Sympathetic
Superstitious Avatar
I.
He understood the obvious
A way of swearing, without swearing
Instead of saying “Jesus Christ—market place
X-Box!”
He’d say “Jiminy Cricket—events around the
Klaxons’ song.”
He’d say “Organized comic apocalyptic picaresque
anti-hero schlemiel!
Take it or leave it!”
II.
In some teeming cycle of departure & return
Breaking silence is the purpose
The function of—
The only man still surviving
Hailed by some
Described by others—
An attraction between atoms
A lung condition linked
To a tidal wave of dust—
He deserts you every day!
III.
“Hell, I was in Greece!” sd thinking blonde
avatar
“Entrapping empathy
Under dark & lonely abstract theory
I would get bogged down
Standing before truth
Foretelling the events of 9-11 in spooky
quatrains
Sidestepping theory
In Mass Market breaches of security
I dreamt the whole world
Was condemned
I cheated at a game of cards
Anticipating the modern & postmodern world.”
Stealing the Thawed Brain Back to Normal*
I.
He is finished
Who’d watched all the
while
You hold him
He swims his paws
It’s kinda like
Pause. Look.—
The storm burst over
the resinous pines
II.
A chunk of body of
A little wedding dance
& I’m tired of
pretending like
Normal brain
Photograph
Disorder
Said no one in
particular
I enjoy lying
But
To sight see is to
Bartender in hell
In the past I’ve
labeled it
The day before—
A veritable
scatological apocalypse
III.
Pigeons are spinning
again—
A soundless wake
Of whiteout
Into enormous space
The maps are made
Everything speaks to
him
A loud voice saying—
Myself crazy with
A garland of
dandelions
Cannot drive him
Drip drip. Drip drip.
& to the pod most
mellifluous—
Do you know how to
break a radio?
Model it in real time?
I had thought the
other night
Allure can perturb
An object
* Source text: In the
House of the Hangman
#381, 382, 383, 384, 385
By John Bloomberg-Rissman
Raymond Farr lives in Ocala, FL. His work is widely published in many poetry journals and blogs, both on line and in print. He is author of 6 print books, the latest of which is Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), and two on line ebooks, chainge (Chalk Editions 2011) and Two Texts (Chalk Editions 2010). He is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog.
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