METHODS COUNTERACTED

you who seek the prophet

need only seek the books

that speak of the prophet

they will tell you

how many pages and words

it takes

to create a mirror

*

radiant

saturday

springtime

there are words more real

than the words you peruse

they are covered

or forgotten

not even by you

but by a source

in a source

the most brilliant of sentences

ask of nothing more

than to never be formulated

look at your hand

the word hand

can easily be hidden there

like sun

look at the sun

the old testament was written there

other books too

expressing the sun

expressing nothing

clocks ticking on a saturday night

bars emptying

streets and alleys emptying

cars and houses emptying

conflict

rejuvenation

and endlessness

given another go

before the apex

murmurs

and pillows

buds

on fingertips

if you are looking

TRIPLEFT

he was having visions

the visions were never the same

he would change

the visions would change

he existed without visions

the visions did not exist without him

the visions would have to begin with him

would he begin with visions

in a vision he was alone

would he begin without visions

those eyes are not eyes

only sleep

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his poetry was dying

he blamed it on life

life had more power than poetry

the women there are not muses

they are a reason to not commit suicide

before they become the only reason to commit suicide

then they give you the poetry you crave

when you are wild enough to miss its meaning

the open umbrellas

at your wake

are held by them

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his real violence

was never experienced

but it had language

far beyond the means of violence

it grew

like teeth grow

before you remember them

then rot

or become very expensive

NEWSANCE

she would become the forbidden messiah     her passing impertinent to countries that matter

her sacrifice irrelevant to newspushers     her crucifixion unnoticed in the UN 

her sainthood caught up in paranoia and menial diligence     miracles

would get lost in boredom     or shrouds of drugged witchcraft performed by goons

all of russia's rivers sucked dry

by tarkovsky's horses

before shedding their brutal hides     in unapproved cellars of conceptual poetry

her tears     wanting to represent the entirety of grief     would fall incomprehensibly

unwanted meteorites tearing through wanton atmospheres

like before     her resurrection would be ascertained by resisting her absence