Those addicted to winning surely
have already lost and our survival
assures our loss in the bitter end
to all of such personal continuity

Illusion as sort of way of ongoing
life denial & the only way to go on
and on and on even as a cold dead
universe in steady state & gradual

Decline is entropy that bleeds off &
away into empty spacial vastness &
this mind numbing vacuum next to
all the mess of commercial human

Business pokes its nose in nature’s
scrap bin of discard flag flaps failure.

 

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.