NaPM April 30 2016

[Tracy Mitchell]

 I add my genuine thanks, Milo, for the effort and talent you brought to making this happen.

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    I Surrender

I surrender my lifetime digital library–
Moses through Wittgenstein,  Hera through
Madonna, Rachael Ray. Allard Lowenstein.
A happy-dance of electrons and fingerprints.

Even without matchbooks wedged under
wobbling legs, cities fall to ruin.  Without
threading tight each new nylon line through
the port storm eye, the coasts capsize – there is
this sudden certainty of senselessness.

I don’t pretend to know the heart of art,
how or why my eyes  flicker wild through
some openings, why my chest pumps primal  
the blue minerals and rust of cave-paintings.

I won’t pretend to be a  warrior in robes
by a banked fire, only to then lean against
a barren cross-wind in the dark, chomping on
genetically enhanced mastodon dick.

Let the wheels slow to a stop –
let the dust settle back to poverty.