"...each rock a word
_______a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
_______with torment of fire and weight"[1]
Sodom: [sod om so dom sodo m
________s odom sodomsod o mso
________do msod om sod om]
am I in this place?
am I touching my self my-flesh
self-my buddha-flesh-self
indulgent gaping hungry mound
of something that feels, responding
to something & nothing-self?
sveccharchara thelema
sveccharchara thelema
sveccharchara thelema
sveccharchara thelema
[2]
"Your kingdom come
Your will be done"[3]
Will it be done?
Blue Radiant Host,
Buddha & Mohamed
sit side by side, here,
drinking beer & planning
a destruction to destruction.
"Your will be done?"
Their will be done.
My will be done
with destruction
by peaceful resolution:
the sitting armchair
in the living room.
The living room
the living-breathing-room
the living-breathing-waiting for death patiently-room
The living-waiting “poison [ing] from the standing water”
[4] without thinking
without thirsting
for death
for one solitary flicker-
room.
& I live in Sodom,
& I die in Sodom,
& I breathe in Sodom,
& I work for pennies in Sodom,
& I trace my circular Buddha in Sodom,
& I play my guitar in Sodom,
& we all go to movies casually in Sodom,
& we all listen to the bedlam in the walls in Sodom,
& we all realize truth in Sodom,
Sodom: the fixture of our fear,
as fixated as the Brooklyn Bridge,
as granite as our fiery ignorance
highlighting cultures: actual cultures
actual real men & women
who look as beautiful as Leonard Nimoy
[5]
says they are but the rest of us do not.
Sodom [Sod OM],
Saddam [Sad Dam],
Who’s Sane in Sodom?
Saddam is hanging
_____In the base of my temporal lobe
_____& dancing to the sound of David Tibet
[6].
[1] From “Riprap” by Gary Snyder
[2] Sveccharchara is the sanskrit equivalent of the Greek word thelema, interpreted by Aleister Crowley as "Do What Thou Wilt."
[3] From The Lord’s Prayer.” The second line is another interpretation of thelema.
[4] William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”
[5] Actor, most popular for his character Spock in Star Trek and recently released a photograph book of overweight women posing nude in classical depictions.
[6]Only consistent member of the band Current 93, an underground English band defined as “Apocalyptic Folk”
