In Bed
In Bed
The central nervous heating system
pumping the womb
floating free
in seminal fluid
sucking on the umblical chord
Curled in the bed
in the Reichian curlicue
between clean silk sheets
in the cosy cage
away from the cold and the sleet’s scorching bone beat
tumbling only when the flushing revolving door pulsates
the thunder knocking to come crashing in
the blood in the mother stream choking in the throttled rush
Who wants to be out
in the rain in the shine
worrying about work about degrees
no work lack of opportunity
of hurts through making love
warding off pain shame and the retributing conscience
of justifying every action every little game
of the mind
from our own standpoint
by running everybody down
even those who stand up for us
brother sister mother father
backbiting in the sweating bed
in the haven imagining triumphs glories rosy utopias
Who hates not some one
hates himself
hates some body if not his maker
at the thought of his plight
out the safe mother oven
harrowing hate turning the dynamo of pretence
hypocrisy basking in blind bigotted bile
hate stoking the intense rocket-thrust furnace
consuming the guts
till
everybody hates everybody
the most intense force hidden in the pleats of the neuronal strata
hates the entire world all humanity
the strongest human force generated by man
Who would want to be out
before time
before we’re called upon to mind others we have put out
of the womb
of the world
of the safety of the dream bubble bed
unless if you call we can say
go away i’m in bed
or hold on just a sec
come to bed
bed with me till the morrows never end
or something like that
and keep the terror of the slinging mind from plunging through the cul
de sac
for yet a while longer
April 26, 1997 – Paris
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 1997 ; revised from the cvollection : longhand notes (1999)
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