Opposable Birdsong

Opposable Birdsong


Opposable birdsong flitters through
red overhanging mediocre religious icons
Mental osmosis of unwanted ideals
tossed out beaten
into windy rain chilled summer evenings
till moon glow sets afire smoldering ropes of sacrifice
Courtyard slaughter and crying children wander barefoot,
toes cold
dirty faced
through Edenic paradise
Bitter breakfast meals by time
throngs of graspers nestle to slumber
in spreading hellish fields
consistency like mustard-bitten nomadic peacetalks
Prayers for revelation to the divine authority
Instinctual messages in a smelly carpet outhouse,
perched on wisdom, built by beckoning uncles
who all run scared or scarred everyday home
to fill the mouth with fat-smeared foam
bought in bundles
by the bag
packed in cars
migrating on cement rivers
which smother Mother Earth
Whose the one?
They've seen his face!
They beg for merciful lemming death
everytime the gas is pumped
Everytime the hearth is humped
a new child creature
is ignobly tossed priceless playtime junk
So when the chime tolls out this tune
we end of old surrender
meet on a waste-strewn dune
and remember
and ... re...member...

JMJ/1982