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What's New
1] the Harem is the link across deserts to the family home & the dinner that waits for the wealthy traveler. There the separation of time into minutes & a theater of prizes for the dancer who plays the lute or tambourine for the soldiers who've come with their bullets wrapped in lies & the vision of their sisters sold to a pretentious prince & time to shake a hand all green . . . It's here, in the demands of tyranny, that truth be told, she for it, they for them: the politics of cunt & country - resolution by demand, "You sell me hers & I'll surrender what may pay your way." 2] the water has been poisoned & the guards who surround the myths & hieroglyphs take no prisoners but remove the veils from the brides & mount them & their horses & ride to the famous iron gate where no one passes twice . . . & here roam at will until they're willing to play the flute for his highness & his many wives & concubines & whores & sons & it's then the bath is drawn & the President is called to pick his number & the couples dance in time to the drum & bugle & fife & here the false prophet reads from the book & orders his caravan to begin the long trek back to another time when there was a sacred place & the family was whole & could do no wrong. |
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