simpleRECURSION || isolation insulation
August 30, 2007
isolation insulation

8:06 PM

Written in the air, somewhere between Japan and Canada.

To Andrea Ochoa
isolation insulation
the policeman inside my head
blows a whistle

the factory stops
and all the workers spill
out of my ears

chanting vive la liberté
and gabriel garcía márquez

the smokestacks rise
above their tenements
they go back

their worn hands
like the hands of clocks tell time

outside
a boy and a girl
play in a green field

i can smell green says the girl
says the boy i can smell nothing

hair slicked back
pink tongue
sticking out

the maître d' dances like an angel
on the head of a pin

rock scissors paper pen polite cough
all inventions
of the man

spending the day
colouring the heart on his sleeve

black
and red

if you understand this poem
i will write you a song
on the leaves of grass

for a thousand years to be sung
to a string quartet played by sylvester stallone

and the workers that came
out of my ears
would roll back to the factory tiers

so as to not mistake can't for canto and mist for mystery
if you didn't

Comments

Once I find the time from my autoerotic activities, I hope to read more of your poetry. It seems very coherent to me these days. I don't know if that's because it's better than what you used to write or if I have simply become more receptive to poetry. Maybe a little bit of both? Good poem.

Posted by Blazej on September 13, 2007 6:59 AM

I wouldn't dare to compete with the horse, of course. ;)

As for coherence, it is a high compliment indeed. Any indication of my evolution (and you have read my work from as far back as 1998) is a welcome sign of progress.

Otherwise, it's always nice to gain another reader. Turning on mig81.com comments had paid off in spades.

Mhumm. All of this is getting me motivated. Perhaps I shall post a few more pieces tonight!

Posted by Mike on September 13, 2007 11:42 PM

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