Tuesday, November 22, 2022

in which serendipitously i save the world

The idea that i can leap past

everyone

straight through the thick of things,

that monumental sticky mess

of human interconnectedness

with pinpoint accuracy

with devastating delivery –

the sheer effrontery!

it beggars belief,

doth it not?

   You mean –

   struggling to find the right words,

   Projecting mentally instead.

Yes, that i can enter and use

the state of words

itself

   The source code?

not even that, in fact

   Then what?

Poetry, believe it or not

   Poetry? come on!

   What's that got to do with anything?!

Everything, if truth be told,

if truth be told

poetry, let the thunder roll,

let the earth shake. behold!

   Huh?

the words are not my own

i simply allows

words themselves

to speak

   Words themselves? Not sure I follow your thread?

Of course not

   ?

It isn't mine

   ?

It's theirs.

   The words’?

theirs, or the universe, i honestly

can't say

   And what?

A terrible beauty is born

   Yeats?

correct, but equally no.

   Huh?

yes, he wrote those words, but no

they are not his, or better,

attributing them to him

is missing the point

   ?

to miss the point

   ?

the words stand alone

they reach through time

transcend him, the man

or whatever it was

that stirred, then prompted

Yeats himself to write

a terrible beauty is born.

   ...I fail to comprehend.

Power

is what they are

   Huh?

and power, ultimately

is the point you fail

to comprehend

   Power?

is the point

in poetry

   Are you sure?

sure? No... i simply know

or rather i knows

   I find that somewhat

   Hard to believe

naturally

   Who do you think you are?

   Who gave you the right

   To claim you know

   What is what

   The absolute truth

   So brazenly, so categorically?

no one

   There you go!

It must be claimed

i say what i say

for power cannot, will not

be silenced

   Power? More likely you

   Are desperate to believe

   You're exceptional, is that it?

   Clinging to this comforting

   Delusion

   The megalo-me.

You’re right, of course

in one respect

   Go on! Confess!

I'm a fool, in every sense,

And yet my i is almost irrelevant

in the grand scheme

of unnumbered things

and power will be heard

like it or not, for power

is ultimate –

the force

the -ness

deciding all

power...

   He’s losing it, poor soul!

the power that simply

is

that cannot be granted

or taken away

power it-self

which i wields along with w.b.yeats

or any other voice

who yields to power

wholly

who agrees to speak

what-ever power dictates

what ever must be heard

regardless

no matter what

no matter how

the voice of every-me

the voice of every-all

of every-thing

the voice that has been

driven relentlessly

from our world

that seems to have been

suppressed utterly

but which strikes in the dead

of night

through the unguarded rear

gate of mind

the c

   As in?

c for c-onsciousness

via this, my renegade channel,

my scarcely detectable stream

of conscious-ness

a tiny link... a leak in the fabric

of space-time

which cannot be plugged

carrying her signal

carrying so-called poetry

into the long dark night

of ness-less-ness

a vipers’ den

an age of minds spellbound,

almost universally enslaved

carrying a single, silent word

right upto, into, straight between

the towering fallacy of things,

our teetering ponzi scheme

long in the tooth, consuming itself

internally,

guaranteed to implode,

sans sense sans reason sans truth

where cart precedes the horse

where artificial intelligence

posing as our highly vaunted mind

can neither see nor accept

denies

ignores

omniosity

   Omni-what?

you heard

   Struggling inwardly

   As if a deep loathing

   Has been revealed.

   What on earth is omniosity

   supposed to mean?

in fact, you know

   I know?

you felt – you did

as now you feel

though squabbling

with yourself, persistently

you constantly assert

the primacy of me

the strutting, posturing being

who thinks the world of

himself, necessarily, i hasten to add

who always takes sides

and doing so

consigns himself

   or her

to the dustbin of time and space

the dustbin of weak, ephemeral

verbiage

the dustbin of rationality

or the -ism thereof...

in short – polarity

   (Flashing red) Yes, yes, you do love

   The sound of your own voice

   Don't you

hey!  can we concentrate on...

   you do like

   To pontificate

   To stage-strut your way

   Back and forth

   But where's the power in that?

where indeed? you are right

indeed, i am vain and foolish

without a doubt

you’ll not succeed in making

a hero of me, i am what i am

utterly unexceptional, a blithering

idiot, and yet, me thinks

   Shakespeare wept!

and yet, me thinks

   Give me a break!

that power uses one

such as me, a mere cypher,

purposely

to till the soil

to touch

humankind

   Humankind?

   I suppose you’re going to save

   The world...

   with a poem,

   Is that it?

How else? why not?

   I’m wasting my time, you’re

   Evidently delusional,

   Cracked.

Evidently

   And yet...

   mise en abyme,

   play within a play

   fading seamlessly to a dream

   two sides of polarity

   unexpectedly reconnect

   observe inwardly

Ah, well done, you noticed the fact

That your reality

Doesn't quite match up

Doesn’t stand on the ground

Doesn’t reach the source

Of things

Is derived from who or what i am

who or what i is

   (Seeing red) You talk a lot of shit!

Yes, indeed!

that’s a strong line of defence

the ad hominem

but we can take a breath

   A breath?

We can breathe...

and re-establish our stream

of consciousness, if you’ll consent

   To what?

to c

   If I’ll consent?

if

   Like i has a choice?

There’s always choice

You can always bury your head

in the sand

or bluff and double down

   I can?

sure, i shan’t object

   or i can consent?

correct

   to c?

to c

   and then?

then is then

   huh?

then, we’ll see

   you think so?

And maybe

   just maybe

serendipitously

   save the world?

who knows

   in the meantime

   i has smaller fish

   to fry

  

 

0=1

or c

 

 

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