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Monthly Archives: January 2014

No Emily Dickinson

31 Friday Jan 2014

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No Emily Dickinson

I suppose I
could have
done an
Emily Dickinson
taped my mouth
wrapped myself
up in a box
as the jealous professors watched
skins
thin as parchment, shelves
groaning from
bearing the torture
of false kudos, so
many heavy, empty
tomes in which
the words preach pre-
posterously to a
faithful they
this elves converted

now
discreetly, every
protocol observed
hammering in
the nails

for that
Jane-in-
a box ghost of a
witch banshee to
pour forth, launch
like ICBM on
monstrous spring

and sing softly like
a Shakespearean monster of
such small,
lethal, beautiful
things as
are not in your vocabulary,
not in your armory, not
yet Harvard-systemed or
Dewey-decimalled
no list of
ISBN numbers you
might read from the Moon.

No Emily that snared route
is one I will not be taking
— neither burial, nor
ocean bottle nor
scattering (as if
Sibyl) my leaves
to the winds

wherever they might blow, swirl
sky high, fall
die

or grow.

Automaton

30 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by drdamiang in literary allusive, media, metapoetic/metafictional, poetry, political, popcultural, postmodern, science fictional

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He was
texting like
an automaton

everything grist to
his poetic mill

meanwhile Zizek was
YouTubing himself
twisting
the Matrix inside
out

squeezing it dry of
ideological residue.

On the Big Screen

26 Sunday Jan 2014

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Once upon
a time I
wanted to
see my story
on the big screen

and then one
day as
if in a
dream, there
it was unfolding
from reel
to reel

but they
got the ending wrong
(tripped
over my tale).

Not Becoming my iPhone

26 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by drdamiang in ironical/comic, media, poetry, postmodern

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It’s nonsense
that I
am
becoming
like

haiku, haiku, check
on 49ers, scrabble,
email, SMS,
incoming call,
charge
battery

Mata medical, Moyes
the man?, Sherman
spouting
haiku, poem, in-
coming call,

and so
I was saying before
haiku, haiku,
what’sapp, Facebook,
that it
is nonsense I am
becoming one
with my
iPhone
(check thesaurus and dictionary
app to see if
nonsense is the
word in
this contest I
should be
tweeting today).

Don’t You Just Love ( alien Scrabble telepaths)?

24 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by drdamiang in apocalyptic, cosmic, ironical/comic, poetry, science fictional

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Don’t you love it
when alien telepaths
start messing with
your
Scrabble set

move the letters around
telekinetically, spelling out
ouija stuff that
would scare the shit
out of Nostradamus?

It Being a Sonnet that Does Not Compute

24 Friday Jan 2014

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It Being a Sonnet that Does not Compute

We think of
what the Universe wants
scratching scalp
until it bleeds

but what the Universe wants
is for us to think
think, think, what

the Universe could possibly want
posing the question to
quantum gurus, evolutionary biologists,
bank upon bank of
supercomputers

missing the point; getting
It wrong. Does not Compute

We think of
what the Universe wants
scratching scalp
until it bleeds

but what the Universe wants
is for us to think
think, think, what

the Universe could possibly want
posing the question to
quantum gurus, evolutionary biologists,
bank upon bank of
supercomputers

missing the point; getting
It wrong, wrong, right, wrong.

Obituary

24 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by drdamiang in death, erotic, love, poetry

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Obituary

You know her
famously for the pose
as a poet she
habitually struck.

I know her
a little more
intimately. Carnally too

having had my wickedly
tender exchange with her
during which we
talked the living
daylights out
of each other
one bleak, dark night of
the conjoined soul.

And now
having lit so many candles for her

I must ask
where were they night of
unexplored emptiness, loneliness, absence
two bodies spread eagled,
stretched out as if
dead

as if one
did not know any better.

My Dr Seuss Agenda Man

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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Every day in his calendar had
at least five agendas
having raised
serious control to
a fine art

but looking from the outside
it seems a tad ridiculous:
not to
beg for heavy satire, but
perhaps a Dr Seuss rhyming
scribbled cartoon parody
is what he
might wake up to find
some laughing
child reading him in.

When Like Mind Finds Me

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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As per usual
my mind was wandering
(still in thrall to
that bad, bad habit)

and teacher was
filling the blackboard from
left to right with
cyphers of chalk

which were already, for me,
way out of focus
as my
eyes peered through them
through the blackboard as
if it were a screen that
suddenly
became a door, and through
that aperture I am
already sailing, thinking of
Einstein’s chalk writing
down the great relativity equation
as
the truth that underwrote
the speed, velocity,
at which I am now traveling

stars, clusters, worlds
flying by as

I am projected forward
as if beam in a cinema
turned into
film, turned into
message that
can only be played, read
at 24 frames per
second

when I find like mind, when
(could you be?) like
mind finds me.

D’Artagnan in the Wilderness

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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I see D’Artaginan
practicing in the wilderness

his sword
fast
as
light

faster than words

but no call comes
from
King

or Cardinal, thorough
he took great pains
to point out
he is
creature of an author
of rare heroic fire and
fine
ethnic lineage

to no avail
his Holiness perusing
the transcripts, shaking
his head

telling the
would-be captain
(he calls
his “son”)

that in
the ultimate analysis
it is the good
Lord who
proposes and
disposes

author of us all.

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