POEMS III

FEB 2006

THE WISDOM OF CROWDS

A clown applauds the wisdom of crowds
when crowds laugh for the clown

The factory applauds the wisdom of crowds
when thousands pay millions to view
some dog shit the factory made

The mass flows
every mass trampling
average folks
piles of bodies
no individual can explain
only the crowd knows

people don't know
till they're put together in a bunch
things know
the market knows

 

THE FRAGILE EGOSYSTEM

Tons of Daisies, lush meadows, perfect grass,
a moose lumbers across a stream,
warm summer breezes rustle banana trees,
fairies flit about
sprinkle magic dust,
a tiger walks past a sleeping doe, careful not to wake her
a donkey makes
love to an inflatable donkey
painted to look just like him,
a chocolate bar springs up into the air,
flips and flips
end over end
rises fifty, sixty feet, and lands
stands on one end
at the top of a cliff

badgers sit on their hind legs and applaud

a baboon cartwheels across the beach
his red ass appearing
intermittently like a siren
lands on his feet
hooting and squawking ring out
while he masturbates
ejaculates onto the side
of a sleeping hyena
hyena laughs
and a kind giraffe leans down to lick
the jizz from the hyena's coat

such is a typical, beautiful, day in the fragile egosystem

but oh no...oh my... look here, over here on the ground, oh no... I can see
but hardly believe -- someone has peed
in the fragile egosystem

who could have done this...it's a horrible thing...
what will happen in the fragile egosystem?

will the rain wash it into the creek and
the inhabitants drink
and go insane

will it kill the plants
be a breeding ground for deadly bugs
will pavement form over the spot, a twenty story hotel sprout up
with a burger king on top

will it change the weather patterns
cause a blizzard
all the inhabitants retreat to their caves and hovels for good...

cause a chain reaction
a landslide, an earthquake, an explosion
a huge crater, corpses falling falling all over
big carpet stains
in the fragile egosystem

the world,
we should have saved it.
the end of the fragile egosystem
it is Armageddon
we should have seen it coming

how will man survive
if the fragile egosystem is unbalanced, destroyed

 

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