BARRON

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Bishop Robert Barron, Catholic, Heaven, Multiverse, poem, poetry, spiritual, Universe, writing

BARRON

a Catholic scholastic on YouTube
spouting about District 9, The Matrix
and Bob Dylan

did not realize the Universe had
so many channels

so many the music
of the spheres gets (peaks
and troughs) flattened
out to a dull drone

on Netflix the Nazis
are still in New York,
Japanese in
San Francisco

and here I sit
in a reality that could not
be less porous, more alternate

playing wth words trying to
undo the cosmos linguistically
figure out its sublimely secret scrabble

so far
my score so low
(high scores only for
sounds that resonate
between every
conceivable dimension)?

at least that scholastic
does a convincing
glimpse
of Heaven

IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

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alternate history, existence, happiness, identity, loneliness, loss, love, meaning, poem, poetry, The Man in the High Castle

IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

my lover in an alternate
universe
(whom
I have never met)

is reading to me
from an alternate version of
Man in the High Castle

I lie on my back
at peace with the world
unaware of what
true democracy or
a completely loveless life can be

I think about hoping that he
is smart enough to be loving and kind
having no idea how
abject a thing loneliness can be

but whatever the universe you
are lucky, unlucky enough
to find this version
of yourself in
truth is, from resurgent Nazism
there is now
no escape

the dark idea of purity (our worst
political concept) already infiltrating
freely seeping through
for where is the person
without that part of them in them
that truly needs an Emperor, edict of
a Fuhrer
wants death camps for neighbours
they racially despise

it is only a matter of time before
we find ourselves frogmarched and swastikaed

this world or
another

evil always
resurrects

never truly dies

they reading a text in their universe
no doubt different from the
film of the book I am
watching (alone) in mine

LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS

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2001, A Space Odyssey, Consciousness, cosmic, death, future, Moon, Nietzsche, poem, poetry, Space

LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS

If was in the future
far into the future

I was giving a lecture
on The Moon

talking of the great symbols
of our collective cosmic consciousness

whilst you sat there
steeped in thoughts of death,
thinking of an ancient film

set on this very Moon
where Nietzschean superman
taps into alien presence, alien energies
is lifted out of sad species nihilism

but I
never having seen this film
kept spouting away

something
about the low gravity of this place

time here, I suppose,
moving slightly faster

ideas bouncing around
like nobody’s business

and our blue-brown
on its last legs sickly planet
at least with an
atmosphere however toxic
that might be

how long for that to remain
at the heart of these symbols, be
the fount of all our meanings

this barren, naked Moon
chaste female goddess
queen of
all unconscious mystery

enough
of a home for me.

SYMPOSIUM

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love, Plato, poem, poetry

SYMPOSIUM

“Fearing their power, Zeus
split them into two separate
parts, condemning them to
spend their lives in search
of their other halves.”

came to
prove

a point philosophical

about
power and

resistance

but so
loved your

touch

the politics of
our pleasure

the aesthetics of
control not

an issue
at all

SLIPPERY SLOPE

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logical, philosophical, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire

SLIPPERY SLOPE

slippery slope
ad hominem
false dichotomy

I tried to get as many
logical fallacies in
my manifesto
as I could

but my failure
to get a
decent score

announced to the
world no hope
for me
as a politician

on the slippery
slope to becoming
failure in
life and
person of judgement
and real integrity

IN THE FIRST PLACE

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Aristotle, identity, logic, negation, philosophical, philosophy, poem, poetry, presence

IN THE FIRST PLACE

was playing a
logical
Aristotelian
game

put a
not
in front
of my
name

did I dissolve
disappear
it’s just
so hard
to say

seem still
to be
here

but
there again
two negatives
make
a positive

and I may
not have
been here

in the
first place

WHATEVER

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Cosmology, innuendo, Möbius strip, poem, poetry, the Universe, twist, woman

WHATEVER

kitchen is the best
place for cosmology

bubbles, suds, microwaves,
caramelization in and on the stove

not hard to see
links here to the
history of the
infant cosmos
(Job riding
on the back
of God
that he might see)

as kettle whistle, frying pan crackles
I think of what single theory
might avail us of the power
to put it
all together

valid for whatever star, planet
in the Universe, within
whatever galaxy
under whatever flag
(the politics of flags
always crimping
my humanity)

and
to give it all
a twist

the beauty of woman
when it
comes to topography

her Möbius strip identity
itself the
riddle

perfect
mathematical twist

THE QUESTION

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Derrida, philosophy, poem, poetry

THE QUESTION

Derrida is homonym
of philosophy

and
Wittgenstein
its tautology

in
retrospect

Aristotle stuck
erecting its
technology

Socrates forever
wandering
begging
the question.

FILM OF MY POEM

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film, metapoetic, poem, poetry, Reader, writing

I did not
like your
film of
my poem

it was too
stilted, there
were too
many villains and

no love
interest

TO THE BRIM

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death, Humanity, philosophical, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, sexual symbolism, wordplay

TO THE BRIM

we hatched together

one heart, one
soul, an
item,
a commodity

up there, however,
the duality of the stars
belied as much
as bespoke
the mythology of twins

to ripple that perfection
to become the chimera
of one beautiful
sexual beast

let
afterwards

be so much
afterglow

it feels like
we are become hologram
that the Universe
has become hologram

and
despite the
sad reality that is
realization of distinctness,
separation, difference

we are, at least, common in
this
being absolutely soaked
through
each other
(with
and in)

full,
to the brim