Friday, July 17, 2009

Muting/Morning: A Sequence for Weldon Irvine and James Weldon

I'm lonely--
I'll make a world


My obsessive finale--
raised drawbridge/courage/rage

Spans the stiff drab distance between two ready castles
shrinks in a good dream, backs away from itself. Video.

Elegant. Street-boy elegant
Andthenagain, an infinity, which is pending and also vanishes. Penetration.

There should be at least

six trumpeters on every roof.

Fine to keep spy cameras in their anatomy if that makes them employees of the universe or magnets in their rhythm-n-ning if that makes them reciprocal voyeurs, fine

Loyalty is fatal to the soul, so is betrayal, so
Phonies are as hopeful as priests, moaners, pioneers

Prisoners, seminars, fifes, whores, maidens: Prizes for birth are miming themselves onto your every contradiction with the haunted ecstatic wisdom of everyone's mother

And in the space between my needs and my desires

there shouldn't be any.

(Fits) Six trumpeters

Black ones, broke ones, experiments in a backwards draft for a voided war

on exclusivity and on fascination as specific as one face-d

Princes who squander(honor) their fortunes rerouting the wind