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PILOTS

PILOTS  OF    MYSTERIOUS  VESSELS

The story of a body is interior   What lurks inside

all of that blood   inside all of that darkness? There

is a microscopic-pin near the tip of your nose   Go

ahead pull it   You can take this body  OFF    But no

one thought to tell you that   Now you know  the secret

So will you?  Don’t you want to meet the alien who resides

inside?  Maybe you already have?  It has the voice that said:

There is no such thing as normal    Go ahead  marry him

Take Scar Jo’s alien in: Under the Skin  brutally raped until

the bodybreaks    Ape-man immolates the she-devil   but maybe

just another crucifixion?

While there on the shore  the aliens oblivious to a dying human baby

search for more  bodies  to harvest   Reminiscent of the human-nazis

who threw babies up in the air   & caught them on bayonets    Who is

piloting this ship?

What separates the alien from  the truly human?  The soul under the skin?

We have about as much evidence of this  as the pin near the tip of your

nose    Further studies will have to be conducted  & measurements taken

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SPRING  2014

RITES

THE  LAST  RITES  OF     SPRING

Scientists have found evidence of a

hypothetical fish:   Metaspriggina

Fossilized 505 million yrs. ago

This fish is the missing piece of the

puzzle   The transformation of plankton 

slurpers  into predators  with jaws

Who foresaw that the humanpuzzle

would include a morph from arrowheads to

assault rifles?  (coined by Adolf Hitler)

Nobody expected to find such an animal

said Simon Conway Morris (U of Cambridge)

speaking of the fish    Evolving a jaw is just one

of the really great breakthroughs in the history   of life  

So has the human conscience grown hypothetical?

Or just turned deeply pathological    How about the

evolution of the M-16    or the virginity tests of the

wretched Arab Spring?   Yesterday in Tahrir Square

a  mob-rape took place & produced a shocking YOUTUBE

Reports of badnews are censored in Egypt: Well they are happy

The people are having fun  (female tv host  State Media)

While here in Canada another Spring pageant is underway

High school graduation  & PROM    Smells like purity    Are they

even aware of their liberties?  Or perhaps lulled into complacency

by:  hypothetical futures   hypothetical Peace  on  hypothetical Earth

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Dinosauria, We

born into this  dying because of this  fooled by this  used by this  pissed on by this

made crazy and sick by this  made violent  made inhuman by this   the heart is

blackened  the fingers reach for the throat  the gun  the knife  the bomb  the fingers

reach toward an unresponsive  god   we are born into this sorrowful deadliness  

castrated  debauched  disinherited

Charles Bukowski  1992

SPRING  2014

WWCBS

WHAT  WOULD   CHARLES BUKOWSKI    SAY?

She is giggling though the sound is grating  even to

his ears   He sits close & strokes a thigh  Holy shit   batman

this is really good!  she squeals   apropos of nothing

He has a closely cropped goatee   looks like a hipster

Mephistopheles  This morning 666  appeared in his latte

But his hopes to get lucky  fade with each  squeeeeeeel

To the lighthouse!  she chants in a Woolf-ian rant

as he moves in for the kill   stroking  stoking  glamouring

I glance away in disgust   What would  Charles Bukowski  say?

Now footsie is played  & wrestling begins   Holy shit I love owls!    

Should I puke now    or just run ’em over with my car?

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I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.  

Charles Bukowski

SPRING   2014

WWJS

WHAT  WOULD  JESUS   SAY?

When he & his wife arrived at the Officer’s

side  they had no idea if the gunman was

nearby   In his minds eye what remains of

the scene: blood & pink petals   from an

overhanging cherry tree    (not poetic license)

He said he would do the same thing  again

Most definitely    A local woman locked in her

home for 30 hrs. said: He made me afraid  and

I want to see him afraid    Across the sea the Pope

& 2 Presidents  plant an olive tree

So where is the dis-connect?  On Saturday I asked a

20 yr. old what he thinks of our constant killing sprees

He said: We need another enlightenment   It seems that

it is time for the God  who ever dies  and is ever re-born

to make another appearance

Unless that was him lying amidst the blossoms   Or might

he have been one of the 796 babies in Ireland  dispersed in a

field   next to a nunnery?  Could be.    Some earthquakes happen

in slow motion   22 to 34 miles inside of the Earth    yet the re-

alignment is epic

If he is on his way  and arrives on a day when most of us are in

lockdown will anybody know he’s here?  Or will he be as lost to

us as the mangerbornstranger  from the east?    the burningbush

desertrecluse?   the boyinthebohditree?

Probably.

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*would all depressed poets step up to the podium please

SPRING  2014

BROKEN

TAKE  THESE  BROKEN   WINGS

Blackbird   red wings   It was a sky-is-falling

kind of day    Bomb-dived my head    People

stopped and stared   I felt the brush of   bird?

Thought the Angels had come for me

shadow of wings   flapping  flapping  airswooosh  near an ear

In car on way home radio flipped ON:

Moncton in lockdown (Moncton!)   24 yr.old

gunman on a 30 hr. rampage    3 RCMP slain

Later at home tv flipped ON:

Gunman in Seattle siege in progress   live!

student-bodies    everywhere

Summertime in the Americas  gentle breezes

The living is easy    Sounds of guns ricochet

Angels dropping like flies

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SPRING  2014

SLENDERMAN

GIRLS   APPEASE   INTERNET     MEME

You arrive inside your mother   & leave inside

your box   Spend eternity inside that other womb   tomb

the body must never be alone   never so vulnerable

the soul as when first separate *

This is true for the beginning & for the end   though

most don’t know  these arcane details

Some souls in splints   vulnerable to all manner of dybuuk

Take Slenderman creepypasta.wikia.com   for example

Seduced two 12 yr. olds who stabbed their friend in throat

and heart 19x   after which he promised shelter in his mansion

The judge has rejected a request to have the girls transferred

to a mental health facility   They will be tried as adults

Can someone out there: discover hope   changetheworld

bring back the nuclear family?

And may we live into a time when: No girl will have her face

shot off   for simply attending school

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*The girls traded the knife back & forth between them  then

left their friend lying in the woods    She died by a roadside

where she had crawled   They each face up to 65 yrs. in prison

Attorney Anthony Cotton said: Somethings such as make-believe

would not be alarming in a child

SPRING   2014     *Anne Michaels 2014

SMALL PRINT

FIND GIRLS NOW    BACK PAGE SMALL PRINT

Today we heard that local herdsman carrying bows &

arrows  have formed a network to share tips on where

the girls  might be   The area is 62,000 sq. kilometers wide

forest covered mountains  rolling savanna  & semi desert

The rains are coming  so we can only hope for caves   many

caves   Where until the girls are saved   they may stay

Huddled together  dry  learning hymns   So far the world has

only planned: the finding part  while there has been no talk of:

the rescue part    Surely the villagers  farmers  & hunters  have

a plan   With bows & arrows in hand  they will stealthily invade

Boko Haram territory  hunt the captors down  1 terrorist at a time

Like baboons  wild boars   psychopaths

In videos released this week  the hostages were shown reciting

hymns  Those interviewed said they were not mistreated   But

they will never un-see  what they have seen    un-remember

where they have been     un-scream 3000 screams

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SPRING  2014

HOORAY

HOORAY   FOR  THE     RIFF/RAFF

It was a dingy bird with a yellow crest at its

throat  Hobbled by the door of Bacchus Roti

I didn’t want to look too closely   Would it be

a doppelganger of the 3 legged dog who chased

me in the park? (right foreleg long gone)

Or would it have a mangled wing   & a mangled

song?

Here comes the roti-lady   squawking   She has a

way with birds  shrimp   goats    In a moment or 2

Parkdale becomes Eden   The man running in circles

snatches the bird  from the gnarlytree  & lights out for

the territory   ahead     O this neighbourhood  built on an

ancient riverbed  with hipsters now 20 deep   at Walnut St.

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O to be radical  young  desirable  cool!

Stanley Kunitz  1971

SPRING  2014

POCKET

A   ASS   POCKET   FULL  OF     BLUES

and a scotch full of boob   Is anyone as cool

as the old Delta crooners?  Wake up on a grey

day in your stinkin city   Problems of the world

wearied   You wonder how the young man named

Bowe  a POW for a ¼ of his life    will fare

Will the released Commandos of terror  take down

another tower?  Will Bowe take a wife?   Resume his

old life? Or has he been turned like Brody  on Homeland?

Now contemplate the 2 cousins  14 & 15  found hanging

from a mango tree  Uttar Pradesh  Wednesday   India will

further revise its gang-rape laws   There’s some strangefruit

Billie Holiday   &  a band of angels wrestling with the ropes

Why the blues were made for times like these!

Just look at the ecstasy on the Howlin man’s face

Lift you out of the mud   & blood stained trajectory  of our

21^st century   Just listen carefully   The crossroads are everywhere

Juno Beach 70 yrs. Friday    Normandy looking clean & tidy

Blood swept out to sea

How low can you swing?

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SPRING  2014

PONY

YOU  KILLED    MY  PONY

Life is a combo of :  choices  judgements  forks

catalysts   gamechangers    will    genes   history 

skeletons  repetition compulsion   an  albatross or 2

And a lover who reminds you of : Joseph Stalin

Built a Gulag just for you  with rooms full of roses

in your favourite colours    Cupboards stuffed with

curated vintage     A huge diamond or 2

And a gilded cage for your small bad heart

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SPRING  2014