GREAT (?) EXPECTATIONS
They looked
they wanted
they expected
a boy,
but only she came.
disappointment
he died
on the way here
he
was buried by the tracks
along
Aristotle’s Way.
wagoner's grief grips the seat.
identification. dog tags. erupted parcels of pills. dreams of aliens mixed with
night mares survived. who took the survey? beliefs in the Hippocratic Oath.
members only drinks. cigar smoke. reading the news. parallel memories.
on
walls of parallel memories
who wants to work
who wants to eat?
scaffolding
so
high
it
blocks the sun
lines
no longer
carry
life
THIS is
why grey snow falls.
Another
attack
like
it was nothing/our walls were
NOTHING
mediocre
pilots
it’s
a new record
blades
made hypocrisy rise.
ice
scrapers. absolved Soviet dishes. drones. a new empire. past. past the
scaffolds wavering in the wind zone high up 80 or so miles so high that I can
see over the Rockies into the Canyon so bizarre in haste scrambled to eat and
run.
words
were spilling
new
frozen realms
can
you take me to their leader?
music
was waning
a
search team not sent.
its
too good to be true
hooked
up to inevitable conclusions
upside
down
she
said she would try free her
but
chains too long
attached
clipboards
names
of the doomed
embedded
in Canyon scaffolds.
haste.
driven past the equinox Adonai heeded
healed disrupted animal life bizarre sounds of the stereo equipment installed
opened climbed up a ladder a stone stairwell eaten
resolved. analysis of the leader.
speakers. microphones. assailants. sound traps. a trillion deaths. miles of
sand the conclusion dissolved in apprehension.
Apprehension
its
all a Questions
Does life give
second chances?
Do
you?
Flat line bomb
drop
You’re not
helping.
I wont endanger
your entitlement
to knowledge
(and dead ends),
minor innovations
the chance to take
assailant labor
into uncertain futures.
make up your mind.
As much as we
give,
our mistakes are
impossible
to recover from.
a
thought of Beckett's Waiting. messenger. Abraham-the fable. attempt to imagine
God. ideas. a breath. an atom. who knew that the first atomic explosion would
stop? Teller's tall talent. enough. air. bodies breathe. taken awry.
split. swam across
an alleyway. of beliefs that bled and
followed the course. a simple extraction. people laugh. ideas suffer. graduate.
degrees. splendid. we repeal.
Truth
Tellers
Stay
out of sight
they were so young
red sightings through trees
stones tinkering
it was 5.42am
and warnings were scarce.
he hunts alone
while we try
to rebuild our strange cities
NOT based on fables
but Abrahamic faith.
Confessions of escapees
confined at all times
former members of council
deterrents
our hands always forced
(here),
a chance to start something
better
(there)
now just prisoners without titles.
The
birth rings. parallel. aspects. pieces. meanwhile the space voyager espies
Pluto and eavedrops beyond the geomagnetic prism.
We
found a way out
perhaps
we will go home
whatever
is going down
these places,
these people,
they’re not real
not
our real.
We’re
forever playing
Catch-Up
and
life
it’s
The Great Fire
over
and over and over
again.
Great
Fires-burnt Europe through the ages. the Heraclitean fire,the photons embarking
on their 100,000 year journey from the center of the sun to reach California to
burn the shrubs.
accelerants.
fire obsessions. the Great Chicago Fire caused by a cow in a barn. smoking. a
band. a smoking jacket puffing in the lounge and discussing macroeconomic
stats.
A verse
set on fire
lost replaced with
Outside there,
things
seemed more vibrant
but
you were dead
and the insects,
they feed on us.
a
funeral
I
tried to get away
as
far as possible
other
wars,
rescue
missions
Great
Fires
I
needed that payment
dreaming
every
night
nothing
was real
how?
that
cut in the earth
wider
than we could imagine
found
in emergency kits
while
Edwardians danced
their
silly dances
and
the poor?
they
just starved.
the
fire in Baltimore-the riots-the CVS pharmacy and an unfinished apt complex for
elders. the police commissioner was fired. games. game theory. the rulebook of
Machiavelli. you must be a master of lies to advance.
If you have something you know other people want
how do you hide it?
Coins in the jukebox
Campari on ice
excavated from the Himalaya’s
by Japanese running columns
connected somehow
were you Machiavelli followed?
Its what the seasons come down to.
someplace
to rest. London. criminal bombings. the Londoners hiding in the Tubes.
the Americans come. D-Day. reichs. the penalties never end.
We have to keep moving
through isolated landscapes
so cold the rotors freeze
even music is quiet.
Can you shut the airlifts to safety?
its getting worse in quarantine
hiding makes changes necessary
be safe out there
in
someplace to rest.
the
airport vision. the pilots' visors. their families home somewhere maybe
divorced and alienated while the flight ventures through streams of clouds and
tariffs.
flying
past
families
past
files and sweepers
they
didn’t really care for anyone
if
he dies
no
one will know
trying
to open metal doors
that
never were locked
windows
on top
the
view down
- it was enough for
us
- to hang on
out
there
getting
creative.
Conversations that stopped
watching
clouds and tariffs.
deaths
and ports. waiting for arrivals. a smoking lounge. a comfortable seat on the flight.
first class. travel. relics. what is your favorite dinner? we have learned.
arrears. tables. meal preparations. for a banquet. requests. songs. the
players.
the airport vision continues?
I’ve just come
from the stars
(a game face).
- said the players
Strapped to requested chairs
- What’s the plan?
Regarding?
- You’re here to screen us?
You think you’re
ready?
the
drawings
they
pass the time
no
more voices, just mine
that’s better -
in and out of
these mind places
why
do you question me?
Secrets my dear
are never said out loud
no matter what or where
you
cannot even breathe them.
listening,not
on purpose,in the lounge. secrets? everybody's business. earphones.
games. everything is electronics. waiting to physically fly someplace else. to
be aloft for a while.
Pluto.
suddenly we know it is a red planet with a nitrogen atmosphere and liquid
nitrogen rivers and a giant moon with a gash in its face. and it is not all
dark-it gets a few minutes of dusk from the sun.
ice
mountains, on icy orb downgraded dwarf planets, clues to water soft bedrocks,
secret surprises on tv on tight chairs, people breathing too close.
From
the flightdeck
Please
pocket your great expectations
the
deal was signed a big piece of the puzzle спокойствие
but
aren’t you curious about the rabbit? secretly of course
I’m skeptical
the very nature of ethics
is
they cant be trumped
decaying
moral fiber
walking
talking
rarely
wanting
whatever
you gave them
(from
the outward bound flightdeck).
the
dictation. anarchy bites? escapes. the structure explained. Hobbes: here
are the passions-chief of which is the desire for power which is only cut off
by death. the ascent of assessments. the judge. cherubim. (Poe's
visions).
his
highness. the queen dictates the stages of ascent. the Dantean spiral.
accentuated models. animated. the debate in the lounge.
Jasmin-what-you-doing?
Stop
staring/scaring the customers
do
you know who that is?
The Pilot?
everything
all right?
it could be better - right?
what
you got kid?
five
years later
high
penetration bullets
stock
trading on power
deep
breathing
a
son down a rabbit hole
betting
10 to 1
in
airport lounges
falling
though barriers of ascending assessments terminating in accentuated models.
rightly
observed. the cost of money. a separable calculation. bonds. all is found.
unpaid. representatives tolled. i can't find my monocle. i know it slipped out
of my pocket. it might be 35,000 feet down by now.
home
(a while away)
in
better spirits?
a
whole newfangled realm
no
boundaries
loosing
our minds (at 35000 feet)
tell
me if I’m crossing lines
a
tired
but
tested compass.
obscurity
in misunderstanding
where are we?
no sign
yet
could
they back out?
in
some kind of orbit impossible to recognize. skepticism. belief systems. The
Egyptians discarded the brain considering the heart the most important.
(The We) are
transhistorical
longing
for what has
eluded (The Us)
transcultural
relinquishing
character
to
irony
breathtaking in scope.
met
somewhere in Berlin sometime when it was tranquil in the aftermath. read a map.
the zones. the quarters. the ideologies. past times.
They found your monocle
homeless in Berlin
early
map reading
birds
in flight
circumferential
navigation
unique
ideologies
no
fake calls
jumping
on loose boards
he
kept kicking
chaos
to touch
when
they looked for him
when
he saw him,
he just wasn’t
there.
a
no show. I ducked into a café. watched out the big glass window. a field of
lives. a coloration. a speech. an inspection. creatures. which customer has a
bomb? field artillery signals.
it
was the butler.
Who
would have thought…
his
companions at the citadel
DID
they try stopping him
hard enough?
Blame.
It
goes a long way on winters nights out there
looking
for her
it
doesn’t matter who wrote it
but
who acts it
(that’s
what they whisper)
(ultimately).
Columbo
interrogated so innocuously with his dog and his wife and inspected the food
particles on the fork. a death sentence. the judgement. the frail system.
sized penitentiary. besides it was a calm night and the wind seemed comforting.
Book
and Chapbooks made for An Encyclopedia of Everything - The Expanded Version.
Edition
of 1 Book and 7 chapbooks. Word
collaboration with David began 29th June and ended (but began again)
on July 29th 2015. Serendipitous? I think so.
