11 Oct 2017

New Work. Oct 2017



Weird people


Not the different
Not the odd
Not the dysfunctional
Round peg in square hole
Types

But the weird
Those who are kind of
Slippery and glossed
Calm and sallow with a
Volume never above a mediocre
Voice

Untrustworthy and nauseating
Happy and agreeable and
Out for themselves only
Ever and for
Ever

They are sly and cut like razors
And so you bleed out before even
Finding a wound
And they are the majority
The climbers like
Spiders on a web of success
Reaching the top and dying
Still ignorant but richer
Than
You.




 Normal people


We are small
And caring and look too far
See too much
We understand the fire
The insect and the elephant

You have no idea
The difficulty in maintaining this
Façade
To awaken every morning into anything but
Normality
And yet still become the shape of it
The weight of normality continuing
Permanently crushing
Unceasing and tireless

Our days an unseen high-wire act
Between street and office and café and
Finally home
And throughout our finite tolerance
We still manage to love and compound our art
Into the everyday hum

And it becomes at times impossible
To maintain the
Façade that we are part of this
Normality
Middling
Fitting
Square onto square onto
Square

And we are small
But not the smallest
We look too far but are not blinded
By it
We are nothing like you.





1 Oct 2017

Dying Laughing


 

The gods are not the artists
The painters or
Writers
God forbid not even the musicians
Though they come in a
Close second

It is the comics
The comedians driving from city to city
On lonely roads of sadness
The stand-ups that hold a mic
And control and dominate
And finally overpower all
Those faces beyond the spotlight

These are the souls racing far ahead
Of the rest of us
Words coming at you unfettered
Unfiltered
Brutal truths direct to your third eye

These are the gods
It is not a painting
With a hundred meanings
Or a poem swollen with
Metaphor

They instead send us rock and soil and the
Air we breathe
And nothing I could ever write will
Ever
Come close.