for John Wieners
in the closet of
brain cramps & heart hardened at last
eyes shot
sweatingin the closet of
a secret death
digested pill dialectics
/ mere description
to evade life
and its game show questions
Aditya Bahl was born and brought up in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh (India). Apart from Bard is Bong bits and pieces of his work have appeared or are forthcoming in places as diverse as Bones, Bottle Rockets, Modern Haiku, Otoliths, Lilliput Review, The Boston Literary Review and the others
/ mere description
to evade life
and its game show questions
"this burden that no god imposes
but knows we have the means"
to bear to sustain
to believe
in a compulsion or fear
it isnt the question / or wonder what
makes it all
& the eternity of one per se is beauty's song
time's ration ? or just as
need be the sedimentation
of yr
first person demonstrative
mere underthirst
a loss seldom utterly allayed
it is how the stars are made
in another world
the burden
ReplyDeletethat no god imposes but knows we have the means...
John Wieners: The Acts of Youth: from Ace of Pentacles, 1964.
That's pretty authentic suffering I reckon. But dead people's pain comes cheap these days, just toss it in the microwave.
You can find the poem under the rubric "Poems of Mental Illness" at that site funded by the vast pharmaceutical fortune.
V, would you paste your favourite Elise Cowen lines into a poem, sign it as yours and then go on not dying?
fixed tom. sorry for not catching prior.
ReplyDeleteNo worries, V.
ReplyDelete..It is not me I mean who has appropriated his drug driven poetry or persona but it is poem in response to him as poet and a human being. It is his shot at immortalityThat I refer to. His pain and his burden. Some of the lines are by Wieners and I have used them as mere allusions. I dont see any need to explicitly quotethem. It is not wn act of irrevernce for me. Allusion instead of appropriation .. He sd somewhere he wanted to become a poet for the immortality art provided..A lot of it has been written using cut and paste.. some more Wieners lines in there tooI wldnt think one needs to quote thm.
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