tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57096037766117845692024-03-12T16:38:06.680-07:00gaia's voluptuous anviljimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-49194895828671493112077-04-01T11:11:00.000-07:002015-04-04T22:27:52.087-07:00gaia's voluptuous anvil = A Dash Of Tuesday WhimsyUsing brute logic, I arbitrarily changed the blog's name so as to bring it more in accordance with the morbid-yet-playful text that I have next to my icon thingy.<br />
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Note that said icon thingy was - & some might argue still is & always has been - my true motivation for this blog ... because I disliked seeing a generic default blob beside my comments.<br />
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Now this blog is named after my 1990s radio show, the crusty vehicle of yore via which I exposed entire scores of Lotuslanders & sundry BCians/N.Washingtonians to the likes of Evil Twang, nomeansno, Terror Of Tiny Town, ten days late, Wretched Ethyl, Little Fyodor, cranes, Frank Zappa, Throbbing Gristle, perfume tree, ZILLATRON, Tankhog, Mudhoney, The Monoxides, Dayglo Abortions, Nina Hagen, Submission Hold, Aging Youth Gang, The Residents, Einsturzende Neubauten, DSK & whatever else I could get my little tentacles on through the wee hours.<br />
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<b>6/17/2014: NEVER 4GET</b>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-48562454293854061882022-09-05T23:27:00.000-07:002022-09-05T23:27:40.793-07:00Alienation: The Modern Medusa<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="66e4"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking At Alienation</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3867"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
contemporary North American society, alienation is said to be a crisis
which is unique to our time & place. Certainly no other period in
history has known such awareness of alienation as our own. This essay
will attempt to show some of the reasons behind alienation, its sources,
& the way in which it is manifested in society.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5be2"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
considering the problem of alienation, it may be more easily dealt with
if it can be subdivided into particular types of alienation, which are
distinguished by their scope or sphere of influence, their source or
their intensity. Here “alienation” is to be understood in a general
sense, as an individual’s sense of aloneness, helplessness or
meaninglessness in relation to their self &/or society. The types of
alienation to be dealt with will be either individual or societal (
shared in common by most or all members of society ), abstract or
concrete, or mild or chronic in nature.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f125"><span style="font-size: medium;">To
begin with, some very concrete alienation has to exist in humanity
& society by their very nature. Human beings, while usually sharing
some degree of empathy, are not innately telepathic; a person’s own
thoughts & ideas are alien to all the rest of society unless they
are outwardly communicated via language. In one sense this is not actual
alienation at all, but human privacy, which is considered socially
“sacred.” Modern Western society, as well, is not suited to a shared
communal lifestyle. Different families, or even members of the same
family, do not usually share living quarters, food, & other
commodities all their lives, as in past communal-based or
extended-family-based societies. In this sense, every building in a
modern city is a bastion of alienation. These facts, then, are the
“core” of alienation in Western society.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f184"><span style="font-size: medium;">Historically,
the trend toward alienation has been facilitated by both abstract &
concrete factors. One example of the former is the decline of organized
religion in the past century. The sharing of a common ethic, the simple
presence of the church as a place of refuge, the reassurance of a
common mythology with which all members of the church could empathize,
& the church as a social meeting-place — all these have been
steadily lost to secularism. Industry has supplanted deity as the centre
of society; the results of this revolution are stll not yet fully
known. But it is known that while God is considered to be all-knowing
& all-loving, the popular image of industry is quite the opposite:
it is seen as almost an entity in itself, separate from the humanity
which created it, as ultimately malevolent & totalitarian ( witness
the singular lack of any entertainment or literature in which robots,
for example, are treated as passive or benign), & as creating as
many problems as solutions, if not more.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8274"><span style="font-size: medium;">Industry
relies heavily on the sciences to facilitate its progression. Some of
the same factors which assist scientific innovation in modern society
also are sources of abstract, and in some cases quite chronic,
alienation. Firstly, the emphasis on rationality — rather than
emotionalism — tends to limit feelings of fellowship among members of
society. Being gregarious, or having a large number of social contacts,
is simply not rational. As well, the modern focus on rationality is more
than a choice over emotionalism: it also prevails at emotionalism’s
expense — the two are almost always mutually exclusive.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="469f"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
factor which tends to promote both science & alienation is the
principle of individualism or “the moral preference for the dictates of
individual conscience.” (Barber, 1970: 99) But in this case, at least,
caution must be taken before attributing individualism to a single
source, or categorizing it as a cause or effect. The modern capitalistic
system may encourage individualism for example by presenting
charismatic or enigmatic “individualists” as heroic figures in the mass
media. The alternative viewpoint is that such encouragement of
individualism may only reflect the public’s genuine empathy or desire
for such figures. Consumerism is also well-suited to individualism,
& vice versa — yet they may well be neither causes nor effects of
each other. An individual’s own conscience is, at best, a poor
substitute for the mass of cross-generational social ethics which
formerly served as the foundation of most people’s “moral preference.”
The “moral vacuum” which results is “filled” by alienation.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5530"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marxist
theory contends that capitalism — the dominant school of political
& economic thought in modern Western culture — creates alienation by
its very nature. Once a worker is separated from the products of his or
her own labour, he or she loses control over either the labour or its
products. Certainly this is true in the case of the assembly-line
workers who perform one task repetitiously, & who cannot act to
change their situation in any way. But other aspects of capitalist
society also create alienation in many other ways.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1be6"><span style="font-size: medium;">Capitalism
traditionally fosters competition while subordinating or suppressing
co-operation. The desire to obtain a competitive “edge” over one’s
opponents is alienating; the seriousness with which competition takes
place makes association with “the enemy” out of the question. A high
incidence of violent crime, & of stress-related diseases such as
cardiovascular disease, are characteristic of modern Western society —
in stark contrast to more open, less competitive societies such as the
aboriginal population of New Guinea or Australia, where such problems
are virtually unknown. This is competitive society at its deadliest
extreme, & the very fear of it is itself a source of alienation; it
also creates further tension & stress, in a vicious circle.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ad62"><span style="font-size: medium;">Capitalism
also creates a surplus of goods out of all proportion to foreseeable
needs. Consumerism, mentioned earlier, is another source of alienation
which this situation gives rise to. The modern trend away from
spiritualism, in such forms as Catholicism & Deism, to materialism
in the form of utilitarianism or “the pleasure principle,” is, again,
both a “disease” in itself & a “symptom” of the ascent of
materialism. As a source of alienation, materialism is central in
Western society. On the concrete & immediate level, materialism
alienates by trying to replace social human interaction with purely
physical consumption. Time spent “enjoying” consumer goods cannot be
spent with other people; when people do get together, their only shared
activity is often consumption. As consumerism becomes increasingly
prevalent, the ability of true socialization is gradually surrendered to
the “worship” of the material for its own sake. Unfortunately, humans
have a habit of remembering beyond their years — or collecting history —
& the loss of past collective spiritualism is well-known to all
literate, intelligent people. Finally, consumerism causes a gradual
deadening of sensuality in its positive sense, as the degree of
consumption must gradually increase to meet the same expectations of
“thrills” — be it of drugs, food, entertainment or sheer ostentation —
until satisfaction, as it has been equated with consumption, becomes
impossible. This sense of dissatisfaction is in itself a concrete,
chronic & terribly personal form of alienation.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="14f8"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
vast array of technology upon which capitalism relies for the
production of surplus is itself a source — & a manifestation — of
alienation. Technology has created a vast body of societal “dead air
space” by liberating people from their labour to a degree never before
known.to humanity. At the same time it has offered no rigid guides
whatsoever as to how this sudden “time surplus” should best be used. A
new & unique industry has sprung up in the past century to
accommodate our newest need: the “leisure industry.”</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="196e"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is perhaps best to break this industry, in its modern form, into four
successive stages: contemplative, interactive, reactive, & sedative.
The sudden & dramatic rise of the “dime-store novel” in the late
19th Century is indicative of the contemplative type of leisure
activity: it allows the “player” to “dream themself into” a suggested
ideal ( or dramatic ) situation. The sudden rise of board games,
precipitated by Parker Brothers’ development of “Monopoly” circa 1935,
is interactive play as a response to the Great Depression; such games,
by their realism & high requirement of involvement, rapidly draw the
player into an escapist or role-playing situation. The early electronic
games & sophisticated puzzles which began appearing after 1960 are
examples of reactive “play” — in which one is required to perform
problem-solving or intuitive acts for the reward (“victory”). The
present (post-1980) stage of the leisure industry is best described as
sedative: video-game graphics cause highly limited, rapid, hand-eye
reactions to moving or pulsing light imagery — which gradually produces a
nearly hypnotized reaction from the “player” as the game & its
score take an increasing significance in his or her mind. This
succession of varieties of “play” reflects aspects of society, &
trends within it, which have increasingly alienated people from their
environment, other human beings, & themselves. The pulp fiction of
the early stage of the “time surplus” was a continuation, for the most
part, of the tradition of literature which had until then been available
only to nobility & the “idle rich” ( albeit in a popularized &
bastardized form). The video games of the current day are, by contrast,
new, impersonal, non-reusable “entertainment” which is also
habit-forming — but in a far more pervasive sense. The next stage of
this industry is still a mystery, but it will likely be even more
hypnotic, less social _ & more irresistible.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5ce7"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paradoxically,
even the proximity of other people — especially in urban, metropolitan
environments — is itself a perpetual source of alienation. This is due
to a reaction to the innate ability of human beings to recognize other
human faces. Limitations of human memory — & social tolerance — mean
that most people can only recognize about a thousand faces — &
within that “crowd” most form bonds of close friendship with only about
one or two dozen people. Yet any single city-dweller comes into contact
with literally tens of thousands of faces every day. As a form of
psychic “defense mechanism” a person routinely “screens” or “shuts off”
all the faces of the strangers they meet. The awareness that virtually
all people in a crowd are also “<br />shutting off” one’s self is the true
source of urban alienation in its most concrete, although relatively
mild, form; it is the situation in which one can truly feel “alone in
the crowd” — & it is inescapable as long as society demands that
large numbers of people live in close proximity on a daily basis.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e06f"><span style="font-size: medium;">Politics, Alienation & Youth</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e276"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Tyranny is a habit. In the end it becomes a disease. The best man in the world becomes indistinguishable from a wild beast.”</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="50b5"><span style="font-size: medium;">— Fyodor Dostoevski</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b9b8"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
existence of many kinds of alienation is a social fact; no reasonable
observer of Western culture can deny it. The government, with its
mandate to serve the society which it controls, has a responsibility to
recognize alienation & attempt to combat it. Yet government remains
inactive in this regard, & will in all likelihood continue to do so,
because the state has a vested interest in maintaining -at least up to a
certain point — the trends which have kept alienation alive in our
society.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="91a9"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
first real responsibility of a political party is not to its nation or
electorate, but itself; more specifically, it tends to do whatever is
within its means — & the guidelines of its politics — to retain as
much power as it can, for as long as possible. In a democracy, the
elected party generally “rewards” its major supporters, both overtly
& covertly. Thus the “party faithful” feel quite justified in having
voted for “the winning team.” The supporters of the opposition, on the
other hand, feel cheated & ( politically ) alienated. In purely
strategic terms, it is expedient to have a societal system where
alienation plays an important role. Feelings of alienation can be
capitalized on by a strong, centralized government to erode even further
all official opposition.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c136"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
only other external threat which a state may face is from radical &
revolutionary groups. In this case, government cannot usually take any
official actions or sanctions until such a group actually breaks the
law, or shows palpable intentions of doing so. This is where
governmental inaction actually becomes a form of action. Radical groups,
left unharassed, generally become restless & either commit illegal
acts, or lose their sense of self-worth, since the state no longer seems
to “care about” them. In matters of national issues or controversies,
too, the state knows “how not to get the job done” — it is aware that
the mass media, the main source of information for citizens of an
industrialized nation, has its own interests at stake as well, &
will not follow up stories unless there is fresh “dirt” to report. In
this fashion, the state alienates itself from the people, for its own
purposes.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5131"><span style="font-size: medium;">Internally,
also, the government has much to gain by alienating its own bureaucrats
& civil servants. The management of state becomes increasingly
compartmentalized as the size of its staff increases; the thoroughness
with which it attempts to set guidelines for every aspect of its
employees’ working lives also increases in proportion to its size. An
excellent example of this is Canada’s postal system, which began as
little more than a commercial courier service, & is now a Crown
Corporation with thousands of staff members, & has become regulated
to the degree of trying to determine how many seconds it should take a
mail carrier to deliver mail at two consecutive households. Obviously,
such over-regulation is a certain source of discontent & alienation
both for those who must work in such a corporation, & for the people
it is supposed to be serving.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e3d8"><span style="font-size: medium;">Young
people today are forced to enter & participate in what is quite
likely the most totally alienating society in history. The vast space of
leisure time, which people of earlier times would have been amazed at,
they see as quite normal — as they do many other innovations of Western
technology. However, as William Faunce points out in his “Problems of an
Industrial Society,”</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b318"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Although
it seems obvious that we are becoming an increasingly leisure-oriented
society, it is not nearly so apparent that we should become so.” (1968:
83)</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6143"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faunce
suggests that people use their spare time in altruistic pursuits, which
would benefit society as a whole; yet a youth culture raised on a
utilitarian “ethic of self” fails to see the benefits of such actions.
Often young people are criticized for their inaction to reduce their own
despair & alienation — but like the technological “miracles” which
surround them, they see these conditions, too, as “normal.”</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3832"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Today,
nowhere in the world are there elders who know what their children
know. … In the past there were always some elders who knew more than any
children in terms of their experience of having grown up in a cultural
system. Today there are none. It is not only that parents are no longer
guides, but that there are no guides…” (Mead, 1970: 60–61)</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="170b"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
20thCentury is the age of “nuclear alienation” — the simple threat of
an almost spontaneous war, with no bounds or limits, has created the
ultimate alienation: security, in any real sense of the word, has ceased
to exist. Gone with it are many of the ideals & concepts which
might otherwise easily turn the word “alienation” into a joke — ideals
such as a “Brotherhood of Man” in world peace, or a true Utopia — &
concepts like “a return to the Good Old Days” or “a noble war for a just
cause.” This form of alienation is, in the writer’s opinion, by far the
most horrifying of any of the types discussed in this essay.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7cee"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
short examination of alienation has shown that it takes on many forms
in Western society, may of them confusing, & seemingly all in a
state of flux. Many factors that serve to alienate people have been
omitted; the nature of the rise of television, for example, is worthy of
an essay in & of itself. Despite the limitations of the above work,
it is hoped that it has at least served to invite the reader to
carefully consider their own experiences with alienation in a fresh
light. As our millennium draws to a close, alienation deserves to
receive closer attention as a dangerous source of anti-social tendencies
which a people as powerful as ourselves can ill afford to let grow
unchecked — for alienation is not a “social novelty” at all, & our
museums hold the physical evidence to prove it. A human race isolated in
concrete & glass by its own fear is no better off in spirit than it
was in caves.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c92"><span style="font-size: medium;">— 1987</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1182"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________________________________________________</span></p><h1 class="kb kc ig bm kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv kw kx ky gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="57a9"><span style="font-size: medium;">Afterword: “A Disclaimer”</span></h1><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg kz ji jj jk la jm jn jo lb jq jr js lc ju jv jw ld jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4ac9"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
essay does not propose any solutions to the multi-faceted dilemma of
modern alienation, but merely examines it on a general & superficial
level. This is not meant to suggest that no such solutions exist, &
that we are bound headlong on a one-way road to total isolationism,
hedonistic terrorism, & “programmed life” a la “Brave New World.” A
species of animal which is intelligent enough to get itself into a bind
as deep as ours must surely be at least intelligent enough to get tiself
right back out again.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7078"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whether we actually do so is up to us.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9dc6"><span style="font-size: medium;">________________________________________________</span></p><h1 class="kb kc ig bm kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv kw kx ky gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1678"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bibliography</span></h1><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg kz ji jj jk la jm jn jo lb jq jr js lc ju jv jw ld jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="da41"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barber, Bernard, 1970, “Science and the Social Order.” Toronto: Collier</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2069"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faunce, William A, 1968, “Problems of an Industrial Society.” Toronto: McGraw-Hill</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3fb6"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mead, Margaret, 1970, “Culture and Commitment — a Study of the Generation Gap.” New York: Doubleday</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ff84"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mosca, Gaetano, 1939, “The Ruling Class.” New York: McGraw-Hill</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6917"><span style="font-size: medium;">Russell. Bertrand, 1963, “Authority and the Individual.” Boston: Beacon</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="97a1"><span style="font-size: medium;">______________________________________</span></p><h1 class="kb kc ig bm kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv kw kx ky gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dc91"><span style="font-size: medium;">*** 2022 Postscript ***</span></h1><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jd je ig jf b jg kz ji jj jk la jm jn jo lb jq jr js lc ju jv jw ld jy jz ka hz gh" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="09bb"><span style="font-size: medium;">While
I will forever cringe at the hokey tone & the Eurocentric &
obsolete references to “Western” culture, this beast I smashed out
verbatim to make a paper deadline still stands the test of time better
than expected, & also includes my first real stab at a theory — to
elucidate ludic evolution from circa 1880–1987.</span></p><div class="le o"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-30752131627834088822022-08-06T23:12:00.002-07:002022-08-06T23:12:32.916-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 36 (1994)<p><u><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">eleven lines</span></span></u><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">i am not</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">action figure sold </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">seperately</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> i am not</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">another paradigm scam</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">i am not</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">your latest bad excuse</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">i am not marketed</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">i am alive-alive-o</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">i am still</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">i am real </span></span> <br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-84024321010134258082022-08-04T17:45:00.001-07:002022-08-04T20:18:13.037-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 35 (1999)<p> <u><span style="font-size: large;">for gaïa </span></u></p><p><u><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">these eyes bright w/ hope & love</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">wait for another</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">where years burn their vigils yet i</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">look upon another</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">every spark of a lusty season comes</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">risen for another</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">plowing under senses in the blind wave</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">seeking for another</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">always & again left in the rain</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">hope upon another</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">i yet will fall cold alone & raging</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">never for another</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">but only for you:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">my gaïa<br /></span></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-79235955852229039852022-07-26T22:08:00.003-07:002022-07-26T22:08:49.161-07:00Standard Model Limit Postulate<p> <span> </span>That for any new major insight to be added to Standard Model development of Quantum Field Theory, science will first need to engineer & acquire a new language coded specifically to such insight - one whose syntax, semantics & terminology render it both superior as a container/explainer for QFT proper, & compatible w/ generating apt additional input. The counter that the maths involved are themselves that language is at best hubris & at worst parlous hyperbole: a massive exponential rise in computing speed & power w/ which to exploit them, along w/ literal legions of bold brainiacs all attacking the known gaps in the model for decades on end, has been the herald of precisely zero new major elements to add to QFT. <br /></p><p> </p><p><span> </span>If it is correct, no new major insight in QFT is forthcoming for the indefinite future - or even possible, no matter how many man-hours or equations are thrown at it. It would thus also likely be an essential prerequisite to any potential union of QFT w/ Einsteinian Relativity.<br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-66659789944221743542022-07-02T18:10:00.001-07:002022-07-02T18:10:27.791-07:00Neural Optimization Postulate<p> That human neural networks enhance net performance by using organic ambient changes in geometry or differential of ionic ratio/charge in adjacent non-sentient tissues ( blood, fat, glia, etc.) as a complementary signal processing system. If true, it should predict outsized or unaccountably absent effects from site-specific injury & pathology - & that measured peak mental acuity will exceed the demonstrable neuronal capacity used to reach it.<br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-28065668116522287792022-05-05T19:59:00.003-07:002022-06-06T21:16:20.542-07:00mein gedankenspiel: frisky frolics of a faded freak<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">2004 was when I threw down the fingerless punk gauntlet: see if I have what it takes to force my slimy skull-walnut to emit an apt radical novelty. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Either novel or radical are a cool calm summer breeze - while apt is a brutal beast that plays poorly with the others in the rare event when it ever does at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Play on!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Geadankenspieling has been one of my life's keenest joys - my little mutant pet that's totally free to play, in a proverbial void that lets me score as many ideas as I can, & has the personal potential for some utterly harrowing IRL results depending on what I come up with & whose chain it yanks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Those Trifectas are the profane Grail, but there's plenty to chew on among the sloppy apocrypha, & to spare. One result was nothing but the intellectual equivalent of a tantrum, noting the tragic ongoing omission of a prime historical revolution: the shift toward <a href="https://jim-2008ahoy.blogspot.com/2014/11/femaissance-theory.html" target="_blank">female s3x selection</a> first indicated by Chivalric Code & alleged all-girl "Courts Of Love" in medieval Europe. Another a <a href="https://jim-2008ahoy.blogspot.com/2015/08/wave-function-hypothesis.html">cosmic mega-kludge</a> that makes a lovely sibling to one at least partly inspired by the Susskind & t'Hooft mega-hologram model that's arguably FAR WEIRDER than <a href="https://jim-2008ahoy.blogspot.com/2018/04/cosmological-holography-conjecture.html">mine.</a><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some synaptic byproduct even got frisky enough to inspire a <a href="https://jim-2008ahoy.blogspot.com/2013/08/dead-letter-file-fun.html" target="_blank">"Dead Letter File" metagame</a> of its own!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I also learned that I'm the kind of sick pervert heathen that can drop a <a href="https://jim-2008ahoy.blogspot.com/2012/10/autonomous-ethos-ahoy.html">one minute sermon!</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The most recent is <a href="https://jim-2008ahoy.blogspot.com/2022/01/quantum-ludic-ontology-unreasonable.html" target="_blank">Q.L.O.</a><span style="font-family: courier;"> - which came with 2 highly evocative instances that may or may not be proofs. Let posterity - or infamy - give someone who can tell the difference the call says I, & Alfred E. Neuman take the hindmost.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Doubt any subsequent treats can be siphoned out of all this dying fatty gray mucilage this late in the farce - but then, I always do...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;">x0x0x</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;">jim </span> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-40829968068773478032022-01-11T12:38:00.001-08:002022-01-11T12:38:19.380-08:00Quantum Ludic Ontology (An Unreasonable Proposition For Unreasonable Times)<p>Proposing not only that what we refer to as meaning is a species of game that minds play w/ themselves to explain what is going on or why, but that said crazy Mind Calvinball can then be elucidated &/or upgraded by being mediated via the berserk conniptions of QFT such as decoherence, tunneling or entrained particle pairing (to name but a few)?</p><p>Might be worth a gamble, if only for the larks!<br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-12307948056366667652021-06-08T22:06:00.001-07:002021-06-08T22:06:26.346-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 34 (2005)<p><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">caliban's blues</span></span></u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">all of these days</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">eating me raw</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">flaw by bloody flaw</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">win lose or draw</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">all these centuries</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">burning me away</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">rend peel & flay</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">the devil i say</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">none of these failures</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">shall so much as slow me down</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">for i'm such a perfect clown</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">i'll dance until i drown </span></span> <br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-64861910541572904012021-06-08T22:02:00.001-07:002021-06-08T22:02:16.589-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 33 (2005)<p><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">the rise & fall of us all</span></span></u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">history is a fickle bitch</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">she loves to pull a bait-&-switch</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">in the smoking rubble we're sure we've got her</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">as we race to the next farce even hotter</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">history is a crazy dame</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">she shuns the meek yet strangles fame</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">as we march to triumph & destiny's seal</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">she giggles - & drops a new banana peel </span></span><br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-59468013397372607942021-06-01T18:27:00.001-07:002021-06-08T21:57:10.196-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 32 (2001)<p> <u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Posy</span></span></u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">My eyes are wet but I will not weep</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">This is a little blessing for you to keep</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">& when you are wishing you could be brave</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Your heart can renew this gift I gave</span></span></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-50671401559167000282021-06-01T18:20:00.004-07:002021-06-08T21:56:16.798-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 31 (1998)<p><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">requiem for Pat Lowther</span></span></u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">circa 1984</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">i read your words</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">& i am still</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">scared to again</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">you</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">are still so good</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that i am</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">going to anyway <br /></span></span></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-85615771406155829662021-05-26T20:00:00.002-07:002021-06-01T18:17:09.623-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 30 (2005)<p> <u>haiku for a black ladybug</u> </p><p><br /><u></u></p><p>her 4 scarlet gems</p><p>herald beauty's dawn so shy:</p><p>enchanted daughter<br /><u></u></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-71410542268939054602021-05-26T19:57:00.001-07:002021-05-26T20:01:00.563-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 29 (1997)<p><u><span style="font-size: medium;">wake</span></u><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </p><p> </p><p>truth is behind us</p><p>growing</p><p>we feed its verdict</p><p> </p><p>change is yet ahead</p><p>maddening</p><p> the themes of its melody</p><p><br /></p><p>these paths</p><p>reveal their pilgrims</p><p>others wait</p><p>watching & smiling</p><p><br /></p><p>virtue lives in us</p><p>fearing</p><p>the day of its awakening<br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-61370305289760119262021-05-24T21:38:00.000-07:002021-05-24T21:38:05.590-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 28 (1993)<p> <u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">song of madness</span></span></u></p><p><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">i'm out of it<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>i'm inside it</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">i'm out of it<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>it's inside me</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">draw the line<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> cross the line</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">erase the line</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">i'm still alive<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>i'm still dying</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">i'm still alive<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>death am i</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">the world spins<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>the world stands still</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">in the beginning was the word</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">in the end only hissing rain</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">as it was it will be again</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">but all of this will never ever be</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">is this heaven's own dew</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">is this bitter dark blood</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">another utopia<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>another nightmare</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">another day<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>another daydream</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">does this wind have a name</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">does this hour have a colour</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">we rise singing<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>we fall screaming</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;">see the moon<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> feel the sun</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span>see the earth<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> disappear ...</span> </span><br /></span></span><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></span></u></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-45680591332599723272021-05-24T21:18:00.002-07:002021-05-24T21:18:42.808-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 27 (1994)<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><u>di/agnostic prayer</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the sun snuck out at the city</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">someone smiled </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">a flag was put away under lock & key</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the last one ever amen <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-69320466775219500952021-03-01T23:50:00.001-08:002021-03-01T23:50:26.880-08:00Project Unbar Sinister <p><a href="https://twitter.com/majesterludi/status/1366654913057411074" rel="nofollow">NOW IT BEGINS</a> </p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-78826609709330937392020-11-23T10:54:00.005-08:002020-11-23T10:54:53.694-08:00The Perpetual Morbid Bias Of Reality Filters <p> There has never been a boon without someone to take credit for it.</p><p>There has never been a blight without someone explaining it away as the "mystery" of an omniscient deity or of a dead deterministic universe.</p><p><br /></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-19586959114224290812020-08-10T23:20:00.001-07:002020-08-10T23:20:33.734-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 26 (1997)<p> <u><span style="font-size: x-large;">nux vomica</span></u></p><p><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is no center here</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">and now ignorance shrinks terrified</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here is a worthy note for us all:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">the curses of all children unfed</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are accidents over us</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">or can you not face them</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is no light here</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">so there is no point in turning away</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here is a lie applying to us all:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">we couldn't do anything to change things</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are maniacs hunting us or</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">have you seen them yet</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are no terms here</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">as our spirits wounded shake and cry</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This the trophy undiscovered:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">in equal amity to grow unchained</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are monsters inside us or</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">are you one already</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is no edge here</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">and a tide pulls me harder</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here is a guess aimed at us all:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">the sleepwalking is sweetest at the cliff</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is too little from us </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">or did you not notice<br /></span><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></u></p>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-90746947349367838382020-06-16T23:09:00.001-07:002020-06-16T23:09:26.891-07:00Salad Daze Archivee Unit 25 (1998)<u><span style="font-size: large;">the death o' me. </span></u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I promise more storms & with them more joy,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">after the death o' me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps then I won't even lay down to die,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">long past the death o' me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Days turn strange with tender new change,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">after the death o' me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yet I'd know you word for word, someone just heard,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">long past the death o' me.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">See where I sail, don't you open my mail.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">after the death o' me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For it's my vague belief some might smile with relief,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">upon the death o' me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nights wlll keep kisses for many shy misses,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">after the death o' me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My heartaches sincerely are costing us dearly,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">'twill be the death o' me. </span>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-67067055465464549692020-06-16T00:41:00.001-07:002020-06-16T00:41:52.214-07:00inferno (Salad Daze Archive Unit 24 -- 1993)<u><span style="font-size: large;">inferno </span></u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">disdain this cold hand</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the wind lets o'er your skin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">renew the fire inside alive</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">push the fumes in deep</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">punish this instant with force</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">relinquish to me this sullen light</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sow the gift of insane happinesses</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the rain slides o'er your skin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">refrain that aches next my heart</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">soothe each torment alas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with oh so many smiles at last</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">renew with a gesture smooth </span><u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">disdain each shade of bloom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that lurks below your gaze</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">disdain that cold hand</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">submit to these commands</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the wind lets into your eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with oh so many tears</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">close the locket deep</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">claim each pulse for only me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with senses brought to life</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">harvest these new fires</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the rain will never end them</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with mere wishes hissing</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">amaze my ancient spirit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">submits to your commands</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">awaken your dormant embers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">be my lorelei petal</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as the heat enters eternity</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dance among angels among avatars</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">without heed of victory</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as dew glistens on my cheek</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hold heat in this theatre</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the night will never discover</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as a bird invokes our sorrow forgot</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">touch a moment flaming</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">without your darker side remaining</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as the light brightens this embrace</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">astonish our bodies in novelty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">be an archangel of eros</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">awaken my dormant embers</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">define the faces of history</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">through a warped mirror</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fly with my childish eye</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">deny us to the bloated moon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">though our sexes wax with yearning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dive with me in dreams</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">destroy the prisons of fear</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">through a simple gambol</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">unknown its shivering abandon</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">denude the icy veil within</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">though comfort is in its sting</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">define the phases of mystery</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kiss your fingers to midnight</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">laughing at a serpent flowing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crimson 'neath that jester</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">taste its unaged musk so new</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">revel as my desire lies asleep</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crucified above this gesture</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">swim toward some invisible eon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">laughing while it falls asunder</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crashes into silence</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">languish a day in bondage</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">until the tears wound me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">chrysalis of an alien destiny</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">create a song of earth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">layers of gentle warmth now</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kiss my wings to noontide</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fuel our futile triumphs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while the age rolls sideways</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">element of pulsing passion</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">frisk in this sweet furnace</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fraught with peril finally forgotten</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">element of sighs and tempests</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sail o'er a morning flowing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while our blood calls us</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">element of tides and of life</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ignite the sword of romance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fuel the feeble triumvirate</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">press the shield of hope</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">near fury with desperation</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to a new allegory</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">allow another asterisk alms</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">reveal its hidden bouquet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to my delighted sense</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">master these days with solace</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">near the gates of madness</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to comic oblivion meandering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">persist even through wounds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">reveal my enigma screaming</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to some unnamed goddess</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">two loves here did collide</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fantasy alone gave them life</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">press the crest of mutiny</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">only with union your decline</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">insists upon sacred conflagration</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">smoke of forests releases</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">own a kingdom of gasps</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">yes justice slumbers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">behind your sizzling vision</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">oh how distant you are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">insists my mind in this darkness</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">yet still you are embracing me</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">opium of sacred lust</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">only with fusion our sweet climb</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">race toward my comfort</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">let your misery fade to black</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a paradox wrapped in ether</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sound mutual depths with fire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">leave their molten memory</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a polished emblem for other eyes</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bear new truths to this year</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">let it die sweetly on our lips</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a parody of older tragedies</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">make love lonely with your grace</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">no more reason in this rhyme</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a paroxysm of tongues flexing</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">warm yourself on this moan</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">defend the pride of romance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">race away from your abyss</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lost my heart to your blaze</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as it crept down my spine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in a season of bittersweet ice</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">saw you there so small so holy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the distance a guiding star</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in your skin what was awoken</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">touched your body in a fog</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as a song began slowly burning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in our thoughts like gasoline</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">gained a star in furious morning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">neither tear nor laugh was found</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lost your rainbow to my reverie</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">nuzzle this crooked wood</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">into dancing rebirth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at the crux of this our comedy</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pass your torch to glory</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">alarm my sleeping surfaces</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at each hair leave garlands</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">halt anachronism of time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">into your web bind it fast</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at its tomb leave one red rose</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sing ever soft your need</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">alarm muses with its musky fluid</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at your zenith tides do turn</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rest to struggle further</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in another wild millennium</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">nuzzle that horizon of self</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">play upon these chilly bones</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">derange them into symphonic joy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as yours also release hot dew</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">play with fire as it hesitates</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">natural oven your dark pudendum</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">shudder with the divine contract</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">play beyond the wall of slumber</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">derange the core so tenderly steaming</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in other eve i too will send ripples</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">play upon my velvet bell</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">play beneath our tropical bones</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">join our geographies to dream</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">serve we now a better duty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for each moment it loves us</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the nexus peace calls</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> to an ideal as fine as sterling</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for no jester can this deny</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">solve the riddle of our desires</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">serve their hunger a painless hell</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for this alone is our erotic purpose</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">claim the heritage of love's wisdom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">free it from our sighing throats</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for it is fantasy worth any gold</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">soothe our grief in this poultice</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">care against these bitter times</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">join our infinities awake</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">folly unleash from its planet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">holy signs left here behind</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pure the ceremony begun</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">question's writhing ember balanced</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">upon our lips so mild</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pure enough never to burn us</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">the sound of hissing rain</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">holy anointing mantle shines</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pure beyond remembrance this</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">ascend the sacred tower of lust </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">folly return to its fine orbit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">draw me nigh queen of infernal sky</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">save this knave with laughter</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all his horns are burnished</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">make vinegar tempt bees</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or the crow turn snow white</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all his feathers illuminated</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">each trail of solitary honey</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">save until it ends in rebellion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all arisen from your female springs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">mine is the triumphant ode</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or suicide turned inside out</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all of which is your crazy doing</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">feed the flame my secret name</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as the fuel gathers speed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">draw down the sky with one bright eye</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kiss my lazy butterfly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">out of its rank dark dungeon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as something original explodes</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kiss the century goodbye</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with a high gazebo of innocence</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">this the most perfect crime</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kissing your darkening nipples</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">out of their hibernation</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as i wish you to justly reply</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kissing something original</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my virtue ruined in flickering bliss</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kissed into that alien territory</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">awake to fiery novelty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">after these mad mazes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so winds the timeless path</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">harmonize absurd logic</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hiding beneath bronze skin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so to enlighten my service</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pluck these strings to frenzy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">after our penance is done</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so fine its destruction then</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">live beyond any rule herein</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">worthy only of catharsis</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so distilled are its many jewels</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sonnet of truth we sculpted </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">somewhere 'twixt beauty and pain</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">awake oh fleshy incendiary</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">take me to your well of blood</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">relief awaits me hot and good</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mine alone its weeping smile</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rhyme its course with ferment</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to seal another scroll</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mine to give this serpent of fire</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">comet of black tickling hair</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">relief from solemn rites</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mine to give and to be given</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">silk bolt convulsing below </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">takes you to my tower of blood</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">live in the envelope of now</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hope past the long treachery</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your beacon persists even here</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pursue the pleasure within</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">anomaly that flirts with eternity</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your abandon insists on stillness</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flicker out from this cage</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hope futures into form</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your contact sends blessing sparks</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">shoot the roman fire of fancy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">anomaly incandescent rebellion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your pulse the ash is reborn</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">shine inside my palm ascendant</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">blend your oils at the apex</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">live in the labyrinth of now</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">learn a rune for no good reason</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">decide to the blind horizon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cast a stone at another hour</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">learn the codes of myth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">portray an obscure angel</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as a wave rises to this land</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">learn through each foul membrane</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">decide to claim a journey</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">unborn as the chorus of tomorrow</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">learn as you weave silly tapestries</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolic freshly spawned </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">learn the tune of sweet reason</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">glide across the cursing ice</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on wings streaming orange tentacles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whimsy the enigma drifts laughing</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">plow an altar to bedrock</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as it rises through glistening</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whimsy delicious yet terrifying</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">descend this archway softly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on feet grand and deft</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whimsy in each plump toe</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cleave your way to my foundry</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with a bladed ringing gaze</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whimsy the anvil of this creation</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flee evening in your inspiration</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on spastic pinions free </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">glide into the shattering ice</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">prepare the new temple</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">where my holy storm intrudes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by the game of prankster heat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">gather the cooing red flock</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of sizzling knives to their reunion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by the grace of our supremacy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">plead with me to the silent one</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">where she patiently dreams us all</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by a mad cycle of invisible songs</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">construct the platform soundly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">this no mere sacrament we bear</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">prepare the ancient temples</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pin up another molten medallion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">upon this breast that heaves amazed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to have such honour made</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">achieve the mania you aspire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lovely its agony to such victory</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to gain such a titanic prize</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">skim the ripples of liquid heat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">upon your golden cup of days</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to beauty mock with its own warmth</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drain each drop with that wise tongue</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lovely this instrument beyond harmony</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to relent exhausted by such a destiny</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">gasp as its momentum spins</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">inside each inch of sweating skin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pin down its placid desperation</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wisps of frost disintegrate</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the vortex our touch revives</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by honeyed synergy to exclaim</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whistling cyclone the lion undying</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">delicate executioner of blackness</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in undulating tails you anoint</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">nova of pleasing now releasing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whispering miles of naked ballad</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fashion a heraldry that breathes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from layers of history hearkening</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">molded in motion with gesticulation</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">stir shadows false in your torch</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">arc it past the frigid skyline</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">molded in rebirth screaming</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">return intact the igneous egg</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from its dank nest so alluring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">molded by these velveteen pressures</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">coalesce faithful </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">dear </span> child of fire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to one great purpose conquer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">molded between our gentle fingers</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">salvation true in this laurel</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so link it unto perpetual comedy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fashion a visage that pauses</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">proclaim my fealty to that glow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so as to bind it sternly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drop of wax bears soft glad regalia</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">let one candle stand for two</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">an edge of light we now defy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drop of wine the holy discovery</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">blood of the air that feeds us</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so every laugh can ring the strongest</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drop of red dew is this coal</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">strange feast of your hot breath </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">proclaim your treason to this night</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">capture with earthy gazes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the fringes of my silhouette</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lines that liquefy in this current</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pose a circus march of loiterers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">arch solid blinding lightning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lines that breed afterimages</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">retain without any mnemonic</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the quivering knives nearly singing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lines soldered into a monolith</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">stoke the unknown engines</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">arch spine like spirit dragon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lines traced in night sky making faces</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">risk all futures on an imperial gesture</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">loiter at the threshold of ignition</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">capture with celestial gazes</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">paradise is within inferno concealed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fortunes of liberty are set in stone</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">licence somehow its rules revealed</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">panic claims its banquet of revelry</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drools eerie trails of viscous vapour</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">spectra bubbling in greying chorus</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pacific tide of waves on fire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">fortunes flock to surreal certainty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">true as the bullet of my climax</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pathway etched in cracking steel</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">it frisks and meanders dreamily</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">paradise is beyond inferno unsealed</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flare out of the cauldron of years</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sweet smoky child survivor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drift o'er the landscape of fuels</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flow with the music always</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">extinguish not thy purification</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drift loose when the crux draws nigh</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">deign to grace us with salvation</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sweet fumes of delphi in thy gaze</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drift to me o'er tides restlessly</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">descend with praise oh flame of thought</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pronounce these epicycles worthy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drift beneath them with heated wit</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flood icy evening openly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a deed too true for these words</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flaring into the vase of moments</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">labyrinth of sultry touch</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">branding the dark with visions</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">collide awake as my arousal</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crackling silence of these sighs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mated to impossible light</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">collide with exploring novelty</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">recline alas unjoined herein</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">branding the black sky with wishes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">collide in chaos in holy truth</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">conspiring erotic jewel of fancy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">labyrinth of chill longing</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ode so small so righteous</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you inscribed through a haze of smoke</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">incandescent seraph so shiny</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">chorus madly invoked then</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my eyes illumined with romance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">incandescent laughter of forever</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">unseen beings beheld the rite</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you grew from foetal reveries</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">incandescent in its vast maturing</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ink of red and paper forest green</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my eyes fluttered with their marriage</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">incandescent respendent and wild</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">destroying time with pleasure</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">liberty our only authority</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ode so long is this clear river</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">resonate with darkness smould'ring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">defy every cold and faceless tower</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with the candle of immortal cupid</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">resort to the fire of my sex</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the blooming growth finally freed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by the captivity of thy shadow</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">resume other concerts gladly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">defy even this if whim commands</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">balance totality at perihelion</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">resounding angelic wind of orgasm</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">resonates with light bursting</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flickering beads in opaline vision</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crowning the sculpture of profiles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cataract of lust that sacred smoke</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">spill another grandiloquent drop</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crowning the mantle vermillion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cataclysm of fulfillment crackling</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">meander in these allegoric forests</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crowning their sentinels orange</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">catlike kinetic fluid of imaginations</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">laze beneath the tree of paradox</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">crawling to conquest merrily</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">catalysts distilling with gestures</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rendezvous with some empathic sprite</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">yearnings twist like strange serpents</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flickering beads of fire leap blindly</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">glow along with this blood sceptre</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">plunging gift of eager trance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">we each collapse before this knight</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">master the slow dance of unity</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wet streams scorch the bodies now</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">we assent to its blue-white beams</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">glorying in a naked promenade</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">plunging into this lava</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">we can only cry out triumphant</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">consume this bubble of ambrosia</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while we push aside each barrier</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">glowing amidst this plebian theatre</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">delve 'neath a meniscus of stars</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dare to enjoy your secret island</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">inflamed with my unicorn of lusts</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">merge into this effervescence</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">tease the cool mask of history</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">infuse it with a charm thus born</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wave to the sky at last sublime</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dare the simplest courages</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">inflame my nervous surface now</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">charge quixotic yet still victorious</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">tease the edges of another eve</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">infuriatingly delight this tongue</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with such liberty wisdom makes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while our humid hearts stirring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">delve above a field of stones</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">moan a song of sweet dissonance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hallowed hymns in erotic trance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">repent the metropolis once again</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">moan with your musky sacraments</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">drain my flask unto oblivion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as the galaxy wheels over elegant</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">moaning our loving intersection</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hallowed as these shaking limbs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dare the smallest fear to death</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">moan at infinity suddenly ripe with heat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sing the noises of assonance</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">embrace this darkling meteor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as it crosses your invisible cosmos</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">thrust against its insisting power</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">return to the first sparks</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as they scrape us out of dust</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">thrown together gasping in ecstasy</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flash those dusky eyes of youth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as the horizon bursts with sunsets</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">thrilling the marrow of dying day</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">brush against this beautiful abyss</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">asking for only a few hours to kiss</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">through which to cheat its archives</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wrap the breast of evening in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a standard of pure flame</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">embrace this sparkling phoenix</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bend this light of my vision</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">startling in its first discovery</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">find the gold of this spirit</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whole at last our vanquished solitudes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">disappear under such lightning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">find the key here that releases it</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">reign here in this secret grove</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">startling its unwelcome tranquility</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">find the new storms of your heart</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">refine them to dazzling clarity</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bending that night of our visions</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">enchant this thudding heart</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">deranged by your smoky musk</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kindly does it beckon to me</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wrap my kisses deep within</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the orchid of your vulva</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kindling this rite of new virtue</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">twine our fingers together</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">deranged in their perpetual mingling</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kind combat they then make</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">flex this feminine majesty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the feast of my virgin tongue</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kin to the small glowing pink coal</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rage with sweating pleasure</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as my kisses seek your explosion</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">enchant this peaceful heart</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a reddening soft conflagration</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">offering upon its dewy altar</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the marvel of a heaven in life</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a ruby beyond any price</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that gains conquest by surrendering</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">its fantastic sense of wholesome joy</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a banquet of soft groans</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">offering our fires to history</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while we tease the winter to shreds</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a swollen hooded demon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">emerges as you signal your rapture</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a blushing stiffening conflagration</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">deny that cold hand</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the rain sends o'er your skin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">return to this panting demand</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">tense oh beast waiting within</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to the last insistent force</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">spread long soft wings for final flight</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sow the seed upon its course</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the zenith now of my own hot delight</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">refrain that shudders deep within</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">soothe each torrent at last</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with just this many smiles that spin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">springing forth gestures so fast</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">distinct each gasping command</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">below your gaze there is oblivion hot</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">denying this cold hand</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">submit to those commands of thought</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">their chain frees my own surprise</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with such a burning shower</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">close to you its length does rise</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with each pulse of my bursting flower</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">our swooning senses revel in life</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my purple bulb, your ruddy nest</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">their reign of endless union blessed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with a wish here newly dawned</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">amaze this bashful request</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that frolics freshly spawned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">submit to love with sighing rest </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-18007756299497552892020-06-15T11:01:00.000-07:002020-06-15T11:01:58.806-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 23 (1993)<u><span style="font-size: large;">II. Terpsichore </span></u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">you hide my wild gestures in esprit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the realms of darkness & light</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while they struggle free effortlessly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to the tableaux of noon & midnight </span><u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">there are only bodies straining wildly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">beneath my voluminous quilt of gasps</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you force them from your breast</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the milts of myth allegory trance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">this is where lays liberty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">this wheel pulsates with living blood</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you send the thrill to its target</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the realms of my sister muses</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while inspiring visionary reverie</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that the fate of each sense chooses</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">there are treasures in my touch</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o for those few who will dare try</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you can enter my fog of raptures</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the sails of whimsy grace delerium</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">these are the gates & keys you love</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">send them to their purpose yes</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you reveal to me your blushing charms</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the intimacy of crimson energies</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you clasp this wind in welcoming arms</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my synergy your heart to appease </span>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-39338486964813059612020-01-01T10:29:00.000-08:002020-01-01T10:32:03.460-08:00Dawn Of The Titanic Twenties Ahoy!Societal non-viability will continue becoming more inflationary - & deadlier - until/unless sentience usage improves sufficiently to counteract it.<br />
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<br />jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-78933909512814724292019-09-09T09:31:00.000-07:002019-09-09T09:34:27.690-07:00Salad Daze Unit 22 (2001)<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><u>from one of the living who doesn't envy the dead </u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">although i am not hers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">this is no defeat</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">in what we never shared</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">i will ever after linger</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">no pain can solve such love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">these tears are lies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">although she is not for me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">i am bathed in victory</span></span>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709603776611784569.post-37237523309732290372019-09-09T09:16:00.000-07:002019-09-09T09:33:07.170-07:00Salad Daze Archive Unit 21 (2001)<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>homage to an unknown poet </u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there is a</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">huge cold hammer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">coming down at me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but this is not a dream</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is blind & patient</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the edge is too far</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to quite run to</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this is more than its shadow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if we laugh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">may it then dissolve away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but we still aren't laughing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this is still the same</span></span>jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.com0