The Meaning Crisis

I’m not the only one talking about
the great global mighty mega-crisis
of our time when actually it’s time
IT self which scientists now so vow
can’t and never even did really exist
this two dimensional vector drafted
to become convenient 4th dimension
in the space-time continuum that oh!
becomes a string theory of clap-trap
of thirteen unimaginable dimensions
which brings us back to feudal time
with No Vows of Poverty just grows
and grows a technological enclosure
encircling us all in the Silicon Valley
satins and lace strait jacket tight fit
to one way ratchet policies that just
lock up kids for profit and then get
rich building bombs purely to bomb
the little babies in Gaza and W. Bank
Lebanon, Yemen and only who knows
what else we all go around staggering
and falling, after the tooth is so gone
big gap left in our diminishing smile
& time rolls on to spite: crisis of time.

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.