Its amazing what a decade will do to change tone. Like most writers, I look back at my work from ten and fifteen years ago and think, “I wrote that??” I have posted a few of my musings from a decade that is increasingly hazy to my mind. At my age I’m not quite sure what it meant to us, or what it will mean in the future. I do know I was working on a foundation for my view of my world, and these poems were written during that formative stage. They tend towards the wordy, and the shocking. What better comment on youth? It’s quick and incredibly loud, mostly.
Beginnings
Internal changes
External hemorrage
The key to understanding,
The lock to grammar.
Content gives form, pattern, paternity,
The map is not fuzzy, territory, God.
Consistency equals a bowel movement,
Equals the predicate object.
Armeggedon is a word like
Stark, or Cutty Sark –
Key to the form
That is grammar.
July 1996
Grammar and the methodology of my instructors continued to inject itself into my writing, apparently.
Commentary
The alpha and the omega,
Antedate grammar by ten thousand years,
In the time of human sacrifice,
Gods and Goddesses were appeased
By grammarians — Sample.
A concentrated beam of unbelievable
devestation and warm soft power
Boring redundantly into the
cranial defense of the BCE — Fragment.
Inescapable; the beam neglects
single molt and blend collectively,
Instead opting for maniacle anarchy
of rigid order, law, and justice
for all.
January 1997
Title
The matter of the title
Handles itself the way
You see it.
Consequences of kinda where
You are — I have an automatic
Plastic eraser, symbol of
Dominance in the modern
World of the comma.
Demonstrate the use of
The word in said same vague
Title of a stone wall using
Various erasers and interior
Design by a woman who
Cannot pass the test.
The title’s relationship is
Like the blocks of the
Chalkboard.
August 1996
Battle of the Sexes
The interminable stretch in the fabric of time
Continues,
Highlighted and emphasized by a staccato of shrill
Voices,
Boring inexorably into the conscious and unconscious
Mind,
Electrolysis of the feminine radiates deadly
Signals,
Permeating the masculine inundating the psyche
Infinitely,
Arguments of superiority and dominance
Interminably,
When they know we are emotionally
Retarded.
September 1996
