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| Allen Ginsberg (David Levine) |
Thursday November 12, 2020
This is his humble
work: as a solitary
scribe he stays alive
through the daily ascetic
of rewriting documents.
Friday November 13, 2020
Bibliographic
blight to honor the ancient
Areopagite:
“Either make your speech better
than silence, or be silent.”
Saturday November 14, 2020
It's too late for him
to start learning something new,
and it is too soon
for him to stop acting on
what he agnostically knows.
Sunday November 15, 2020
Two daughters, one son,
and his life as a single
parent providing
for all of their needs; with next
to no help from the other.
Monday November 16, 2020
The grammar of grace
under critical pressure:
below the surface
of the See the iceburg moves
with courageous dignity.
Tuesday November 17, 2020
White snow covered pumps
that will soon be shipped away
once the spring chinook
blows through all things in its path.
The passing of our great race.
Wednesday November 18, 2020
And then, once again,
back to the American.
“Nada in Nada”
is the clean and well lighted
way to affirm and deny.
Thursday November 19, 2020
His first born’s birthday.
During her twenty eight years
he has done his best
to let the rest gracefully
take prayerful care of itself.
Friday November 20, 2020
The very best way
is not to say anything.
And the next best thing
to the very best way is
to stay very far away.
Saturday November 21, 2020
Is he your brother?
Not if he’s Novus Ordo.
This must needs be said:
get thee thoroughly behind
me mindful modernity.
Sunday November 22, 2020
From the Tractatus
to the resolute reading:
"...there is no 'there' there..."
Once he threw the ladder down,
Jacob became Israel.
Monday November 23, 2020
The great reset is
their latest new normal now
that that evil won
this political battle.
The great apostasy is.
Tuesday November 24, 2020
These are they who were
not defiled with women.
Inside of their mouths
no lying was to be found.
These are they who were spotless.
Wednesday November 25, 2020
She has been a has-been
ever since believing in
his hideous lie.
So very unresplendent.
So very unrepentant.
Thursday November 26, 2020
Falling into place
without his initiative
being a factor.
The path is now presented
before him to walk within.
Friday November 27, 2020
Entering into
his curbed enthusiasm
with wisdom and grace.
Mumbling and stumbling
toward ecstasy with Thee.
Saturday November 28, 2020
An equestrian
fashionesta rides beside
her dressaged clothes horse.
They got the look and they took
complete advantage of it.
Sunday November 29, 2020
Somewhat similar
saecula saeculorum
makes him his model
for the second kind of monk.
Benedict’s Benediction.
Monday November 30, 2020
The malignancy
of her rank impurity
impacts his routine,
and indiscriminately
infects his body of work.