Cosmic Web/ Dark Matter

I have it documented for me by Marshall McLuhan’s Mechanical Bride
(p. 138 The Bill of Rights as the Ten Commandments the Thou Shalt Not
to government) and some lovely young thirty something said it, to me,
“Sometimes I feel like a machine” so I told him about Mary Shelley and
the Frankenstein Monster put together from body parts and brought to life
by the electricity of a lightning flash while they tell us the future just belongs
to “thinking” machines: this most human act outsourced (for good) to robots
so society went extinct as it devolved into a mere collection of individuals and
lost its mainstream function in quaking spasms of those consuming dollars
with just the voice of downsized life as the only “choice” inchoate force &
our double helical genetic inheritance code, code, code as life itself ….
They’ve got code …. We’ve got code …. All God’s children got a code ….
When we get to heaven gonna act out that code ….
Gonna act out all over God’s heaven, heaven x 2
That which is vilified is uplifted. That which was sacrosanct is overthrown &
politics, dirty business we all ignore, is that dirty creep can’t do a one thing
                                                                   RIGHT
when only the powers of government can save us the growing consequences
of 50 years when they told us to leave all that to us, the U.S. the solution is to
get government out of the way, out-Adam-ing Adam Smith even the schools,
hospitals, security itself privatize it all, pander to profit, profit to pander, and
sell it, buy it, put a price on every prize, nothing as prized as everything has
a price, never mind the old adage about love of money and the root of all evil ….
the unanimous opinion of ancient agrarian civilization on financial systems
that concentrate the CommonWealth of the land in ever fewer hands all that for thousands of years created social chaos, indeed revolution & catastrophe
over and over cancerous growth commercial cancer growth failure until now
they tell us again just leave it to us when each crisis caused by their so secret
and not so secret wars and ever bigger Ponzi scheme financialization of it all
everything The All One Thing Universe inhabited by the All One Thing so thin veil of life, the biosphere on the face of the earth this living organism which is us that created this great global ALL ONE THING by which we live by which we
                                                 DIE.

 

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.