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LAND OF THE WOKE HOME OF THE UN-BRAVE
Have you heard the new-ish expression woke ? Nattered on
by those who consider themselves to be woke Gloria Steinem
recently to fabulously wealthy high school girls in Toronto : You
are WOKE Go forth and multiply! When it seems highly likely
that they are not Though the survivors in Parkland FLA appear
to be after 17 dead comrades flung bloodied into a cortege of
ambulances last Tuesday
She scurried ahead of me on faux cobblestones Yorkvile TO She
sobbed into her phone: I’m heading to the hospital My mother died
On+on she cried Also Woke As I scuttered along in too red pointy
boots pin size heels sticking in every crack Un-woke? Hyper-woke?
(aka hyper-vigilant: a hallmark of PTSD) Of late known to contemplate
the immortality chip
Constellated in all acts of fellatio creation That out of time out of space
feeling An altered state i.e., It doesn’t present as pain said the oncologist
On the surface you are listening to a song reading words looking at a canvas
or a painted cave within seconds dopamine pricks +your ego has the little death
(hallmark of great sex sometimes even mediocre depends how desperate you are)
And in the very act of creation the artist/creator drops out of time-space too
Unless the process is torturous like the writing of this poem waiting to be pounced
upon by brother’s friend who frequents this cafe +professes wonder at everything
I say Really! You eat lunch! It devolves from here On this gorgeous spring-like
day when you sell your soul a la Goethe’s Faust minute by minute for MORE But
not the sobbing girl now at St. Mikes Mother’s head to one side tongue lolling
She continues to cry
So why did Goethe make wishing for more time a sin? The one where
Mephistopheles disguised as a black poodle grins + as punishment you are
yoked to the same day over+over again An apt description of life as we know it
Perhaps all manner of epiphany sets you apart from the herd Breaks the yoke No
longer enslaved to the nuclear family you may think yourself FREE But who would
people our Wallmarts? Our Costcos? Our gun shows?
You’re part of the animal kingdom after all Magnificent + Mammalian The only
hope of un-hitching the yoke is to acknowledge without surprise that you are as frail
as you think you are But so are they who seethe with BRAVE And if there are no
abnormalities in your 2nd scan in 8 weeks RUN with it on that putrifying knee find
a cave +huddle there Spring is a mere 21 days away
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Winter 2018 can kiss my..
songanddancegirl 