Perennial Measure: Locus Standi within Our Sports and Christian News-Saturated Town Troposphere (or, the Battle for “Good News” as Bejesus . . . High Among Post-J. R. Oppenheimer Generations)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Locus Standi within Our Sports and Christian News-Saturated Town Troposphere (or, the Battle for “Good News” as Bejesus . . . High Among Post-J. R. Oppenheimer Generations)

The right to be heard unlike today’s

nerds prejudged on campus by athlet-

icisms and anti-science catechisms is like

a snuffed-out candle in a soundproofed locker

room where the rape of cheerleaders moan, as if

lab silences are not violent enough in apprais-

ing this unsexiness, that boiling malevolence

toward science-hate . . . football players,

Christian youth, etc., prevarications

of this oncoming, sordid truth

—a beaker and tube or steel vacuum

mixing a phantasm, though nobody now

believes in molecular chaos that churn out new

weapons, alloy church beams, your nanotech

helmets, . . . or genetically-modified high-

protein mung beans, among other news,

among many other good/bad news.

May 17, 2007 - August 27, 2009

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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.