Theater of Utter Charm Part 10
he licked the carving knife at every meal
the old gods hovered close
he knew who they were and furthermore
why they want to be real so badly
consequently only the curious will ever
make sense of this enmanglement
letters of marque available upon inquiry
so many justifications so little time
extreme hipsters unite
you have nothing to lose but your corners
a bumbling manifesto for rotund halfwits
except for one
who appears to be our captain
quite thinly sutured and bow tied
for we must never forget
those who have fallen
for the trinkets and bijous
glittering on the screen while they last
on file at the Gemstone Network
yes things come radically into perspective
and then gyrate madly out again
in dreadful need of an aspirin or a bullet
this really can go anywhere
for example
we emerged stumbling from caves
choking in the smoky blackness
surveying the devastation the carnage
the upending of our terrestrial domain
by the larger domain of greater detail
it's that simple
a moment's reflection will confer
that its logic is not chopped liver
I have to go now the pipes are calling
and so are the police sirens
what does it take to buy
a little slack in this town
the roar of his inner feline
was more like a Halloween belch
trick or treat is pretty much
the name of the game
message message blank your message
this is the voice of abstraction
point B seen from point A
with some time in between
not many original thinkers out there
when we really do need to be patentable
are you ready to play the game yet
I'll be the economics professor
and you can be the union vanguard
and they can be the cigar chomping bosses
except that all the union guys chomped cigars too
and I seldom mind lighting up a Macanudo
in dreadful need of jugglers and clowns
leaping chasms of doubt climbing spires of fear
somersaulting across a galaxy of ideas
about how the world and our minds are made
and so on and so forth till death do us part
wedded to truth and the truth of our end
fill in the appropriate blanks
in the code talker's tool box
they didn’t call it slapstick for nothing
one slap for laughter
two slaps for victory
three slaps for honor
slap slap slap slap
you can arrange them as you wish
that way everybody gets in the act
just don't ever start thinking
you can't be fooled
nobody gets off that hook
(to be continued)
From "Theater of Utter Charm"
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Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2018
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