Thursday, May 8, 2008

portrait of a young artist

from a recognition of irony and absurd-

when the instilled and enforced turned in on themselves

began constantly confounding themselves before our eyes

falsifying and falling from their hypocrisy-

from here the germ spread


from the forever fuck you of entrenched ideas

from the turning of jesus and buddha into kings and gods

from the chains of dogma, doctrine, discipline-

those chains that for so long numbed and bruised our limbs and minds

and force fed us ghosts of grandeur and knowing

those fools who won’t tell you that holiness is everywhere

that the cosmos can dance between every breath


an unconscious, anti-instinctual urge away from these falsehoods:

away from that evolutionary, animal willing towards security, power

that constant sprint through the day

a race through existence to get to those two tv hours each night

your filthy consumerism, America

and that insatiable thirst for fructose and diet cola

when will you get your fill of synthetic pleasures?

your tit jobs make me sick.


after all isn’t 2012 rising?

isn’t quetzaquotal coming, raining apocalypse

and the aquarian age of enlightenment?


against also this naïve elitism.

I want to jump at life and seize its madness

before the hellfires burn beneath my feet.

I want to seize non-knowing and relish in its beauty now

because “It takes a long time to understand nothing.”


Forever towards uncertainty

praised be poverty praised be creation

Forever towards novelty

praised be beauty improvisation and lemonade

forever towards experiment, forever towards experiment,

and praised be this perpetual flower

forever towards experiment


-dhani mallon

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