Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Purple Words: Like Straight-Armed Zombies

 

Like Straight-Armed Zombies


Regardless of how smart we are,
we are still encased in physical bodies
like straight-armed Zombies wandering
the streets with their marching orders:
Masticate, Defecate and Replicate.

Within the wayward streets of Paris,
at La Slaverie only the Machine is your Slave
just like the Constructivists expected
before History Stalinized their Dreams.

On the other hand, a Chinese friend
writes: Do not worry the War of the Worlds
because your Poem already stopped it.
Each Poem gives the world one year happy.
Please make more and stop the War
forever if you make thousands.

If Honor and Power were by nature Good
in themselves, they would never be found
by Wicked men. For Opposites are rarely
found together, and Nature abhors
the Union of Contraries.

---Purple Mark 060312




Purple Prompts:                                                                         

  1. Moreover, if honor and power were by nature good in themselves, they would never be found in wicked men. For opposites are rarely found together, and nature abhors the union of contraries.” Boethius. Translated by Richard Green. Consolation Of Philosophy (Bobbs -Merril / Library of Liberal Arts 1962) Page35.
  2. Regardless of how smart we are, we are still encased in physical bodies, and those bodies, like straight-armed zombies wandering the streets have certain unconscious marching orders: masticate, defecate, replicate.” Raymond Obstfeld. Kinky Cats, Immortal Amoebas and Nine-Armed Octopuses. (Harper Perennial, 1997) Page ix.
  3. “A Chinese friend writes: don’t worry the war of the worlds because your poem already stopped it. Each poem gives the world one year happy. Please make more poems and stop the war forever if you make thousands.” Paul Reps. Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays. (Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1967) Page 49.
  4. At la Slaverie, by the way, only the machine is your slave, just like the Constructivists expected before history Stalinized their dreams.” Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Paris Out of Hand {A Wayward Guide}. (Chronicle Books, 1996) Page 94.






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