To be a fool — a heavy chore,
For fools abound, and more, and more.
Idiocy now reigns "supreme",
World Fascism’s ever-growing scheme.

Darkness laid the ancient base,
An idiotic, boundless space.
Let them crush "ideals" anew,
False idols flood the wretched view.

If vile seems trite, worn to the bone,
A fresh grotesque will soon be grown.
Devour neighbors, one by one,
And thus, the path is clearly spun.

Once again, the Overton Window
Widens wide, like open sin.
Laws will follow, signed and sealed,
To make the World a wasteful field.

Fools, decay, vile powers that be,
Mark the world’s identity.
Idiots rise in false elation,
Ever easy for their station.

They’ll gather all, ***** anew
A global camp of poisoned hue,
Tripling lies with weary breath,
Leading minds to living death.


In Russian:

Работа

"Я покоряю города
Истошным воплем идиота;
Мне нравится моя работа,
Гори, гори, моя звезда!"
"Марш", Борис Гребенщиков и группа "Аквариум",
слова Анатолия Гуницкого, 1981 год.


Идиотом быть — работа,
Ведь кругом ИДИОТИЗМ:
Оглуплением уродов
Занят Мировой Фашизм.

Заложила Тьма ОСНОВЫ —
Идиотским с древле мир:
Пусть "надстройки" рушат снова,
На потоке лже-кумир.

Если Мерзость примелькалась,
Новую он "разовьёт" —
Только ближних есть осталось!
И к тому здесь всё идёт:

Снова Окна Овертона
Открывают с темой той.
Подведут потом "законы" —
Будет Мировой Отстой.

Идиот, ОТСТОЙ, власть ТВАРЕЙ —
Мира главные штрихи.
Идиоты в Лживой Мари
На подъём всегда легки:

Всех поднимут и отстроят
Новый Лагерь Мировой —
Только ложь везде утроят
Вусмерть хворым головой.

chi brought food & form was martialed--

feet struck, feet said: asphalt, feet said:

seawater.

as such a walk harnessed its entirety

before it began.

while feathers left birds on this or that

note, to touch pressure points of air.

whole symphonic collapses of earth thru

the blind conveyance of an obstacle

course.

the flexibility of weirdness is not a

parking sign peeping out of an

unstoppable tree trunk.

it's how that megaphone of pain acts as

a leyline.

reverse momentum knocking underfoot--

built-in everywhere.

loosed catapulsions on the verge of eyes--

these.

see just short of a walk's conclusion, the

side of a bush blow open.

exposing a few branches--one more

deafening than the other.

the soles of my feet and toes
-hardly ever seen
have carried the rest of me
-over hill and down valley
-around in circles
-and when I lay on cold slab, dead as dead can be
my name tag will be tied to one big toe,
convenient for the mortuary.

an elderly woman on the upper east side

leaves a red ring around a baby carrot

while gnoshing.

imagining Matisse cutting up fauve

confetti in his wheelchair, while he rolls

backward on a promenade.

then she lazily gropes at her neck,

observing a touristy swash--primed for

the annual rigging of Newtonian physics.

ice too is structured, I have witnessed its
appalling unbrokeness for longer than I
care to recall.
as with the guiding principles of
silverware, conversation should follow.
any misapplication would be as rude as
one cut off midsentence.
the mark of polite society is cultivated facade without imposition, hitchless
ritualism.
****** muscles uncramped of miseries,
poise is how stock is measured.
yet there's Michelangelo's: David, even
more poised with his pecker's forbidden
talking point.
tonight we exchange the currency of one
year for another--as the fog goes about its
yellow life.
no yellower than these so tight-lipped
about teeth.
the first time it happened, tobacco smoke
stratified layers of breath, cologne & perfume--letting fall delinquent unwash.
they all spoke at once, their features grew till they were competing panoramas.
as if they continually crawled out & came
for me with their airless truths.
how I learned to see with one eye, use the
opposite hand natural to me, balance on
one foot--to disalign with their choreography.
I increased that split second, I lingered upon it, caught others stitch a seam.
I saw the easeful converse of skulls make
stark headway, stiffly tolerant of arms left
raised in toasts.
the polished hatred of servants complimentary with movement & stationariness.
fool, martyr, poet--isolate any of the above & I will be indistinguishable from them.
it is I who lowered my guard, not they--throwing my nerves into the pools of impregnable circles.
hard at the art of hearsay, a one to one with a King--one with no dynastic
trickledown.
I drank from that chalice on New Years Eve--white flannel trousers rolled up.
masticated peach in my stomach, my ankles cuffed by a shoreline's puzzle piece.
splashed in the face by a mermaid's tail,
as to revive me from an undreamt year.