Tuesday, February 28, 2023

How to Become a Living God (poem)

  1. Entrapment


Eyes open and special 

 man of wires, 

 “god is not with me! 

cracked open!”

 

Slither into God 

compelled to 

 catch his credit 

 barring a Zerubbabel overflow, 

the stale cream moon descends

into the mud 

 like it belongs to me 

like this insubstantial pageant is all 

[kill yourself and the mortal god will bless you] relax 

like a priestcraft of solace in sleep

 what is the black water snapped over the echo? 

 quakes? 

 our KING maker ate kings 

 drank its own mother’s piss

And encased the white sun

  In the morningstar


  1. Union


 The sun comes forth again 

 daedalus meteorites

 could strip a shield 

with quivering hands of shivers and 

 now martyrs itself 

with that Icarus fiction 

The Mistress of Jurisdiction sent vengeance on her wings

To rid our sensitivity of Gomer gravestones

So that we may become dreamsongs 

Fit to master nations


The white sun comes

 shivering over its objects

 Having forgotten they belong to life 

The white sun comes 


 who enacted this miracle?

 Choking down berry after berry 

 whatever sings a name 

To become a god

 cut to become addicted 

to people who were trained 

 To love to preach a pleasant grin

In their god’s name


  1. Ascension



 myth was afraid

 art sung for a sentence

 useful for measuring

the density of an enema

 like some immediate

 tradition affords a trench

to bury men who Imagine that God 

is like a rapidly closing wound

fading into place

 both barrels point toward everything

 their own cells become strangers 

 Flushing and wetting 

every method of necessity

 to break free 

  

 This enclosure has no exits

Fall in enough times to ruin your reflection

circle back to protect it

And now it has more

To lose

Than you




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