Twas in the days of the dishwasher. When they were high and lifted up and mighty
as a wigwam. In the days of the
dishwasher. Full of cockatoos and
syllables of the gloaming. Oh, in the
days when seraphim sodomized god and Isaiah wrote his euphemisms on his chariot
of clouds. Things were scrubby then, and
golden, in the days.
I entered the cathedral of wishy-washy song, without
entrance ticket, mapless, hov’ring on myself, not inattuned to the squeaks and
wooshes of the pot and pan. (Pan’s pot.
Good stuff. Organic shit. The original.)
Awed by the organ of knives and spooning, quivered by the crypt of
thighs to come, recurring dust and slaughter, suds & laughter, little
jetsams of our days.
It was then i saw the onset of the words, those circly
things, replete with themselves, and dirty, dirty as disease. I saw the futility of the window-cleaner,
muttering his mutters in the horny heavens, firmament of muhammad and the condos
(good band name), his bud lite mane whipping in the wind, eyes free and barred
from all that petty privilege, 57th floor and nowhere, like an
amulet dangling from god’s ass. The
trees are grand, i’ve been told, and been there too, once upon a time.
Words are filthy monads, scrubbing, scrubbing, all that
other filth. (Like billiard balls
sortof.) What are we to do, i asked a word (which i had spent a lot for); it
bit my nose & burst. I was once a
window-washer, wiping off the tears of god from human souls which we know are
made of glass. Inside—when i could see (rarely,
blindly: god’s tears are thick,
relentless, my vision’s rather faulty)—i saw (i thought i saw) undressing,
stretching, dissolving, copulating, semantic orgies undoing all and us for we
are a bit of the all though all we mostly see is us as all or worse this me as
all and that is that but not this and once upon an aum.
The dishwasher now of course is just another utility. Like hydro or eco dry cleaning or the
worldwideinterweb. What the fuck. Get a dishwasher. Get 3 or 4.
4 for 3 or 3 for 4. Give em away,
like usbkeys. To your mama, your
girlorboyfriend, your bossywossy (though heorshe already has 2 or 3). Stick your pansies in them. And your cat.
And your girlorboyfriend, bossywossy, yourselfwhileyoureatit, and the
amazonwhynot. The world’s a dishwasher
and all its minions dishes, we are being scrubbed my friends my friends, like
itunes and iching and tickytocks ticyfocks talkytics falkytucks &
twas in the days of the dishwasher that i saw the
dishwasher, it defeating words and everything not dirty but scrubbyclean scrubbyclean
scrubbyclean again and time made new, the songs and the cathedrals having fallen
down to dust and the windowwasher gone home to his little flat and his tv and
his onanisms and himself or selves and that is time and that is time and that
is time and this
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