songanddancegirl

A.I.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Man is A.I. to Nature   nature who created woeman

in her own image    Man’s push to consciousness

hubristic+gnashing as it is   made the soul wary +

not a little bitter  Nature God (dess) replaced by Homo

sapien   Two legged ape deeply enamoured of  Oblivion

We should have stayed hunched on the savannah   Now

the rough beast has killed it’s Gods  +finds itself  unholy

Consciencelessness is a messy business   As men +women

round up fresh victims to behead   some with short little knives

requiring a sawing motion

The boat with the fisherman went missing  What would Jesus say?

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I am a god
I am a god
I am a god

(Yeezus  Kanye West)

Deus EX MACHINA       Spring 2015

BALLS

IF THE BUBBA HAD BALLS

She monopolized my favourite author

like a shark in heat  as I circled the periphery

She a famous editress    I a stalker-amorus

My mother wrote re my defeat: Did you ever

hear of: EXCUSE ME SORRY TO INTERRUPT

MY NAME IS     (mud?)

If I had her chutzpah  I’d be Queen

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Colm Toibin   (woulda should coulda  didn’t)

Spring 2015

DADDY

MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY

Did you know that women are 2x more depressed

+ anxious than men   +10x more likely to admit it?

The newspaper asks: is it because women are actually

sicker?  Or go to the doctor more?

Maybe like Eurydice  the underworld beckons  +daddy

waits there ready to build you a room of string   Of all the

vagaries  saying goodbye to daddy  makes the blood grow

angry   + angry blood in women causes: infarction

Dear Deadwomen: if you were given the choice by Hades to

live your days across the Styx   with daddy   or  return to your

Orpheus-hubby   What would you do?   Only serious responses

will be considered   Write to HisDarkLord at: daddysgirlsrule.com

*winners will receive  a reprieve

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..through shallow water, through dustings of  snow, through

cloudy figures of fallen light. I cannot remember, but I think

you were there, whoever you are.  

(Mark Strand  Blizzard of One  Pulitzer 1999)

Spring 2015   for Michelle & Gregory  Soulpepper’s Eurydice+Orpheus

GRIFFINS

SEE YOU AT THE GRIFFINS

ultra-contemporary   a transcontinental rumba

of the global digital   This a description of the 5th

Canadian of colour to be nominated for a Griffin

Trinidadian-Peruvian   Shane Book    Shane says:

Poetry doesn’t get a lot of laughs

I wonder if there have been any invisible minorities

a.k.a. Jews  nominated    They might describe my

poems for instance as: a transcontinental hora of the

global digital   +funny  don’t ask!   

Seriously  I don’t care how they describe my poetry

$75,000 would give my dark+depressing stanzas a ring

of dybbukery     A  #sellmysoulatthecrossroads  infamy

And yes I would take the money   Though I cannot help but

wonder if the Muse could then be wrested from the front

row at CHANEL   #callmeshallow     Go ahead

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Spring 2015

ALBINOS

ALL ALBINOS ARE BORN LEGALLY BLIND

in tanzania people with albinism are hunted like animals

they aren’t considered human  children+babies murdered

grisly butchery   body parts in witch doctor’s potions bring

luck  love  +success  to countrymen   there is even a booming

cross-border trade

mwigulu matanange  10   is the saddest person in the country

he hasn’t spoken a word since his mutilation in February   t-shirt

gaping hole  where arm used to be   buyers of potions  rich+powerful

(even politicians!)  225 witch doctors arrested so far this year   all

released days later

an election in the offing  demand increasing   3 children  one village

missing   vivisection suspected   a year old’s hand found on the road

to nowhere   June 13  2015   1st albino awareness day

use your eyes +hands  write the foreign ministry  +ask them to support

ending these atrocities   night is falling in tanzania   phantom limbs tingle

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Spring  2015