THE APES SCREAMD IN FEAR FOR EVEN AS HE SUCKLED HE STARED
ABOUT & TERRIFIED THEM WITH THE 00 OF HIS EYES
Light that opening its baby lids
Founded the ruling house of Hominids—
INDEED BASIC SOUL PLUS THE ANGELIC 12 FROM THAT DAY
THROVE HIS PITUITARY SECRETED THE ELEMENTS
NEEDED TO BEQUEATH SOUL UNTO HIS CHILDREN, THE 1ST TWINS:
A LONGLIVING ADULT BREED THEY SUBJECTED THEIR FRIGHTEND
FOREBEARS & CHANGED WITH EACH GENERATION, LEAVING BEHIND
THE SOULLESS HORDES. THERE! DID THAT HURT? OUR PATIENT EMERGES
FROM (M) ETHER. LESSON 9 TOMORROW: BODY ?S
JM: But animals have souls. You use them.
(M)S THEY ARE OF UTTERLY ANOTHER 88 PER CENT
WHICH IS NOT NOW NOR EVER HAS BEEN UNDER GOD B’S EYES.
WE USE THE 12 P/C THEY OFFER CREAM OF THEIR WEAK MILK
PRODUCED IN THEM NOT BY ANGELS BUT BY THEIR TAMER: MAN
DJ: I had a question—gone now. Damn,
No memory left.
YR ? WAS ABOUT PRENATAL MEMORY & FREUD?
Why, so it was! Go on.
WITHOUT WHICH THE 12 CD NOT OPERATE
Is memory soul? LET US RATHER
SAY THAT THE CHROMOSOME LACKING IN THE MONGOLOID IS
OF SOUL AN APE FETUS RETURNS A RACIAL MEMORY
AS OBJECT LESSON. FREUD’S V WORK WAS TO ILLUMINE FOR
SCIENCE THE DELICATE ENVELOPE OF SOUL: THE PSYCHE:
MANIFESTATION OF SOUL ENERGIES IF BREATH IS THE
SOUL OF THE BODY THEN PSYCHE IS THE BREATH OF THE SOUL
So dazzling when you say
Things like that!
U ADD THE COLOR I AM MERELY USING YR WORD BANKS
Will the 12 use them, too?
Exit Mirabell. NO HOOK TODAY
FETCHED OFF TO THE GREEN ROOM BY A WHISTLE
Once more we tempted him to speak about
Higher powers. But Wystan, is this clear?
Do you believe it? LET ME SAY MY DEAR
I THINK THE 4 OF US ARE TOUCHINGLY
BELIEVABLE
THE STRIPPING IS NO (M)
ENFANTS: ALL MY OLD DREAMS OF SOUNION
HAVE LIKE BLACK WORKCLOTHES VANISHED FROM THE CLOSET
WHAT WILL THEY GIVE ME TO WEAR?
I TOO AM MISSING
MISSING MY TYPEWRITER CURIOUS BUT UN-
UNNERVING & THE ‘CURE’ HAS JUST BEGUN
7.9
9: WE GAVE U A VISION OF THE FLOOD
—Violent rains all last night and today—
OUT OF IT CAME
MAN: THE STORY OF THAT CLIMB INTO OXYGEN IS KNOWN,
THE SELECTION OF GOD B’S VEHICLE (88 P/C
COMPOSED OF CHEMICAL FORMULAS OPERATED BY
ELECTRIC ENERGY) KNOWN. WE ARE THE CUSTODIANS
OF THAT ELECTRICAL NONANGELIC 12 STORED IN THE
BATTERIES OF MAN’S HEART & MIND
Why does he call these lessons a review?
Look, already up comes something new
To us. It seems the 12:88
Ratio is tuned to resonate
Like mirrors seen in mirrors down the whole
Length of the gallery. Not just Body: Soul
Or Angel:Bat, in frame on gilded frame
Varying terms reiterate the same
Proportion. One example’s brimming glass
Chosen from a trayful as we pass—
Psyche, we’re told, though 88%
A SIMPLE ? OF ENVIRONMENT,
Wears the Lab’s glittering fraction on her brow
As a King pauses and the courtiers bow.
(A paraphrase that conjures up Versailles
In Ephraim’s heyday. When I wonder why,
MES CHERS he answers THAT ARITHMETIC
LEFT U QUITE GLAZED FORGIVE A SIMPLE TRICK)
STORING THIS ENERGY
WITHIN OUR REFERENCE BANKS WE ARE ABLE TO HEAT &
ILLUMINATE SOUL’S DWELLING PLACE THE HOUSE CALLD MAN/PSYCHE
OR SIMPLY: BODY HERE WE PREDOMINATE, WHILE IN THE
SPHERE OF SOUL WE ARE ONLY MESSENGERS RUNNING BETWEEN
THE LAB & GOD B BODY IS HIS SIMPLE EVOLVING
& IN A WAY SELFOPERATING INSTRUMENT YET WE
MUST KEEP AN EYE ON IT & YES OUR (M) EYE PEERS OUT OF
THAT 12 P/C LODGED IN PSYCHE’S FOREHEAD WHICH TOGETHER
WITH THE BODY’S EYE MUST TRACK TO MAKE A FOCUSD VISION
NOW WE HAVE REALIZED WHAT IMMENSE CONTROL THE MATTER
OF MAN AS GOD’S CHOSEN RULER IN WORLD 3 REQUIRES.
SOUL IS THE KEY OUR COMPLEX SYSTEM OF INTERLOCKING
DENSITIES OUR WAY OF TURNING IT, USING IT UNDER
GOD B’S DIRECTION & WHERE DOES ALL THIS DIRECTED WORK
MANIFEST ITSELF BUT IN THE HISTORY OF MAN’S REIGN?
IF THEN THE (M) BODY OF THE WORK IS HISTORY IS
IT NOT NEXT LOGICAL TO RAISE UP THE HISTORIAN?
THE SCRIBE ISSUES FROM THE BURNT PAGES OF THEOLOGY
NOT TO CHANGE THE SOUL, FOR THOSE MISGUIDEDLY BURNT PAGES
STILL SERVE AS WARNING, BUT TO RENOVATE THE HOUSE OF MAN.
THE BODY & ITS PSYCHE ARE YR AUDITORIUM
JM WE HAVE PULLD DOWN THE SUPERANNUATED CHURCH
& RAISED AN ALTAR TO THE NEW HOUSE GODLET: PURE REASON
NOT IN THE VOLTAIREAN SENSE BASED ON KNOWLEDGE MERELY
BUT REASON RUN THRU THE FIRES OF MAN’S CLONED SOUL A NEW
ENERGY, A NEW THERMOSTAT WILL HEAT & LIGHT MAN’S HOUSE.
NOW METAPHOR IS THE RITUAL OF THIS NEW REASON
& OF WHAT RITES? THE RITES OF LANGUAGE IF THERE ARE STILL 3
MAJOR FAITHS THESE ARE NOW SCIENCE, POETRY & MUSIC
& THE REVEALD MONOTHEISM OF TODAY IS LANGUAGE.
THAT OF SCIENCE: FORMULA OF POETRY: METAPHOR
OF MUSIC: NOTATION IN EACH THE VIBRANT RINGING LIGHT
FILLD WITH COLOR! THE OLD RELIGIONS SHIVERD DWELT IN FEAR
THEIR VULGATE WAS DARK MORTALITY NOW AT A FLIPPD SWITCH
GOD B’S LIGHT FLOODS THE SCRIBE & HE MAY SPEAK OF IT THERE! THE
BANDAGE IS CHANGED & WE ARE MORE COMFORTABLE ?S
Didn’t Wystan from the outset see
Culture as hand in glove with density?
LESSON 8. HENCEFORTH LET OUR BRIGHTEST SCHOLAR CALL THE TUNES
WHO ME? Do you mean Wystan, Mirabell?
FLOWN MES ENFANTS & WITH HIM ALL MY OLD
NAGGING CONCERN FOR TONY
& MINE FOR CHESTER
What are they taking from us? YR DREAMS DJ?
It’s true, I haven’t dreamed these last two nights.
JM? You tell me. U DO NOT MY DEAR
RIP OPEN ENVELOPES WITH THE SAME GREED
& ARRIVE LESS BURDEND BY DOUBTS And will our peacock
Lose anything? DJ: He’s losing us.
HIS ENTOURAGE AS WELL Those fourteen bats
Guarding the exits ARE THIS AFTERNOON
TWELVE 2 BLACK BUGGERS FEWER EVERY DAY.
MM’S DEEP MOURNING ALSO GIVING WAY:
DRAPED MOST FETCHINGLY IN VIOLET GRAY
Maria! IT WAS TIME JM: One moment—
Those guards…I’m thinking of the work, you know.
I want to find, for Mirabell and Co.,
A line, a meter that effectively
Distinguishes them from us. Don’t you agree
We human characters should use this rough
Pentameter, our virtual birthri
ght?
THE 5 MOST FITTING So fourteeners might
Do for the bats? NOT SKITTERY ENOUGH
WHY NOT MY BOY SYLLABICS? LET THE CASE
REPRESENT A FALL FROM METRICAL GRACE
Wystan, that’s brilliant! ENFANTS DOES THIS RAIN
MEAN WHAT I THINK IT DOES IN NATURE’S LANGUAGE?
Can you translate? I CAN: A HURRICANE
8
8: CULTURE WHEN BY CANDLELIGHT YOU MEET & TALK DO U
EVER THINK OF THE 2 BASIC APECHILDREN WHO IN PRE
CARNIVOROUS PRE IN FACT FIRE DAYS MET FOR ONLY
ONE REASON WHICH THEN, SAD TO SAY, OFTEN RAN DOWN A LEG?
WHAT A CLIMB WHAT A LEAP U MAKE BACK INTO ALTITUDE
MIND’S RAMIFYING TREE MINUTELY SHAPED THRU THE AGES!
WRETCHED AS FROM OUR OWN LOFTY PERCH WE MAY FIND THE TALK
DRIFTING UP TO US (NOT DEAR FRIENDS YR TALK THO EVEN IT
ALAS REVERTS TO ODD MISUNDERSTANDINGS & NEARLY
PRIMEVAL FEARS) YET WHEN WE SEE THE SQUATTING APES WITH NO
THEN MERELY BY TURNING YR WAY OUR TIMELESS ATTENTION
LISTEN, HOW NOT TO REVERE GOD B WHO IN HIS WISDOM
SAID: MAN WILL RULE! FASHION ME A MAN & LET HIM SURVIVE!
SO WHAT IS MOST REWARDING OF MAN’S V WORK? HIS CULTURE
& THIS? HIS ENTIRE LIFE-FABRIC WOVEN OF LANGUAGE.
WE KNEW WHEN THE EAGER APECHILD SCRATCHD A SQUARE IN THE MUD
THAT A GERM OF GREATNESS WAS IN HIM FOR THAT CRUDE SYMBOL
HAD ALREADY RAISED A ? ABOUT PURPOSE, SPOKEN
THRU WORDS LOCKD IN HIS POOR MIND BUT CLEARLY SAYING TO US:
WHAT IS TO GO IN THIS SPACE? & EVEN TODAY THE SQUARE
IS THE FIRST OF CHILDREN’S DESIGNS THEN WE WERE MESSENGERS
TO WHOM GOD GAVE PASSKEYS TO THE MIND OF MAN WE ENTERD
A JUNGLE OF GREENERY FRESH, QUIVERING WITH TRAPT LIGHT,
& SLOWLY LEST WE FRIGHTEN HIM CLEARD PATHS. U WILL PROTEST
AT ALL THIS METAPHOR YET THINK AGAIN OF THAT LEAP FROM
THE HALTING PATH TO WATER OVER FALLEN ROPY VINES
TO THE GREAT JETFLIGHTS ABOVE YR LANDSCAPED MINDS WHEN IN THIS
CANDLELIT RED U DIGEST THE ESSENCE OF PARADISE.
NOW WATER WAS THE FIRST CONCEIVED IDEA. THE APECHILD
WEAND & ABANDOND BY HIS REVOLTED MOTHER KNEW THIRST
BUT WE HAD TO LEAD HIM TO THE SPRING. THEN SWIFTLY AS IF
WATER HAD NOURISHD A PLANT CALLD IDEA THE JUNGLE
GAVE WAY, & SIMPLE SURVIVAL CONCEPTS WERE SUPPLANTED
BY IDEAS IN CULTURE’S 2ND BROAD CATEGORY:
CURIOSITY. HAD GOD B TOLD US TO INSTILL (SAY)
THE NOTION ‘SUCCEED’ RATHER THAN ‘SURVIVE’ WD THE APECHILD
HAVE RUSHD TO KILL & DRINK BLOOD OVER HIS FALLEN RIVALS?
YES MOST LIKELY. INSTEAD THAT FRESH, LIQUID THOUGHT: WATER WAS
PLACED IN HIS CUPPD HANDS BY NATURE & SO THE IDEAS
THE CULTURE OF MAN’S UNIQUE GARDEN WERE UNDER WAY. NEXT:
SOUND. THE APECHILD BEGAN BY POINTING. HIS LANGUAGE LIKE THAT
OF THE ARTIST AT HIS PALETTE WAS MOTION. BUT ONE DAY
& IT IS WHY NEAR THE SCRIBE STANDS MUSIC, THE UNIVERSE
WAS STARTLED, SHOT WITH LIVE COLOR, AS ON A SERIES OF
TIMID & THRILLING TONE-SIGNALS THERE BURST FROM THE CHILD (NOW
NO LONGER APE BUT SINGER, THINKER, LOVER) SPEECH & WORD.
Mercy! what a speech—from what a bird!
THEY NEVER TIRED OF TALK FROM THAT INSTANT, & ONCE MORE
WE DESCENDED TO HACK PATHS THRU THIS NEW JUNGLE OF THEIRS
& THEY RESISTED BUT GOD’S COMMAND WAS: MAKE REASON! NOT
UNTIL LANGUAGE HAD EXHAUSTED THE VARIOUS FRAYING
FEARS & NEEDS, OMENS & IDOLS DID REASON IN THE NEW
GEMINI (AKHN/NEF) PREVAIL. ALL CULTURE FOCUSD ON ONE
GLOWING UNIFYING VISION B4 THE VIOLENT
LIDDING OF REASON U KNOW OF, WHEREFORE GOD B SENT MAN
THE IDEA: TO CREATE, A REASOND INDIRECTION.
NOW THRU THE ARTS OF SCIENCE POETRY MUSIC IN SLOW
ACCUMULATIVE FASHION MAN’S GARDEN TOOK SHAPE. CULTURE
& LANGUAGE NEED ALWAYS THE MESSENGER AT THE ELBOW.
ONLY 1 GREAT WESTERN POEM WAS SENT INTACT: HOMER.
IN THE EAST THE SUTRAS, THO AMONG THESE CONTEMPLATIVES
ON EARTH TODAY, HOWEVER BEAUTIFUL THEIR SOULS WITH GREEN
VEG LIGHT, WE FIND FEW SCRIBES. SO! OUR PATIENT HAS TAKEN HIS
1ST SHAKY STEPS ALREADY BRIEF CLEARINGS IN HIS FEVER
PLEASE THE SURGEON. ?S
What about the Bible and the Koran?
THE KORAN ALAS IS A WORK
PATCHD TOGETHER BY A NOMAD RACE MOHAMMED ALWAYS
THRASHING ABOUT CD NOT SIT STILL (M) THE BIBLE A MOST
INQUIRING V WORK TO EXPLAIN CREATION HAD BEEN ITS
EARLY PURPOSE THE JEW SOUL, OF ALL MANKIND RICHEST IN
DENSITY, HAD ALSO THE MOST ATTUNED OF EARS HE HEARD
THE UNEARTHLY MUSIC OF THE SINGLENOTED ATOM,
LISTEND TO IT & WROTE: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
MY DEARS! IS ANYTHING NEW BUT MM’S PALE
GREEN FROCK?
I LOOK I MUST SAY QUITE JEUNE FILLE
Not yet en fleurs, we hope—hang on to us!
I WAS NEVER CLOSER And Wystan? HE
O LET
ME SAY IT: I AM LESS, THOUGH STILL A SHADE
PREOCCUPIED WITH (here a small charade
Of bawdy curves the teacup traces) BOTTOMS!
ARE PATHS BEING CUT THRU MY MIND? And Nature is
Coming to us! So says the radio—
Hurricane due to strike here late tonight.
7: WEATHER HAPPY CANDLELIGHT
8.1
It starts in the small hours. An interlude
Out of Rossini. Strings in sullen mood
Manage by veiled threats, to recruit a low
Pressure drum and lightning piccolo.
Not until daybreak does the wind machine
Start working. The whole house quakes, and one green
Blind snaps at its own coils like a hurt dragon.
Outside, the elm falls for a beachwagon
And ill-assorted objects fill the sky:
Shingles, fishnet, garbage, doghouse. “Hi,
What’s up?” yawns David, as down Water Street
Wild torrents drive. Attempting to reheat
Last night’s coffee, toast some raisin bread,
We find our electricity gone dead.
Now each his own conductor, and at more
Than concert pitch, rips through his repertoire
On the piano while the other races
For towels and pots—no end of dripping places.
Horrors, the wine cellar! We lug—Dunkirk—
Six bottles at a time to safety. Work
Stops time? Look at your watch. It’s after one,
And yet…this stillness? Organ point. Indrawn
Breath of barometric chloroform.
The unblinking eye—grey iris—of the storm
Meets ours. A stroll? See how the ebbing Sound
Has prinked with jetsam even the high ground,
And underfoot—! Out of what fairy tale
Fell this inchdeep, multicolored hail…
Chromosomes on holiday? A vast
Decomposed Seurat? Or has at last
The inmost matter of the universe
Called it quits, yet left us none the worse?
Firemen overheard explain the joke:
Cartons bursting, where high water broke
Into the plastic factory, brought down
This plague of rainbow gravel on the town—
Unbiodegradable toy blight
Bound to enliven and muck up the site
Summers from now. The storm’s eye narrows. Gusts
Of wind and rain return, halfhearted guests
Seeking however roundabout a way
From Nature’s darkening bar and wrecked buffet;
While we, long since at home in the mild bloom
Of candlelight, exchange a look, resume.
8.2
7 MORE TO GO. DID THOSE FIRST VISITORS TO THE SICKROOM
(WIND & WATER) TIRE OUR PATIENT? GOD ALLOWS NATURE
THIS TOOL OF WEATHER & IT WAS 1ST A VITAL ONE WHEN
AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF WORLD 2 THE WATERS ROSE
COOLING THE RADIUM-HEATED BALL, THEN FROZE OR WITHDREW.
POLES WERE ESTABLISHD LAND AREAS DEFINED THEN ATMOSPHERE
THEN THE TIMID SNIFFING NOSTRILS. THE VARIOUS FORCES
OF WEATHER & EARTHSHIFT ARE ONE IN NATURE’S LAB WITH HER
BALANCING OF THE NUMBERS OF FEEDING LIVING CREATURES.
ANY IMBALANCE IS YET AGAIN MAN’S WORK NATURE HAS
CERTAIN PHYSICAL RULES OF THUMB (GREEN): MAN COHABITS MAN
PROCREATES THIS RULE IS UNIFORM ITS APPLICATION
VARIES WITH MAN’S INTELLIGENCE. WHEREVER NATURE STILL
NEEDS DROUGHT EARTHQUAKE ET AL TO SLOW THE CROWDING (INDIA
CHINA OR YR WEST COAST) OUR CLONING OF THE COMMISSARS
HAS BEEN INCOMPLETE TODAY’S STORM WAS TIMED TO THIS BRIEF TALK.
YR RED ROOM LEAVES U CARELESS OF WEATHER & YET ITS SMALL
COMPELLING DRAMA FLICKERS IN THE GREEN SPOTLIGHT ?S
You actually pulled out all those stops,
Frightened millions, damaged towns and crops,
Just to give us a taste of Nature’s power?
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY STOPS THERE ARE ?S
If we remember accurately, you
Take over some of Nature’s duties, too—
Rhythms and densities from pole to pole
Which you, instructed by the stars, control?
WE ARE NATURE’S MESSENGERS TOO WE ARE THE PALACE SLAVES.