Andrei Codrescu:
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My next book will have a poem for each
Saint dropped by the Church,
33 poems in all,
the longest one for Saint George
who was the longest man in the world when added
to the end of his lance.
I will put a little cross by each poem
meaning, "here lies,"
a very deceptive move since no one
will lie in there,
no one, not even the Monk
who will be out thinking of girls.
what are poems?
when they
shoot
put
your mouth
on your palm
and
suck
your
lifeline
out
of
it!
this way
they will be shooting
nothing an egg
a brand new
man
with a
blank
fate
It has.
In the East, history's remade.
In the West, erased.
On top of that
Big Words are coming back.
Ontology. Sport. Meaning. Millstone. Destiny. Deck.
The Debil. Der Gott. Life. File. Evolution. Mort.
Das Central Nervous System and Das Central Comitat.
Heavy-duty dudes con metashovels unearthing
Grand Clichés all over town
but mainly at the corner of Narcissus & Labyrinth,
a particularly, ugh, favorite psycho-intersection.
It's all this relativism, mahn,
bearing fruit & it ain't Fourier's pear.
Not mist, mysto-demagoguery.
Popular occult delusions
Speer-catch intellectual magna.
Another espresso please, easy on the surfeit.
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