Speaking in Tongues

[TranquillityBase]

Not looking for critique.  Comments welcome.  I hope to add to it; onward through the fog.

Speaking in Tongues


Babel (Lobby)

We carry Maya in our pockets
as if the illusions outside our brain
                             were merely a green screen
where we act out what delusions we can.

My thought for the day
arrived at after mowing an acre of rescue grass
                          (Bromus catharticus), 
an hour reading Edmund Wilson on Marx,
and a complex series of naps,
an idea simmered through an oversimplified day.

So they come, 
                        another:  Gaza=John Ford’s The Searchers.
It’s plain as day, but where are our prophets?

Drowning in Maya,
                         down by the railroad track.

[rowens]

Speaking in Tongues

We carry Maya in our pockets
as if the illusions outside our brain
                             were merely a green screen
where we act out what delusions we can.

My thought for the day
arrived at after mowing an acre of rescue grass    SORRY
                          (Bromus catharticus), 
an hour reading Edmund Wilson on Marx,
and a complex series of naps,
an idea simmered through an oversimplified day.

So they come, 
                        another:  Gaza=John Ford’s The Searchers.
It’s plain as day, but where are our prophets?

Drowning in Maya,
                         down by the railroad track.

[TranquillityBase]

Speaking in Tongues

We carry Maya in our pockets
as if the illusions outside our brain
                             were merely a green screen
where we act out what delusions we can.

My thought for the day
arrived at after mowing an acre of rescue grass    SORRY
                          (Bromus catharticus), 
an hour reading Edmund Wilson on Marx,
and a complex series of naps,
an idea simmered through an oversimplified day.

So they come, 
                        another:  Gaza=John Ford’s The Searchers.
It’s plain as day, but where are our prophets?

Drowning in Maya,
                         down by the railroad track.

Thanks for the edit.  I've actually decided to add to it in an ongoing way, with little or no editing.

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Babel (First Floor)

Yesterday, I fought the first two days
                           of Gettysburg,
I was the Union General Meade,
thrusting the tiny pixeled brigades
                        into the hornet-like Confederates.
Today, the dismal end: Pickett’s suicide charge.
"No 15,000 men ever born 
                     can take that position"--Longstreet to Lee
( I did win once, when I was playing 
                           God is a Confederate.)

It’s the only video game I own,
I’ve played it 400 hours.

I was six years old 
at the beginning of  the Centennial of the Civil War,
and I received
                   a 5 lb. picture history 
(as an endearment
something rare for him
                              my father called me Captain,
because when looking at a sinking ship
he told that the Captain always went down too
and I said I’d prefer not to.)

“I’d prefer not to” has been writ across my face
                           ever since,
I’m a highly functional Bartleby.

[rowens]

Yesterday, I fought the first two days
                          of Gettysburg,
I was the Union General Meade,
thrusting the tiny pixeled brigades
                        into the hornet-like Confederates.
Today, the dismal end: Pickett’s suicide charge.
"No 15,000 men ever born
                    can take that position"--Longstreet to Lee
( I did win once, when I was playing
                          God is a Confederate.)

It’s the only video game I own,
I’ve played it 400 hours.        Ideleted hat!!!!!!!!!!

I was six years old
at the beginning of  the Centennial of the Civil War,
and I received
                  a 5 lb. picture history
(as an endearment
something rare for him
                              my father called me Captain,
because when looking at a sinking ship
he told that the Captain always went down too
and I said I’d prefer not to.)

“I’d prefer not to” has been writ across my face
                          ever since,
I’m a highly functional Bartleby.




All that prosy stuff has to go

[Bunx]

Loving the ideas in this poem and the contrast to the genocide in
Gaza. I had a fictional poem idea along the lines of Jesus's biological blood line ending during the current genocide.

Anywho awesome ideas!

Thanks for the read

[TranquillityBase]

Loving the ideas in this poem and the contrast to the genocide in
Gaza. I had a fictional poem idea along the lines of Jesus's biological blood line ending during the current genocide.

Anywho awesome ideas!

Thanks for the read

Thanks Bunx, good to see you back.  I may try to add to it after NAPM.