MADE FOR YOU AND ME 2: hive Being (Stanzas 2017—part 21)
Let's workshop this stanza sequence about fathers, rape, God, magic, love, anger, free speech, depression, slaughter, journalism, healers, illusionists, artists
masturbation bib (mobster-pasta style) another sky-father blasphemy of the divine imagine feeling boredom despite the improbability of being alive! treadmills instead of dancefloors the real magic is making it seem you are levitating can love uniform across all beings really be love? it was tranquil, almost soporific, standing with the wind—too loud for conversation, unrelenting in its support—at your back imitating the one who imitates you, distortions and all, in the hope that others will believe you to be the genuine article—a funhouse recursion of reflections inciting refractions (overwriting root reality) public perception had grown into a caricature so beyond him that he failed to make top five in the contest of best impersonations of him the age of chronic aches and gravitational fatigue left little fuel for the psychic torsions required to keep ever on guard against memory tripwires ashamed, but unable to tell your son to stop visiting you in jail healers who do not touch their patients anymore the special vision of journalists who can resist flocking to where all the others are supposed to be banging the table for finality never looking at finished work lest flaws be found to protect the speech is not to endorse the speech too depressed to pretend for anyone it was just dust in his eyes steam rose in the cold air from the slit belly of the doe what are you to make of learning that you were conceived in rape? gayness being in vogue on TV fuels hope in dads that the teen is just caught up in another fad guides to death may unnerve you like strangers watching you shit— unless they come loaded with drugs
This is a portion of an ongoing mosaic poem called Made for You and Me. This portion is from the first installment: hive Being (Stanzas 2016-2020). More specifically, it is from the 2017 portion of that five-part work.