Wednesday 16 June 2010

Hart Crane Homeward Bound XIX


nineteen

made it to nineteen

we count the isles of words

cavort in the numerical

like the kiddies with pebbles

ready to throw at bottles

we refuse to hunt for an allusion

or reference to 19

taking together a stance

against information that

sluttishly splashes on the screen

in its stead

on the bow

of the junk

we bond

in our determination

to be chimerical

to cock a snoot at the Empire

of the capital

to the conniving inhabitants

of the Off-shore accounts

peopled by fine interpretations

of the tax return

through the loop-holes

vast caravans of camel

lumber through, carrying

Byzantine weights

of treasure,

into the optic cables

from the four corners

of this planet's

geography,

we, that's me, and Hart,

in a ungrammatical combine,

seek to throw our pebbles

at these creatures of comfort

that lounge in luxuriousness

of unconscionable wealth

which we would with the sport

of the Jacobean, inflate to Godzilla

proportion, these wallowing

beasts, await the caravan

as it follows the Cyber Road

to arrive on isles, where yachts

cruise in sexy sleekiness, cutting

through injunctions, investigations,

through the Law, as in Philadelphia

Story says Katherine H, it is yar, yar

yar, and Hart and I, on board our

junk, think, oh it would be funnier

if

nobody was left unfed

Now we set sail for TWENTY

hoping, in a Swinburnian fashion, nobody

expects us to visit the LAND of PLENTY!

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