SECTION NINE
POETRY PAGE FIVE
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COLUMN FIFTY-TWO, OCTOBER 1, 2000
(Copyright © 2000 Al Aronowitz)
LIVING
MANIFESTO
---Book
A
Wemustbe
a
poetics
centered on ideals
and wemustbe
a poetics
centered on typographical error.
Wemustbe
a
razorblade outlines
in a Sunday Times
or a false scissor cut.
Wemustlose
weight
on verbosity---
words hold down our
razorblade poetics, so
wemustbe a trim one
---Book
B
di
Prima had it right
THE
ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS
civil rights libertines needed di
Prima
ISTHEWARAGAINSTIMAGINATION
to march with full flags
and heavy hearts
heavy hands
ALLOTHERWARSARESUBSUMEDINIT
and just say whatcha mean, man
speak from heart-soul-cliche depths
and abysses
AWOMAN'SLIFE
di Prima dug it
he asked me to dig it
AMAN'SLIFE
and the shape of my poem
is my light etching, di Prima...hear
me?
ISANALLEGORY
and can you dig it?
---Book
C (Conscious)
And
oh we have to fight and win
because the oldpoetmen (in the end)
stared in the mirror naked
0000STARVING-HYSTERICAL0000
0000MAN-IS-HALF-TRASH0000
and noticed old skulls
old scars
and oh we have to fight and win
and oh we have to fight and win
for our circle, our group, our
pretension
0000WE-ILLUMINATE0000
illuminate the grinding
gnashing
poet-bashing
naked old skulls of dusty old poetmen
who thanked the Lord Our God
even in adversity
diversity
who racially combined
works and words and
0000AH-EXCELLENT-HE'S-DOING-JUST-THAT0000
creating speech in rhythm
and palletes for the masses
---Book
E (Colonization)
Communists
create
socialists debate
Capitalists drink gin
(((thank you Allen)))
and the assholes tangle
all over again.
Sacred Heart of Christ
Sacred Circle of Buddha
of Vishnu
of
you too.
Secular humanist views
and how-do-you-do?
Civil manifesto
tell me how the wind blows
WE WE WE DONT NEED A WEATHERMAN
it's weather, man
it's summer, man.
Even in winter
discontent over the
Month of May
-with a nodnodnod to AG-
whose beauty lasted for 20 years
through Marxist beatings
and global fleecings.
---Book
F (Commercialism)
We
apologize.
There is no Book F. See Book D.
The customer is
always right.
(Political)
---Book
E (Organization)
Dewey
Decimal
875.32 AG
975.64 WR
322.08 PR
369.69 Undesirable
and
where can we find
. . .
at
827.88
G
or
365.65
F
and
866.59
AG
Thank
you
and to all a good night
---Book
G
Kerouac
had it right
"Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind"
and
"Be in love with yr life"
and I offer you this
my
living manifesto
my
dying manifesto
we can "accept loss forever"
(even,our,own)
and "believe in the holy contour of
life"
for life
forever.
So I say Kerouac had it right
"You're a genius all the time".
---Book
H
I
believe she
was
off the map
I believe
if I
turn back
now
I'll be
off the
map, I
do
believe
they left
together
- an
urgent phone
call
-
it
went too
far
and
who really has
a
love-hate
anything these days
no matter no
matter
(pulling,back,alittle) what
I
believe.
---Book
I
Crooked
backwards smiles
pirhanas (sic)
in your eyes
(that,inner,eye)
computers can see inside faces
now.
it's tech
nology.
---Book
Z
Craft
is craft night is the end the
end is the end of the
night,worth,the,morning take little
blue pills to correct heart attack
the
jewel center composing *WILD* crazier
the better the apostle the disciple
believer *Christian AG Praise God*
visual American form the bookmovie
the
telemovie radioplay Internet at your
fingertips email in a box wherein it
becomes an angel and we can all be
angeled and don't turn around the
corner,watch,the,religious quiet
ones*don't turn your back around*
like in
prison where your pen is your shank.
MEASURED PAUSES WHICH ARE THE
ESSENTIALS OF SPEECH.
Praise God...remember your Maker even
in the days of your youth. ##
* * *
PROLOGUE
I
think therefore
I can never be
(live-up-to-the-daytimes nightimes)
and the night is worth
the morning
aww
eine-kleine-nachtmusik and little
atomies
phylogenies of what you'll
never be
(under,the,sun)
Jesus' philosophy
Why oh God did they do this to me
hot iron
on the heart
hot steel hot hot through the wrists
ankles
an arrow
t
h
r
o
u
g
h
the heart
landscape ladders
Shirley
Temple cherry-sequestered matters
laying heavy
a heavy load
like
an orange mint on her lips
and
apple blossom hips.
In
her name, Carlos, I'll
PROMOTE
A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD
and fuse
the poet's attitudes. ##
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