A Little Gentle Nudging

Annihilate political consciousness. Do yourself a favor. Take your little pet hobbyhorse out to the back alley and show it the inside of a gun barrel, then all smoke and brain matter. Paint the brick wall bloody with your politics, please, I beg of you.

Important Issues.

You will vote, and it either will or will not happen. But please, let me alone five minutes from your insipid, everlasting conversations. Everyone who agrees with each other should live together in isolated communities and enact the policies they want. Then they should shut up and leave everybody else alone. The communities that don't collapse can count themselves to have justified their positions, but in the meantime, at least the rest of us can actually get some sleep without all the brainless screaming in the streets--you mindless mob.

It seems like the people who talk about liberty the most are the ones who won't stop screaming, who won't get out of everyone else's face, who can't shut up.

You find yourself agreeing with me. You're now thinking about the people who irritate you because "they're so stupid." You think I'm agreeing with you and your side. But you're wrong. Because I don't. Not really.

All the little worker bees scream in a seething mob. They have big plans. They're so sure of being right. They don't see the cancer in themselves. They have only begun to glimpse the evil they worship, if at all. They pray to the statue. All hail the great and powerful Oz.

Goodbye.

Primary and Secondary Being, part I

God's primary existence and focus of being is, essentially and necessarily, within Himself. That He creates and gives Himself as well as ultimately brings others into Himself to share of Himself and His primal being is necessarily ontologically secondary. And it's important that I have a place to have all to myself really [initially referring to a private musical project]--but where I am, there He Is also. There is no place of me where He is not.

Myself isolated includes Him, and that's the central difference between my life previously as trying to focus and isolate myself out to clear reality and clarity--I was looking to locate myself in my isolation, singularity, and individuality without and apart from Him and His singularity as well as His multiplicity--His communality. It is also the difference of many people trying to live God-towardly or at least calling themselves accordingly, as well as of those who are trying to locate and uplift and clarify their individuality but in and of themselves primarily and of a primary sense. Without realizing that to truly and perfectly understand their individuality and isolate it out to clarity, they must realize and embrace that the necessary reality and nature of their own being, properly and absolutely speaking, is secondary being--necessarily and unavoidably bound up in permanent relation to God, to Primary Being.

In order to truly enthrone, uplift, embrace, identify, isolate, clarify, and realize my own individuality, I have to understand its true essence. I will never become fully and wholly myself--and wholly, perfectly, completely unified with myself--until I realize the true essence and nature of my own being. It's completely natural and absolute that this is so. So unavoidably, it's absolutely in my own self-interest to embrace the reality that my being is secondarily related to God's being, and this requires not only the recognition of His Primary Being but also the acceptance and embracing of it. This is true Godliness embodied in my own life, and there can be no life nor any true form of Godliness without it--absolutely and necessarily.

Praised Be the Idol, Humming in its Awesome Power

On the right is the sound of flames licking up the air from the fireplace next to me. On the left, the sound of a television in another room chattering away its endless chatter. Voices and buzzing and blathering faces, building up in my stomach's soul the vile gray nausea of too much empty chittering.

You know what I mean. A culture, a land full of blatherers who Can't Shut Up. They fill their lives with suffocating noise in proportion to the emptiness of their souls and minds. They make the television and the multiverse of screens the ultimate mimesis of their souls, or rather they conform themselves to the empty image of the LED voice speaking nothing to no one at oppressive volumes in despotic torrents. Oh, how we bow down to our precious idols and are remade into their image.

Once we forged our idols from wood and stone and metal, glorified ourselves by casting our own image as we perceived it into dead matter. Glorifying ourselves and our evil, we conceived of what we lusted to be and then cast that desire into earth. We bowed down and were remade along the lines of our vanities. We committed incest with ourselves, masturbation in frenzy multiplied by masturbation. "Hallowed be my own semen and feces in my throat. Hallowed be my name. Worthy is the phlegm." By the sorceries of our imaginations, we fancied ourselves gods and rulers, lords of demons.

Oh travesty of travesties that our revery was broken by the revelation that our idols' great fault was their inability to speak. Grievousness, our croaking terrible grief! If our idols cannot speak, they cannot be gods. If they are not gods, neither can we be.

All praise to Babylon, our wishes were granted. Now our idols can speak! The black box of our deification chatters forever in the humming glow of its own power. We lift up the box with hollow hands and point our lives toward it, bowing down over our erections, over our genitals burning. We must be gods! And the skies must be empty, for the glory is ours to be taken and swallowed eternal. Swallowed eternal! I am the lord of my own seed. I give myself breath; I give myself life. Who am I to stand above? I deign before myself alone, for the glowing box of my own glory chatters incessantly into the night. Who is god if not me?

My flesh is warmed from the heat of the screen, and at last we can writhe together with lust bodies in blood, semen, sweat, feces--the glory of gods! Enclosed by the empty sky as an iron door locked and bolted from the outside seals us forever in a humming, sticky pool of our own tepid glory.

"The Quiet of a Silent Place, part 1" -- (plus a prelude)

The nihilist dumps it all out and fails to act except for a great churning of feeling he doesn't know how to purposefully direct. The Christian still thinks there is value in the whatever, including the expression. The result of this pairing ('x') taken as one function ('f') is the output "poem". F(x). Here's a newer draft of something. Feedback will not be rejected outright. Hint, hints.

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Space cleared out in life for me.
Cutting out rotwood.
Humming head vibration.
Euphoric swelling.
Frisson of giddiness.
My world with sweet delicacy,
a clean taste,
rose petal blossoms
with every inhalation.
Spiraling galaxy of my soul stretching out
far, long.
Blood clean and rich.
Fellows of my life
and friends far away.
Quiet today, yesterday, tomorrow is.
Clean house with clean sheet bed,
empty mailbox,
and a phone not ringing.
Pens silent, small on the table,
a lovely look,
waiting for rapture
by spindle fingers
wrapping softly as lovers.

Never loneliness today.

Ink bottles into wells deepen,
joyfully expanding,
I dipping my drawing cup
into the black milky water --
drinking deeply.
Solitude,
a greatwine.

Refusal to Supplicate Before the New God

I've thrown many of my poems away. Maybe they were worth saving. I thought they were worth hearing, but they weren't heard, and I threw them out. I'm alright with this. I've made my peace. The greatest treasures are buried at the bottoms of oceans, scattered among the wreckage. Only a few divers go down that deep, and only a few will know what they've got when they uncover it.

Most lies in the wreckage. The rest never got spilled onto paper--in the ink bottle still coagulating. I wonder if it's worth pulling the stopper out to let the air in, to let the words out.

There's all this chattering, all around me, chattering almost incoherent from open mouths filling the world with suffocating foam. Little black eyes, fat little ears with cauliflower spirits, the well doesn't go down deep, the wells don't go down at all. Like fake pockets sewn onto pants, stitched up at the top so nothing can enter.

You want to be read, to be heard, to find listening, to communicate something real. I almost feel the response coming automatically. Why should they listen? What is there to hear? Where does it all go? The flow of the river, it carries over the hill, into the horizon, into the receding lines beyond the world of experience, into the burning lava of the sunset and heat lines refracting in the atmosphere--melting all the universe, melting all our lives, melting all experience. The river carries over the lines, but where it goes from there? Does it end in the final place where the overheld breath, blue with lungs ballooning, releases in a lovely sigh of flow past a blockage?

At the end of the day, the readers want what they've already read, publishers want what they've already published. The same stale lives, the same stale words, the same stale eyes staring out from behind the pages. Something pithy, something trite, empty of spirit but heavily vulgar. How profound to glorify the lowest.

I don't want poems for orgies in the sewer. But all the Authorities long ago conceded that beauty is a corpse, and the Lover is a necrophile. But the Necrophile is a poet, a seer, an artist, a prophet. Hail to the new god, hail to the king. His spirit pours forth as black seepage from his bowels, and we supplicate on our knees--mouths open, children watching.

A Greeting for the First

Well, well. Here you are, and aren't we pleased. This is the Nihilitorium, and I'm the Christian Nihilist. Save your applause. That comes for later. Standing ovations given too early are the other kind of premature ejaculation. Don't be offended; I'm being purely denotative. The colorful connotations are your own ingenuity. Reader-response in full effect. Control your own meanings, and I'll control mine. I'm the author, and I'm fenced in according to all the world's Best Authorities. Hand me a shovel; I'll bury myself.

Of course I won't. I have too many important duties, and the nearly-endless scrolls of ancient knowledge strewn across my black-stained teakwood worktable won't read themselves in front of a fire hearth with a flagon of something frothy and biting.

So welcome anyway, even if you do have that sour look of insolent quivering about your eyes.