a few pictures, a couple of poems
3/21/2025, and a nod to GNOD
to save the world Con/Jur/d, 3/21/2025 Would you be born to save the world? give up red meat, eat only carrots and cabbage? learn English? learn Russian? learn Cantonese, German, Japanese, and Mandarin? would you unlearn hate or simply kill the hated? would you kill your firstborn? murder god? (to save the world) would you hang? put the noose or the bayonet around/through someone else’s neck? Would you complain the new boot on your neck wasn’t as shiny as nice, as modern, as the one constricting your breath and your speech before? will you simply complain to save the world? (it hasn’t worked before but we keep trying it over and over) will the current collapse always be someone else's fault? would you learn grammar, spell work to save the world? does your failure to monetize everything fall short of your desire to save, to save the world? can you give up saving to save the world? could, could you put an ideology before the bodies of babies, conscripts and civilians would you destroy a Picasso a Lockheed Martin a Van Gough a Stonehenge a People? a wall? a car dealership? (you won’t even give up your car) not even a fly? how about a mountain? Could you destroy the planet to save a world? WHAT WORLD ARE YOU SAVING? We argued on the nature the nature of the sound, mistaken motivation, croak, caw, honk a morning we could barely speak, we could not effectively sing bird songs nor get the accents right -- goose or crow -- and we wouldn’t let it go he said, STOP making it such a big deal it’s not the end of the WORLD.
UNMASKED Con/Jur/d, 3/19/2025 “Write what you know,” THEY LIED and we listened so we stopped and lived until the living, undid And later, when we came BACK we understood THE TRUTH you did it wrong, unless you wanted to live an interesting life, the exact one you have (did you? did you?) consider doing it another (er) WAY, they didn’t tell you WORDS have SECRETS, read and write and listen and speak as if (as if) snorkeling in an ALIEN S.E..A… YOU don’t know what's shark or what’s seafood floating here (l an GU a ge) language suspended in this soupy silence filled with plankton, stray rays of sunlight RAYS of barbed tails, mouths AGAPE between the ANDS and THES and ISES and BES and ITS seaweed caresses like NECK BREAST CURVE KISSES bubbles bubble electricity travels UP and DOWN spine BE IT air BE IT water BE IT ground BE IT here BE IT there BE IT YOU what IS this? WORDLESS the world becomes UNMASKED
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 3/21/2025
THE NEW GNOD ALBUM IS F#^*ing GOOD