m./ fiction /
m.m. or (day in the life)
published in Fiction International 42: About Seeing
the size of the horse we're looking for
published in The Toad Suck Review #2 : Obey
the fountain
published in Armageddon Buffet
the second coming/
of Jesus Christ occurred, almost entirely eluding human knowledge, ten years ago. The son of God arrived in Bush Jr.'s oval office. Claimed as U.S. Property and a sign of the country's righteousness, he was promptly incarcerated in a black prison somewhere in Afghanistan where the president called him every night for a bedtime parable and prophecy. Given his limited attention span, Junior almost never made it to the prophecy.
Obama's calls, in contrast, are decidedly one-sided. The president simply makes speeches and asks only for Jesus's applause in return.
from Pity/Pitylessness
of Jesus Christ occurred, almost entirely eluding human knowledge, ten years ago. The son of God arrived in Bush Jr.'s oval office. Claimed as U.S. Property and a sign of the country's righteousness, he was promptly incarcerated in a black prison somewhere in Afghanistan where the president called him every night for a bedtime parable and prophecy. Given his limited attention span, Junior almost never made it to the prophecy.
Obama's calls, in contrast, are decidedly one-sided. The president simply makes speeches and asks only for Jesus's applause in return.
from Pity/Pitylessness
v.
so where is the pity, the pitilessness?
blessed are the hunted and consumed for they will inherit everlasting energy life in expanding belly buddha universe.
*young palestinian rock hurling angel jonah inhabits insides isreal whale palatial intestines. patiently and without tears he awaits digestion thinking thoughts remembering memories: his bulldozed family.
*incarcerated madmen poor homeless bulge belly snake corporation america predator prisons. despair not! my brothers my sisters social rats. refuse (if strength remains) their paper goods linens soaps foods inbred profits. call out your prayers confessions sufferings. st. matthew is but one cell away cradling his flashlight.
*middle east snacks gorged by demented giant america reclined on continent couches falling asleep while watching television planet syndicated destruction death.
*assange manning dissenters terrorists deviants enemy combatants collected in black site prison stomach obama who performs acid white-wash disappearing act u.s. government department of justice.
*sons daughters beloved by bible law maker papa god a god that polices thoughts desires imaginations state senates elementary middle high schools. yes - brothers sisters fanatics - he is everywhere be vigilant minutemen patriot congregation.
* human stew simmering on stove desktop laptop slopped up by facebook entertainment news online commerce. reproduce multiply be plenty! internet web connection america growls grumbles moans is hungry! the speed with which he metabolizes is without match!
yes, dear friend, our brother van gogh is dead by his own hand, but artaud - yes, he has remained at our side - screams: suicided by society!
i assure you and him that dear vincent is still alive (yes, alive!) as graveyard worms grass flowers trees. look here! i fondle his blades inhale his pollens caress his trunks.
behold! he grumbles vibrates we are the same! buddha’s belly universe dissolves our shells containers we are digested become one!
we do not display his paintings but brother vincent himself. yes, i have not misspoken! let his suffering pained body hang crucifixed on our walls.
i, too, lost an animal angel friend stomached in a starved coyote. somewhere in lonely desert america your cat my dog meet as coyotes cacti roadrunners hawks! yes, can you sense their vibrations their continuations? they are friends as we are friends. we are consumed yet consumers. let us all wish one another peace.
[re][in]surrections
*judas iscariot biblical terrorist fulfilling jeremiah prophecy returns coins hangs himself ascends immediately to heaven. heavenly father george bush embraces him awards medal of honor seats him at His left hand. 'bin laden' – he praises – 'through you anything is possible.'
*expecting mother chained to faulty cell tower. humans without signals surround appeal cry at empty air not a cellular device chirps with anticipated activity. young techno prophet ascends the tower promises the humans without signals salvation instructs rituals rites incantations culminating in the introduction of signal-less phone in expecting mother sacrificed uterus. dim light illuminates belly moonless night. prophet mobile vibrates receives transmits fetus call confirming the tower's reactivation gifting the air with cellular signals human rejoice and the voices of the unborn.
*demented wandering giant tramping continents starving gorging. he stumbles falls asleep body prostrate spread limbs crossing invading borders: wet dreams of christian cloud heaven a heaven (contrary to official and collective human knowledge) long ago abandoned by father son and holy ghost saints and angels who - alarmed by protruding giant head - hid flew transported across time warp space for a second genesis beginning creation.
*suicide bombers exploded martyrs propelled upward though jannah door babb ul-jihad joining prophets the pious in firdous paradise. here, in the highest level of islamic heaven, their comfort and every wish granted as they bed with bashful virgins.
*american veterans welcomed to white house banquet by barrack obama president america. procession parade of hands arms legs feet torsos heads pieces of precious humans enter hallowed halls are entertained reassured by senators representatives lawyers lobbyists cabinet as the wait staff provides champagne h’ors derves. the president performs regret gratefulness to the honored dismembered guest limbs fragments sees them out the doors conveys them to homeless post traumatic night america. blessed are the boys men girls women sacrifices.
*navigator of the seas colonial cruise ship ark carrying two three four thousand of every kind of middle upper class imperialist animal arrives through royal caribbean in promised land labadee wooden haitian peninsula as the ground continues to quake. passengers descend "enjoy jet ski rides parasailing rum cocktails delivered to their hammocks" praise heavenly father for not forsaking them shower his spending money blessings on colonized sinner heathens.
a year later and ships continue to crowd the coast. from their private beaches, the pious passengers pray for the suffering natives whilst sipping umbrella-d drinks and envisioning rainbows.
*deepwater horizon oil rig parasite squeezed by human hand clinging milking exploding spilling earth’s insides. our convalescing mother planet begs treatment the use of the open bug bitten vein to inject healing medicines remedies environmental i.v. her human sons daughters insist on maintaining the gaping hole exit where they gather with straws sipping gulping. meanwhile, thousands of sentient creatures perish in the water on the shores while their brother and sister humans feel only for another vein.
* road killed creatures rabbits coyotes crows cats dogs skunks raccoons rising to revenge on freeway california. disfigured dismembered they collect their corpses what remains congregate at on-off ramps roadside shoulders fast through slow lanes. stones gathered traffic signs and cones rearranged. humans abandon texts calls in swerves pile-ups. the creatures visit upon them unspeakable and amusing violences.
