Thursday, 8 May 2014

Its Just Not Wonderland Cheryl Penn/Wolfgang Günther

Jim elbowed Jane
dear, I taste a tear
in my T
Sshhh
The jabberwocky sups.
Alice hands out papyrus
And quill
The mice wait.
The Queen of Spades
Digs
Into minds not her own
Seeking
She knows not what -
An Elusive
An Evanescent
An Ephemeral
A transitory moment
With which to complete her dinner.

Still there was sugar
left
& on the right
a piece of sad intelligent reasoning
crawled up, ended it's start & continued

what just had begun
 Jim elbowed Jane a gain
He said:
A tear is subjective and objective,
but the enticing thing about it:
it's relative...
She offers some sighs,
trying to keep the T away from
her eyes
and asks him out.
Later she:
What about the calories in my tears?
To what do they relate?

I could ask Epicurus I
Guess
But
The Queen of Spades has
her I on him
Whispered Jim.
Relative Subjectivity
And its branches of
assorted librettos
Twittered behind their fateful cards -
Didn’t Jim know 
that object of  adoration
was currently
not objectively
prostrate
at the feet
of the Queen of Hearts?


Today Epicurus
is running a mega ishop:
Physics, canonics, ethics –
the tears in between...
The unhappy
i-ing of
the benevolent,
even with face on soil -
jes, better 1 glass I than 2.
& beyond Is there IS
& will be
more to silence
than meets the ear.
The spading queen
was hung up AS she
cleared the muddy table.
& the papyrUS
stained with the sweetnESs
of Jane's tears
got lOSt.
PAPER
IS PATIENT.
The deep shallowness
of
simple-minded symbolism
(footnotes of pedestrians).
Still,
the illuminated nothing
is superior to everything
(ELSE)
& also the use
to which all ends are put
is usually
about the same
as dinner was over.

BUT BUT
whats for Pudding
came a squeak  from page twenty eight
Volume 3
Of
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The waitron attired in
One of Alice’s hand-me-downs
Muttered:
Calculus with Custard
Pythagorean with Prunes
Or
Euler’s Equation with Egg Ngoc.


Checking it out.
The
CUBITOMANIAC
repeats
the moments of collision...
hoping for bilinearity
in fairly good
APPROXIMATION.
Loosely untightened
& mincing the matter,
she said:
"Oh!"
& added
 "Jes!"
A freestyle
glucose measurement
of her lacrimal fluid...
1,  2! 1, 2!
& through & through
the vorpal blade
went snicker-snack!
"Too low to be sweet,
too high not to sweeten!"
The waitron
- meanwhile -
attended the etceteras.

Jack (of diamonds)
Was blown away
By the snort
Of a large
Truncated
Mamihlapinatapei.
Retrouvailles
Thought Jack Spratt
With Quirky delight -
This might not be too bad a
Vorpal Snicker Snack.
A timid KNOCK
From the swing door
Turned out 2 B
A Galumphing Back.
The ‘guests’ were
DE-lighted
Galumphing Backs being
Creatures so rare.




Putting it straight:
JACK, i.e. the GRETEL-less HANSEL,
proved himself able to master
the 1st half of
the mamihlapinatapei whole
(the 2nd half  being hold
& featured by JANE).
The candesartancilexetile
AiW-Syndrome
became evident,
WHEN they joined up
at the Shenanigan's
en Ciudad Quesada,
next to the Marquesa Golf Resort,
& beat their hearts.
The big bang is all social, a matter
of unconditional basic income.
The galumphing back,
a special type of gangoozler,
was trying to save his oxymorosity.

Eegghhmmm
Came a Big Bang -
1.25498 on the Richter Scale -
from the  5th corner
Of the 6th dimension
Of the 7th battalion
Of Daresbury -
None other Caroll of Lewis himself.
If I could call
to order
the response
was instant
chicken mayonnaise on rye!
mince on toast!
vegan gangoozler stew!

Silence descended after this last remark
OFF WITH HIS HEAD
yelled the Queen of Hearts
moron-no-oxy screamed snarky Jane
under her breath.


Yes, at intervals ONE
encounters
a czech oozing "Hmmm!"
when looking  at
the electric brain capacity
of  Ghana ...
The everlasting Eegghhmmm,
so often forgotten lately.
It's among the eternal FAQs.
& appears in spotting lyrics
of the 6th dimension –
pure thought.
(after combing the eeg
with all that semiautomatic
shit they use to use these days).
Enigmatically Ergophobic
Gogetter's Gentleness –
Heavy-duty Humane
Marketing
Mob Management.
Soul sister Judith
with a subtle energy shift (SES)
did it again:
ALICE & ALAS -
moments of an
intrinsic  female
collision  operator (IFCO)...

Alas Alice
I am Awash in
A sea of Semiotics
Bombarded by
Saussure-ian linguini.
The waitron freed at last
From the clutches of etcetera’s
attended the late rabbit
clutching a time piece.
Is that a clock/dog/pipe?? -
(rude interruption by an
unrecognizable THING)
O GIVE IT UP -
“in a language state
everything
is based on relations”!

Lessness... Shiplessness...
Relation-shiplessness,
a  protolessness.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
1st.  Our TONGUE .
Catharsis!
Not only relaxation.
The fairy tale of a fairy tale?
Don't move it! Forget it!
No noodles...
2nd.  Our BRAIN. Same thing.
Don't move it! Forget it!
No boodles...
The same applies
to the pelvic base
& some aspects  of the
BEACHWOOD MANGROVES.
& no macbethian sleepkilling!
Fufosot?
Purgation & pupation
at the mere sight of
the upper bordure
of the the waitron's apron.
Yet another rrrrrrrring toneeee!
They are serving burgers.
Saussure:
"All tongues back to work!"

Did someone call
Muttered Macbeth
I only came for a free lunch!
Such babble,
Such baubles of
Blistering complexity
Dare electrons fake
Giant Holes? 
Pierce postulated
In a pedantic
Positronic tone
Moon drops on Roses
And whiskers on kittens
These are a few of my favorite…
Ooooo my head my head
And Macbeth fell down dead.

The paramedic weird
sister dismounted
the high dynamic range
of the ambulance.
"Abra-kadroxee!
The hand is
the tool of the soul!
Abra-kadropsee!
Arise & walk!"
Macbeth got back
into the normality
of his uncertain future.
Lady M. sent for Jane,
who was still busy drying
this tear drop on her pillow.
"By Jingo,
we will go out then
for a glass of lunch!
& enjoy the kingsome
wonderweather..."
says M. & grabs hold of
Jane's right arm.

Dr Strange looked at
Macbeth reclining on his
Pristine couch
So you were planning on stealing…
I TOLD  YOU
THE VORPAL SWORD
biting his liverish tongue
Strange transcribed on his papyrus desk
classic Spinoza -
fear/hatred/anger/Alice-ian Contempt
Paper windmills burn at dawn.
Thane of Glamis
praying Mantis
dismantled -
his own uncertain future
beckoned
from the back window
of a flying ant.

The curtain fell
& the dinner was sorry.
Emerges
SlipPERy ethics
of limitation
declaring:
"Instead for whatnots
we care for walnuts!"
& says Mad Hatter:
"Brains are head matter.
Saving the world l call
'Anesthetize them all!'"
(Best before rising seas.)
& disappeared
into the smaller print.
Bottoms up,
fairy queens and kings!

now
and then
behind the stage
the actors were a-flutter -
deduction deception
did I shine?
cartesian supposition
philosophical reduction
a tsunami swept in.

the smaller print
hunkered down,
awaiting Aristotle’s material cause.
A Plato  of Forms
passed around - one only please
for those
in existential hypostasis.


tsunami
@
gewgaw
in both hands
plastic bags
of  "gourmet"-type
again
right in the middle
of the Pacific
ho WE + all our causes
getting into
"IT I HIT"
as far as
WE know water
@
well due to co2
(on all our sensors)
@
ankle-high
with golf balls
on the ground
@
soft stuff
floating deductions
cartesian challenges
from bar to kitchen
@
WE told "HIM"
there's too much
gewgaw
jabberwock  thinking
on the pillars

pillars palisades pickets
the world totters on
pivotal stakes 
piloting disaster
the quiver oscillates
catastrophic cataclysmic
cycles.
No Water Wasteland -
would you like some
cryogenic hypostatic
with your Armageddon?


His awesome pivotal stake
didn't render assistance
to ÖTZI
when he suffered
cryogenic eschatology:
Turning free men
into risk patients.
High up below zero.
A failure of 
postprandial thermogenesis.
Nowaday's Ötzis
believe in their
lacquered bull terriers,
their driver's licence
& their holy right of way.
Paracinquainic speak:
Culture!
Ideal & material...
Done deeds doing deeds to the done.
Gender birdies at black holes...
Best practices!

Alice placed
A gloomy hand in her pocket
of Extincts 
wondering if
Bubal Hartebeest would appear
Sometime after 1923 -
nothing crawled from the cultural abyss.
Quagga on her left said
Let Him Be.
The Wasteland (a year prior)
making it 1922
intoned to Chopin
the burial chant of the dead.

Ab aeterno
man at random?
Cute quaggas
taking care of the nation...
Holdyourtongue, said the Queen,
turning purple.
Iwon't, said Alice.
& Einstein on bees -
Shared with mankind,
charged with popular murder,
going the way of the dodo bird.
Call free: Ex for sure -
0800-6352200 now...
Science IS/AS
a faith based belief.
Yes: 1 Khuma for
every reporter of Sky News.
& futterwacks in the wasteland.
The car is certain,
the hour not.
Ad finem...



Saturday, 3 May 2014

What If? Petru Viljoen/Cheryl Penn (South Africa)

What if 
Petru Viljoen/Cheryl Penn

If I used that it would work but 
I'd like to see
to see what's behind that
one there, over there,
and what 
what would happen 
if I opened it.

I opened
And paper windmills started
Burning.
Their ash scattered
As
Great winds from the north
Moved pre-breathed air
Into my space.

scraps of paper, written
here, written there
(whirling)
snatched at as it
flies by in
the age of information.

I choke on the
ooze of incomprehension

We get it
No we don’t
Or did we –
I just cant say.
Deep in,
The thinner thicket
thickened.
Words called.
Branches once laden
With Librettos pleaded.
Scripts being picked off
One
By
One.


By anyone
I tell you, I tell you
the scripts were picked off by anyone
one by one,
those branches were once laden
with a manner of speaking..

It told of this, of how
it was and it told
of that of why
it were
but now those branches
are barren.

Sparrow barren
Barren sparse spark.
Which is it to be?
I ask today, today today
What if
Today I spin out of sync
With reality?
Locked in a litany of eulogies
My sun starts to set.
Panegyrics panic
Librettos’ laugh -
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
As three blind mice.

Not to talk of the farmers' wife -
The Queen of Spades is coming to tea.
Bloody Mary anyone?

Contrariness of Mary: a discussion.
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Should we, or should we not?
That's the question!

In the meantime ...
The blind mice crept around
and found a quiet corner.
Just then was heard a great shout.
What about? What about?
The roar of the crowd quite
woke the three blind mice from
their restorative nap. And then
please note, ...
ladies and gentlemen!
Do you, or do you not
have a pen and paper?


Jim elbowed Jane
dear, I taste a tear
in my T
Sshhh
The jabberwocky sups.
Alice hands out papyrus
And quill
The mice wait.
The Queen of Spades
Digs
Into minds not her own
Seeking
She knows not what -
An Elusive
An Evanescent
An Ephemeral
A transitory moment
With which to complete her dinner.


What if, what if, indeed,
what if enigmatic
would do what has to be DONE?

A chestire smile spread
the ladies and the gentlemen
licked the tips of their quills
and decidedly dipped it in the ink.

Wide-eyed Alice wondered,
Jabberwocky ate long,
the mice quivered,
Jane elbowed Jim, write on!
Right on!
Grisaliously, the queen of spades
looked at the shades ...

Enigmatic Static
Rudimentary Pie
Would you like custard with that my dear?
Decided dips
Smacking lips
Elementary excavating by the Queen.
Ladies and Gentle
Men
I have an
Announce
Meant:
Would the owner of the
floating
Lost Ephemeral
Please remove it from my soup.

Then pass me the ècuelle
please, madame
since ephemera ain't
what you dig.

It may just maybe suit, just
the ecaudate mice
who will, in a trice,
lap up the soup.
It's their strength they're in sore need
to recoup.

The queen goes hungry
and it makes her angry
that she had to raid the pantry
herself.

Alice, Jim and Jane
aristocratic women, docile men
duly  evidenced
echolalia

Eeish!
Jim scratched his head
Assaulted by stray
Echophemomenas and Echopraxias
In their pantry paltry escape.
The queeny now greedy
Of everything not hers
yelled in her aristocratic way -
I’m culling/annihilating/scrapping
The Elusive Ephemera.
A bellow from the corner
revealed
the lost page (229)
from Gibbons
Fall and Rise of the Roman Empire -
WHO’S FOR PUD???
ALL FALL INTO LINE!

What's for pud? I'd rather know
And I'm not standing alone in no line
for any either! What's this? A soup kitchen?
And Who's this queen anyway?
What's she got
or haven't and on about howling.
From Chicago to Paris
She has me Beat at that
hotel where there were almost
always
only minutes to go. Ephemera?
Some Londoners might mind you
know. When there are centuries
to read.
Jim! Alice wants her tea.
Please. Here and Now.

the shuffle of slapping slippers
along a winding corridor floor
a rabbit asleep in a far flung
corner.
Alice rubs tired eyes
awake from a weird -
DREEEM?
morning my dear says Mavis
large bosom
bustling with early
Bolshoi brevity
bursting from her copious chest-
Bread and milk my little Peach?
Mavis?!
thought Alice
where’s Jim?

Jim is  in Chicago.  He went on tip toe.
Jane turned into a cROW, yet she'll be back in a mo'
Mavis let the mILK flow
Alice went on a go sLOW
The mICE found a BurRough
the queen has the mad hatter in TOw.  OW!

(Don't let her know
about Mavis!)

HOW contrary Don Quixote
that you fell in love
with the farmer's wife
while fighting windmills
all in a row.

It was an elastic day,
this
Aristotelian time of pure ethics.
Quixote brandished his
four causes to the wind,
digged Rocinanto in his
Plato place
and
sang his swam song.
The road was a ghostly
Galleon
Tossed upon cucumber and cheese
STOP! HALT!
the word police yelled -
FREEZE!


Oh PuhLeasE! To be compelled
thus in a manner of speech
is, indeed, most, MOST I note ...

SILENCE!!

Uh? Okay! But ... why?!
Sitting in the dock, -stretching time ...
...  Plato's shadows on the wall -
ephemeral, hypnotic, inner thicket,
intrinsically reflecting extrensic;
then! - on the Night of the Moon ...
ladies were distressed.
The knighted men approached  ...

OBJECTION!!

But your Honour!
What,  we gently meant to say: WHAT if ...

SILENCE!!

Oh! WHY?!

Your HoNOur!


(I wish Ari would hurry on
his perambulatory wondering.)

Is this wrong? yOUR H(on)OUR?


A screech
Of brakes
Brought What If to
Verse Nineteen Honour-ish.
We need at this moment
to produce evidence in situ of
proximity to publishing
post modern posits on pretentious
commercial cultural clutter
OBJECTION!!
What twaddle
What twittering
What clattering claptrap!

Confusion reigned,
the Queen of hearts absconded
in a cloud of elegant peanut butter.


I'm never buying that Black Cat stuff again
what IF the queen ...
Jim! Jiiiim! Wake up!
Huh? Oh! Where ...? OH!
Jim?
Eyes rubbed clear of sleep
a mouse scurrelled, peeped
and was gone.

Wide eyed now, wondering
Jim looked at Jane
who was pondering.
Jim's incomprehension.

Like Jim,
The pudding was overripe
Incomprehension, born
a weathered tattoo
to most
who sip a nectar combo
(not on the Wimpy breakfast menu)
of blankness and perplexed saline sap.
Those deep within its grasp
do not hear
What If?
What if they awake
From the daze of bafflement
To LIVE a
What If Life.

What Then?