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Watch This Mother Burn

“There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
― Antonin Artaud

I'll watch this mother burn
I'll wrap it up around a tattered old flagpole--
Hoist it up the line till it does a little shimmie
Like a convict at the end of a rope dancing in the flyblown breeze--
And my, isn't the world hot? What? What?
If I dip you in shit and set you out on the tarmac to collect flies
In your eyes
Do you even realize that you're just being used
Another wage slave earning a few crusts while the fatter and fiestier pigs dance the jig? and they call it luxuriating in the New Economy that doesn't include you because, quite frankly, you're just the shit magnet
And there're flies to collect
So if they kill some babies
or bomb a village
or turn back the clock to 1863
or make pretend they are
holy holy holy eloi lama sabacthani do I care a whit or damn?
No. I'll watch this mother burn, pornography and all.
I'll watch this mother burn,
its bibles and shopping centers and cheap diversions --and cooking shows and reality tv
and cyberaugmented fictions of a bourgeois past that never really existed
beyond reruns of the old and sterile and false.
My blood bleeds petrol my fingers pop sparks, And this is all just poetic rumination, so you can turn down your red flags and knock off the sirens.
I'm as gentle as a kitchen.
Or a kitten.
Or a cat. With nine lives. Yet still, I tell you, one sunny day---
I'LL WATCH THIS MOTHER BURN.

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from Curtains: Readings from Molotov by Tom Baker, released November 9, 2019

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