Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Awful Bog
That the U.S. president's speech
has declined into bits of blather,
a handful of flaccid bigoted prods,
and droplets of rancid smarm
sharply summarizes the state
of the nation's health. He is where
he should not be because our sense
and sensibilities continue sunk
in an awful bog.
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has declined into bits of blather,
a handful of flaccid bigoted prods,
and droplets of rancid smarm
sharply summarizes the state
of the nation's health. He is where
he should not be because our sense
and sensibilities continue sunk
in an awful bog.
hans ostrom 2017
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Monday, October 9, 2017
Italian Coffee Pot
Caffeine priest in a silver
cassock. Octagonal alchemist.
Silver bird gargling dark steam.
It is in the pantheon of small,
essential pots that lead us
kindly into our daily labors.
It is the beloved mayor of the
stove. It is a three-part harmony
of form and function.
hans ostrom 2017
cassock. Octagonal alchemist.
Silver bird gargling dark steam.
It is in the pantheon of small,
essential pots that lead us
kindly into our daily labors.
It is the beloved mayor of the
stove. It is a three-part harmony
of form and function.
hans ostrom 2017
About Last Week
The old days--last week: hard not
to yearn for them, their billions
of images and messages from robots
that made them so special.
And that's not to mention
all the official depravities
pursued worldwide. And it's a
piquant era in America.
The noxious gas that fills
the nation's balloon president
leaked out and anointed the hate-
filled land. The White people
in power who can stand
between his madness and
catastrophic destruction did
not, do not. What a time it was!
hans ostrom 2017
to yearn for them, their billions
of images and messages from robots
that made them so special.
And that's not to mention
all the official depravities
pursued worldwide. And it's a
piquant era in America.
The noxious gas that fills
the nation's balloon president
leaked out and anointed the hate-
filled land. The White people
in power who can stand
between his madness and
catastrophic destruction did
not, do not. What a time it was!
hans ostrom 2017
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Centri-Fugue
Mind's centrifuge spins in self-defense.
Attempts to spare the core from engulfment
by noise shocks sales extortions hate;
and drowning by social media. Centrifuge
plays a centrifugue, its own idio-
synchronized music, which insulates,
and which also helps mind evade ego,
culture's target. A not-you seems
to glide in the fugue. Glowing
multi-colored rain falls. "Starwater,"
it's called by locals, although
there is no locality. The fogged
not-you folds itself into an unbounded
flow of other disengaged personas.
Soon sadly your non-self hears a noise,
recognizes it as name, and everything's
recalled, ego re-established. The
spinning and its spun music cease.
Your tense sense of the world resumes.
Out of digital Hades comes the flood again.
hans ostrom 2017
Attempts to spare the core from engulfment
by noise shocks sales extortions hate;
and drowning by social media. Centrifuge
plays a centrifugue, its own idio-
synchronized music, which insulates,
and which also helps mind evade ego,
culture's target. A not-you seems
to glide in the fugue. Glowing
multi-colored rain falls. "Starwater,"
it's called by locals, although
there is no locality. The fogged
not-you folds itself into an unbounded
flow of other disengaged personas.
Soon sadly your non-self hears a noise,
recognizes it as name, and everything's
recalled, ego re-established. The
spinning and its spun music cease.
Your tense sense of the world resumes.
Out of digital Hades comes the flood again.
hans ostrom 2017
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Creature Brains
Creature brains feature
lanes nature grooved
as species moved into
spaces over time with
their accidental
adaptations.
Hans Ostrom 2017
lanes nature grooved
as species moved into
spaces over time with
their accidental
adaptations.
Hans Ostrom 2017
Phantom Blues
I have the phantom blues.
I'm too tired to be blue.
This is what phantoms do.
They only almost have the blues.
Maybe I'll get some rest
so I can get depressed.
Yes, that's it. I need to
feel better to feel worse.
Maybe I am a phantom.
I hadn't thought of that.
Just an old weary ghost
with an invisible hat.
Hans Ostrom 2017
I'm too tired to be blue.
This is what phantoms do.
They only almost have the blues.
Maybe I'll get some rest
so I can get depressed.
Yes, that's it. I need to
feel better to feel worse.
Maybe I am a phantom.
I hadn't thought of that.
Just an old weary ghost
with an invisible hat.
Hans Ostrom 2017
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