From Alternative Prosaicnesses: First Poems
published by Down With Grundy, Publisher
(now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher)

Paramaterial Dialectic (A Foreword)
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Takin' away your
                                 silver dower,
Show me your sandwiches.
Show me
                   working electricity -- .

And tell me no fantasy
                                        lurking
In the factual, some magical
          geometry. But

Is there any way to avoid, escape
          my arrival
At the knowledge that I

          may be
                             an atom

that'll change into another?

We're . . .
          are living in the finest

hours, showing you
all the flowers,
showing you
all these structures. . . .

tellin' y'all energy
functions in marginal
dependency -- in wav'ring
religiosity/
                   But is there --

ain't there any way of enhancing . . .
is there any truth in "romance," or
Or . . . no survival
from the knowledge

that I
              may

be just an atom
that'll turn into another!

              Well, . . . well you gave me fine containers o' wine 'n' meat.
              then you changed your car to other colors:
              'n' how can I forget the quest of-
              of makin' it through

                                        a way o' dragons?

              Where Mechanics, Science, and other labels,

                                 have only

                                 gone far

                                 as

                                 you 'n' I

                                 could

                                 see.

 

                                       -- 23 May/88

 

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