Wednesday, 6 July 2011




Eleven poems to Osama Bin laden



1.


are we not dissimilar you and I/ hiding in plain sight for ten years/ luxuriously overlooked/ not abandoned/ not remembered/ tomorrow's obituaries tattoed on burnt skin/

too dark/ too dark to write now that you're gone/
too dark/ too dark to write now that I'm gone /

are we not dissimilar you and I/ we inhabit the same street/ we anticipate the same milkman/ and the same drunken idiot to knock the milk over / through the windows/ we see the same bodies that are not there/ the same surrendered place that letters arrive to/

the same dust will settle on our sunken bodies/ in the same submerged chest of drawers/ adorned with the same unspecified carvings/

the mandala of our life/

when yours is disturbed/ so is mine


2.


we are falling apart peacefully/ perfectly/

our glow-in-the-dark skin is humming saliently in the constant evening/ as the exterminators make their rounds/ under another broken moon


we are blinded/ from feigning a light that grew too strong/ we are blinded/ caught up in a pointless supernova of seduction/


our wings ablaze/ we are moths/ radiating briefly

before being terminated/ in the questionable stillness of a philosophers candlelight


3.


do you/ like me/ look towards that mountain/

unsure if it can know/ where it began/

and if possible/ where it will end/

and at the same time/

if it can know that it has ended already/


no more volcanic hellos and goodbyes/

or longings towards conversations/ where you open up/

and say; we can be the same/ rock hard and loving/

all questions made for us/ and answers/

definitely/ always there/


growing for no reason at all/


4.


do you ever justify dreams/


do you ever think it is your task to forgive the sun/


do you ever find the time to write poetry/



5. (television)


house/ castle/ camelot/ the office/

smallville/ community/

south park/ parks and recreation/

the walking dead/ entourage/ lost/

friends/ breaking bad/ mad men/ breaking in/

I'M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE/ gossip girl/

sons of anarchy/ navy cis : la/ the killing/

prison break/

make it or break it/ big bang theory/

x files/ bonanza/

true blood/ workaholics/


6. (film)


showdown at boot hill/ when hell broke loose/

never so few/ the magnificent seven/

master of the world/ a thunder of drums/ X-15/

Kid Galahad/

the great escape/ 4 for Texas/ battle for the bulge/

the sandpiper/ the guns of Diablo/

this property is condemned/

the dirty dozen/ guns for san sebastian/

farewell friend/ villa rides/ once upon a time in the west/ lola/

rider on the rain/

you can't win em all/ violent city/

cold sweat/ someone behind the door/

red sun/

Chato's land/

the Valachi papers/

the mechanic/ the stone killer/ chino/ mr Majestyk/

death wish/ break out/ breakheart pass/

hard times/ from noon till three/ St Ives/

the white buffalo/ telefon/ love and bullets/

borderline/ cabo blanco/ deathhunt/

death wish 2/ 10 to midnight/

the evil that men do/

death wish 3/ Murphy's law/ assassination/

death wish 4 : the crackdown/ messenger of death/

forbidden subjects/ the indian runner/

death wish 5 : the face of death/


7. (porn)


young and naughty/ weekend delights/ unwilling lovers/ stripped for action/ vicious virgin/ barbara the barbarian/ a place beyond shame/ a climax of blue power/

caught from behind/ devil's playground/ dracula exotica/ dirty looks/ endless nights/ girls of the third reich/ getting ahead/ for your thighs only/

intimate lessons/ illusion of ecstacy/

lust at first bite/ secret desire/ platinum paradise/


ressurection of eve/ wild wild west/ three phases of eve/


scent of a woman/ perverted passions/ fringe benefits/ first time at cherry high/


behind the green door/ beyond fulfillment/


dark passions/


baby face/ hot lips/


8.


(letter)


cat vomit

still adorns

the antechambers of my house


a guzzling alien entity

waits with mock egyptian pride


for me

to feed it it's next poem


howareyou?

tellmewhatgoeson?


twentyone-round missile salutes

five underground nuclear detonations

and a hug


untilwespeakagain


9.


(single bullet theory)


entry wound: second world trade center/ high shoulder

exits through collective shame and latent paranoia, shaved chest/ mid-region/ around the second costal cartillage/ re-enters in open cavity way below colonial history/ scurries around only to dart out into the left ear of a laughing buddha/ muscles through and shoots off into the dark matter at the center of every universe/


10.


(letter, part two)


PS


send my love to Bobby Fischer


11.


(floating polystyrene tombstone)


remember my smiles


they are a now a big smile


in a face of stone