Friday, July 17, 2015

WHAT I REMEMBER (1-4)



At some point in the mid '90s one experiment or exercise I did was to write four separate poems, all of which were entitled “What I Remember”.Why, I don't know. My record keeping is a little fuzzy, but from what I can tell no one ever ran these anywhere, so for better or worse you're probably seeing them here for the first time. Here they are, all four of them:


1

decried pain and
this piece of old
doddering spoonfed
lurched up and the
doctor
removed
a snapshot vague
old carousel melody
back lifetimes when
you and the haze
washed over like ether
squalled a malcontented
rage big baby
what it took
distant strains
saw pretty girls in
ribbons
and bows
skipping and leaping
over slopes in
verdant pastures---


2

you---
devolved from being
object abject w/functioning
orifices all too easy
self-destructive
prime directive
didn't have to be
didn't have to be
picture picture
lodged in stasis
you denied
ran ignorance is
bliss is blitz
rolled to see
meat exude
(lose me)
what it took
(lose you)

3

part was left
of this me
fragmented old
doddering fool
spoonfed restrained
took the buffer
hung on the
steadfast wall
looked for reason
decried pain and
the ongo hung
his head sad
prizes my entropy


4

hell give it a
name and a property
unto itself
i
go figure
it just
in a wash in a blur
frollicking they were
in meadows
green
the pollen
hung in the air
like butter
a shrill
across the room
a name at the
top of their lungs
woolen cling
smiles
denim well worn
clung hard to
a thigh shaken
trajectory
made me waver
heat that wells
shields past barriers
like a soldier
crawling
covered in dirt
she sauntered
in my direction
stood for the word
lines and curves
inquiring eye
my balance
was the
head hung
pushed
what it took i
she the fell i
black on white on
over over ribbons
sleight of hand of
mind of
took the
like ether
i abstained
ruefully
(in the corner the doctor shuffled his cards

circa mid-late 90s/copyright 2015 Molotov Editions


THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST:
FFS-FFS
THE HEARTBREAKERS-LAMF
BLACK SABBATH-Born Again (Yeah----that's right---it's the much-maligned Ian Gillan album---what the hell are you gonna do about it?)

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