Poetry

A BLANK GENERATION MANTRA IN BLANK VERSE

Repeat as needed.

"...while you and your wretched corporation lies disintegrating into ashes-ashes-ashes, we all fall down." The Dead Kennedys, The Man with the Dogs Studio version.

Unfuck unfuck unfuck unfuck unfuck

You.

1987.

FAMILY

There was that night, on Clearwater beach,

In the dark & flickering wisdom of the moon,

Where I crinkled my toes in the harlot sand

At the Gulf's foamy & pelvic shore-

The celestial & embryonic edge of Forever.

There was that night when I was dumb,

Awestruck-overwhelmed, stunned into

Humility, surely, like others before me-

Like Neandertals or Australopithecines before

Me-& I, the naked savanna ape gazed up, up,

Shrunken ever small, like Alice, where I was

Gnostic & irrelevant as a fleck of sand.

Two four eight sixteen thirty-two sixty-four-

Each generation of my bloodline doubles

Backwards & again, into dreamtime, when each

Is mine times over-when I encapsulate the Earth,

When I contain us all; even you & you & you-

O bountiful Raquel-you of the risqué

Latin verse & The Portable Kama Sutra-

Each of us blossomed from the same

Tender pair of Paleolithic thighs.

Hallowed my mind sparked incandescent, my third,

Flashlight eye reveled like x-rays in the sequoia thicket

Of our genetic lake, in the chromosomes & the

Sagittal crests, in the brow ridges, the Occipital buns,

& the rampant bonobo sex;

& while in that Olympic pool,

I saw Africa-Mother Africa-hug her

Myriad babes to her tawny breasts;

I clasp you to my chest, may I kiss each

Teary cheek over & again into Serenity-

& there too I saw Calypso's kidnapped

Lost of Tahiti & Tlatelolco; a bed & a

Dinner awaits you all, for here, here I am;

I am every Zulu, every Arab, every Cushite,

Every Chin, every Greek, every Gaul, every

Goth, every Hun, every Hebrew, every Huron,

Every Khmer, every Mongol, & every !Kung San.

I am every lord's scion, every mewling

Peasant brat, every slave's price-tagged get-

Chinggis & Boudicca, Amalasuintha

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