Wrote this in 69, revised in 82. Haven’t the heart for a redraft. I’m getting that old 1962 buzz in the guts.

THE DESTRUCTION OF LARGE CITIES 


IN THAT DRONING CITY (THE NEST) 

each vox is a fuzz box 

dead centre point 

where the young insects feed 
in the mouths of the ancients 
whose masks smile and scream 
dead silently 

and I am trying 
(come closer my love) 
to talk gently 


IN HELL THERE ARE NO ECHOES 

footsteps stop 
outside the door 
where no switches exist 
for breaking the circuit of the systems of lighting 
(and power) 

there is only a hand 
on the handle 

there are no echoes 

stop 

do not be hysterical 


WAR GAME 

playground frozen 
white on black  

flash 

scorches bulb ice hot 

blind men lead blind children 
(slow motion) 
in wavering circles past a scorched flag 

ring dem bells 


UNDERNEATH THE BLACK PLANETS 

(revolving, invisible) 

doom city exists 
lost citadel crushed by the counter-attack of the forests 

near one broken dome 
stained skull, opening slowly to the sky  
(vegetation has crossed the perimeter) 

she waits for me 

I come each night 
with a fresh mutation of flowers 

cannot console her 

FINAL NEWS HEADLINES 

on the fifth side  of the empty war room 
we found the tapes still running 
(machinery survives intact below the surface) 

SURVIVE/SURVIVE/PROTECT/SURVIVE/DO YOU COPY?/  IT'S TOTAL/OK U.K./HER AGONY/MAGGOT TALKS/USA  DEAD CHIEFS PEACE PIPE MISSION/QUEEN  CONFESSES/RAYGUN OVERAWES /KEEP  CRUISING BABY/IT'S TOTAL/BABY GUERILLA  KILLER/BURN UP/GOLD MENACE/GOLD BLOCK/THE YOLK  OVERFLOWS/HOB'S LANE RAPE/PRESSURE  INCREASES/PLEASURE DROME HORROR/IT'S  SENSATIONAL/SHELTER GIRLS/ALL SYSTEMS GONE  PINK/WHITE OUT/GROUND ZERO APPROACHING/KING  KONG BORN AGAIN /OPERATION GOD HITS OUT/WAR  IS LAXATIVE//WAR IS LAXATIVE/WAR IS  LAXATIVE/TERMINAL ZONE CONTACT/DO YOU READ ME  FAT MAN?/HOT DAMN GONNA BUST MY GUT/IT'S  BREEDING SUN POWER/STAR POWER/SUN POWER/ 

BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  BABY/BURN BABY/BURN BABY/BURN  





On 19 Oct 2016, at 17:42, David Lace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

More scary links:


"World War 3 With Russia Could Start Over Clinton's Proposed No-Fly Zone In Syria, Says Historian"

http://www.inquisitr.com/3608819/world-war-3-with-russia-could-start-over-clintons-proposed-no-fly-zone-in-syria-says-historian/


"More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-22/more-troubling-evidence-hillary-clinton-will-start-ww3





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David Lace wrote:

Thanks, Kent, for drawing more attention to this.

Clinton scares me shitless—pardon my Latin. Trump is scary in other less apocalyptic ways. Five years of him is survivable. Five years of Clinton....will it even go to five before armageddon?





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Kent Johnson wrote:

Jill Stein, in the article provided by David Lace, does have a very disturbing point.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3608819/world-war-3-with-russia-could-start-over-clintons-proposed-no-fly-zone-in-syria-says-historian/

Here is what a friend (a very respected poet-activist hereabouts) wrote regarding the threat:

there is no question that a no-fly zone over syria, calling putin hitler, amassing troops & missiles on russia’s borders, false accusations about hacking & a hundred & one other things have killary with her hand on the button, ready to press, at the behest of the whole fucking kit & caboodle of israel, wall st., arms manufacturers, saudi arabia etc. it is ALL about energy in this entropic world: whether a pipeline goes from russia to europe or whether the us maintains its global domination through the saudi & gulf scumbags who bankroll jihad, ISIS etc. i could go on & on but that’s the long & the short of it… will read your thing you just sent -

i’ve been writing, as an homage to ed dorn, what i’m calling:

Imperial Abhorrences (& Other Abominations) - here is a recent one, not for posting/publication yet as i’m trying to work them into some coherency:

2016 Mainstream Election Options: [deleted by me, KJ, for now]