Perennial Measure: Call Me the Artist Who Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Call Me the Artist Who Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing

I’m late, as ever, but likely will soon see again

her lips, her flattering buses of Biedermeieresque

sycophants, ja?

I’m blasé, as always, populous and closed as Bombay

heavily rained on, flooding my temple with Subhiksha’s

cellophane, hm?

I’d brave it, m’nurse, caress it within infirmaries,

laugh with you, my cant/hubris, you are unperturbed

by debris, haha.

Three hundred girls, Spartans, met me for their mousikē,

told me about a disco where infernos or pseudanthiums

bloom, oh yeah.

I said, bring em on, caress me to heaven and why not?

Insufferable, indomitable, am welterweight enough for

sympathy, oh no!

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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.