Thursday, August 10, 2017

Unmarked



This does not represent 
any known thought 
structure before 
or alongside it. 

For one, conditions 
would have to be 
replicated along all 
levels—and they're not. 

The color of my eyes 
are known to change. 
From grayer hazel 
to a bluer green, 
it depends on 
the weather. 

Outside, the howling 
increases through 
the droning wind 
and I can only imagine 
the creatures stalking 
the countryside. 

It will remain eternal 
night now that the stars 
have locked down in 
the Universifreeze. 

Spirit dislocators send 
out tangrams featuring 
lucid maleficent vibrations 
tuned to geomagnetic north. 

The results are a world spun 
out of control in a frenzy 
of lust and battle rage. 

The echoes are still ringing 
throughout the denizen's heads, 
spread across the surface 
of the earth like a tapestry 
of dandelions. 

Thoughts captured 
by the winds of time 
and tossed sporadically 
across the land. 

Every morning 
like a parade of 
gathered pigeons, 
they spread upward 
to blot out the blue sky, 
building shadows which 
shift into nervous mountains. 

Across pallid and scorched 
plains of bristly calcified 
networks an interred 
interlacing system 
of geomagnetic 
communications 
sporadically flickered 
in lustrous and pulsing 
illuminations racing in 
timed clockwork like 
the photogenic illuminations 
native to deep sea creatures. 

There was never any human 
presence around to see this 
parade of phosphorescent 
tribulations rippling across 
the landscape, and the tumble
weeds which ungainly passed 
over on their windblown 
sojourns never seemed to 
give it much notice either.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Old Oaken
Redshift
Tree




Hyperdivinity 
how is it real? 
The prefix hyper- 
means above, beyond, 
excessive, or existing 
in a space apart from 
three dimensions, 
or bridging points 
within an entity 
non-sequentially.

Hyperdivinity
implies the distinction 
of the holy being 
perfected, or possibly 
that it constantly 
transcends supremacy 
breaking new ground 
as it goes, we don't know. 

Hyperdivinity
The quality or state 
of proceeding 
directly from God, 
I think we can all agree 
we must all have that 
in common, our God-
given divinity ('God' in 
the sense of its being 
a word meant to re-
present something we 
don't really understand, 
so to speak, or to write, 
am I right?). 

So there you go, 
why can't we go 
with the gospel 
of "we don't know" 
remains a mystery 
to me and if you 
cannot see that then 
we're left afraid and
blind to each other.

Hyperdivinity 
means accelerating 
the pace towards 
accepting our place 
as the next generation 
of Inheritors of the 
Stewardship of Earth.  

Hyperdivinity
A home built below 
ground may fare 
better during 
certain calamitous 
weather events. 

Hyperdivinity 
becomes necessary 
when confronted 
with such titanic 
forces as the super 
storms generated 
from green house 
effects and the 
environmental 
challenge of an era 
stemming from a post
industrial revolution 
and during which fossil 
fuel burning is still peaking   
among several competing 
first world nations. 

Hyperdivinity 
is taking care 
to concentrate on 
the smaller details 
surrounding us, 
such as the honey bees 
and how they along with 
the bats and birds 
and frogs and butterflies 
and almost everything else 
are being killed off 
by the neonictinoids 
and plethora of chemicals
we unwittingly promote 
in our abysmal group 
mentality which dictates 
we must have a perfect 
trimmed lawn free 
of dandelions. 

That is a suicide world 
if I ever thought of one. 

I couldn't have come up 
with a more twisted and 
lethal of an ironic trap 
as that even if I were 
attempting to win 
a contest for writing 
the cruelest and most 
terrifying novel.

Hyperdivinity,
What we have here 
right around us 
while we're living 
and breathing it 
is the real thing, 
an unleashed creation 
with a mind all its own 
by now geared with 
the incessant fueling 
of post-war economic 
breakdowns and the 
smothered suffering 
of generations of dis-
enfranchised people 
teetering on the decks 
of a fleet of unmoored 
ships sailing east further 
north than usual amid 
isolated icebergs under 
a clear midnight sky 
with the Milky Way 
bisected into a luminous 
vertical Rorschach 
mirror dead ahead. 

Hyperdivinity,

This old oak redshift
tree our titanic endeavor 
through this vicinity 
of space, a-whirl 
about our dark nexus 
at the galactic core, 
in unison along with 
billions of additional 
stars such as ours 
as if being lazily mixed 
in a cosmic maelstrom
by an invisible hand;
if you're getting 
a sense of this being 
a cooking reference, 
that is because it may 
certainly be, we are in 
effect being prepared 
as in a great stew, but 
for what purpose-?

As food of the Gods,
Is it even within our 
capacity to correctly
deduce our supernal
autocannibalism? 

Otherwise let they 
who despise the idea 
of any orders above 
their own continue 
to insist the great 
cosmic formations 
upon which we all 
exist are generated 
by random accident. 

Mean while we all 
ride along the eternal 
wave towards the un-
imaginable shore. 

Welcome to the Old

Oak Tree, the tone 
and timbre of our 
Time-ship otherwise 
more commonly known 
as planet Earth. 

Much older 
than previously 
imagined and 
currently thought, 
our home planet 
is far more than 
just an unusual 
platform carrying 
us all, over eight 
billion and growing, 
on an unprecedented 
journey through outer 
space; and it's more 
than just another 
gigantic living 
creature curled 
up with a molten 
core for a heart 
singing with electro-
magnetic radiation; 
it's something 
which we are 
barely coming 
to terms with 
understanding 
fundamental 
principles of, 
but which none-
theless features 
a uniqueness 
misconstrued
by the leading
hopeful edge in 
scientific circles.

Actuality, how is it
divine beyond our 
intellectual grasp? 

Soon we'll find 
our selves gasping
for air in the desert
of hyperdivinity.

Soon we will
each breathe 
in the nectar
of the vacuum. 

  








Monday, June 30, 2014

from the Crow's Nest

by shaun lawton





I'm out here surveying America
Looking across at the petrifying dish
Zooming in close to a slum in this aquarium
Hadn't seen so many schools of fishes in prison before
Never accepted conditions for being wishes granted
Until I realized we get exactly what we pay for 
Here in the land of enchantments abroad
Still spelling out their hazardous charm
In this super spun medium we emerge
Blinking and further blurring lines
We are already so entwined in
It's a miracle we can see at all
With blinding clarity we drive
Focused on the dotted dashes
To keep us from merging into
The passing lanes on either side
Addicted to motion we all strive
Headlong into the glare of our lives
Staring through mirrored sunglasses
As we devour the roadway together
A feast of acceleration faster faster
Burning rubber and fossil fuels further
And farther we spin out in space 
Going nowhere while occupied
With the mind numbing exercise
Of consciously committing suicide
Enjoy the ride to the eye doctor
America you have been prescribed
Blind by laser vision remember
Your doctor cannot provide a cure
He may only remove your symptom




Thursday, October 20, 2011

Come With Me



COME WITH ME

"I know you're out there waiting
just hangin' around
you're that jewel that I've been searchin' for
to top my crown
cuz there really is no reason
and there's not much to explain
why I really need to find you
I can't withstand the pain.


Come with me
we will travel the seas
we will embrace each other
and lose touch of reality
climb over mountains
and soar through the air
all I want, girl
is for you to be there.

I reach for your heart
I knew it from the start
that I'd keep searching for you
as long as we're apart
there's blood through my mind
and starting to climb
to the ends of my body
was that such a crime?

Yeah uh yeah
yeah uh yeah
yeah eh yeah
yeah eh yeah
Yeah eh yeah eh yeah...."

~Jonathan Davis of KoRn
High School Demo

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Permawake



Certainly—we all realize it from time to time
We're killing the earth for petroleum products
Polluting the skies—not wise
Are we concerned to do something about it

Why did we vote for our grandchild's execution
Oh—excuse me—our family's part of Big Money
We're lucky to be among The Chosen few, honey
just wanted to realize something

Using our real eyes to find out politicians and pundits
are telling real lieswe realize it— (Thanks, Wind)
And what, you do too—realize we're screwed—

Do you realize it once a week—and try to atone for it
through a God whose existence you've been lied to about—
Or—you're more devout—you realize it every day—swell.
Well, that's enough.  It's your time to live it.

There's no sense in waking up to it all the time.
This just proves we're asleep,
It's time for an awakening of a greater steep.
We all need to be Slapped Into Permanent Awakening

Twenty-Four-Seven,  live it,  breathe it, get even.
Don't ever sleep again.  Can't write slam poetry,
Then write your congressman or a friend, ask them
why so many politicians retiring millionaires, who cares?
Who in their right minds wants to run for office, really.

There's no limit to the times we'll repeat this
the future being sold to the highest bidder
it means your great-granddaughter will have
to buy the air they breathe from your grandkids.

Isn't that what's happening now, more or less,
We have to pay for the water we drink today,
So it stands to reason if we all work hard,
like we've been doing all along,
then having to pay a nominal fee
for clean, pure air will be mandatory some day
in the near future, there.  You can put down your knives.
Alright, I'll back off—every one go on ahead and withdraw
back into the shells of your well insulated lives.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

from the autumn coatrack





 i sigh and put on my
Octoberface;
it is my favorite face,
and when it's snug
in its dusty place
my skullgrin hidden
and the neckflaps laced,
I hit the streets
and darkly grace
the drywind autumn
of this landblown place





Ambition




Ah, but what is ambition, if not more cruel
than acceptance of one's role in life?
I try to fit in where I can,
though it be against my nature often...
And I am a writer, as I ever strive to be.

And to whose
audience a failed soliloquy...?
And what does it matter to us?
My ambition is to understand.

And
hence, in that sense,
I am damned.

Friday, October 14, 2011

House Of Windows



It's when you begin noticing the small things that it gets you.
I mean, by that time, you're hooked, as the saying goes.
Snagged is more like it, I guess it's lucky they don't use hooks.
More like being netted, really. Usually happens in larger groups,
the rest get left behind. You know how it is. But then,
it's only a matter of time, isn't it? Isn't there something
about the Grim Reaper carrying an hour glass? I don't know.
If not, there should be...huh. Maybe Father Time is the Grim Reaper,
maybe they're one and the same. All I know is what I saw
when I finally took that walk around my block.
Well I guess I only been here three and a half months,
and it was winter when I moved in. I always do get restless
after the Ides of March. I went for a walk out under the platinum clouds.
It was just on the verge of raining, but somehow I knew it wouldn't.
It's a nice, quiet neighborhood. Lotta elm trees.
I hooked a left at the first corner. As the concrete sidewalk panels
flowed under my feet, I looked down and noticed first a few,
then dozens more furry gray caterpillar looking things.
As I stepped carefully to avoid crushing them,
I noticed what appeared to be small, lamprey-like suckermouths
of a darker brown which they anchored themselves to the sidewalk with.
They were all in an inchworm position, a whole fleet
of suckermouthed fuzzy gray caterpillars clinging to the sidewalk,
as if against the wind. After a few more strategic strides
they were gone, and I kept walking. I looked down to make sure
none were clinging to the cuffs of my pants. All clear.
I felt relief. The thought of them bothered me.
I did not discover any more such clusters throughout the neighborhood,
that day. Nor have I ever encountered any since.


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

the FREEZINE of Fantasy and Science Fiction




Artwork by Shasta Fletcher Lawton

MY Interview with a Vampire




me: I won't kill you if you don't attack me, deal?
vamp:__________________________________

me:  Are you really dead?
vamp:__________________________________

me: Who did this to you?
vamp:__________________________________

me: The mirror thing. True or False?
vamp:__________________________________

me: Do you regret becoming a vampire?
vamp:__________________________________

me: Could you subsist off coconut milk instead?
vamp:__________________________________

me: Then why don't you live in the tropics?
vamp:__________________________________

me: Oh I didn't realize that.  Which tropical area
features the highest vampire population?
vamp:__________________________________

me: on a scale of 1-10, how does coconut milk
compare with fresh human blood?
vamp:__________________________________

me: Interesting . . .

Our Solar System As Laboratory




Q: If life can arise from inorganic matter so quickly and easily, why is it not abundant in the solar system and beyond?
A: It may be rare or unique to certain solar systems, but there are countless solar systems beyond ours.
Q: If biology is an inherent property of matter, why have chemists so far been unable to reconstruct life, or anything close to it, in the laboratory?
A: Because the laboratory required must, by definition, BE a solar system.  i.e, Thus far chemists have not been able to recreate the conditions of a solar system, by definition. 
Q: The origins of life on Earth bristle with puzzle and paradox. Which came first, the proteins of living cells or the genetic information that makes them?
A: The genetic information that makes them.
Q: How could the metabolism of living things get started without an enclosing membrane to keep all the necessary chemicals together?
A: Our atmsophere itself functions as an enclosing membrane.  Consider the sky as the lid that keeps all the necessary chemicals together.
Q: But if life started inside a cell membrane, how did the necessary nutrients get in?
A: By meteoritic injection.


If a terrestrial explanation is struggling to break through, the following conclusions should be considered:
-The earth may be tantamount to an egg
-If cell-like structures formed naturally from fatty chemicals which were present on primitive earth, and there is no current explanation for how nucleotides could ever have arisen spontaneously, perhaps the answer is mirrored within the sexual  model for reproduction, only on a cosmic scale:  Something tantamount to "meteoritic insemination" may have provided the "left hand" pathway for the earth's "right hand" fatty chemicals to be triggered with.  
If chemists' and biologists' only option for figuring life out is in the laboratory, then they better start expanding their laboratory. I suggest they begin by first knocking down its walls and letting the air in.   If earth and our solar system become their laboratory,  they should make better progress, I would think.   

Omnicreed






Believe me it's a touchy subject for anyone, even me, since I respect my vegetarian-barbarian brethren and their credo. 

I'm usually at a loss as to how to justify my own dietary habit of remaining an omnivore; hence keeping silent on the matter. [So here goes nothing]—

  There's a weird sort of backwards-appearing philosophy that I find myself adhering to more the older I get, and it can be roughly exemplified by deforestation:   In my younger days, I thought the razing of forests was akin to "ripping the lungs from the planet" or otherwise violating nature, etc.   Nowadays, I feel almost the opposite:  if we don't raze the damn forest at a respectable rate (take lightning as a good example) it'll overtake civilization and we'll wake up in the morning with crabgrass growing out of our eyesockets. 

Ok so I implemented a bit of hyberbole to get my point across there—hopefully, y'all understand where I'm coming from with that.  The point being there is always a particular context we must keep in perspective.  

The point being, there needs to be a balance—and yes, militant vegan activism is necessary today  as  leverage to help restore that balance—but  I just think we're omnivorous by nature, that  life feeds on life,  and it's eat or be eaten, until such extreme movements by which 'abandoned balances' may be restored should themselves then be watched most carefully, for the continued implementation of such outdated methods may in turn become the new problem to overcome.

Balance and moderation remain the traits we must ever strive to maintain.