Sunday, November 22, 2009

Hearing Ear Ring














Hearing Ear Ring

It (Tinnitus) never ceases
Singing my inner ear electric
Like the creases
In my long
Ear lobes deep as the lobes of my
Brain
The siren hum inane
More synapse buzz than ring
As if my brain all wired up
Floated in a genome jar
And all the illusory world beyond
My ear
Maya moon rising
Maya sun setting
Ultimate unreality
Were You
Your dialectic song
Jarring me with delightenment

-Jack 11-22-09

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Tub and Torch











Tub and Torch


He is honesty
Squatting naked in a tub
Haunting the streets of Athens
Clutching his torch
Seeking anyone
Who speaks the truth
Diogenes is no fool
He knows full well
The mirror yields no truth
Nor Alexander's shadow
Nor his black steed
Blocking the Sun's reason
Diogenes' dry tub
His hot torch
Reveal the emptiness of
Dogma


Jack, 11-20-'09 and 12-31-17