Long Cathode Poems

Madison's defense of the establishment clause to the Virginia legislature:
"Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them, and not only during the...

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A slice of life / a day in the life

Out in the elements – almost every day, training,
weather, sunshine, cloudy – B. C. fate – raining.
Seventy five reps, twenty times over my head,
on my back,...

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AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”

(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)

Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mellow electric dream sound as the
Santa Monica Pier exudes...

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At altamira cave
For centuries,snowfall after snowfall,
Outside, in what would be Spain
They painted their walls and left their mark
Calling down the magic of image
To control the beasts whose flesh and bone and hide
Made possible their desperate...

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So as we claim some other fates decree
and rewritten history executes us by delete 
what call has come to the life within us
what have we left incomplete

The world turns from love
as it tramples over peace
no...

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Virtual Reality

At Altimira Cave
For centuries, in what would be Spain,
While the snows fell and fell
They painted their walls,
Making their mark,
Calling down the magic of the image
To control the beasts whose flesh and bone and hide
Made...

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They channelized the news
the quick zapped flash of fact undeniably
taking the opportunity by storm
by the contortions of varsity
they proclaimed so devoutly
the new acceptable norm
of an already butchered normality

And who with applause
with the legalized blurb
of an...

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Life behind these eyes

This old body, harboured among so many artifacts.
My Spirit wanders the spaces within my four cornered rooms.

My Soul searches for meaning beyond the bars of my steel cage.  .
My heart beats...

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We sit in our idle houses
plugged-in to the world wide web 
of digital madness and make-believe. 

We text tweet posts from on far and shadow fight in elections streams but hide our eyes in the...

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There is not a day
     
   Not a day goes by that storm cloud do not accumulate, gather in the deep recesses of my throat, and choke off my...

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he rubbed his eyes
and said you just think that way
so you always have an answer ready
which may well constitute
a state of pure entertainment
with multiple jaw grinding orgasms
in a dog lick dog kind of world
at Cathode...

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OF THE NEW FLESH

A returned to open channels 
Open to the unknown the beyond 
Burning humming like angry hornets
Bottled in electric light and shadows 
The whispers come through the void
Humming in the open channel 
Of...

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There’s not two ways of talking,
Two different points of view,
Many different angles to deflect,
Crazy pavements, something new.

There’s not another teller,
Presenting a link or chunk,
Framing circularly the story,
To nurture any cell’s hunk.

There’s not a plus one...

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In the museums we shudder
With vicarious delight
At the spectacle of the Aztecs -
A high culture founded on human sacrifice,
All the while not seeing -
Because we don't want to -
That the cult has never died;
Only the...

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Cathode Rays in the Darkness

Thelma Todd is on the Late Late Show,
Brought to the us by Kent cigarettes, which refines and
Refreshes with the exclusive Micronite Filter.
Her still tragic life in the steaming suburbs knows no...

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Fireflies twinkle in to the night 
little stars winking off N on 
each a light a sudden rush 
of memory
Each hit me hard 
as tears trace the inner scars 
memories of a time long 
almost...

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At the museums, we shudder
In vicarious delight
At the spectacle of the Aztecs:
A high culture founded on human sacrifice.
All the while not seeing -
Because we don't want to -
That the cult has never died;
Only the name...

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Video shock treatment 
got my thoughts moving wavy ... 
why ain’t my fear of the future 
dawn misty dissipating?
This mental picture is getting more hazy
Dr. Strangelove says 
the other patients are nervously afraid
of my tin...

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Modern Times

Universal truths or Universal Studios?
Can one distinguish any longer now
That the Universe has shrunk to a
Binary system of code,
Arcane enough to keep most believing
In a higher power, that is
	until
Brown-out causes
Questioning 
	albeit fleeting like light,...

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60's Child

I found myself at the tail end of childhood then,
Coming out of its long sunny sleep;
The days and nights of pleasures, terrors and wonders
Strung together to make up the pitted landscape
Of being small
Still filled...

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a blue chevy impala basks in a suburban driveway
like a beached whale it oozes gases and black oils 
its seeping white walls beg for rubber movements
little boy inside the house sits on a pleated couch
he...

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A reapers machine
hot white harvest 
bone dry land
years have been spent 
driving this reapers machine 
Across desolate lands
Shifting oblivion sands 
Of some mad American empire
Insanity conspires in dreams dark 
stark towers reach 
reaching into the...

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Surrender to the rhythm
under the world!

The night music of ages

Dance the Dance Macabre

Clubs deep bass seeps

Into Dark corners 
as the lunar keeps the time!

Electric lights keep the rhythm 
under the world…

Absent images in cathode 
rayed...

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When did you last smile,
  When death clear as a churchyard bell,
On a crisp Sunday wreathed around prayers,
  Rang a chime through prisms of ice
Singing of his arrival?
  As they planted his...

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The past dreaming 
of the future 
Burnt out at last
Light pulsing into the cathode ray tubes 
the wires of difference machines 
process seconds, data, imagery 
From diseased 
To hidden desire that fire electric nights
Shallow dreams...

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