{"id":107,"date":"2013-09-16T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:17:05","slug":"the-damned-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"The Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Damned<\/strong><\/p>\n

A quarter-pounder for the Family Guy<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/p>\n

This was a period (.) of pedantry.
\nThis was a period of flippantry
\nwhich came to be remembered lovingly
\nby the membered and dis-membered alike.
\nThey wore post-it notes and khakis, they
\ndrank Red Dog Pi\u00f1a Coladas of the mind
\nwith their lights on and their game on
\nand everything was on! They felt at home
\nbecause they were, at home!<\/p>\n

Evenings, morning and afternoons waxing portentous
\nfor city blocks turned cell blocks, turned to cinders.<\/p>\n

Navigators & Escalades & Cherokees & Hummers
\nJohn Deere hydraulic hammers hummed, lubed-up
\nand ready! Locked & loaded, crossing over one after another,
\nparking and jamming purchasing and partaking of the
\nfirst steamy-hot penetrations of the slab, Gaea,
\nthe Mother of All Inner & Outer Everything!<\/p>\n

II<\/p>\n

They were very fond of saying they
\nenjoyed the Full Driving Experience!
\nAnd what they were told never to forget
\nthey could never quite remember…
\nso they lived in the past with extended
\nwarranties, and cheap credit filled the lands
\nw\/ hedge funds & tasty cherry-slush!<\/p>\n

The lives of the owners were well-insured
\nand many rules and stipulations were made
\nfor those who were deemed to need them
\nby those who didn\u2019t. Some were imprisoned
\nfor trying to get a piece and whatever
\nwent around stayed around
\njust as foul as that!<\/p>\n

III<\/p>\n

While many were out mining
\nthe stores, a Zone was created
\nwhere occasional Stalkers would toss
\ntheir towels, \u2018trembling in tenderness\u2019.
\nBut most were busy by day & busy by night
\ntelling the whole world how busy they were
\nselling art for art\u2019s sake up and down
\nthe rivers.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile more & more poems
\nwere being created that ended with a question
\nmark? Always, an upward lilting<\/em> intonation?
\nas if? they weren\u2019t really… sure?
\nGradually though, form followed no one,
\nfeeding mostly upon function<\/em> dictated
\nby the former which followed itself
\naround, hopelessly.<\/p>\n

\u201cLoose Weight and Gain Space!\u201d
\nwent the advertising. \u201cMight Makes Maybe.\u201d
\nwas the basic ideology, deus ex machina<\/em>
\n\u201cClear and Hold\u201d!<\/p>\n

IV<\/p>\n

Farting in their hot tubs
\nthey were promised heaven
\non the installment plan
\nwith no exit strategy.
\nIt all made good sound sense
\nand sounded good at the time.
\nIt was, as they came to say,
\n\u201cA savings celebration for everyone
\nwho was anyone! A Pay-&-Save
\nRevolution!\u201d<\/p>\n

Their marbles were laced
\nwith magnificent possibilities
\nand their bumpers plastered
\nwith a syntax of bathos: \u201cIf you
\nthink the system is working,\u201d one sucker
\nstuck, \u201cjust ask someone who isn\u2019t
\nand still makes more moolah
\nthan you ever will!\u201d<\/p>\n

V<\/p>\n

Goodness gracious! said Henny-penny, The markets are falling;
\nI must go & tell the King! Oo! cried, Cocky-locky, Goosey-poosey and
\nespecially Foxy-woxy as they went along, higgledy-piggledy,
\nThe dollar is falling, the dollar is falling down!<\/p>\n

And so it went, when
\nit wasn\u2019t all over the place
\nit was all over their face,
\njust as phat & bloody as that!
\nBecause they were pre-approved
\nand pre-determined
\nto get their Burger\u2019s Worth!<\/p>\n

Finally the mouses took leave
\ntheir senses and the screens
\nall went dim sum!<\/p>\n

Lost without their clickers,
\nthey went roaming the floppy
\nstreets and subliminal cul-de-sacs
\nwith unspeakable ennui.<\/p>\n

I saw a dove with radioactive
\nwings and a fish with frog\u2019s legs!
\nA chicken eating range-fed,
\noven-roasted tofu buffalo-chips
\nand an elephant in a duty-free
\nchina shop buying up ivory stock!
\nI saw a man eating his own flesh
\nwith rabid dogs, happy as fleas.
\nCremation is perfect…<\/p>\n

cremation is perfect, said
\nthe poet from behind the counter,
\nFor Thine is the Kingdom and thine
\nis with, extra cheese, Right?<\/p>\n

My bartender came over to
\ntell me it was last call forever,
\nhe was leaving and never returning,
\nnever returning, because…<\/p>\n

This is the way the world ends
\nThis is the way the world ends
\nThis is the way the world ends
\nNot with a bang but a Whopper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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