outrovert (2010)

there is much to keep silent about

*

that serial mic-in-mouth dream:

hardbodies mass,your book-smarts
amount to nothing

*

the morning mopes,

hardly good smoking weather

*

a status bar wormscross-screen
to little purpose

*

timepoor breakfast
eaten off a mirror

*

fast-acting capslows the room
to baseline

*

you practise rolling dice

but there’s no
need to undress
that billboard girl

(she only ever loves a warrior)




Note: This poem begins and ends with lines ('there is much to keep silent about' and 'she only ever loves a warrior') from Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (translated by Douglas Smith, Oxford University Press, 1997). 

Below: image by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe