The raven takes the smallest pieces of forbidden knowledge, confabulating in carnal thesis with claw on bible his dead man’s pledge:
Never More
That life he lived fraught for his liver, and his forsaken gifts, though not forgiven, to speck across his eyes azure like holes straight through his scull’s contour.
Through his head then flies the raven.
Through to the charms long lost, forgotten, the laws engraved on fleeting wind like the hush of secrets ill-spoken.
This talisman is a dream of wealth, This talisman is a dream of murder; Who brought this score of another’s death, as one man’s scream is another’s laughter:
either/or
That he personified animals within his own evil then threaded their feathers back onto the villain; wars wolfed, and vanity vultured into a GI Joe scarecrow, a crucified totem, his stomach, his brain, his culture.
Neither/Nor
He is contained by his own shadow like tintinnabulation in the bell tolled escaping out through the burned over meadow yet vibrating last where his eyes get cold.
He prays and he raves for the blood of Mohammad, for fortune, for frankincense and crude.
He is we is of the morals of the sad history of the self, and the stark raving rude generations that don't give a flying fuck.
Two Art Shows with Painter/Poet KEN BOE: TEAPOT TOTEMS AND POEMS @ THE FIREHOUSE artspace 1015 N 1st Street, DOWNTOWN PHOENIX - Opening Reception 1st Friday, APRIL 3
9PM reading of Ken Boe's epic poem "Tatterdemalion Day Dream"
MIAMI LOCO! Open weekends, 11am to 6pm at MIAMI ART WORKS, 509 Sullivan Street, off highway 60. Miami, Arizona.
CALL 928-273-7679 for an appointment.
(Closing reception is during the Miami Boomtown Spree, April 16, 17, 18, 2009. Miami Loco is a group show of some interesting local artists, and the closing party will be an all out show down. )
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You can check out some of my work and ideas now at The World Art Foundation: DELVE into √
NEXT [D-66] GIG: (i'll be playing with SAM AMANT!!!!!) 25TH MARCH 100 CLUB ROTTEN HILL GANG (MICK JONES OF THE CLASH+FINE YOUNG CRIMINALS MEMBERS !!!!!!!!!