Islam Bomb
D-Press 1998 Sebastopol
28 pp perfect bound
Cover collage by Luis Garcia
NOTE: These poems were originally composed in Preston, Washington,
in 1973 and typeset on a IBM computer-graphic machine
at Queen Ann News in Seattle by the author.
ISLAM BOMB
1. inner secret
theoretically the absolute p(ohm)e
is defined in a self-consistent way
the unit of resistance
determined with a coil
spinning in a field
passion-love-beauty formula
the passion of love
the catalysis of beauty
the passion of beauty
the crystallography of love
the beauty of love
the musicology of passion
the of of beauty the passion love
passionlove of the the of beauty
expressed concretely
in terms of smart bombs
(a form of intercourse protexted
under the cuntstitution)
Kenning equations concocked &
cunninglingously composed
paradoxically pertinent when
accepted as parts of patterns
suspicious as it sounds
using Euler's formula L+2=P+A
& correcting for obscured areas
let us begin w/the premise
when we take care of ourselves
participants are swept along
in unacknowledged harmony
true Taoist cyberneticism
ask & thou shall receive
what is matter
nevermind
what is mind
it doesnt matter
sometimes wordgames seem flippant
& worldgames whenso are malignant
yet the awesome Silence prevails
in that Silence our lives are mingled
& in my mindheart there is terror
across the sea of abyss
over the pass of bandits
thru the valley of the beast
i fill in the blanks
STRIVING WITH SYSTEMS
TO FREE OURSELVES f/SYSTEMS
as Blake saw
i find a place where the rent is low
gardens grow, pace is slow
mushrooms blow
whitehole/blackhole continuum
rivers evaporate on Mars
40000 BC at 8 til eulenspiegel
while a child discovers its feet and
a legislature extends its session
into a series of telemetric sequences
another unconscious police action
uniting conditionally imagined
noun phrase verb phrase strings
La Illa Ha Il Allah Hu
Andillusion dogmaradarwowgod
i
begin this line
knowing particular
themes elude development
and on the and in the
and on the and in the
and on the and in the
magnetic whispers
from the heart of a moth
a frog in a muskeg
evolves into a dinosaur
in the twit of a newt it
(knew(i)t) quantumleaps
we are meat such that
we are primemovers such that
the primemovers & the meat
are the same, and
whatever Beta may be
(Beta is a cow of mine)
is true when
and only when
the primemovers
are prime rib
2. intergallactic69pornoputer
your Honor, i will speak my peace
i confess to fucking-up
convicted as i was arrested
a bag of predigested meat (that i am)
incorrigible & incapable of rehab
corrupt & spreading contagion
your Vanity's major premise
your Worth is evident is a 2waymirror
pimping your nose w/yr tongue
you sniff my rectum
& blame me for bad taste
NOT FLOOD FIRE OR ICE but
A Deluge of AOL Smutmirth
f/Interpornogallatic Cyber-Messenger
grit of trueshit for breath
gobs of swarming cum emit
f/throbbing organs against aghast
esophagi, burning bitters
dripping in eyes, ears, on breasts
acrox continents
now my blood bdellatomically runs
f/opened veins, a feast
OM MATRIX
MANTRA VORTEX
ABEL BAKER
CAIN DOZEN
she who meditates on the penis
of sorrow has to ball The Jack
He who dreams of wombman
must come to rack and ruin
in the Spanish boot of Time
words of our bodies
seeds of our minds
statements of elements
ejaculations of truth
tables of turns
tricks of trades
either/or & both
GURU KHAN
HUM PHAT
KRAZIGNATZKAT
PUPPIGDUNGFUNGI
X-RAY CRISTALGRAPH
pendulum harmonographic
alpha-particular articulation
that i = an elliptical metaphor 4
misononeismystic Presbyterianism
Bohem's exegesis of Genesis
Buddhist Logic of Exists
differential equations
3. plug them in and stand back
dinosaurs grazing in pastures of hemp
micro-organisms under an airtight lid
færie-dæmon foxfire dynamos
bunraku hooded trinities
section Xn relative to Yn
Gemini martyrdom
Sze indications of good fortune
soon June vine design
synergistically synchronized valve/relay
yin/yang daisycrazy turkeyjerky
a posteriori experience related
a fortiori in terms of significance
KALI APPEARS WITH A NECKLACE
OF FLAVORED HEADS
atom fudge spinach nicotine
pie are squared double negative delight
phallic fluff interarticular fibercartilage
cosmic grout alimentum ornamentum
Pythagorean lotus bean jade attle
fissigemnation chainshot
psychedelic pink psychodelphi
pink psychoracle lick pink ink pink
the color of lips the color
of the cheek the color of
intestines eyes of insects
winged bleeding things
in inner space
substantives hold their own
adjectives depend on substantives
holding their own
STOP
NO U
TURN
ONE
WAY
ARE
YOU
PUTTING
ME ON?
automatic replication analogue of
passion-beauty-love
analytic pre-molar political
intersubjective meta-aleatoric
patramorphesis
on the blue pole of the South Moon
Venus has a hot cushion
4. business reply mail
postage paid by addressee
octahedrically this RLD molecule circles the news that stays news
THE SCARLOSIS DAILY SCOOP
THE THERMONUCLEAR CAR-
BUNCLE THE ABYSS
THE WASTING TIME
Planetarium Council Studies
Depicts Concrete Lid
First Christmas For Reservoir
the war is over/it never was/the
war is not/the war is over
Merry Kissmyass the real cost
was the cost of the cost
2 + 2 being more
Christus-Falcon entalloned
Mithras cutting the throat of the Bull
with a zip code
CHAPTER TO
on my way from the 12th planet
in n minus 1 (n = 0) solar system
of RLD-59 Andasinwand Galaxy
to the Labor Temple on 2nd Ave
i encounter an old friend
Whashappeninman, i inquire
Got a vasectomy, remarried
my first wife & found Jesus
Does this frequently happen
after vascectomy? i ask
but before he can answer
the effect of the experience
inhibits my memory
from recalling the event
to which the question pertains
daze of trauma stretch to kalapas
interrupted by a Karma Yoga stint
HARE MARX KARL KARL
HARE BODY HAIRY BODY
SPIRITO MESCALERO
SANCTAS IMMUNITA
rainforest/pasturland equation:-
McDonald's who boasts billions dead
has a walk-in fantastic replica of
Big Mac that would be a guaranteed
Short Path to Sipa Bardo
if piped with Allen Ginsberg's
Holy Soul Jelly Roll & what else?
a 1929 ordinance
forbidding moonlight & shadow dancing
involked by andiluvian assholes
to prevent psychedelic lightshows
CHAPTER TOO
in this chapter the flop quickens
...the the figuring as formula, the the
emparting stature to the the
...tautological hokermoker...
just thrust into the thick of the quick
& CNN snowballs into ametropia
CHAPTER of the OVERALL ORDER
of HUGGERMUGGER
deaf dumb hungry & blind
the eater that is eaten
i am a plucked biped cooked in my juices
by atomic tantra evolutionarily predicated
a as in as b as in be
every effort forever formed given grace
however haphazard i imagine
an alder where a really real rishi rests
TRUCKIN' THE ALKAN
"We Drove the Alkan!"
an airpolluted fantasy
a flick to see
for the dust alone
soon to appear
as a bored game
Beware the cost!
food, tires, repairs
3 flats in 200 miles
2 ea. 7.35/15s, one
7.75/15, one 6.55/15
& nothing for a spare
added = 2900
divided by milepost
424 is ideogram sze
indicates how, in the case
which it supposes, with
firmness& correctness
and (a leader of) age
& experience, there will
be fortune & no error
milepost prosyllagism
water is persistent
and hard edged
whereas
earth is subtle
falling away and rising
Athabascan beadwork
works strong talisman magic
given metaphysically camp context
exempli gratia
fossilized mulosk site
behind graveyard of ghost town
near Dawson Creek or now
at SE85PL & 311PLSE
corner 3 blocks north
the center of Preston
the waters of Ragging River
erased the tell-tale of the trail
be it beadgames go on
FUNK OF FUCK
Oyez! I plant a seed.
The AHD has as the etymology of FUCK
the ME verb FUCKEN meaning
to strike, move quickly, penetrate
borrowed f/M Dutch FOKKEN meaning
to strike, copulate with
In the AHD appendix, the ME affix PEIK-
also PEIG- meaning evilminded, hostile
(in Germanic, FIKAL; in OE FICOL
treacherous, false, fickle)
In A Dictionary of Slang, Partridge
using Grimm's Law finds FUCK
to be cognate w/Latin v. PUNGERE
to strike, linking FUCK to PRICK
Etymology unknown in OED
1503, Dunbar. Poems.
Be his feiris he wald haute fuckitt.
1535, Lyndesay. Satyre
Bishops may fuck their fill
and be vumaryit.
1535-6, Answer to Kingsie Flyting.
Ay fukk and lyke ane furious
Fornicatour.
1598, Florio. Worlde of Wordes.
Fottere, to iape, to sard, to fucke,
to swive, to occupy.
1680, Anon in Rochester's Poems
On Several Occasions
Thus was I Rook'd of Twelve
substantial Fucks.
1684, Sodom. Epilogue spoken
by Fuckadilla. A little Fuck
can't stay an appetite.
1800, Burns. Merry Muses.
When maukin bucks, at early
f_ks, In dewy glens are seen, sir.
The ME Dictionary lists FUK
a noun f/M Dutch meaning
a foresail, fukmast, foremast
Phallic connotations aside
the Puritans inscribed F.U.C.K.
upon the stocks of persons punished
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
No FUCK in An AS Dictionary
but FUGEL, a bird is there
& the middle finger extended
is known as flying the bird
In the Magic of Words & Speech
Lama Govinda defines MANTRA
as tools for thinking that have
no specific denotive meaning
but are symbolic unities that through
a synthesis of rhythm & melody
transport the user beyond meaning
into intuitive receptivity.
The Mandukya Upanishad begins
OM. This eternal word is all,
what was, what is and what shall be,
and what is beyond in eternity.
All is OM.
In Sanskrit the vowel O is a dipthong
constituted of A plus U
the 3 sounds, A-U-M are equated
with (1) the waking life of outward
moving consciousness, (2) the dream life
of inward moving consciousness, and
(3) the sleeping life of silent consciousness
The primal Sanskrit sound /a/ is produced
at the back of the open mouth
a low, back, rounded, simple vowel
The open mouth moves towards
the closed mouth of the bilabial,
voiced, nasal consonate /m/
Between these two sounds is the high,
back, rounded vowel /u/
formed by the openess of /a/
but shaped by the closing lips
It is from the position of the closed mouth
that all begins, so runs the analogy, and
dreams are compounded of the waking life
shaped by the unconsciousness of sleep,
the closed mouth being the foundation
from which speech arises
as well as the end to which it returns
The first sound in FUCK
is a labiodental, voiceless slit-fricative,
the U sound in N. American dialect
is a mid, central, unrounded, simple vowel
and the CK consonantal sound
is a velar, voiceless stop
The meaning of FUCK
is contorted in different usages
The Dictionary of Slang posits:
FUCK-PIG, an unpleasant man (1870)
FUCK LIKE A RATTLESNAKE
cowboy expression (1895)
FUCKED UP & FAR FROM HOME (1899)
FUCKER SOLDIERS, Pukka Soldiers more
interested in women than fighting (1915)
FUCK MY OLD BOOTS, euphemistic variant
of seduce my ancient footwear (1918)
CREATE FUCK, protest (1920)
FUCK ABOUT, play the fool (1920)
FUCK MY LUCK, army expression (1920)
FUCKING THE DOG, avoid work (1920)
FUCKED-UP, fail (1925)
FUCKED, extremely weary (1925)
FUCKED BY THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE
Canadian Army expression (1939)
FUCK is used amelioratively and pejoratively,
as an insult it means the object so described
has been defiled, but as a compliment, it means
that the object is held in a position of power
FUCK is used as a means of address, of
attracting attention, opening a conversation,
starting a sentence, and when it is used
as pure emphasis, it has the meaning
of having no meaning at all—it describes
that which is otherwise without description
Sing FUCK, scream FUCK, mumble FUCK
YOUR LIFE WITH BE SUBLIME!
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