Perennial Measure: Importing Quiet Manly Ceremonies for a Useful Idiot’s Crucifixion

Monday, August 17, 2009

Importing Quiet Manly Ceremonies for a Useful Idiot’s Crucifixion

The samovar’s fabulousness has come to town.

Similarly, sweetness. Fake religion. Or hypocrisy.

But I’ve no complaints, am merely stashing deviations

On everyone’s take on the popular—i.e., I take pleasure

In defending the not-so-obvious, those murdering antlers

Of my dear grandmothers’ passion for intelligent gossip,

Its metal untarnished through weeks. I am, married, ergo

Fun-loving, nonchalantly lugubrious in tasting the fruits

Of chemistries on TV. Care for vodka with spy women?

Care for sun, or matutinal moon drops on the erstwhile

Beaches of WWII? Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. You are so

Right, I am just carousing. But is that not better than

Loudly boasting, nursing a cantankerous glee on our

Night of departures, our silent nature being killing?

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About "Perennial Measure," the first blogged poetry volume on this site:

On the seventh day in the writing of this collection, or perhaps already subconsciously during the making of that first poem, it became clear that this series, Perennial Measure (the volume), shall be about the practice of poetry and art. Having laid that assumption down, trying to follow that course, however, I saw that I was able to move later to the creation of pieces on various other themes, as if I was trying to present to my reader those various themes and issues that confront a poet in his life and everyday world, qua poet. But, so as not to veer too far away from my central theme, the series would interrupt that straying again to make me go back to pieces strictly on poetry or art. And that push and pull from the central theme went on to the end of the volume project (which targeted 56 pieces or 56 printed book pages worth). So, approach this collection thus, then, should it please you, and consider reading the last poem, "Perennial Failure," against the first one, "Perennial Measure." Otherwise, you can just approach the section or volume or book how you would rather, as maybe you should. Here is Perennial Measure, the blogged poetry book within this eponymously titled Perennial Measure blogged literary creations site.