Monkey see monkey do school yard taunt so
what will it become in artificial intelligence
an A.I. world of current age industrial memes
sucking up all human generated info to blast
It back at all of us just saying what can we do
in the read face of this billionaire bund burgle
avalanche tsunami coming in on ever steeper
incline up at our waving in wind gesticulations
Even “figures” of the father of modern mime
Etienne DeCroux teacher of Jan-Louis Barrault
& Marcel Marceau two poles of physical acting
Jean-Louis consummate actor of Children of
Paradise and Marcel’s use of Decroux’s forms
to boost street mime illusion up to theatre size
with Pierrot a brother to Bip street Harlequin
imp of stationary walk and invisible wall and
That ongoing melo-dramatic tragi-comic look
in white face both of them locked out of palace
sound of music ball so ready to do absolutely any
thing at all for our attention when then really
We, oh yes, we all need that attention so badly
with all these inner child persons we’ve become
to contain so very many selves in these bodies
so globally connected in human murmuration
We’re atoms bonding molecules compounded
cells growing into organs organs that support
being becoming consciousness aware of itself
body that just wants to be all one thing-thing.
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.