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jmartinez
jmartinez
American Poetry for the writhing masses
this is a poem for the night and for the dawning of the darker dream where we’ll go watching waiting for a sign that we might be free of ourselves in laughter in a moment in response I can’t tell if it’s serious are you serious? am I serious? are they serious? on the other side where everything is made of eyeballs math and color are they serious in the capital or more serious with lights off when the mask of form is stolen and then free to create are we free in dreams or do you dig the weird collapse of the winking eye to reach a point of limitless cohesion in a black cup do we take the leap of faith to sleep a second longer knowing that our dream is the more real & the nightmare is an image of inverted faith decaying in a flash of meteoric sparks burning up the sky to light this new joint in the atmosphere of the living room dropping LSD in VR to paint a picture with mental pixels or build your inner fire or net an alien or get in bed w/ grandma & her bronzed boots behind us where an open window calls the night in cool cascades of secret drunken knowledge or else obnoxious wisdom with apology when we’re closer to that which knows no logic moves in shadow backwards up the wall to find us when the sun shreds all we thought we knew
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Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 1:18 PM UTC
Night Poem
Incessantly The kettle steaming The drums beating The cats racing The mind moving The bedroom walls Losing their color As the body Loses itself In its own rhythms Til the whole world Is a steaming kettle Then nothing else is Known If you try it won’t happen If you don’t It will
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Feb 16, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 at 3:57 PM UTC
Feb.12th Poem
Kali, make me an implement of your final cruelty and wisdom Where there is motion, let me slow the vibration So that your senses might attune to stillness So that you might destroy my innocence and abolish my existence May Kali Yuga swallow every form May the myriad wonders go rushing, gushing thru your fangs May the birth pangs of tomorrow chase the fortune of today May the endless hours be abolished in calamity Teach us to acknowledge the concrescence of our essence Show us finality of form Destroy the walls of every home—for we have willed it Forever in a vacuum May there be no sound of seasons May every reason fall to chaos You have made us in your image Teach us to recognize Where there is form, void; Where there is truth, deception; Where there is certainty, a cosmic pun; Where there is reality, hallucination; Where there is touch, neglect; Where there is growth, a garden full of ashes; You of many names: Anima, The Serpent Mother, Blessed Other, Mind of Nature, Mind of Man, She Who Can, She Who Is, Spider Woman, Tao Bring us to the edge of the unspeakable now Disrupt our petty play Absolve us from decay Amazing how we’ve come so far And are still so far apart Everything is natural I tell myself But then What makes us so strange? Something here is strange We seek to make it known Like a deadbeat injuring himself On the job In Tennessee Subject to Endless repetition In the marble quarries Of old Athens We copy what is known Expecting praise While cities of the night Reveal an ancient face The body is the portal The world is but a riddle On the stone cells of A tomb Golden wax Breeds life From the base of a great tree Where an old woman Sings in praise of Kali Yuga Calls the pasture to her hand And all the humming things Come forward Blind & obedient Like unpolished flesh The drapery billows w/ No motion Sends the eyeballs off In search of internal shadows Where the Other waits Where it always has Where it will be confronted Where it will be embraced Where it will be known Or die to our division & cover up our genitals forever
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Feb 15, 2017
Feb 15, 2017 at 1:58 PM UTC
Prayer to Kali Yuga
Kali, make me an implement of your final cruelty and wisdom Where there is motion, let me slow the vibration So that your senses might attune to stillness So that you might destroy my innocence and abolish my existence May Kali Yuga swallow every form May the myriad wonders go rushing, gushing thru your fangs May the birth pangs of tomorrow chase the fortune of today May the endless hours be abolished in calamity Teach us to acknowledge the concrescence of our essence Show us finality of form Destroy the walls of every home—for we have willed it Forever in a vacuum May there be no sound of seasons May every reason fall to chaos You have made us in your image Teach us to recognize Where there is form, void; Where there is truth, deception; Where there is certainty, a cosmic pun; Where there is reality, hallucination; Where there is touch, neglect; Where there is growth, a garden full of ashes; You of many names: Anima, The Serpent Mother, Blessed Other, Mind of Nature, Mind of Man, She Who Can, She Who Is, Spider Woman, Tao Bring us to the edge of the unspeakable now Disrupt our petty play Absolve us from decay Amazing how we’ve come so far And are still so far apart Everything is natural I tell myself But then What makes us so strange? Something here is strange We seek to make it known Like a deadbeat injuring himself On the job In Tennessee Subject to Endless repetition In the marble quarries Of old Athens We copy what is known Expecting praise While cities of the night Reveal an ancient face The body is the portal The world is but a riddle On the stone cells of A tomb Golden wax Breeds life From the base of a great tree Where an old woman Sings in praise of Kali Yuga Calls the pasture to her hand And all the humming things Come forward Blind & obedient Like unpolished flesh The drapery billows w/ No motion Sends the eyeballs off In search of internal shadows Where the Other waits Where it always has Where it will be confronted Where it will be embraced Where it will be known Or die to our division & cover up our genitals forever
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They come They leave They seek reprieve We need a sound and a light To keep us conscious Of whatever I am conscious of something There is a barrier Young girl in black jeans Glasses Apron And a fry cook Battering Nova Scotia Halibut on live television I send a message to Adonai Wyd? He asks me if I will agree To his new terms of service Which makes me uneasy He tells me Carl Jung Wears his glasses in the void He looks prophetic and exalted With some black folks Sitting at a corner table While being interviewed That’s amazing She says So cool She says That’s amazing And if our eyes meet For too long We might know some Secret truth Which we make No effort To conceal Are we already In perfection?
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Feb 15, 2017
Feb 15, 2017 at 1:20 PM UTC
Texting the Lord
the way out now is only through the dawning of the darker dream the twisting of the spiral to an indeterminable point the realization of a magic balance whereby opposites are well positioned though never gaining sight of one another doomed to drift in undulating furies ever further from themselves never to escape the way out now is through the collapsing kaleidoscopic door of time the biological rhythm of a living universe whose name is indecipherable except is on the tongue of each and every hungry soul who's ever tasted language
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Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017 at 1:48 AM UTC
The Way Out
I'll write to you John Wieners you old twisted fruit long dead & drained of brilliance brain inherited from Burroughs you analytical ****** John long gone are the hours you spent in bars in bed in someone's *** like Ginsberg you are the emotional man who ran his fingers through the flesh of frozen moments tenderness exhibited in elegies of departed lovers no dope sunrise sheltered by your words the refuge of poetic gnosis brought from Beats to Black Mountain ********** Moloch men mounting one another thighs apex near sun to receive the final fatal flash of pleasure then descend again to madness like Kerouac you sought the silver honey-milk of bohisattva jazz jive held eternity in a frozen moment and a moment on a page made offerings to the hideous grey gods of machinery and read the neon streetlight hieroglyphics you who busted mind-forg'd manacles of Blake with consonance and assonance and *** of boys born bravely to the ecstasy of final drunkenness & one last cigarette O prisoner of earth and of the body you are risen!
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Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017 at 1:42 AM UTC
Ode to John Wieners
skirting all the animated moments move swift fast in ****** muscle recollections he was wounded in his chair there seized upon the revolution from his own side was to watch her three trips for **** that Sunday he was spending and suspended by a strange hand as balloon him falling forward always faithful you should call him I think we're making progress marijuana chocolates no violence ******* pull-ups in the basement sitting cross legged wondering and heartsick seized upon some love of colors giving in most pathetic but real love there and present finally quit the buffet job & am I crazy now? tales of DMT and pink-flash of white hot nothing abolished in after-image finger traces hold the third **** then thru the kaleidoscope door where not to be abandoned to utopias rather fishing for an image of divine mother pulled out of the background subtle nature language wove in one's own tongue never have you known it but it's now & faster than imagined a world which breaks apart into fractal building blocks of source code neverending as she's on the couch with snapchat filters absurdities of alcohol and everything startling the sleep sick senses
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Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017 at 1:22 AM UTC
On Visiting A Friend
now we're in an image of the eyeball shifting sheltered under rainbow crow's feet iridescent what is different? my roommate asks me under humming bulb & breezes in my father's kitchen we will wash the plastic rat black & lathered as my brother masturbates his whiskers individually with shampoo this is the lord's day forms are found and then forgotten on the axis of my navel I feel very isolated in slow end-game pictures animated just for me they shudder/blossom in my bathtub arabesques with eyes closed watching ladies jesting self-lust obsessing winking saying they are only watching aloud alone anon outside there is a frozen rabbit twisted in the grass embroidered w/ one million happy diamonds blazing primordial frosted like flagellum in a dreamscape all aligning to the haunted second where I'm seeing movies of hypostyle halls sound of cacti calling diet soda sounds of thorny carbonation born from liquid crystal wisdom
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Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017 at 1:16 AM UTC
On Taking LSD With My Brother in January
collapse collapse collapse both sides prisons both homes hells both parents murderous the molecules of madmen organized in beauteous forms ****** exalted jerking off each other looking into eyeballs out of time spiraling out of time
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Dec 5, 2016
Dec 5, 2016 at 5:09 PM UTC
Collapse
The Stranger's at the door I am not sure anymore Please forgive me I am afraid
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Dec 3, 2016
Dec 3, 2016 at 9:14 PM UTC
The Stranger's At the Door