Monthly Archives: July 2009

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Ringing and Ancient Bell

ringing and ancient bell,
call us all together
succour from calumny,
give voice your word
your siren balm

yield to me, horn of david
my Chinese brother
call me all tend
his sullen cell encrusted
in the terrors of his state

surrender to me, adamic flute
my Indian sister
from hindu nationalist (love him!) shielding
with tears a universe wide
her sacred and tremulous child

deign to offer me, song of moses
my Rwandan father
his sheep one and all
battered and splayed
their chorus hands remember

give me, give me, eloi-song
to know how long!
to wear the robe of the little longer
with blood and impatience and mourning
for the no longer under the throne

this day, today i seek i call
to the four angel trumpets:
speak, resound and let the earth
now give up her dead
give up her dead

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And Ten Thousand

now, infinitely and always—
MONDAY-FRIDAY 1900EST—
we wildly cast about for harbour
while larynx, tongue and hypothalamus
are siphoned,
nectars dipped and stilted,
brewing the acrimonious engine.

080818850702188712241887
022119030411190304221903
091219181107191811111918
07031937—(INAUDIBLE)—0518194211221942
112519631023196401251965

flee, sir francis! flee, leonardo!
flee, thomas, with your serpent sun!
flee, sweet charles! (take the finches!)
your madness sickly demons have awakened:
their potencies sow the air
and Electricity singes our souls.

there are no more mysterious
names:
all are scintillatingly archived,
catalogued
and dispatched.

01071975 COMPUTER STOPPED AT 10:07 AM, RESUMED AT 10:50 AM. TRADING HALTED 43 MINUTES. 01151975 COMPUTER STOPPED AT 1:24 PM, RESUMED AT 1:45 PM. TRADING HALTED 21 MINUTES. 02071975 COMPUTER FAILURE – TRADING HALTED 10:24 AM, RESUMED 11:00 AM. 02121975 FLOOR CLOSED AT 2:30 PM DUE TO SNOWSTORM. 04091975 COMPUTER FAILURE 10:09 AM, TRADING RESUMED 10:35 AM. TRADING HALTED 26 MINUTES.

and all our desires
tightly indexed.

yet day precisely fades
on mortal cue
and night effulgent cackles
and day a day again goes about its work
and Electricity singes our souls.

(‘the world is flat,’ they now say,
except for the radical clerics,
in their irrational discourse.)

TRADING REOPENED MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2001, AT 9:33 AM FOLLOWING TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND THEN THE SINGING OF GOD BLESS AMERICA.

and we drink coffee,
and we drink,
and we drink our own blood
worriedly,
as it spurts and jets violently from the vein
in longitudinal projection—
AN AMORTIZATION PERIOD OF UP TO 15 YEARS IS ALSO AVAILABLE.
INTEREST IS PAID MONTHLY.—
(the tourniquet as yet uninvented, being unnecessary)
and we drink.

and, bodiless, Electricity singes our souls.