PRESSURE PRESS ARCHIVE

JOE'S SUICIDE

rattling in my living-room livid off a whole
bottle of cheap rum, an intoxicated multi-belled bull

frenetically yelling about current events & assholes,
what the bottom line REALLY is. i, myself, enjoy

the fate of my perceptions, my swirling in a swirling
world.

mankind is cows. a man is lucky he breathes another
breath of this mutated air, whether he laughs or

drinks or sits in a grave-yard mumbling or freezing
like a particular headstone, jesus is dead most the

human race is dead, dinosaurs are dead, what rules
tribal consciousness, murder & the tiny final feather

of breath ascends a foot or so, collapses, sucked into
cement. & then we have a president & a government

that will NEVER accept real revolution, as if such a
change cld even occur amidst all the money & bottom-line

conspiracies. manufacture our paranoia, poison
earth's birds. feed joe gallons of daily booze

because he reads the daily paper, works night-shift
in a hell-hole in 90's america.

mankind is insane apes, too much brain
modification & ingestion, too much brain

invents more than fire wants, insidious wheels
flapping like preserved skins of alligators or

moray eels, too many neurons splashing into
dark primal pools of language: a goat

digresses a couple hundred thousand years
& talks like a mongoloid crow in a lush

tree. it's saying what the fuck is there
to do now. the sun's a new egg & a woolly mammoth

wants to eat it, tries. a groomed congressman
sends all the mailboxes a newsletter. joe is more

that woolly mammoth, polish heritage, smashed to a
point he'd kill & forget, he'd try & not remember

he tried before
but things are very allusive to correctly devour

all the liquor in the city,
all the death he has.