MR KUBRICK

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arrogance, male, narcissism, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, power, satire, science fiction, Universe

MR KUBRICK

Dear Mr Kubrick
please reach down from
that ghostly place

match-cut us off this planet
the one Trump is destroying
as if it is his birthright
as if it is
a useless toy, not
what he expected,
wanted really

in every space, in every room
you can feel you are being watched
HAL’s red eye got its fix on you

we are all
stuck in the cave, at the
mercy of the Cyclops

waiting
for nobody.

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NO ROOM

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poem, poetry

NO ROOM

no room left
for it
wherever it
was lurking

it has found my surface
and now
threatens, promises
to break through

the slightest mistake,
or encouragement
could allow it to happen

perhaps a line from
a Rumi poem
or a beautiful haiku

and my skin will be shed
my shell broken

and
there on the ground
in serious fragments
all that I was
not what I
did not think to be

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

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poem, poetry

got this A. I. chip
to contract my
write-time
extend my repertoire

simply those algorithms
poets have to perform

reduce a
single metaphor
to a millionth of
a second

significant
reduction from
the stand real-
time computational

experience
of a lifetime

SOLUTION

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poem, poetry

SOLUTION

the little things:
he could have been
a composer
but he smashed
all the keys
on his piano

the process of
becoming: what
will be
will be
smart card
of destiny

go figure

when they
cost
the entire history
of our evolution

gave it a value
in dollars and cents
(not Hegelian marks)
soon it became
apparent for all
our post-
lapsarian labour

so many stars
not enough stripes

and top dog call-sign alpha
already at the pinnacle
winged like a pterodactyl
just two Mach faster

under each wing
the breakfast of a killing
neatly sandwiched in
so much
death space to spare

thesis, synthesis,

we are a go
simply plot

our solution

STORY OF ALL OUR LIVES

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poem, poetry, Universe

STORY OF ALL
OUR LIVES

at the very end of time
the poems gather

as if called
and yet
like children
void of
parents

since they are all here
as if preordained

let us label this spot
(as we do with
files
as we do with jam jars)
our
“cosmic library”

except, my dear,
we are
no longer here

were that the case
I hope it would turn out
better than “Lost”
series of
stunning beginning
abysmal ending

story of
our species

story of all
our lives

WAKE UP CALL

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poem, poetry, Universe

WAKE UP CALL

he woke
with his head full
of alien landscapes

felt detached from
all mortal, terrestrial love

that is so
dull, self-reflective, pitifully sublunary

yet keeps the jewel-blue planet
from sinking into a morass
of human engineering

so much of who we are
still sub judice (the great
religions remind us)

still in that cosmic window of
under advisement

NOT HERE

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Nazi, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry

NOT HERE

Always remember
blackshirts are people

except when they
concentration camp you
wire up
your genitals
pull out your toe nails
(not in a manner
that is beautician certified)

especially when
they wire you up
and give
you a
blood-pedicure

sometimes cracking reasonably good jokes
worth repeating
for a laugh but
not here

not here.

VISIT TO VOLGOGRAD

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poem, poetry

VISIT TO VOLGOGRAD

life is sacred

see I said it
and you can quote me

the blood-soaked mud of Flanders,
soil of Stalingrad, volcanic ash
of Iwo Jima

so huge the
sacrifice there to
the gods
of life
making them
the most sacred,
holy
of shrines

WHAT BELIAL TOLD ME

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poem, poetry

WHAT BELIAL
TOLD ME

“In courts and palaces he also reigns”.
Milton, “Paradise Lost”

we like your
hostile
zero humanity
policy

as you know
under normal
circumstances
we hate humanity

and love to
see it
when you do too

the only humanity
worth loving (by
which we mean
not entirely hating)

that filled
with Sin and
Infernal power pride

OUR ALIENS

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poem, poetry

our aliens
look like
demons

look like
humans

(whose
every difference
we
demonize)