Black Rain

Spring Sessions III 50 x 70 cm acrylic/spraypaint on paper

BLACK RAIN (PERSEPHONE)

Black rain drilling little holes

clean through self-esteem on this

totally fucked January twilit

day making us feel at least                                 

50 % dumber and uglier than we

do in summer. Half the world is online, the

other half dreaming of the right content—  

it might be naked wet bodies smacking

into each other, or tea ceremony demo

by a Japanese monk. Lady de Winter

offers you a toxic joint. You refuse but

sadly, with reluctance, a touch resentful

of your own rejection of reckless liberty. Has courage   

shriveled up and crawled back to its itsy-bitsy cubicle

or is sound judgement making a half-assed comeback?

And how much of this means anything

or fits in the plan as such? There is

one crucial indisputable but subliminal

suspicion: that no one, anywhere, at anytime

gives a damn if Earth’s daughter returns or not.

It’s as if my physician, shaking his head, says

I have great news for you, Kenneth, but I couldn’t care less.

Spring Sessions

Spring Sessions II 50 x 70 cm mixed media on craft paper

ASSESSING THREAT LEVELS

The air is thinner than expected.

But the views are a spectacle.

How we got this high is a secret.

Some information is better left unshared.

Everyone’s eyes seem peeled for the other.

All the floors are carpeted. The wallpaper has stories.

Wagon wheels, cacti, Indian warriors and their

taciturn squaws. The quintessential medicine

man in a child’s room. Muse of chaos his wife.

Muse of chaos? I think it was the medicine

made me say that. I’m not sure that would

play well at a dinner party in midtown

Manhattan or even Brooklyn. And the suburbs

would look on dumbfounded. I’m more or less convinced

our neighbors wouldn’t want us here. People being suspicious.

Their eyes always peeled. Suspicious or

totally indifferent. Sometimes I’d prefer suspicious. At least

someone’s paying attention then. These days people

are so many things. Whatever these days are. You peel them

like every other one. Then wait for the water to boil

suspiciously. Not too much information please. Not here. Not now.