Thursday 27 May 2010

Hart Crane Homeward Bound X


Sour grapes, they float like American

Idol comment boxes, it is crystal clear

that Hart and I will need to keep Lee side

of the husks, the purple-blue ovoids

bob and blip in the scudding overflow

of popular downloads, is this current

enough, are we on the Radio, you know,

Hart, we can do this standing on our heads,

Review the winners, who win by a stanza

in the TLS, pipe dreams pumped up by steroids,

and the Stench of the pussed stigmata, palmed

by the poet, alloy the words, mingle as Shelley

liked his lovers to do, join them at the statement,

it is easy peasy weasy sleazy, still the grapes

bobble and wobble in the bitter wind

up stream, the phrase book has a hook

it is Captain Birdseye, with his fishy fingers

in the sardine tin we call the closed society

where decisions are made, and clients laid

in optic fibre cables under the carpets

of the cultivated, who with a little wiley

publish their assets, keeping the truth off shore,

Hart and I , play pool, they sneak in the black,

We lose, we are lost, and still adrift, between

the rocks of before, we repeat the fall of the poet,

our selves lashed and torn by the comment

sour grapes

We are at our acrobatics, cart-wheeling on deck

the poets you see from an entirely new perspective

they tried, and were tried, they won, and are at one,

but Hart me mate, let's not descend to dialect

and the Latin tag, cos up table nu,

Pertusum quiequid infunditur in dolium, perit

especially, the feast of Saturn, the stew of fruit,

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