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QUINTESSENTIALLY

28 Sunday May 2017

Posted by drdamiang in Censorship, Evil, Fascism, Horror, Nightmare, political, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, satire, Twist in the tail, utopia/dystopia, writing

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QUINTESSENTIALLY

he wrote
horror story
after horror story
became
the King
of horror stories

until the horror
woke up to what
he was doing
let the
scales fall
off its eyes

stood up, slithered
into the city
stood for congress, parliament,
reichstag, senate

got elected

and then the horror
was on the radio
television in
the streets

was
in his street
at his door

came to take him away
drag him from his desk
where he was still
writing story
after story

with each story
the horror that much sharper,
that tiny little bit so
quintessentially better

the best one of all
raging in his mind as the
cell door closed

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THE MAN

16 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by drdamiang in Alternate universe, Author, Creation, Creativity, Desire, Difference, Escape, Fantasy, Fascism, hermetic, Imagination, Intertextual, Journey, Language, loss, love, Lust, media, Metaphor, metaphoric, metapoetic/metafictional, Mirror, Narrative, Nonlinear, Other, Paradox, paradoxical, philosophical, Poem, Poet, poetry, political, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, postmodern, Poststructuralism, Prose, quantum, Reader, Reality?, science fictional, Sexual, Sexual innuendo, Subversion, The World, time and space (space/time), Transcendence, transformation, woman, writing

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The man rants and raves.
What dare I do
but accommodate him
as the TV is doing
as the TV is designed to do?

Tweep! A message arrives
on my phone: it’s her
wishing to cheer me

but the words (as those so very different ones
spewed out on the TV)
have lost their lives, their power, their meaning
they float past me, before me,
devoid of anything that can help
anything to bring a positive change

O, my caregiver
what dream have we lost, seen collapse into
electronic whisper, media fantasy?

your beautiful face
floating before me
as I turn away finally
uncouple, unlink, detach
from your orbit

my paper though, no nearer to completion
writing on radio during apartheid
and the strangely challenging, alienating
alternate-sounding world
of the science fiction programme

otherwise mirror on that
abhorrent, obnoxious
dehumanizing world

where racial logic collapses
in the face of strange conjunction, limitless possibility

possibility that
I just walk through this mirror
(in which I so often
imagined
our worlds colluding, colliding, collapsing, combining
together, if not forever, then
but for a few
delirious hours)

away from her, away
from the single-eyed, raving
racist Cyclops god, nay demigod,
of the television

into a parallel, if not indeed
universe, then at least
some stable, ungenocidal, alternate realm

where someone is writing,
is writing me (as I stand ghostlike,
peering over his shoulder
her shoulder
reading my story
being written, my tale
being told

hoping against hope
he does it differently.

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SURPRISE!

14 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by drdamiang in Poem, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature

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Surprise!

you did not think
a poem, this poem was so
desperate
to find you

winging its way towards you like
a kamikaze angel.

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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

04 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by drdamiang in innuendo, Poem, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature

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I delighted in
doing discourse
analysis on
your text

the words so
finger-
licking good

the pages so easy to
thumb through, find
separate.

THEN LET US TALK

31 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by drdamiang in Fashion, Poem, Poet, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature

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bring me
flat spiders for
my eyes because
they
don’t sparkle

and coral snakes: red
black, yellow

as writhing bracelets
for my arms

then let us
talk about
the look
of the poet

sashaying down Parnassus
a haiku behind
every haute-couture pout
every pret-a-
porter smile

STEAM PRESS

31 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by drdamiang in digital age, media, Poem, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, postmodern, Value and meaning, writing

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I dropped
my perfectionism
into a
steam press

hunting, lusting
for feedback

I hurled my
patience to create
across
digital
space

which, as we know,
curves
under

the gravity
of time

(too much
pressure to bear a spine)

PRESCRIBED READING

12 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by drdamiang in Author, Poem, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, Reader, writing

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what are
you going to read

down in your
mole-hole?

except
here we are talking
hundreds of feet down
sheathed by
solid concrete

how are you going
to pass the time?
no X-Files or Factor, Sopranos,
Thrones or regular channel programme

no sign
of Mickey Mouse, Cat in
the utterly absurd military hat, Richard III, Ivan Denisovich, Karamazov or
Captain Nemo

no chance of
luring Anna Karenina down
into your survival lair either

and as
for the Sound and the Fury
that would be
an apt read if
you could find a copy

such a good match, that title,
for what you did to the Earth’s surface

suddenly
our system having
two stars
the Sun
giving birth to
a child

discovering a
new twin

STYX

30 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by drdamiang in film, metapoetic/metafictional, Poem, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, psychological/psychoanalytical, Reader

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I have no time for useless pain.
Francis Underwood, House of Cards

enact me
kick the fourth wall
to fuck

go 100% Gary
Oldman on this poem

take it in a
totally sociopath direction

make this
shadow of me

radiantly black
dark as Styx

READ THIS POEM

23 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by drdamiang in ironical/comic, Poem, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, satire, Self-satire

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read this poem
it’s good for you

take two
dessert spoonfuls
three times
a day

and rub the
facilitating oil
it comes with
into those
parts that

are bound
to get affected

AVATAR FLASH FREDDY MERCURY

22 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by drdamiang in Ancient Greece, gods and goddesses, media, philosophical, Poem, Poet, poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature

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AVATAR FLASH FREDDY MERCURY

Plato asked me
what are
you doing?

and who do you
think you are
with that Flash Gordon helmet
and absurd boots with wings?

and who on the planet would
want to read your poetry
about
bodies, excreta,

fluids and things less
than philosophical.

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