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Monthly Archives: October 2014

ALLEY-OOP

27 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in absurdism, Colonialism, Dionysian, historical, Imagination, Music, poetry, popcultural, Postcolonial, postmodern, Revolution, rock music, South African, the body

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to find me
at my moment of birth
you had best sail up
the Mersey from thirteen-
year old John Lennon

take the right hand lane when
you get to
the tributaries Tame and
Irwell

and that would be apt since
the meaning of
my name is
“one who tames”

and who could have
foreseen that three-
ring rock circus primed
for it’s happening
and me
off to apartheid South Africa
with my Dad and our gang
him desperate to
get a job
and me
now sort of
poet of semi-desert, before
that subtropical and
there, beneath the flat
mountain, African
Mediterranean, and

lover of
every shade of soil, of
sand and
(if you
get my drift)
shape
of the land

bashing out a beat that is
a bit out of rhythm
somewhat out
of sync
too carnival intellectual for

any local bandwagon, any
serous attempt at
a local or
imported hybrid strain
of
a universal music
strain and
revolutionary chord.

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ENTER THE LIONESS

27 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in Astrological, erotic, intense, love, mystical, poetry, The ocean, the sea

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I committed
myself to cloud
entrusted
myself to
ocean

and was lying there
in the savannah, perhaps
nowhere in particular
when a
lioness came, nuzzled me,
deciding whether I
I was
animal, vegetable or mineral,
perhaps of use as
mate or
prey.

I AM THE LENNON

26 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in absurdism, Imagination, ironical/comic, literary allusive, poetry, popcultural, rock music, transformation, wordplay

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If and only
if the Supreme Being has
a walrus mustache

might we think of
a
semolina pilchard
climbing up
the Eiffel Tower
(or shouldn’t
that be
the Blackpool Tower?)

RUN

26 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in cosmic, erotic, poetry, quantum, science, Stars, Value and meaning

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Run that connectedness thing
by me again

how the pole-
dancer swings her
legs high
around
the axis of the Universe

her heart in
tune with
the beat of
the stars (huge
suns
all)

run it
through me; by me
until
life
runs out and
stars spin cold.

WAY

19 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in historical, metaphoric, poetry

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WAY

history has byways too
over-
abundance of codicil
no stranger alleyways and
rivers we
chain images together
in order to
cross
sometimes moving
fast as streaming video

EXTRA

19 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in metapoetic/metafictional, poetry, Reader, writing

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I am one of
those
also-
people

extras, never
in the
in-
crowd

see me penned
on the margins

desperate to find
entry (yet
what
would I
do, find

inside the text?)

ECHO GAME

19 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in Eastern, philosophical, poetry

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Peonies
she gathers

the peach coloured silk of
her dress swishes

Oh my mind
is now an ideogram

though I have
forgotten the Mandarin
for “lured
into the
tall bamboo”.

NIETZSCHE (ON HIS BIRTHDAY)

15 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in celebration, cosmic, Nietzschean, philosophical, poetry, power, Value and meaning

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Nietzsche (on his birthday)

Struggling over an aphorism
you had asked me to chew on
(snake in my pocket, shoes
eagle-winged)
I thought how bad is an
essential predisposition of the molecules
a phase life must work through
in the creation of a
magical good
or that which supersedes
good and bad entirely, whose
power to
change the world, forge
a history, force
a smile
rests entirely in the will
to demand that the world
show its
hand, stick, raise

and there in the abyss
where they compute these
stakes
figure out
the percentages for
Heaven; love
and their
perpetual death, dissolution and
glorious recycling.

AWAKENING

13 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in Beauty, erotic, philosophical, poetry, the body, transformation

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It is
an awakening

playing the slot machines
hoping for the
windfall that
never comes but

look at my face
covered in
purple lipstick and
my pounding heart
about to
go
nuclear, longing for
the chain-reaction of
two bodies
splitting, fusing
and all
that fire radiating
through your
skin means

it is
beautifully inevitable.

WHERE ARE YOU NOW, VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKI?

10 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by drdamiang in Uncategorized

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“WHERE ARE YOU NOW,
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKI?

(for Claudia Martinez-Mullen)
 
Where are you now, Vladimir Mayakovski?
 
Where are you now that
your poems have all
been plastered over
 
and that agitprop poster
vibrant, strident,
shouting from
every street corner
 
no longer proclaims
its victory over
mere concrete, cement,
and mortar
 
no longer tells the world:
 
I am the iris of your eye;
I see everything in
its inner dimensions.
 
There is no
more space for you
 
to echo across, to
 
be poured into
 
there is no more city and there are
no more street corners;
 
there is no more time to
pose great questions
 
ask:
 
where are you now Vladimir Mayakovski
whose words
were, once upon a time,
hard and true as skin-hugging metal
solid and strong as
full body armour?
 
What has become of you
Vladimir Mayakovski
 
hammering new skin to reflect a bright dawn?”

Excerpt From: Garside, Damian. “Zero Gravity.” Xlibris, 2014-02-10. iBooks.
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