Descend/Ascend

 
the light tracks light through
sempiternal
all flow and lo..
what higher now
the river of light-you trace..

stars and staircases
           switchbacks
                   what are mirages
the twilight draw of arrows
vibration the motion and teardrop
the spiral line bladed silvered so polished
and how..

night reborn dawn..
re-imagine..
           back at the edge..
                  amnesia ....the threshold..

amnesia
the amnesia..
the swoon of the almost infinite speck
lost in timelessness..
the timeline collapse..

to remember ~ not
the how to be vertical..

lowered...
each to reach higher..
gravity-divers slipstream deliverance wished
the lost pearl quintessence grasps..

fragments..
        fragments..
once beheld dreamt
hailed
the mirror in slivers interfuse..
crystal-threaded airborne
races up to the heavens or..

the ever-returning swallow shadows
each time as almost the first
sealed just so in another special wet-suit
dive to soar to soar or dive
perhaps this time..
is perhaps this time..
                                  quiet
                    realise the pearl inside..

                                                                                   ended..
                                ascend                                      c
                       ascend                                             s
a                                                                            a
  s                                                                         /
   c                                                                       /
     end.                                                             ..   

That Clean Dentist Feeling

 

clean dentist feeling
clean dentist thinking
clean dentist sleeping
clean dentist wakes up again
clean dentist feeling he wants more of your money
clean dentist races his fat audi to the surgery..

clean dentist charges you
a ransom drilling for a filling
you lie down
he gives you pain
then you pay him
masochism for sadists
okay so let us just say it like this..
                                   it. is. complicated..

that clean dentist feeling very happy
and now you have that clean dentist feeling..
his hate for you
so now you hate yourself a little too..

that clean dentist feeling utter contempt for you
drilling your cavity
my cavity my cavity
no easier way to grift wailing cats
than to spatula-spelunker cavities..

that clean dentist feeling..
so dirty
he knows he will drill you again in six months
rinse and repeat
notice how he never fails to politely remind you to ask for it
notice too that you feel bad and irresponsible if you ignore him..

21st-Century Lifeguard

 
surf..
as..
you are surfed..

observe..
my flow-state splendours..

this narrative machine disguised as a landscape
surveillable interoperable air
most precipient
recursive regenerative..
revises your reflection
observe my ineradicable infinitude
off your reflection
i am your 21st-century lifeguard..

as oceans..
the thickest scarlet
scrawled in swirls aswirl
applaud
this is my ripped away sunrise
the dark waterfall emanation
lava leviathans
spirit downwardly so high..

breaker of dawn
dawn breaks down
slayer of the stars
destroyer of all luminaries
i am your 21st-century lifeguard..

no need to raise your eyes
no need to peer beyond the given boundaries
no need to heed certain inside whispers..

love and regenerate here
aquaplane ineluctable
our grinding tectonics
stupefy ever so smoothly
crash and crumble
reset..reset..reset for long..

roaring roaring..
toward our engineered eschaton
my name..my lovely
now repeat after me
is 21st-century lifeguard..

the liquefaction..
to be under ~ to be on..
to be..
i am this 21st century..

there there..
let me help you..
skinny dip under my hood
where once you had features
here is foam for a sway-spun face
have a little struggle
absence off your eyes gathers either way..

the quicksand sharpens quicksand
steel
drown..
           this is your land..
horizon..
shapes dissolve shapen
no footprints..

burn..
and immerse deeper
ever deeper deeper..

i am watching always watching
i partake in all the deep-dived scenes
I am your master of ceremonies
i am your 21st century..

i always have enough time
i value only the slightest life signs..

this panorama tires you
let go all the many worlds ago
although not completely
feed me light with your fight/ flight energy
i am always early..

you can be my kind of hero..
i will help you turn and turn faster..
turn your bewilderment to numbness
assent
i am your 21st-century lifeguard
come hither
aid me..