The Swimmer And She Who Knows

Furlong deep in dog mercury cuckoo florid earth, 
orange tipped, the swimmer, smeared in dolphin grease, 
burrows, scrabbled & scratch-scraped, down 
down down
gulps fairway breaths, rutted, 
the imperious, impervious sopping air/ downwards, 
aching against, seminal gravity of light, dense photons 
of ultraviolet infrared x-ray gamma-ed (the stigma skin, 
less interesting visually than, say, a Grunewald)/ down 
against the cuckolded calling of primary, secondary, 
tertiary urgency 

this not cut, cut up, uppercut, 
a stranded dream

breeding false springs, limbs frost riveted to frozen mass/ 
the swimmer sinking down into darkness/ 
the man on the radio watching out for swallows, 
tit willow, tit willow, the weather diabolical/ 
thunder, lightning, hail/ down into the darkness of dank roots 
and wild rubbish/ raking among the detritus of forgotten dreams… 

and there, he goes relentlessly following her, everywhere she goes; 
and I thought we were going to see them mating.  

“Oh, I remember fucking 
in the mad midnight winter wheat fields 
when I was animal soul, type-writer body, 
she was water wheels to my stormy petrol, 
and in coitus, 
we procreated electric rainbow voodoo children, 
cast stratocaster shadows 
in the frost of migrant bird workers”.

Down into the stinking earth 
where delirious demons mardi-gras parade, fat Tuesday caskets 
of pandora miseries/ these soul eggs, cracked 
in beelzebub’s fistular claws/ 
Eostra promising awakenings 
with Christ fasted scientific destructions/ 
and God is lurking round your bed, like a shadow, 
like a thief in the night.

Thrusting through grasping theistic fingers/ 
sympathy laughing mythological, alcoholic 
through mouth-hands, electro-microscopic tentacles 
of uncomfortable tradition.  

“Is the world a totality of facts?”  
Tautologists stare wide through lightless void… 
and if God is dead, all sorts of things could be going on.

	Hey, hey, hey, let us look for signs and wonders 
in the thunder, miracles in the cracks between the worlds.  
Cut up this course now…

miracles are science naturally forgiving, 
Will Burroughs and Aldous Huxley in narcotic conflict, 
they enable you to heal the nightmare of atonement, 
imposing a framework of intelligibility, 
a religious impulse in the brain that intrigues 
& creation of light is real, unreal, real this world 
of information, of growth… and putting our brains 
out on the table, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference/ 
let us blunder through our lives then with a virtual expression 
of love/ find ourselves sympathetic to an acceleration 
of divine impossibility/ the awesome advances 
of new technologies/ the arch-angel 
of silicon based intelligence/ unashamedly millenarian-Aryan/ 
the drug-taking human mind… 
and the unresolved question 
of whether everything will shut down 
come the tic toc flop into the year two thousand.

I may consider selling my brain/ 
now that I have been superseded by my computer

And in this crack between the worlds 
there are no seamless existentialists/ 
La Que Sabe leaves a trail of bones/ 
running with the wolves now/ she whispers stories… 
and you should listen well, for this crone shadow 
is she who knows.

Expressing uncertainty, creeping through the valley, 
a possible victim, the wolf - a common or garden intellectual - 
fixes an unreal world in the appropriated arts.  
Shamanic & chilled, the quantum multiple-world 
anally monopolises imagination.  
In and out of belief, the woman constructs 
the shiny and bleak details of his world… 
black menses of earth/ he suffocates/ 
not waving, the swimmer/ computing 
the madness of drowning/ a fragile thread of hieroglyphs/ 
perishing in the thin floodlight of moonlight/ 
he bides down in striations of saturated soil/ 
La Que Sabe laughing a trail of bones through bloodless ears.  
He corpses on stage/ sinks down into ambiguous nothingness/ 
a fine spiral of voice, heard only in the hollows of sleeping hours.

I remember fucking her in the mad midnight winter of diplomacy: 
her foreign office ransacked by floodwaters of union. 

He dreams of referenda, drowning in the totalitarian soil 
of her wisdom.  Her electrical discharges, enlightening 
the shadowed cracks between the worlds.  
He urges his smallfart plebs onto the streets to raise revolution 
and plead for the continuance of darkness, 
rallies them with sectarian sentiment.  
La Que Sabe laughs a trail of bones 
through the idiocy of their leeched blood/ rapes his bunged ears 
with the vaginissimus of her inevitability.  Scalding all tongues 
on stolen waters.  There can be no sweetness 
in the swimming drowning not waving 
of initiating patriarch penis wielding God.  
Oh jealous, jealous, jealous, the infant shielding his scrotum/ 
brass welded to the cold nothing of control.  
The swimmer breathing filaments of earth into starving lungs.  
La Que Sabe waves her breasts in apocalyptic zeal/ 
the swimmer squeals, clutches the oakwood-iron cross 
to his lacerated, sobbing chest.