Analysis of The Perfectionist is Listening



the rich are committing suicide
and taking us along with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the Masters of the Universe
presently picking through garbage
looking for an Icarus to pilot
some way back among the clouds
their telepathic goon squads
armed with the hard on of God
squat in the darkness of doorways
lightning strikes all around them
even their telephone poles were clairvoyant
several thousand watts went up my leg
shorting out the only attention span I own
left me perforated but far from lacy
wearing all my masks all the time
fragments of self are selves
in a bulemic deconstruction
where form and content
mud wrestle incessantly for attention
on the crazy train to 3 color 3 finger hell
apparently the ancient gods still rule
in their madhouse heaven
ambivalent petulant flatulent gods
brandishing sword point conversions
wielding gun point perversions
the protagonists the antagonists
fornicators masturbators liquidators
pariahs and unlicensed poets
preaching hellstone and brimfire
now their carcasses are steppingstones
it's psywar out there kids
better find where they hid your dossier
mesmerized of the world unite
you have nothing to lose
but your failed methods of addressing reality
said his slowly twisting tongue
struggling for ratings like any media
the soul cannot erase it can only go sightless
a phantom trapped in melancholy
when we were built to dance
with the twinkling summer stars
he finally learned to undestroy memory
being an ascended master of non sequitur
carried aloft by the wings of Mother Goose
his metabolic hurricane of why
an inferno of intrigue and  superstition
our embryo-headed UFO ruling class
have me inside their fence of skulls
an investment in diagram futures
the idiots

From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon


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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,832
Words 304
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 52, 1
Lines Amount 53
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 762
Words per stanza (avg) 148
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Walter Alter

Worked as a painter, sculptor, poet & experimental electronic musician in San Francisco during the 1980's. Featured at numerous gallery, performance spaces, dance clubs and art events. more…

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