badi' al- zaman

we are
here, together
time unwound by axons'
fire and tamed connections
mating.

baptised
by a wood cut
in infancy, routed
by scripture from sleep we found
god lives

in choice
and chance of birth
census counts, priestly mirth,
hails of grace upon heads bent
to earth.

minor
to major tales
politicians serve
 caught in the knowing eye unfurled
by bits

to bytes
metastasized.
coal powered in linkou
while gasoline serves africa's
hunger.

bizness
as usual
wants nothing to do with
with questions of morals and such.
just bucks.

it's all
here. now, for you
and i to wander in
thick as fountainbleu's forest, still
alive

through years
of global melt
acid rain, chernobyl
fallout, chain saw's pain. the trees know
false claims.

horsehead
fiddlers draw bows
across a single string.
they ring in mulitples, a key
to find.









oy. ok, this poem was an experiment. since i'm not into the daily writing anymore, which goddamn me, i still want to be though i find that i just types similar/same things alla times. like my life has become  a slow crawl in fast motion because yeah, where DID my sunday go? doing nothing. the rain comes by
in fits and starts . the way i played the game was chose randomizer on wikipedia, write one cinquain about each article. unfortunately, i tend to be verbose about some subjects like "badi al zaman" is an honorific(arabic) meaning "the wonder of the age". so i think the wonder of this age is the internet.once  civiilization falls we will  all be jonesing for this instant overload of details and communication. but we'll be making long distance calls wth a fire and a blanket.

wiki didn't cooporate very well with giving me subjects. nothing much came up so i expanded some of the cinquain subject into the next strophe which 1)breaks cinquain rules & 2) reiterated my constant subject matter of god, politics, global warming.  our reason and conscious mind will always twist things back to the items of interest, no matter how far afield we could go.

oh well, better go get a pizza. my tile  counters are being worked upon! yay!