I amsmokey from your pyre
and smoke rises to the skies
where the black bird flies Mars and Saturn be praised
The morningstar bestows light
and I'll tell the story and bring
the spirits and heal. Rainbow
weeds I'll dawn new to flower
For Mars I wear Red.
for Saturn, Black.
For the star of morning,
Blue. This day. It begins.
Her eyes were striped animals
Bursting from the face
that covered
her skull-front
neatly. The Mask
was one
of many, but the Eyes
remained
the Beasts that tentacled forth
to snag eyes and pull them back.
taste the behind of the eyes--
masks get cut,
cracked,
pulled in awkward
skews.
Strange faces, transmogrified
identity, the other creatures,
and stranger eyes.
Striped animals that catch,
in vast. stain the behind of the eyes-
transmits through golden tips
circuitations of the webs
we're full of webs. every one
one mask disremembered how-
to smile. But another will learn.
sentimentality banes that power.
chant out between. worlds. fire.
Darklings in day
fly to Night and
Expand heavenward.
The Other you know
has Another life you don't.
I saw the Shadows drawn
to the Swarming sparks
of a Dying beast who
lay in the dark, abandoned.
Feel now, they Gather,
and they will feed on
the Sparks of you.
Derwood Drumpf was orange with a
fire-engine red hair and giant blue lips that occupied half his face.
Since his father'd been a businessman of some skill, having sold
widgets to half of the population of the United States, he'd
inherited a tidy fortune, so people tended not to notice his
anomalous appearance. Nobody knew what a widget was for, which
mattered little to half the population of the United States. That
Derwood was a huge success was indisputable. He was the best known
clown in the world, having built his clown lifestyle brand such that
half the population of the United States had somehow become consumers
of his clown products in one manner of another. Drumpf brand clown
paraphernalia was only the tip of the iceberg, and was indeed where
the iceberg began to take shape, although it hadn't been a sensation
until the Drumpf clown lifestyle came into being. The rest of the
iceberg was formed from Drumpf events, clown resorts, clown college,
clown television shows, clown races and so many other clown-themed
products that even Drumpf couldn't keep track. It was, many realized
in retrospect, inevitable that he should want to re-brand the United
States as a clown republic.
Derwood Drumpf's death on live
television after his nomination by a political party to whom half of
the population of the United States had ties, was shocking, even by
Drumpf standards. He'd promised his followers free clown makeup after
he nuked the rest of the world, and he'd whipped crowds into a frenzy
by shitting on the stage during debates and throwing his own feces at
his opponent and into the crowd. He'd promised to arrest everyone who
was not a consumer of clown products and place them in forced labor
camps. He'd sworn he'd stop boondoggles like public education and
vowed to dismantle the environment. It was a utopian dream for the
insane clown constituency and it seemed like a utopian dream to a lot
of people who had no idea what the word “utopia” might mean. Many
of these people owned widgets and Drumpf Brand Clown Makeup. The
clown makeup, it would turn out, was the beginning of the
Drumpfpocalypse. Whether happy accident, or design, observers cannot
be sure, but the clown makeup did contain very high levels of lead.
Skeptics of the design theory point out that for a person to buy the
product, intelligence already had to have been compromised. That's
probably true. But once Drumpf began his presidential run, his
followers needed ways to show their disdain for the intelligence of
people who valued intelligence, and so the clown makeup became a
badge of Drumpf loyalty.
That was just the beginning. Drumpf
supporters began to demonstrate their disdain for all things they
considered “liberal” en masse. After the clown makeup, there were
public demonstrations against clean air, in which the participants
would inhale from plastic bags the contents of Drumpf Canned Air
Pollution. Then came Drumpf Anti-EPA Water, which was pumped out of
genuine fracked wells and which also worked as an accelerant for
setting fire to trees, which Drumpf supporters disliked greatly.
Drumpf himself participated in many of these public displays, but
it's widely debated whether or not his participation was real, or the
products in use were swapped out for less harmful substitutes. His
followers morphed. If one envisions a zombie apocalypse, throngs of
brain-dead, leering freaks characterized by dragging feet, rolling
eyes, drooling, grunting and such attendant sights one gets a fairly
good picture of a Drumpf rally. The clown makeup began to be more
haphazardly applied, though. Sometimes the blue lip paint covering
the entire face, sometimes the orange taking over, but nearly always
a mess.
That was when Drumpf came up with his
most brilliant product of all time. It was Drumpf Artificial Cheese
Flavored Cold Drink Mix. Served over ice it was a bit gummy, but
delicious in a way that liberals would never understand. A quaff to
unhealth and anti-culture, it also mixed perfectly with the Drumpf
Brand Water product, the solvents in which made it less lumpy on
mixing. Naturally, a range of alcoholic cocktails spun off from the
original product. It was all clearly labeled “carcinogenic” and
“mostly poison,” so Drumpf fans felt it was a show of Americaness
to guzzle it in great quantity.
Then came the debates. Drumpf was
determined to prove his opponent wrong and evil so, in preparation he
ate enormous quantities of Mexican food for a week before the big
event. (His staff nicknamed the day of the debates “Taco Tuesday.”)
It was during the run up to the debates the the Drumpf Clown Brand
development team invented what has been hailed as the nuke in clown
paraphernalia arsenal. The Drumpf Super-Shit Clown Ass-Assination
Shitsplosion Suit. This was truly a wonder of disgusting innovation.
By the day of the debates Drumpf had, on his person, fifty pounds of
shit, along with whatever he held in his internal reserves. The suit
allowed for varying sizes of output, depending on the question so
that he could demonstrate on the debate stage responses ranging from
barely giving a shit, all the way to shit-nado and and shit-o-caust.
Different nozzles on the suit allowed for spraying, plopping,
projecting, sharting and dribbling, among other modes of output,
which required varying degrees of pressurization and liquifaction and
expulsion. It should probably have come as no surprise that this
contraption was a bit dangerous, although that would not likely have
prevented Drumpf using it. The potential of a shit-splosion was
simply too wonderful to pass up.
Drumpf waddled sloshily to the stage
cocooned in the full-body shit reservoirs concealed by his custom
made red pinstripe suit. His opponent wore a tasteful pantsuit. The
first few questions went off just as planned. Drumpf squirted a tiny
liquid stream of shit down his pantleg in response to a question
about toxic wasted being dumped into public water supplies. His
answer to a question about diplomatic relations with China was an
enigmatic, but possibly profound eruption of percussive gas followed
by a few plops that fell from a cleverly disguised nozzle at the back
of his suit. This is where some debate watchers may have begun to
sense that Drumpf and company had failed to fully think through the
full ramifications of this strategy. Drumpf appeared to slip a bit on some of the shit. Footwear clearly had not been discussed and it was apparent that his wingtips were not designed for treading shit. He caught himself, but as the questions began to pile up and he stooped now and then to scoop up some poo to fling into the audience or at his opponent, he struggled to stay upright. He began to turn positively puce, which was fascinating given that he was usually orange. The bright blue of his lips took on a crimson hue. His arms windmilled and his feet did many dances of near calamity. The moment when he started to lose control of the shit selector mechanism is apparent upon replay of the video. Dribbling and sharting and spraying suddenly began to happen out of synch with the questions and a vein is seen to throb in just under his bright red hairline.
Whether it was entirely the pressure in
the suit or whether extreme colon impaction combined with massive
amounts of methane contributed to the explosion is still a subject of
some debate. Whatever the final determination may reveal, the issue
of who won the debate was nearly unanimous. The sight, sound and
stench of Drumpf, body parts, blood and guts, blended with excrement
spewing outward under bright lights, coating, congealing, glistening,
bright and dark, was a spectacle that no cagey hem and haw would riseto.
Nearly half of all Americans voted for
Drumpf in spite of the fact that he was dead, exploded in a rain of
shit on live television. Quite a few of that nearly half died in short order after the explosion. Consuming poison has that effect.
There are those who are so constricted and sick in themselves that the thought of their own freedom is a horror, and that of others a fierce pain; so that they would enslave all men. And these you should shun, or, if you must, destroy them as you will know how, for this also is bounty.
The animal portion of the Creature
began to Break into it's
concomitant parts. Break.
Lustrate re-volve.
Glittering
sparkles flew in a Gazillion
Directions. Break.
The consumers
of
things aglitter arrived to Glory
the glist-gore absorbed
into purple-glow.
Transmogrified psycho.
Taste the rainbow after
lightning cracks the
sky of skull.
bReak.
It's funny. How things Evil.
Make Glory in destruction,
bubbling around to rise
and
(brEak)
collapse into nothing/
All. It becomes the story
of a monster Defeated.
breAk.
But it was always vanishing.
breaK.
Process and myth and nature.
Close. Meta.
Laughter shatters.
It continues,
There are arrivals,
and departures,
We ask safe travels
to our next arrival,
and our next.
St. Christopher
the journey continues.
Ship to Port. Land
in place, new and old,
dressed in red, chariot
electric, perfumes
on the glimmering
air waft in the blue hour.
Story for the millions of
eyes that charge our
currents. To arrive
yet again.
Harsh environments create tough magic.
I am unrecognizable. Except to myself.
Transformation is the work of the magi.
Do it to beckon power. Broken.
I became a thousand eyes. A glamour
Cast. I will transform.
That one formed,
I've been working
myself into inhabiting
that function.
This ritual is
the
healing.
Snakes for hair,
bats set free
from belfry,
head
on the prowl
with so many
eyes.
Peeking through
even the keyholes.
This function
to inhabit the
form made.
The bird,
the egg.
To hatch a
bloom.
I am the lily of the Nile,
Burst open with light,
throwing sparks, arcing,
You open me and split
the veil, and show me
the secrets for which,
we don't have words.
Through me, I go through,
light, you come through,
and everything flows through.
Anubis, I bloom. In black,
I am visible dark. You,
the bringer of light.