Marionette Passion Play [Today's News Poem, July 14, 2010]

Marionette Passion Play [Today's News Poem, July 14, 2010]

Life is a farce and we players are puppets;
Scripted for vows to the thunder, as showers
Pour in a baptismal deluge that signals
Heroes are here! And detaching from strings he
Notices water is nothing but dampness.
Stages of tragedy, comedy happen.
Mannequins plead up the strings to their master:
Fate or the writer at least. What was scripted?
Scissors for wire. Yet he climbs up the ladder,
Grabs all the rods and continues the program.

““The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is the latest movie about an ordinary fellow — it’s almost always a fellow — who is, all of a sudden and to his great astonishment, dragged into an epochal, supernatural battle between good and evil. ”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times, July 13, 2010
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/movies/14sorcerer.html?hpw



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Life Attack Claims Another Cleaning Lady [#twitterfoundpoem, July 14, 2010]

Life Attack Claims Another Cleaning Lady [#twitterfoundpoem, July 14, 2010]
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she tryna tell er body to behave
sayin it can't take rejection again.
they're going to deny er from getting organs
so er body Better behave:
it might be all she has.
she tryna tell er body to wake up
and take the bus to work even though
er organs is sayin they can't take it again.
even the bus rejects er ticket
"this is just fucking ridiculous"
er good heart says.
but er chopped liver groans
and er conscience remains silent.

she tryna hang on to the railing.
she is having a Life attack.
she drops er bag of cleaning supplies...
she falls down bus stairs.

Life fucks everyone in front of everyone.
the scariest of all rapes:
Life pulls apart er cankles and rapes er
in the street. she takes the rape of Life
in the scariest of all rapes.
and the bus driver and passengers are just
watching as Life rapes er body,
Never realizing they are also Life
and that they also rape er,
and that Life also rapes Their conscience
while they are just watching
as Life rapes the Old cleaning lady to DEATH.


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