Out of Darkness

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10 New Poems

On flatness and more

Jake Giddens
Jun 9
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RELIGION IS RE-LEISON

Redirecting wounds of shame
Till everyone’s maimed
all the same


PACT

This world
is flat
I’m uneven
You’re odd

Let’s make
a pact
We’ll be
pointy prods


SAVING FACE

A curious little man
his big image disgraced
Jumps on a grenade
to save his fair face


THE FRIEND

the one crazy friend
gives you something the matter
fizzes up your life
keeps from going the flatter


TRANSHUMAN ASPIRATIONS

Aspire to be presentable
Aspire to no flaws
Aspire to be plastic
Be no human at’all

Aspire to be seen
Aspire to be herd
Aspire to be “real”
In the the dig-it-all world

Aspire to be magic
Aspire to be more
Aspire to be you
With a purchase from the store

Aspire to be a-lie-ve
Aspire to never die
Aspire to the heavens
Through the needle’s eye

Aspire to a cloud
Aspire to a chip
Aspire, never leave
virtue-all citizenship


JESUS 2022

Jesus Christ without a disciple
King of Kindness without a kind
They diagnosed him schizotypal
putting down his uncrowned mind

Born unto a piloted kingdom
butterflies flew to suicide
His fiery spirit tore Judas undone
mocked and jeered and crucified


TO MY RED TABBY CAT

Sweetie
I love you so much
Please
don’t bite my face


NEW DAY

Gone are the days
of the May Sun
These are the days
of the June

Pray shall we take
their old ways, son
and burn them
’neath the twinning moon


HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

Spinning off into the stars
won’t take you to the Higher View
Remember, you, to look back down
At who is looking down on you

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