the unacceptable prejudices – sex/gender,
race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion …
the acceptable prejudices – class, age,
psychic configuration, species …
class,
with capitalism’s caste system a sacred and cracked rigid hierarchy
age,
with youth (bolstered by technology’s edges) the age’s wisdom (countered by the
aging and old primarily by class)
psychic
configuration, with sanity’s definitions tightly controlled by vested power interests
and enforced routinely and often unthinkingly in 10 billion daily conversations
species,
with human supremacy and volitional legitimacy unquestionably built into almost
all humaninhabited structures (and we call ourselves secular!? – this basic
religious idea of unmitigated human entitlement)
as a society taxonomizes and hierarchicizes
its knowledge in variegated configurations of inclusionexclusion, names and
places knowledge’s categories (some silent, invisible, so never named, placed
other than as possible objects of study and hardly forms of discipline, portals
of power) on horizontal and vertical planes, with various established relations
– so it arranges its prejudices. only so much truth can flow through time’s dam
and those of us who live in the dam and sustain it (the living) are challenged
to know other flows … even if other flows are sensed (in dream, suffering, erotic
encounter) what then does one do with them? how to include, live them … when
flows are so regulated and the dam so monumentally omnipresent, it being our
home?
is not mental illness a child, rapture, rupture
of ‘pataphysics? did not jarry portend the creation, stretching, visibility and
naming of madness apart? was he not a
prophet of sanity’s geometries, its languages and battlelines?
la fée verte
sees, teaches, lives.
the west’s present orgy of (certain kinds of)
diversity, identity inclusion, clinamina of voice, this fragmenting (like the
splintering of protestantism following the reformation?) a hallucinogen of
legitimacy … how sustainable? a brief (and already disappearing?) aperture
among endless barbarisms – a wee flourishing before the tedious expected stomping
of the boot and the recurring institutionalization of spirit.
aren’t ennui, madness, chaos, poverty,
loneliness preferable to participating in a will that does not (will not / can
not) trade on my exchange?
back patio of café – a raton laveur appears
on a south rooftop between chimney pipes. everyone takes out their phones and starts
clicking, ahs and oohs and sighs, the clicking and sighing
continuing for many minutes.
each click a
techcuming, a furthering of nature’s oblivion, an increased gram of
instastatus, blood meridian’s judge's zoodream actualizing.
(as usual, i’m watching the watchers … slightly tempted to take
pictures of their taking pictures, imagining someone taking a picture of my taking a picture of their taking pictures … a voyeurism of infinite regress
until, through all things, the raccoon snaps the snappers and the instant stretches into the all …)
jesus panoramica appears briefly from the
grave and meows to me – i’ve been around
since euripides and the only thing i’ve seen humans change are their clothes.
g p-orridge makes d bowie look like miss
manners buying a pleated skirt at saks fifth avenue.
