Monday, July 29, 2013

Nitrogen Bases

Adenine Thymine
Adenine Thymine
Guanine Cytosine
Cytosine Guanine
Adenine Thymine
Cytosine Guanine
Thymine Adenine
Adenine Thymine
Adenine Thymine
Cytosine Guanine
Adenine Thymine
Guanine Cytosine
Cytosine Guanine
Thymine Adenine
Cytosine Guanine
Adenine Thymine
Cytosine Guanine
Adenine Thymine
Adenine Thymine
Adenine Thymine
Adenine Thymine
Guanine Cytosine
Cytosine Guanine
Guanine Cytosine
Cytosine Guanine
Adenine Thymine
Cytosine Guanine

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

black as a rejection of representation

order is the mother of anarchy

black eagle
black standard
or maybe golden
             brown shirt
             colour of shit
             the deficient power of pink and yellow peoples
             unread on white
             the bleachy sheets
             the jewish literature
             the burnt orange peels of mary's martyrs
                  law & order
                  with ties to the klan
                  the red white and blue
                  the black and the tans

armies of infidels who might read the words
in good books
and green books
and little red books

Poem for Arnold Schoenberg

monochrome string fingers
thumb a latch
opening Pandora's box
for want of new sounds.
this is curiosity beyond reasonable doubt,
because music must be more
than 12 discreet tones.

cords, reeds, threads and rope
clash like dice,
like a wreck
in Vienna, the laboratory of world destruction
the wind of other planets
whistles in rusty vents;
the broken backed arpeggios
and colourful strokes
scrambling for lost keys to open draws.

the emancipation of dissonance
has ushered knives into the playground
long nights drawing in
the redness of your hands,
your wife's lover's hanging head,
the 13 dreams that haunt from
Expressionist shadows.

a dodecaphonic legacy of flinches 
you pass to new generations.
Strauss said you would have been better off shovelling snow
 (an arctic slap to your self styled blue)
but your clattering extra ribs have made Cages.

wasn't it you who sang,
if we must commit artistic suicide; we must live by it
?