Loki and the Care Bears |
1. the Planet
it was determined
that I had died for seven minutes
and twenty four seconds
(from a compromised rig;
dissident splatter sweet register
off the wall,
workin’ day and night)
afterward,
remind me who we are
without the breathing acquisition of perforated
postcard memories titled “Conversations with Charon;”
being a turtle
on the Bifrost sea
floating spatial drift
succumbing to inevitability
black hole lexicon
at the end of this spectrum
found under the guise
of a red dwarf
burning brilliant in the sky.
Scavenging an unfamiliar sphere
led by faceless carrion
twelve billion years old; (the white face
of reconciliation
is the same
naked
as
naked
anywhere)
clearing a path
through the mulch
of a smoldering scourge
feet sinking
inside the ashes of the cognitive theorist
on the banks of another Ganges
tar pit
orbited by two moons;
one orange
the other purple.
2. the War
it was determined
that every one hundred and twenty three years
the fighting would wage between good and evil
for exactly seventy seven years
then cease;
Loki would return to the orange moon
to occupy himself shifting between a fly
in heat and an infertile mare
while he prepared for Ragnarok
by smiting a shield that bears
a crest that reads, “the Eiron
of Calamity cowers to none,”
save the haunting hiss of the serpent
overhead whose poison pains
to the point of rehearsing “Political
Science” by Randy Newman
(let’s drop the big one, see what happens)
fleeing to the garage
for two liters of mountain spring water
and a knapsack
filled with dried mangos, apricots, cherries, and kiwis
and mustard seeds
and Elvish lembas
and a scroll of spells
on deception and trickery
wrapped around a letter from mother
that reads:
Loki,
we are all the student
we are all the teacher
the wise one recognizes this
and is ready to take on either role
love,
Laufey
and
the Care Bears would return to the purple moon
lamenting the loss of the Kingdom
of Caring and the Forest
of Feeling while the fallen brethren
of the original ten
who once protected Care-
A-Lot from Professor Coldheart
and his backward idea to commission the Jumpsuit
Boys to slay the Vivian
Girls by slicing their necks
on every third Sunday
while the petticoat dykes
fight against the queer
exclusion from the cultural parade
in Little Saigon;
(because the caring meter
has tipped dangerously close to thunder
storm)
while on the edge of things
staring out across the broken bridge
Wish Bear has gone mad
stammering over and over again,
“Ha,
Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow!”
and Share Bear
thinks to himself
while the dead are sent to burn at sea,
[my heroes walk the streets
wearing clothes just like me].
3. the End
(always seeping nearer
and nearer)
it was determined
that at the end of the forty eighth
cycle of the war
between Loki and the Care Bears
the fighting would be stopped once
it was agreed upon which was better between:
Iron and Wine and Nick Drake
Gza and U-God
Basquiat and Warhol
Rand and Proust
Sartre and Kierkegaard
Nietzsche and Paul
and
okra and fennel
so the bridge could be rebuilt.
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