POETIC DELIGHTS BY ALEX S. JOHNSON-USA
1-Corporate Rock Really Does Suck (After A Song by Carcass)
In a meat windmill
Sold out, smeared to screams
The manifestation of true
Liberty coils in a spiral that
Rises from the base of the
Throat and
Climbs the
Ladders of the
Skull
Adults that refuse to play by
the rules
Governed by idiots
We revolt
We rebel
We give you hell
the middle finger of
Defiance against the
Lying liars. We
Resist
Your hate
and celebrate:
Women, immigrants, Queers, the Methodology of the Oppressed, and I
name check
Chela Sandoval
bel hooks
Patrick Califia
R.U. Sirius
Poppy Z. Brite
Caitlin Rebekah Kiernan
Kathy Acker
and Kandy Fontaine
the Slutty Detective in the mirror world of karma
The suffering will be enormous
the citadels will topple
and Carcass was right:
Corporate rock
Really does
Suck.
2-For Tairrie B
Name checking the Queen
the original bad bitch
Manifesting female revolution
and bringing the lightning to the
Nations
An L.A. woman like the Doors described
But she's so much more
This is for you Mz. B.
in the name of the planet
righteous
Anarchy
3-Om Mahakali: To The Goddess
The smoke has barely
cleared from the
greased-up mirrors
You fogged us with you
hate
You tried to cram dirt up our
spines
You wrapped us in raw despair like
meat in old newspapers
And we rise
And we rise
And we rise
Hekate I call upon thee
Astarte
Kali-Ma
Bind my enemies
Bring love and tolerance
Bring the fist and the fury
Bring the sword and
The delivery
Vaster than a thousand suns
Greater than anything
and anyone.
AUTHOR:
Alex S. Johnson was dubbed "the Baudelaire of our time" by John Shirley, co-founder of the Cyberpunk literary genre. His work has been praised by such icons as Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead and cyberculture progenitor R.U. Sirius, co-founder of Mondo 2000 magazine. His work is contained at Harvard University's Widener Library. His latest books are The Kandy Fontaine Chronicles: Being the Adventures of A A Slutty Detective and A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology featuring such luminaries as Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Anna Taborska, Ron Whitehead and Ellyn Maybe. He lives in Carmichael, California with his family.
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