coasting&roaring
coasting & roaring north
toward Davenport
life loss import
antsy reading all day
whimsically
the Mars of my reading life
is made of a polar cap
of boring
tediously complex
happenings in Kafka's castle
a canyon made by water
pouring through molten lava
growing hotter
as The Exquisite Corpse pours into me
and my molten boredom and apathy
with Smokers in the Hands of an Angry God
an article about outcast American poets
at odds
with a culture whose language is TV
billions of years
water evaporates
leaving behind
an introduction to Kafka
written by Robert Crumb who reflects
on an overbearing father
the source of Rob's complex
A Vietnam-era Cobra flies
over canyons
on Mars
dumping UK editions
of Maxim
and photos of scarab beetles
like propaganda leaflets
revealing further evidence
of a solid Egyptian intuition
that picks the right correspondence
muffled banter
from a letter
about the effect
Kurt Cobain's death
wrought pon Douglas Coupeland
Korzybski's 'Science and Sanity'
that daunting tome
lures me
into it's systematic refurbishment
of neurology
and a quick glance through
The Courage to Live provides instruction
on foregoing conscious self destruction
it takes courage to kill yourself
so why not channel that impulse
after antidepressants and therapy
into living courageously
I feel tornadoes blow
and lava flow
evaporate water
as meteors collide
billions of years ago