
the over had just awoken when Poe lay down - to write
him a letter and talk quite naturally on the telephone
for Daniel Yuvachev
in such a tale but here it goes
there once was a writer who lived by a bridge
She lived by a bridge in England-town
Wrote about cats, wrote about God
A steady six weekends a year
Then one fine England-town day
something strange happened
and only this we know
she did not write she did not write
not about cats, not about God
Five years did pass and again she sat
to write a poem for dear dear Beth
justly returned from holiday she
played a tourist Anyhow
the writer sat the writer thought
the writer baked strawberry muffins
and the most extraordinary of extraordinary then occurred
Nothing
She had nothing to write nothing to write
Not a single thought upon her head
Not a single thought worthy of God
Worthy of dear Beth
So warn you writers, sufferers all don’t
go like the woman in our tale
write write burn with your God
Write write love your kittens
love your youth
Thursday, November 04, 2004
09/11/2001 petersburg, russia
Still thinking about the Election, kid?
once you say you want to reach out to the Red States you've lost the game, they'll spite you all the way to the gallows for it, better to walk barefoot and bombed-up but still carry the cross. once you have a populace convinced that CNN is Liberal, do you know what you have?
Red State rhetoric is bullshit, once you think it's a mass of ignorant farms you're playing Their hand, they'll get you and your pretty little children too. but not holding Them accountable is also bullshit, that rhetoric of cultural values is a pretty enrichedup cover for hatred and not caring enough to engage, so where do we go, pray that the democrats can stir up a prgressive farmer with good teeth from the plains? make me one too while you're at it. face it that Trust and and all of those Gut-Feelings are the name of the game. so what, burn a bridge, or bend over for some Konservativ ramming? Open Up the Pocketbooks, kids, we're Going on Another One!
panic? yessir. and then what?
The moon was not/ forever tragedy
In flowers she would have been three (he slept
one as the sunflower you’ll find her
nestled in the creaking darkness of seeds
hinges of shadows' cloud dust or more and
two an orchid of violet fervor (his face, framed in the hills and wet grasses)
skin the flavor of honey blood find shade
in the spiraling darkness behold
her beauty is the legend of
Pagans the blood they heaved as
ballet grace and the drunken love
water for
purity she is her
own legend as calm
seaborn typhoon
or cool summer grass
midnight you’ll find
three flowers
and as she falls in love the tide shivers
and her love
shepherd of men but only as he
reminds us of our mortality
she passed above
his flock for years
and finally
jammed him to Paradise begging forever
(her father smiled)
his life her breath
in a box
a life no less
a life of love
and grasshopper legs
We walked like strangers
The straight concentration and she found my skin
holding something under breath
was love she said
was love she said
walked heavily
like paste
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
another glass of wine
Monday, June 21, 2004
as my lover looker right
took her her left
a drunk her sour skin was
repulsion in my palm enthralled
when she swayed again those
stumps of thighs I
called them beautiful as she
follows me past the Thenes, Rourk and Marquin,
I hold her smellingly close
Again check my pulse I turn her eyes
and make her laugh I
am not in control
In April /
broken heat
stinks rising from
the tool-wise
pavement up-up
by a rounding deluge
to swallow wind
pregnant as wine
blushing
is this air: In April
sounds drop a
ring for lush
garden green hill scenes
pastel picking bare, no -
this is fog
eyes to be piked on
newly found
hollow nasals
and gritty
smelling glands
night lamps share no
fog above the
breeding April earth
My red tongue is earth-wet
and pelvis, vorpal-dead -
even feet are
sloppy in April