Battery Check
Battery Check
I had better say this before it is too late
& I'm doing a battery check
down at the School of the Americas
badda boom mafia rim shot
the old wisdoms are newly or neo-inadequate
all of them every one
even the Arctic and Antarctic ones
he was a master of pedestrian insights
banal bourgeoisie profundities
packaged for the pop psychology lecture circuit
which hasn't got the people smarter faster
because buzzard shadows make the dogs bark
fangs missing the juggler completely
such a klutz whose eyes see nothing
the smell of carrion fur
has him growling at my lunarscape
drips blood across my dying lips
after the blackness of the old battle
and
amen
good observation kid
state of pure vulnerability
how much delusion can we rid ourselves of
while remaining ambulatory and sane
begging for rescue or a signal from the North
like a black widow at the movies
web over the projection hole
making time into the enemy
when it should be the enema
or obsolete as clown paint
and the pet tarantula craze
every kid had one beaten into him
in a wilderness of anachronisms
where it's the adrenals vs. the endorphins
both of them a film noir fun house mirror
one with a severe penalty for miscalculation
the other giving us the freedom
to destroy our soul
you need only see the obvious
criminally reckless manhood
hypochondriac womanhood
foretelling the future ain't a big deal
a child with a gun can do it
gun because nobody wants to hear it
apparently we haven't invented
pain free illumination yet
batteries not included
because they are not needed
because we are modifiable
in a good way
by our own hand
From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon
Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.site11.com/
Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2017
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