Feral
Boy raised by wolves, boy raised by panthers,
boy raised by dolphins, boy raised
by sequoias,
Boy raised by spirits of plant-eating dinosaurs,
boy raised by the cave behind the
waterfall,
Boy raised by clouds,
boy raised by snowflakes every snowflake
different,
Boy raised by rainbows,
boy raised by stars that existed before
this Universe
in Universes that existed before this
one,
Boy raised by a crystal embedded in bedrock
one mile below where you stand
or
one hundred miles below where you stand,
Boy reared by an anaconda in the jungle
that became his teacher and bestfriend,
Boy raised by eagles, boy raised by fireflies,
boy raised by luna moths, boy raised
by pussywillows,
Owls, gorillas--boys raised by them,
Bears, otters--boys raised by them,
Bigfoot, LochNess Monster--boys raised by them,
Boy raised by geodes, boy raised by aurora,
boy raised by marijuana, boy brought
up by mushrooms,
Boy nurtured by a huge field of fresh fallen snow
with no footprints in it in moonlight,
Boy raised by whales he never sees
whose minds a mile down in the Pacific
Ocean
control
his every move,
Boy suckled by volcanoes,
Boy raised by hurricanes and earthquakes,
tornado-raised boys,
boy
raised by echoes from sea-shells,
Boy raised by undiscovered pyramid on the Moon,
Boy raised by reflection of Mount Everest
upsidedown in a dewdrop,
Boy raised by being able to tell
what kind of tree
by
smelling its bark in the dark.
New Clocks for Millennium
Alarmclock that makes squirrels of creatures
slaughterhoused every hour
with
portrait of butchery
where
the numbers would be.
Pocket watch that makes screams of shot soldiers
from a different kind of wound every
hour
with
close-up of each wound
where
the numbers would be.
Clocktower that makes deathrattles of people dying every hour
from stroke, cancer, heart-attack,
AIDS,
drowning,
burning, freezing, starving,
eaten
alive, hanging, beheading, electrocuting
with
sculpture of each deathface
where the numbers would be.
Timepiece that announces each hour
with a different kind o' fart
with
close-up of hinder it poofed from
where the numbers would be.
Sundial with lifesize replica of Blue Whale erection for gnomon
so one tells time
by
the shadow of leviathan boner
silently advancing umbra and penumbra
around
the copper circle
with rays emanating
from
the center to curve-edge
ending with Blue Whale eyes looking
out at you
where
the Roman numerals would be.
Churchsteeple bell that make's delirious boycomecries every hour
with movie of angelic boyorgasmface
projected
on a screen attached where
the cross used to be.
Grandfather clock that makes every hour
the sound of girls' nipples
getting
stiff.
Grandfather clock that makes every hour
the sound of lightningbugs' rear-ends
when
they lights up.
Skyscraper-size hourglass
suspended from armada of dirigibles
over
every capital of every nation on Earth.
Clock from Hiroshima stopped
exact moment atom bomb
exploded.
Clock from Titanic stopped
exact
moment it
plunged.
Wristwatch on mountainclimber buried in avalanche
discovered 10,000 years later
starts
ticking.
Clock in spaceship
travelling so fast
its
hands stand still.
Clock so large in the mind
our Universe is only a dust mote
on
its nanosecond hand.
One day a year summer solstice sunrise
blazes through the narrow vertical
slit
in
the ancient black granite tower
illuminating the naked statue
in
the darkened chamber
for a minute.
Doting on Dust Motes
Doting on dust motes it occurs to me
the Universe began as a dot,
each
of us began as a dot,
a sentence ends with a dot,
we
put a dot over our small "i"
and seen from 100 feet up
we
look like a dot
and in the brain of that dot
the
idea
Just as there are intergalactic extraterrestrials
from other solar systems in our galaxy,
So there are extragalactic extraterrestrials
from other galaxies in our Universe,
Plus extraUniverse extraterrestrials
from other Universes simultaneous
to ours,
And just as it'd be inconceivable and preposterous
for us to try to teach all we know
to
an amoeba,
So it'd be inconceivable and preposterous
for intergalactic extraterrestrials
to
try to teach all they know to us,
Or for extragalactic extraterrestrials
to try to teach all they know
to
intergalactic extraterrestrials,
Or for extraUniverse extraterrestrials
to try to teach all they know
to
extragalactic extraterrestrials
When extraUniverse extraterrestrials
are as far beyond extragalactic extraterrestrials
as
extragalactic extraterrestrials
are beyond intergalactic extraterrestrials
as
intergalactic extraterrestrials
are beyond us
as
we are beyond
an amoeba
as
an amoeba is beyond
the idea
In the brain of a dot
that knows it looks like a dot
100
feet up
and knows we must dot our "i"
and
end our sentence with a dot
in a Universe that began as a dot
in
which each of us began as a dot
doting on dust motes it occurs to
me ....
Sad Bad Mad Glad
Sad to say more nuclear bombs exist
than number of U.S. soldiers killed
in Vietnam.
Bad to say maggots play hide-n-seek in your corpse.
Mad to say jocund day stands tiptoe on the mountaintop.
Glad to say frost ferns unfurl on winter's window.
Sad to say more soldiers killed at Gettysburg
than number of U.S. soldiers killed
in Korea.
Bad to Say maggots breathe through their anuses
when they bury their heads to feed
in
putrefying flesh.
Mad to say the present stood still and drew into itself the future
like a child sucking forever on an
unending
piece
of spaghetti.
Glad to say the green tree frog on the milkweed plant
listened to the girl play her flute
for
a half hour.
Sad to say if all soldiers and civilians
killed in wars the last 100,000 years
were
stacked on each other
they'd reach to the Moon.
Had to say no way to prove maggots not philosophers and poets
beyond any human.
Mad to say rather than put your best foot forward,
put your best cunnilingus forward.
Glad to say rings of debris around a young star
coagulate into new planetary systems.
Sad to report the microscope and telescope got a divorce.
Bad to confide an octopus can squeeze its body
through an opening the size of its
eyeball.
Mad to shout every shit from your shitting asshole
and ejaculation from your spurting
cock
came
from your mother's vagina.
Glad to sigh high-reared slow fucking
ending in furious plungespurt.
Sad to say undone by stallioncomecry,
undone by tree idolatry,
undone
by taking to heart
we don't live in a nation
we
live in an assassination,
undone by a full-grown Blue Whale
25
million times the size
of the fertilized egg from, which
it grew.
Bad to say radio messages we can't decipher
from civilizations in other galaxies,
. pass
through our genitals every second
and have passed through human genitals every second
since
humans were tree shrews.
Mad to say erudite Luddites exculpate execrable executives
and inculcate incalculable cohorts
who
vouchsafe purpureal zealots proclaiming
we don't live in a nation we live
in an hallucination.
Glad to say happy skinnydipping.
Sad to say 100,000 times more slaughterhouses than churches,
100,000 times more prisons than performing art centers.
Bad to say cock engorged with blood,
balls engorged with come, come engorged
with genes,
lungs
engorged with air, guts engorged with shit,
body engorged with water, skull engorged
with brains,
brains
engorged with thoughts, thoughts engorged with orgy
in a gorge engorged with sunlight.
Glad to say the Universe is in a black bag in a spaceship
on its way through a wormhole to a
higher Universe
that
itself is in a black bag
in a spaceship on its way through
a wormhole
to
a higher Universe.
Glad to say the explorer hacked footholds
in the frozen waterfall inside the
mountain
and
climbing up discovered
a frozen river winding through a huge
cavern
with
animals painted on walls and ceiling.
Sad to say there were lots of tears in the plant
when the factory closed down.
Bad to say frenchkiss your lover's bellybututon so passionately
her mother in her grave feels delight
and
her mother in her grave feels delight.
Mad to say it took 1.5 million hours of labor
to construct Stonehenge.
Glad to say you showed the child who just learned to walk
his first violet.
Sad to say Japanese soldiers forced Chinese civilians
to strip and dig holes and bury each
other half-way
then
ran over them with tanks.
Sad to say at the present rate of increase of
cancerdeath from smoking
by
2500 one billion people a year
will
be killed by cigarettes.
Bad to say if more boys jacked off on graves
more corpses would have smiles on
their faces.
Bad to say every boy has 1000 hours of erections
during sleep each year.
Mad to say in a single year a single youth jacking off
is responsible for murdering more
sperm
than
the number of people who ever lived on Earth.
Mad to say mourning doves, mourning cloaks, morning glories
come to the rescue.
Glad to say one little girl draws an apostrophe in the shape of
a crescent moon.
Glad to say the 8-year-old wino saw his sister born at 7 AM
an hour later kissed her on the forehead
goodbye
and
walked to gradeschool.
Sad to say more books on suicide than you could read
if you read 100 a day the rest of
your life.
Sad to say the woman who blew glass eyes for people who lost one
died in a carcrash and was found crumpled
through
the shattered windshield
with
a dashboard Jesus in her mouth.
Know For Sure
All we know for sure is
all places that exist
were
once one place
All we know for certain is
all the beings that exist
or
will exist
or have existed
were
originally all together
in an infinitessimal dot.
All we can know for sure is
if humans went from dugout canoes
to
spaceships to the Moon
in 10,000 years,
in 10,000 years humans can go from
spaceships
to the
Moon
to Moons made into spaceships
travelling
to other galaxies.
All we can know for certain is
a Blue Whale swims in its life
a
distance equal the distance
from the Earth to the Moon and back.
All we can know for a fact is
Sequoias grant the desires
of
those who worship them.
All we can trust in is
the wind rustling the leaves of the
Oak
is
our ancestors speaking to us.
All we can know for pure is
azure lures hawk-gyre.
All we can grow for queer is
superb boyrump in moonlight.
All we can row for endure is
pebbles are bubbles of stone
that
just take longer to burst.
All we can show for mirror is
druids were so certain of immortality
they lent money to other druids
on
the condition
they pay them back after they're dead.
All we can glow for echo is
one followed by octillion zeros
would fill a book
a trillion pages long.
All we can flow for gecko is
all the unwritten poems yet to emerge
from
brains of humans yet to be born
from now till the Sun explodes
are
as child's vapor cloud upon a window.
All we can snow for cure is
the center of the Earth isn't that
far away
and
if we walk 20 miles a day
we can get there in 200 days.
All we know beyond question is
the supernova rate
in the
observable universe
is one per nanosecond.
All we can know beyond exclamation point is
if humans went from sculpturing
a tiny
stone into a human face
to sculpturing a mountain into a human
face
in 25,000
years,
in the next 25,000 years
humans
can go from sculpturing a mountain
into
a human face
to sculpturing the Moon into
a head
sucking a cock.
All we know for sure is
at the exact moment time-machines from the future arrive
we depart in time-machines from the
present
into
the past
and miss them
and end up going through a wormhole
into a parellel universe we can't
return from.
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