The Threat of Poems

The Threat of Poems

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Poems.  The threat of poems. A literal mind wants literal reality.  It wants language laid down like a perfect grid over the world as it is.  If you give a literal human something else, he suddenly pulls up his horse, jumps off, and runs back in the direction he came from.  He's stage-struck, and not happy at all about his little jaunt in the high country. People say they want to experience what is outside the reality machine, but when you give it to them they object.  'That's not what I meant.'  They actually want something that looks and sounds and feels like ordinary reality.  They want the method and the system of ordinary reality with a few odd tidbits thrown in.  If you move to another arena of harmonics and dissonance, where the interstitial connections radically change---poetry---they balk.  They wanted to go in orbit around the Earth, all the time looking down on it, and you took them to an X frontier on an unfamiliar shore where the moon was moored in the dock.  ~~~ Shivering in the green water, Wriggling in the net of desperate oxygen, Rolling prisoners, Foam falling from their bodies... Summer nights I sat on the front porch with my mother Rhododendrons were thrashed by slow comets of rain These are the letters of my ancient fathers, And these are the letters of the roses Blowing across the rolling apparatus That moves the sun, Shining through old windows On old men. Now they shake off the rime And stagger up from their trench. They form a subconscious moon They enter a sleeping shepherd boy near his flock, To repair the damage of centuries. glittering garbage              of fantastic dream on its way to a factory                             on the antediluvian shores of a breastfed paradise I have no arduous duty in the                 library at Alexandria I'm there to     expose        shatter the vanishing point architecture of eternity

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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.