MASKING TAPE i plaster
on a phony face a smile
devoid of meaning and
sincerity then i remove
it
no point
no point
habit keeps this facade
this forced conformity
repellent, anathema
no reason
no reason
care too little for
protocol to superimpose
this fallacy
mask of enthusiasm dies
under deadweight of truth
you see these eyes dead
balls of clay lodged in
my face the mask no longer
fits vitality will not
flicker on this screen
no effort
no effort
why lie to you?
myself?
today i found out about you
how you're just like every
one else i can't show my
eyes without betrayal of
their screaming weeping
wounded nakedness
EXIT singed
remnants of
this room
blasted hole
of my outgo
vapor trail
static lingers
electric pieces
of me i
cling to shards
of floorboard
of your consciousness
this burnt pile
of wreckage
simple seconds
mute exit
one bullet
one delusion
empty handed
empty chamber
buzzing after
glow my ghost
coagulates for
a look at the
carnage
no answers
no response
exit
just exit
just walk away
from all of this
HERE the pug
turns to the
diva and requests
a guesstimated
death toll
Copyright 1993 Shockbox Press, 2018
Molotov Editions
These lil' poems were part of a
(lost) chapbook I did called THOUGHTBOMB 2462. Haven't seen it in
years----if there's a master copy on my person I've sure not found
it. Too bad, too, as it was kind of a fave. As you can see by the
samples it all followed kind of a unified structure and I was kinda
proud of it. The big centerpiece was this longish, self-indulgent
poem called “Coffee Table Cerebellum Fugue”. “CTCF” was kind
of a conscious tribute to a lot of the language-centered poets that
were floating around the small press at the time---Sheila Murphy,
John M. Bennett, Jake Berry and the like. I never really understood
what most of them were getting at, but I liked it.
******
So on
Social Media and elsewhere everyone is running around with their hair
on fire what with Trumpy, Putin and the latest string of more-or-less
token, symbolic Mueller “indictments”. I don't doubt there are
some folks out there who are waiting for myself and others to eat
some degree of crow, especially as I've been maintaining for quite a
while, now, that Russiagate is a lot of bullshit fueled by wishful
thinking.
You'll
get this paltry concession out of me: It would seem as though we've
ascertained that the origin of the DNC “hack” may, indeed have
been Russia. And sorry, those of you who are waiting for
handwringing, apologies, wailing and gnashing of teeth....but I'm
unimpressed by all of this.
I mean, I
know you're all panicking and life is terrible and your hair is on
fire---and I know, democracy and woe is us and Trump and Putin are
butt buddies, and we're going to share 800 shrill memes that express
this, and TreasonTM and the Pee Pee tape that we JUST KNOW must exist
somewhere, and...and...and....
….and
then I shrug my shoulders and say, “well, if the Democrats hadn't
RIGGED THEIR OWN PRIMARY....”
I basically
don't care WHO was responsible for the DNC Leak----but I'm still glad
it happened. We deserve that transparency and we deserve the truth.
And since
this whole “who leaked the leak?” business is settled (as far as
we know), whaddya say we put the horse back in front of the cart for
the first time in a year and change and deal with the REAL issue at
hand, which is the one I've been screaming about for a very long
time, now?
Namely,
(yes) that THE DEMOCRATS RIGGED THEIR OWN PRIMARY. End of discussion.
Good night. Mic drop.
And I know
you're going to say, “NO, Chuck, NO! That's not important right
now, because TRUMP, and because Rachel Maddow, and because the
pee-pee tape! And Look, Chuck, LOOK! MEMES!!!!”
And then I
say, no----and your insistence that it doesn't matter makes you the
world's worst hypocrite. I mean, I get it---you're concerned (and you
might not be wrong) about democracy and how bad foreign actors might
compromise our ability to have free and fair elections. To which I'll
reply once again....THE. GOD. DAMN. DEMOCRATS. RIGGED. THEIR. OWN.
PRIMARY. Thereby proving that we don't HAVE free and fair elections.
Now, where
was I....? OH. YEAH. Mic Drop.
I've heard
further protestations that the Democrats did nothing that was
technically “illegal”---unethical, maybe, but not illegal. And my
response to that would be, if you're going to engage in apologetics
for unethical behavior, then you don't stand a chance when illegal
comes down the pike.
And I'm sure
there are those of you who are nonplussed by all of this.
“But....but....TRUMP!!!!! Life was hunky dory in the good ole US
of A until November 2016! It's the worst time ever in history!”
To which I
say, the Rape of Nanking called. They want you to keep it the hell
down. They're trying to sleep.
Clean your
own damn house, #McResistance....then we'll talk.
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