the frock of time

In elementary school we are presented the table of elements. Once Democritus had postulated the atom, it became a logical imperative for those that followed to reduce nature to a fixed set of elements. Some went further and broke the atom down so much so that very little remained except dark space. Democracy, in a twisted but popular neoliberal interpretation, allows us to counter this darkness by postulating the freedom of choice to buy anything. This leads to what is called atomization, a skewed tribute to Democritus.

Slew of tar, bromide in
Anticipation, grime of the

Feather’s hurt: an admonition,
A reckoning of two and a half

Yesterdays; the frock of time
Kindly braying a tick, the

Fish in anticipation, a flower
Demanding the forest to bare.

pejoratively happy

Lines in sand are not etched in stone, though
Give it time, and stone will be sand and lines
Will form – form is not platonic, it is coeval
With time, bursting with each free act digitized
By algorithmic machinations of an irregular
Context-sensitive grammar – grammar is not absence
Of joy but its background, necessarily in opposition
But definitive in structure – structure is not
A given but follows form which seeks joy that sits
Far from the rhetoric of the pejoratively happy.