Barrel Magic


Canto XII

Canto XII

 

 

maybe Crispus was like Zorba

            in that he kicked ass on his father’s

behalf but his father could not

 

fathom his love of the zither

            so the instrument of their parting

“strummed once, twice, then hung”

 

sd/ Ankh-haf “I don’t think he’s

            ever grown up” and “I can’t be

a lumberjack” Molyneux sd/

 

Jimmy the Dane ate the blond hash

            before the rest of us could smoke it

then Ankh-haf the Vizier shat it

 

so we could smoke it again

            he asked that his last name be withheld

so he shite it

 

“the saddest thing in life is Harold

            Ramis and Bill Murray not getting

together for laughs anymore” sd/ Jimmy

 

            the sorrow I feel for Dasius

and Crispus is linked to my sadness

            at my mother’s passing

 

            both men served the emperor admirably

yet were sacrificed through some fluke

            of irrationality linked inexorably

 

            to the irrationality capturing mother’s

mind in Alzheimer’s            even the notion

            of a mind captured suffers

 

            from the irrationality of dualism

since no mind can be captured from our

            body which possesses it utterly

 

            and inseparably            even Yeats’

spiritus mundi is a laughable concept

            where the force suffuses us

 

            open other end            open other end

refrigerate after opening

            I only have eyes for you

 

trompe l’oeil cassus belli

            blood for oil

yellowcake for redman

 

yellowman for red velvet cake

            Ivan for Blue Man Group

harlequin for Pablo

 

Blue Boy for King George

            oxygen for Kerryman

nitrogen for Kennewick Man

 

NAGPRA blows Burke Museum

            NPCA blows Park Service

ARPA blows eBay

 

Dubyah munching Bologna rolled

            around marshmallows JH sd/

queer sushi for an emperor duck

 

emperor and Donald Ritchie rich

            beyond your dreams pit us against

each other ich bin laden mit Kriegkraft

 

            Seek not for the rock of gall

here it has departed            another multiverse

            blended unbegotten

 

            o nimis optato saeclorum tempore nati

bogus bogisatva guarding the door of the womb

            tell Avalokiteshvara to void clear light

 

            tell Uspensky the tomatoes are ripe

water them less and let the sun pull

            them to fullness as the temporal

 

            has temptations written in red

sauce around our eggplants called

            minds listen to folks from Parma

 

            deep in the fields sheep bleat joy

later written as cheese swept

            to high hardness and aged Latin

 

            body swapping works better

than brain bandying or so we’re

            told in Mary Shelley’s treatise

 

Easter wake            napalm Sunday

            island shift      volcano goddess

quake god            sea god            rhythm up up

 

for ages six to twelve to six

            deep healing  deep heat

langsam            Doctorsan       Nosun            No

 

Sinking god            rising god      simmer ten

            minutes until tender            god bone

gnawing god            barbecue goddess

 

charcoal manifestations            reed breather

            first world to the roof of the second

world drawn up up        rhythm fire goddess

 

Zorba set dharma at hearth stone

            burn with rain            dry in snow    bake

at 350 for 40 minutes until tooth

 

pick comes out clean then layer

            with cream cheese frosting and dot

with cherries and chocolate stars

 

            O mighty Bud ha

Giv us utmost lack

            ease our want

 

            below the hearth wood melts

below the hearth ash melts

            below the hearth swords melt

 

            Liv dharma deep within fire

Zorba deep            litany win

            fire            altar            man            woman

 

            sing w/o rain thundermouth

begin lack            begin want

            win swords melt dharma

 

            deep deep     sansui            high high

show fire            show snow

            melt dharma win altar

 

            Henry B. was hit in the head and killed

last weekend while coming about

            then knocked into the bay off Annapolis

 

where mines and tanks and planes

            and rich men who pit us against other

men that have no cow in W’s corral

 

where our next meal will come not

            from breasts not out of our sweat either

but from blood and steel welded

 

in disconnectedness         here we

            are split and split again            state

against state            poor vs. poor

 

“Holy shit!” sd/ Moskowitz “Everything

            is easy until you get to the Byzantine

Empire.  It’s impossible.  One

 

emperor is always killing the other,

            and everyone has five wives or three

husbands.  It’s very Byzantine.”

 

whether Constantine felt guilt

             (whether Bassus felt guilt)

damnatio memoriae            official dementia

 

 

Marc Peter Keane

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