{"id":2966,"date":"2020-02-08T07:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2020-02-08T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:19:31","slug":"revolution-and-the-art-of-a-dying-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/08\/revolution-and-the-art-of-a-dying-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"r(E)volution and the art of a dying dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper guns firing warning shots
\ninto nebulous the neon night
\nenter my eyes
\ni’m stoned again
\nstaring at the shaded wallpaper
\nof silent deities
\nstranded in hollow disdain<\/p>\n

under the black gaze
\nof several silent cats
\ni’m waiting, and anticipating an eventual end<\/p>\n

one day i challenged a broken line
\nchilled and held by the sea
\nchaos was a whole new transition
\nwaiting for purple rune mountains to speak
\nohh how they sit with random indifference
\nand the sun is an unresponsive god<\/p>\n

weighted and wounded,
\ndrinking in ritual beauty
\ni fell into the arms
\nof another domestic lover
\nas this silver sword once again
\nseparates skinny poetry<\/p>\n

sacred forms of sin still call to us
\nas crystal knives slice through cautious hesitation
\nread on the bed
\nand dead in the wine washed night
\nnervous characters wrap bodies in heat
\ncostumed, we consume memories
\nof empty sheets<\/p>\n

think of black glass, love, and crazy sex games
\nwaiting to be sequestered and written
\non cartoon alters
\ndecorated with fluid flowers
\nfrom a garden moon
\nbreakfast at noon
\ni’m in tune
\nwith hungover patterns
\nas consciousness is marooned
\nand
\nthe snake lies coiled in the east
\nwaiting for a deceased priest
\nto reconvene this artistic feast<\/p>\n

satan love
\nlost and lonely in the narcotic night
\nthe shadow becomes the self
\nand, we\u2019re always searching for shamans
\nto remind us how we\u2019re all
\nunique and irreplaceable<\/p>\n

science, violence
\ndefiance or compliance
\nit’s all the same<\/p>\n

polluted by television
\nand searching for a second chance
\nmanifest destiny has morphed into
\ncommunist consumerism
\neverything old is forgotten
\nhow many times can we walk down dusty streets
\nsoiled by the arcane industry of humanity<\/p>\n

exiled from dance halls
\nwe reach toward white walls
\nwith tired wooden fingers
\nwandering these warrior mornings
\ncould we start a different kind of revolution?<\/p>\n

mantistic maestro
\nmorning feather
\nwait for the crow
\nbullfrog songs, heavy clouds,
\nand scented candles
\nare the only mysteries we have left<\/p>\n

the rhythm is hiding behind recycled time
\none more trip
\nand the spell will be complete
\nconsume whatever removes your mind
\nfrom this dull reality<\/p>\n

it\u2019s time to re-write the present tense
\nthe past tastes the future
\nand glass realities crash
\nagainst the promises of tomorrow<\/p>\n

in the next life
\nmay the new gods
\nbe kinder than the last<\/p>\n

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