Poem 104: In flammis

everything is  in flames, is it not
you don't have to be a Buddha, do you
to see plainly that everything
is in flames

America is a flaming head of hair

animals fall from the sky in the form of ash
children are burned
beyond their skin

my skin is also totally inflamed
my wife says my brain is inflamed
that my depression is
the predictable result
of all this burning

she is no doubt correct

beyond this

all I know is that my blood itches


perhaps you will soon also be
in flammis
and we can talk

Poem 103: No Words

Poem 102: Viral Minutes

Viral minutes
going viral
by the minute in real time
!
people leaving like leaves
going down
in TV and in
total reality
!

worlds gone wild
girls gone girls
Shit going multifacetedly literal
on the threshold
of the minute
!

Poem 101: Enter Bastard. Solus.

Wherefore base. Bastard? Base?
Spelled same:bass and bass
as in bass clef
and bass boaet

bass? bass?
which one am I saying:
one rhymes with face
while other rhymes with ass.

of course I know
it comes from the Latin
base
plus 'tard'

to be dealt with later
as in the art, or,ars, of.

I hope you're getting this.

bass plus tard: bastard
means 'begot in a saddle'

tis why I am alive:
so,
let copulation thrive

Poem 100: Danger Zone

Mesopotamian dog bones
rattle in my brain
to wait upon their silence
--it is an evil risk

you might wind up explaining heautontimoroumenos
to you mother
whatever
part of the sky
she's from

Poem 99: Recent Frog

there is no end of frogs in hell
when you find yourself in the midst of their
righteous confab
you will say to yourself what the
hell is this
but it will come out like

hubdadunubbrebleagh

then maybe you wull understond

Poem 98: Objectionable passages

translate them into latin
translate them all into LAtin
damn you

and when he had done so
the collator
of tablets
had him killed

stand by, children,
and observe
this folly is about
to redound
upon the head
of the tablet-collator
it will bury him

be silent
and watch
be patient
watch

VIGILETIS