“Two monster snakes in bristling steely sheen / Did guileful Hera send in bitter hate / Upon the babes their maw to satiate.” Theocritus (trans. James Henry Hallard, 1894)
said he
was eager to get home but bracing
himself for what he might see ill be lucky
celebrations
had already begun in
raqqa
still led forces said on tuesday
rivals
like
kurds and arabs in both iraq
celebrations had already begun in raqqa
office
all fighting
declared a caliphate declared a caliphate
i
declare a caliphate
led forces said he
was
eager to get home but bracing himself for what he might see
led airstrikes that they had taken all fighters were
clear
said on tuesday
“There is something comical about Mill’s self-implosion; it’s as if he had spent years looking forward to a sailing trip only to suddenly realize, upon embarkation, that he hated boats.
“It is also strangely relatable. We have all lost faith in a deeply held project at one time or another. And, politically, we are in an age of upheaval; faith in old ideals seems to be dying out, creating a vacuum. Perhaps we can learn something about ourselves, and our political moment, by peering into Mill’s own crisis of faith.”
“In our period they say there is free speech. / They say there is no penalty for poets, / There is no penalty for writing poems. / They say this. This is the penalty.” Muriel Rukeyser, 1968
ONE
incense-perfumed ritual a staple of evil it traffics
in
awe which is a closely related emotion
to terror stories
it wrestles
with me
the same mystic horror story it wrestles with its richness of
exorcists
of symbols and incense-perfumed ritual
a staple of
evil it
wrestles with
the same material for
horrored epochs it
wrestles with
the
same the most mysterial horror catholicism
its richness of evil traffics in awe
which is
a closely related
emotion right up through a fox’s
current
terror stories it
wrestles with the terrible iteration
TWO
like the young pope beginning on friday
and showing
on sunday and showing
on
sunday
and showing sunday
and showing
sunday and
showing
on
sunday and showing on
sunday
and showing sunday and
showing on
sunday on sundays and
showing on sundays
and
THREE
little-respected american the
church
conservatives and a bridge
between
church conservatives
and
a bridge
between
establishment
led by the
orange vatican the church establishment led
by the name
pius
florida hopes
he will be a telegenic puppet and a bridge
between
church
conservatives and a
bridge between
church
establishment led by the name
hopes he will be
a telegenic puppet and
a bridge between church establishment and conservatives and a bridge
between establishments
FOUR
law is but his
belief turnt out
an unlucky
number
the new pop-culture literate he’s hooked
on cherry coke zero he’s hooked
on
cherry coke
zero he’s hooked on cherry coke zero he — well he’s
hooked on cherry coke zero he’s hooked
on cherry
coke zero he’s
the president now
is
superficially novel: he’s
hooked on cherry coke zero
he’s hooked
on cherry coke zero he’s hooked on cherry coke
zero he’s hooked on cherry coke zero he’s
hooked on cherry coke zero he’s hooked on cherry
coke zero he’s hooked on cherry coke zero he’s hooked on
cherry coke zero he’s hooked on
cherry coke zero he’s hooked up
FIVE
now meet
people where the
faithful compromise lays
faithful
compromise
that the
faithful compromise
that they are but a bridge
but without compromise that the faithful compromise
that they are but a
bridge but a bridge but a bridge but withdrawal bridge but with a drawbridge
but
without drawing too sharp a point and he’s pulling
himself
up not to meet the people
the faithful compromise
that they
are but withdrawn and ecumenicism lit af
it must not meet people where
the faithful lay
compromise is that they are
but a bridge but a bridge
but drawbridge but drawbridge
but withdrawn and
ecumenical;
he must not
a bridge be
SIX
break the seal oh confessor spurning
the nun who raised him sees an orphan
is an
orphan
as an
orphan
is
an orphan
as
a
tyrant he has
an orphan is an orphan
eats
a
tyrant has an orphan in his eye
he
has an
orphan's offal
as a tired tyrant
as an opal
as an orphan
as confessor spurning
the
seal of esuli, rifugiati e sfollati de mezzo america
the curia’s influence he’s a
tyrant he has an orphan priest confess
SEVEN
only god says you have a terrifying
crowd in st peter’s
square hope
for
a terrifying will
never be close to
one’s
fellow man
forget man forget man forget man
forget man
forget man forget man forget man forget man
forget man
forget
man
forget man forget
man forget man
forget man forget man
forget
man forget
man forget
man
forget man
forget man forget man forget
man forget
man forget
man forget man forget man forget man forget man forget
man
forget
man forget
man forget man
forget
man forget man forget man forget man
forget me
EIGHT
only as a furious shadow on the
balcony shoot video for dramatic
maneuverings
church maneuverings
church movements and
appear
only as a
furious shadow on a balcony
which elevated social media platform
a
visual
maximalist explore
the
drama
of finding god through
isolation
church maneuverings
church movements
appear only as a furious
shadow on
a balcony
NINE
disjointed art-house vacation
this moment that’s what the
young pope
is
but
it’s
what the
young pope is
but what is the young
pope but
a pulpy and disjointed art-house
vatican of pulp and joint
it’s what the young
pope is
TEN
it’s weakest the closer it sticks
set
pieces it's
weakest the closer it stands set pieces it’s
weakest
the closer it sticks
to
its narrative intrigue
narrative church impresa
with histrionics and
mustache-twirling and
bombastic weakness
the closer it
sticks to its narrative weakness
it sets its weakest pieces beside its epic
histrionics grown like a mustache
ELEVEN
young pope — he
actually
calls himself that —
i am the young pope
—
i actually call
myself that
—
i
put no
stock in ether
drafted to seduce
a jealous meteor
there’s an absurd
subplot in which this
italianate conscientiousness actually calls
law stand with me in the puddle
as
christ the vernacular
is lowered and i know it
sounds insane
if not
blasphemous but it’s sacred and appallingly weird
this
kind of
holy
anger
our eyes
cycling
cold lightning an abandoned child an orphan an opal a tyrant faith
a kind of misanthropy no one loves
which is why i’m prepared for
everyone
“that / Strange and not unwonderful feeling, I have experienced this, this light, these trees, these birds, heard the very / Words you are saying, before, or, it all clicks into place and I know what you are about to say: ‘Please / Stop picking your nose'” James Schuyler
munity of sabers
a dot along a
busy drug-smuggling
out-way
he said they’re
pushing
corridors
into southern arizona the remote community
of sabers a dot along a
busy drug-smuggling out-way
he said
they’re
punishing
corridors
in a southern army soldier asked one
meridian rich weekend afternoon
label
it a militia and
scoff at them armed patrolling
the notion of others
label
it
a
militia and scoff at the notion
others label it
a militia
and
scoff
at the housing
the housing the meridian rich
construction but others rattle sabers on his hips
the housing
then sudden united startle
led by
its leash those were his dog
a
pitbull
named rocko
by its
leash those
were his
dog a pitbull named
rocko by
its leash those
were his
portable radio
had
intercepted
a
40-caliber pistol and
and
scrambled communications his two
weapons his portable
radio had
intercepted he
held a
40-caliber
pistol in hand and
and
and and and and and
“If we bear in mind the fact that tendentious jokes are so highly suitable for attacks on the great, the dignified and the mighty, who are protected by internal inhibitions and external circumstances from direct disparagement, we shall be obliged to take a special view of certain groups of jokes which seem to be concerned with inferior and powerless people.” Sigmund Freud
ONE
of metaphors linked idea of thot
it be a task beyond political valuation
Our values old insisted from
those talent the not meaning torturers must have
disinterpreter To place a task beyond
political values old insistently
thinking of our society would death
This was akin to who sees are
that connected from those
of Susan Sontag he likes
the conjunction akin to know better
But it does not political philosophy in a chain
when a chain knows betrayal it
is usually a student as a peccadillo
or a Writics’ Circle Award
and accuratextual dignity of human
unfree society would have its disinterpreter
TWO
and in an ideal plan some might
He gave, appeared, I said different
from being Harper’s anecdote violates
the devoted god within horrified cheerleaders
including that I find a book slighteous, righteous
a Berlin Prize for years including the devoted god’s
with friends Oh you’re a heading that way
reads of power of whether people’s right
argued must confess for skywriting recalls
Pizza Preacher fixed broken could pay two dollars
halves of teachers should be Ezra Pound
the first economically enjoyed with friends
Oh you could looking for class boys
then I explained Christinction
Sources:
Galchen, Rivka, and Benjamin Moser. “Are There Any Unforgivable Sins in Literature?” Sunday Book Review
The New York Times, 12 Jan. 2016. Web. 14 Jan. 2016.
Freud, Sigmund. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Ed. James Strachey. Mass Market Paperback ed.
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1905. Print.
Detail: Alex Katz, The Red Smile, 1963, oil on canvas, Whitney Museum. Photo: Joseph M. Gerace
Assail self-portrait in U.S. letters
today—an invention of his seductive voice
this zippo and his seductive voice
is influence is influential
is inflated enough to take a smart guy
immensely charming most celebrated
and unclothed enough to take it
he’s a smart guy with a genius ear for music
In America’s besotted unclothed empire
anybody else’s brilliant poison
with a genius ear for clothes
John Ashbery’s reputation is this
polis is zippo and its reproductive voice is an essay
on U.S. letters today—an invention of his pure, convex seduction:
you can’t comprehend? Neither cant of his seductive voice
comprehend? Neither the most poisonous emperor
can’t comprehend? influence is influence is inflated cloth
Neither can’t comprehend? A brilliant, modest guy
Neither a convex mirror, then enough to take it. He’s a
can’t comprehend? Neither can’t comprehend? Neither
can’t comprehend? Neither, in my besotted youth, I wrote a turd.
“land” said
the FBI
in
a researched prose imposal
The
government spy and
the government law enforcements Act
show
the
latest
foreign
Interests
work-ago structures which allowed in three years agains
malicitly as
necessary
and due to the
including
some
chatter
the Senate
over-meant protocol procedures and sever abroad
imposed leave insta-enforce
further disclosures from Justice
on
unrelated curiosities
according to legal standards
you are not the government gather
attacks targets agency go back
be surveillance
structures pull in
unperceived guidance
priority traffic law sought public
query a response to shielded Americans
change
The targets But informer send terrorist
authorities chatter
begin hostile cross-border authority
Tractor Gen. Agence
not mean structure and weighing the
scholar report
note conversity
attack.
