Wednesday 15 August 2012

Sign, What is I? & To Kitty Pryde


Sign

A corner of air
A banjo of time
The smell of a death-rattle
The mind of insomnia
Running through my sleep

A calotte of nape
Cut off at the neck
An isle of wonder
Reaching seven skies
Hacked down in terra

A stem of shedded skin
A tamp on my pipe
A skull in the works
The majority fool
In a matchbox kiss

A breath of hair
The width of breadth
Cuts out a stop
On pizzicato openers
Signalling wind

Dew of drops
Drizzle a placemat
On an abandoned sane
Of musk-eyed winkles
Beckoning see, saw

To syringe the limbs
Of rotting meat



What is I?

One is I. Alone is one. Obtuse. Selfish
As a pronoun, I. The me of this
Peculiar consideration. In connection:
Individual; stratified. Am. Therefore,
When commenting upon my... Inspiration
Eyes shrug lidlessly. Where? We know where:
The eighteenth brumaire, strikes dumb, blows
Apart; but when the latter don’t-they-know-its
Impart that that’s what they needed emotionally,
One but thinks, but who are they? The Is of this
World, which cross the dots; tease the eyes
Til all is not lost; jump-started, through
Time. I founded my sanction in Kurt Cobain,
Perhaps; this burial of the dead already living.
It is of course Tom that teaches this I. The T, the I,
The T again. Amongst them, amongst them. I’m not.
To be sure. The question begging: what is I?



To Kitty Pryde

Murmeyed,
Beckst thing since, and
I’d
Poeteyes about this,
Pouties – innies and
Outies – indies,
In these: pop
Music’s
Heart
Still beats,
Really. In genie,
Of eeny,
Meeny,
Miny mo,
No,
Mojo,
Tryst
Tress
An idol
I dun-
no.