Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Freewheeling Planet: Redux

This is a poem I may or may not have posted in its original form. A lot of you may have seen it before, and the first stanza, which is the same as the original draft, has been up here on the collabo piece jojo did for Andrew. Anyway, here's the latest version of the poem:

I’m a freewheeling planet –
Not at all concerned with the gravitational pull of the sun,
It’s just something I never wanted to get caught up in

A rogue needle on turntable -
Not content to follow the grooves pressed in wax,
A song I’d rather sing myself

The untamed tooth of a young child -
Fallen from razing motion of incisors and bicuspids,
Bent on being a tongue to taste, form language and love

A disinterested page –
Not cooperative with the pacing of a strained narrative
Hung on being a yarn spun of its own fibers

Though –

At times,

A lone course of discourse –
Set to be a thought curbed before conversation,
A comment better worn pinned to the vest



A trumpet’s soul-o –
Improvised with no accompaniment by quartet,
A rhythm that is all call and no response

A cable car struck aground –
Fixed into place, figured distinct, a lamp post
No hope for locomotion without conductor

A seed cast aside
Sown outside raised rows of farmer’s plot
Grown but no hope for harvest



Pluto.

3 comments:

pmed87 said...

pretty sweet i def wanna hear that read aloud, all these poems on the commune would sound awesome if read aloud

we really should have a day/night where we all get together and chill at MD's house or somewhere,where we can all sip on some nicely aged Carlo read are poems aloud, sing songs, play music like we've all been talking about for a while now. we can build a fort and call it the Real Art official Commune lol jk and if you dont have poems or anything whatever no biggie smalls we can jsut bring all of our artistic minds together and make art as a collective i say MDs cuz i think it would be cool to record our poems and do some crazy things with them but it is not essential just a thought
but this should def happen

Art Official Prophets said...

Yeah I agree. I think we should do that as well, we've talked about it, and it'd be a nice thing to do. I'm open for it to happen soon.

kt

sootheseyer said...

me too.

pluto.

that's all im gonna say


ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa got em
lets do it SOON you crazy poemosexuals!!!!!!!!!!!