Excerpted from I'M DEAD—Osiris

About this poem

"I'M DEAD—Osiris" was a collaborative poem piece during which writing with the other collaborator I was faced with numerous challenges in attempting to make sense out of chaotic and nonsensical contributions and then to form a greater "enstorying" out of them through interknitting and interweaving various radical concepts and nonsensical phraseologies. In this collaborative piece, by excerpting only my words written, a truer sense of not only the topic being explored, that of Osiris and the Egyptian Underworld, but also the greater esotericism of my words in response to gibberish so that the gibberish could become what might seem like the words of a prophet when by themselves become nothing but unfathomable crazy gibberish, the words of a madman. Take the utterance of "My eyes...a cadaver horizon" left as a "nothing proclamation" like that in a comic book that the superhero might shout in response to being blinded by fire. It means what? Anything? Everything? Nothing at all? I then describe it a bit and wend in a reason for its existence, and tie it into Egyptian Mythology through the "specter" of the unknowable Osiris. Then take a non sequitur like "promise blossom" which is surely stated because of a number of ideas condensed into two words that poetically romanticize one another, and are pregnant poetic words as well. Yet, with nothing other than their utterance comes nothing further than speculation and nothing to tie the reader into the over arching ideas. Again, I reach back within and seek ways to tie these together, and on and on it went. Every collaboration was similar. So after the collaborator refused to endorse the book I assembled based on collaborative works and imagery of artistic works by both, I pulled/excerpted all of my words from every collaborative piece and since they all make sense by themselves and were un-reliant upon the collaborator's words, I put together my own book of powerful imagery and words. more »