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27 August 2014

ARMAGEDDON BOX (Symbolic violence) Pt. 5

Storm on my cheek, cigarettes and wine for company
Oh we need this cold come again
Whoop whoop! Homi
Dancing young skirts up High sexy & holy
Enter left fantasy
Sans comedie oder tragedie

And words!  Oh fine
Company and the signs,
Sigils for nature’s remedy
Where is my bride, tucked away at
My found home tight, too tight
Alphas & Romeos, no song for you tonight

Competition on the telly, just in case
Folks, just in case you might
Need some tennis, racing, or other shallow
Delight. Fuck off.
Come hither & let me lick you
Wide open.  Give me your creamy insight

some snow on the TV

23 August 2014

ARMAGEDDON BOX (Symbolic violence) Pt. 4

Pt. 4

Oh but to exhale
                clear lungs once & for All
                of cheap sex humour tugging
                incessantly & invitingly
                sickly once more, alluring
          in its Purity

Animal my animal must               
                meat your animal unashamed
                bring it & let’s do it finally
                let’s have an affair
                & pray that you don’t tell, that
          no one in this small town has eyes to see

And so, you see I’ve only faint ideas
                of why they always find me:
                mysterious liaisons, non-existent as
                they may be, chronically related to
                my trying so hard & working so hard 
         at this in mind, garden & notebook


15 August 2014

ARMAGEDDON BOX (Symbolic violence) Pt.3

Pt. 3

Incite: Minds be blown open wide!
Exhort: Blinds be folded up & dusted clear
Come here!  Sit in my lap & fold your arms round
My newly muscled neck, share if you care
I’m almost mad, take me there?
Or do I go too far.
Do words I have lead me astray.
Does imagination fail me as it holds me upright
Butter on my buns, and I need gumboots
Stop me from slipping or twisting ankle
So energy be ready for tapping
New designs, new fortune set loose
Quiver full, strings tight.
Nemesis met & shame nearly vanquished
Just this now.  Whiteboards aplenty, stationery
Held, ink dripping from the quill &
Space to be harnessed & gently destroyed
(employed)

Go get rescue none for me.  Need to
Walk this alone: hum bass drum
Come you mofo’s come
Time to refine humour & sense of sanity
Realms gush & pour freely, make a river
So accessible,
Drink from & replenish
Souls hold a banquet please

I want not Home but to walk
This path.  Walk, tread, stare, envision
Dig & rake & remake Love
Heavenly bodies
Addicted to ideas & got this
Way to carve

Spit ‘n sizzle, I live in a Garden
Earthly delights, indeed
Lose speed & torture, breathe in
Total, obliterating Okayness
Sumptuous
Missing
Nothing.

Ready. Bitches be hungry


12 August 2014

ARMAGEDDON BOX (Symbolic violence) Pt. 2

Pt.2

Still sit
Here wondering
About all the wondrous women I could
Run away with for the night safe &
Trust hidden away & some taken with
Spirit away & curl up warm & wet
For sweet salvation
Sweet and lovely safe
Warm
Fun & silly passionate & waking
Never-ending, enveloping twisting
Rolling touching
Finding

Gun ships. War. God’s own commandoes
Shoot selves in backs of helicopters
There’s a first time to fire a gun for each guy
Spill beans ‘n guts from army ration tins
Collected on memorabilia walls
Along with bayonets & helmets, cartridges of
Pain despair fear glory & irony.  Wrong

Would I if right now a woman
Should come along


30 July 2014

ARMAGEDDON BOX (Symbolic violence) Pt. 1

Pt. 1

Fall in love
with me again
she says.  What?
Invitation away to sing my silliness into something Her
But restless bed instead is there

Feel Young Time slipping and no decisions I’d like to make
just to talk.  To talk and bitch & moan & describe
debate, explore
create, discuss & search out
A quest   ion  .
            S
            E
Anger is short-lived E       these days
                             M
                             L
                             E
                       CROSS
Not                        S       feeling you.

Feeling Me.  Ravenous & kinky blue
Bruised & holy, uninfected
Infused instead by earthlife, select
& mind erect!!
& cold returns once more to reawaken
Acheing lonely bones


09 July 2014

Someone grabbed a slice of life (and that’s why there’s a hole in your paper)

Shit.  We miss.  Indeed we forget
And we’re re-learning
Arranging the signs as we walk
With these very random thoughts

We try tweak ‘em, add zero
And derive root advice off talk strange
Faces proud yet understanding
Want, share individual miraculous & magical knowing

Without ways of truly showing
We express try
Try take figments make memory
Try. Behave. Try share. Be merry

Facebook Make You Feel Like No One (2009)
Aye, bizarre be the word
In this transit terminal
So stand next to your best man
Look up look eyes find the othamuthafuckaz

Amazing, truly incredible don’t you think
The longevity of things
Elusive emanences of the consciousness in
And between the space and awareness of happenings

I give to you glyphs of rhyme and brave tellings
Sweet offerings, fruits of silence sown, peace grown
To drown out or to face being ground down by Bab'lon machine realm
- Blessings to us all, whatever the case

Listen (2009)

29 June 2014

2047

Imagined
I did > image
blurred came forth

and then silver-armed flew through the flow
along the rivers of air
wind. pipes. harmonica alive in the honey
blow mouth organ
BLOW: BLEW BLUES
up from down, play your G
so I can tune in with my G 

design from 2009
will send images on the morrow
it might not be rain, but it’s moisture
come on?! at the very least…

boy’s night out.
and yes, it’s better like this.
transcribe the parallels, then
pull up socks, tighten ego
and begin the walk
right in

like the movies you like to watch
again and again because
they take you back to those
sacred soft places

23 June 2014

Electroelocution

c
Can’t
can Can not

If want
I be
needs

need be
electrocute
away from me 

(from 2008)
write right again
flow ink right pen-
wards

deflect
by this pen
elect

elocute
kaleidoskopik
konsertina

ha!
there
again

got you
yes. admit
it: I did

17 June 2014

Heaven

Cigarette buttes get swallowed up by the earth
So quickly, actually they do
But lift up the handle, even if there’s a bathroom note
To that effect, do you think they do?

Boys will be boys oh really Toy Boys,
Boys with toys, boys and their toys
Har har beer belly furry fury ‘n hands in pockets calm collective

Solid statue effect stare at screen mock

a sylph dug up from a 2005 sketchbook

Look the other way strangely calm coolly 
Begin new conversation suddenly


With you there                     
In the middle of your story


There

Holy

Embalmed.


Such good energy

03 April 2014

Swallow the dreams from the blood of the flesh...

'Infinitesimal' - white ink and black koki on A4 black card, 2014

Swallow the dreams from the blood of the flesh
Of the meat of the creature I ate all weekend,
Study the images, smoke the grime from fields
Of dripping vines of perception

As I pick up my pen and play Russian roulette
Staying up late listening to my friends
Crushing the jewel cells of discontent, so juicy and
So succulent to separate semantics from the senses

While the lives of silverscreen stars speed up disproportionately
Wrinkles forming grey hair receding perhaps from the years of
Channelled alter characters they feed us, the gaping
Mouths of transfixed, fascinated fans and would-be zombies

Empty out and forget, their dumbed lethargy and
Stupification silencing the last sigil as it falls off the pre-historic temple doors,
The last symbol as it fades from the stela twixt the Sphinx’s paws.
His Story is completely indifferent, apparently

Corroding everything, everything away, we’re getting
Cut off, finally, from our thread, our link with
Bloodhuman past, the meaning of our existence
The sound of antiquity and legacy, all language, vision,

Hypogeum of legend & myth & intrigue is heard no more
Eroding & sinking, melting into the desertifying sands above:
Do we do them injustice after all these carefully complex aeons
Of evolution and do they leave us to drown in our own selfie,

The vicious roar of contemporaneity this 24 hour State
Of emergency, convinced of its own hyperprogressed modernity
And its academic authority - a set of confused experts vying
For the ultimage ego glory: the sole monopoly on

The Truth of this particular Story and the real secrets
lay buried forever or recycled into new dunes swept into
Cheap souvenir hourglasses of the current deluge, our 5th Atlantis, woooo!
How exciting to finally be set free from Karma into Post History

Oh, Precession of the Equinoxes, what have you in store
For us, our 20/20 vision ‘snot enough anymore perhaps was never
Enough. The meridian slowly moves up the sky
How hauntingly thrilling, bone-numbingly chilling to witness

The rapid count back of your numbers over horizons projected
Computer screen configurations, because we truly can’t see, can’t see
How lonely and exasperating to have a taste of this vision
To feel the urge to and actually walk lightly on the earth,

Our lover, friend, our motherfather place o’birth.
So culture dampened and unpracticed
This underdeveloped inkling of an impulse
That it can only be now in these deathly dark ages

Fear of our natures
Epoch reveal where do we come from
__________________________

It takes an ever younger set of newer brains
To review and remove and renew things
And acceptance that only the strong survive
(o’er a long period of time?  What bullshit if

Apprehended outside of original context
‘tmay be I inspire with my scribbling of notes
That I do indeed plan to take over the world
Economically

And thereby incite thoughts of being quieter, kinder,
Smarter and wiser back home b’hind closed doors) as
I walk back ‘cross the beach to escape the south sun.
That’s why Sundays are the best surf days perhaps

And when if ever we don’t feel good it's
Only ever because we’re prevented from
Forbidden to do so and then still
Proceed to get run down

And the weak
Choose to keep at it
The continuously delightful earthbodily loop
Of repeated lives lived on the surface of this planetary Purgatory

For, the longer one’s away from the water, the more
One forgets to replenish, to quench one’s thirst
One’s own loss of hydroelectric power
And things then tend to start getting hectic around ‘round here

And suddenly it’s time to dance things out of the way
Every time something black, for you, comes out of nowhere
Things that have become things you carry about you
Things that travel around with you, invade all thought,

You begin to wither up, die under the gaze of
The airport security badge, the embarrassment of
Your own foolish assumption of inscrutable purity,
The delusion of the human right to authority

In vain you run run run as your entire luminously
Continual experience is reined into the iron vice grip of
This hellish now’s Common Cultural Headcold

Or learn to read the code in between
Faked security, systems of power and control
Which, though ineffectual & incompatible with
any love or feeling,

And formed in retaliation to loss and rejection
Do in fact, in their own little way,
Attempt to deal with the uncertainty of Everything;
And true knowing that the only thing you can truly know

Is that you don’t know the effect you’re having on someone else
That and the inalienable truth of the matter that
There’s nothing you can actually make anyone do.


20 February 2014

How to live an honest life

Rearrange the room for others in the morning and take only what’s yours
A Busy Lizzy on the young window silly once
There are always excuses for bad marks
But are we celebrating the good ones enough?
Hibernate down at the highway with inner city friends
Fight the fight of uncertainty and enjoy the fine things
The truly joyous fruits of this Garden of Delights
Sure, the world may be getting increasingly insane
But that’s what ellipses are for, apparently
Be blessed in the way, the pathless path seen clearly, and treasure
Especially
Sad moments of realising no one’s shoulder is available
To cry on currently.
Then comes chocolate, and learning
To have more faith in your own species.


04 February 2014

Verbatim

Honourable Rasta Brother brings up the sinner in me
You know, my sister? You feel me
You were born with an overstanding but societee
Teaches you to blinde yourself…
Dit was amper ‘n elmboog da, in die oog, ja
As I lean on the door frame and take in
His teachings on soul shame & malnutrition,
He preaches the focus of vision & our purpose here on earth…
He says he sees we are activists, aren’t we?
I say shhhhh…and shush up my argument mush-up
To just listen this Prince of Wisdom,
Blessed rastaman of Muizenberg mind-bliksem



Sure
So sure of yourself, sidewalk headshop speakerman,
To shout us all down.  Friend, is this how
The Jesusman sounded way back when
You know what, my brother? Hear me:
You joining ranks with all them who wana free
My mind while, left-field, give me a cage of similar kind,
Great Cum-load of old School White Guilt, maybe?
Or some other kultcha-conscious shizzle to complete
The holier-than-thou yet brudda frum anudda
muthafukka jizzle you drizzles onme
As you tries to Queen me to ya King,
Assuming I’m confused about great many a thing,
Telling me about good an’evil all over again:
You’re just a different version of the righteous Christ perversions and
the Churchly back-stabbers my sweet childhood was immersed in.
Brother, dig this: me and the silence of the afternoon don’t think
Man overstands challenge of bringing Vagina to a room
Already so full of Holy-Him-Up-High verbatim.

Pure
Rastintentions, that’s what he chatters
With his fish-and-loaves mouth, as we converse on two levels ,
Does he know I can pierce through that he conspires
To catch my eye as he shares nightmares of Bab’lon empire?
Feel I must protect third eye/fur pie, I’m fierce too,
For I perceive his form, true: New
masculinity breaking surface,
(easier perhaps cuz his ego is so thin,)
and right on time, cue: men you’ve been breaking up the world,
heavy thinking arrogant footsteps, sure it looks
Different from your vantage point.  No matter
What your colour skin, everything, every girl’s been at your whim.
But if you are truly Rasta, I say Blessed Be
And do not take this personally.  I just got to say
Queens: where are your Kings - could ya stand up please?

02 January 2014

Six sigma error proof

Nice:
Seated high in the shaded canopy of my hoodie, poised and perched,
Parked snugly in this vacuum consciousness, I’m ponderous,
Silent witness and conduit to this strangerous procedure,
Mass message relayed along my alien ancestor-embedded DNA.
Following and exploring the case of a life set free during the last
Mass extinction, a cascade of early thoughts that raped my mind,
Shaped by kind, friends and family, are calling for
A mass extinguishing. 

The Holocene’s horror scene hollowing me and
With scant tools for filtering but sheds filled for nit-picking
I struggle along, try my best to answer
The unmeant questions of the everyday, like
How I Am Doing or What Do I Do For A Living
And in between the interruptions actually get some real work done.

It’s like a game of Ching-Chong-Cha, or an arm-wrestle with God,
And if I win I won’t have to live the life of a human satellite dish.

I’m bound to lose.  Continually.

The Presence of Minds - acrylic on canvas, 910mm x 760mm
See this and other works in my latest exhibit here