To the Censorious Ones

Source: Favim 

(Jesse Helms & others...)

I'm coming up out of the tomb, Men of War

Just when you thought you had me down, in place, 

hidden

I'm coming up now

Can you feel the ground rumble under your feet?

It's breaking apart, it's turning over, it's pushing up

It's thrusting into your point of view, your private 

property

O Men of War, Censorious Ones!

get ready big boys get ready

I'm coming up now

I'm coming up with all that was hidden

Get ready, Big Boys, get ready

I'm coming up with all you wanted buried,

All the hermetic texts with stories in them of hot & 

dangerous women

Women with lascivious tongues, sharp eyes & claws

I've been working out, my muscles are strong

I'm pushing up the earth with all you try to censor

All the iconoclasm & bravado you scorn

All the taunts against your banner & salute

I'm coming up from Hell with all you ever suppressed

All the dark fantasies, all the dregs are coming back

I'm leading them back up now

They're going to bark & scoff & rage & bite

I'm opening the box

boo!

~ Anne Waldman

To the Censorious Ones

Source: Favim 

(Jesse Helms & others...)

I'm coming up out of the tomb, Men of War

Just when you thought you had me down, in place, 

hidden

I'm coming up now

Can you feel the ground rumble under your feet?

It's breaking apart, it's turning over, it's pushing up

It's thrusting into your point of view, your private 

property

O Men of War, Censorious Ones!

get ready big boys get ready

I'm coming up now

I'm coming up with all that was hidden

Get ready, Big Boys, get ready

I'm coming up with all you wanted buried,

All the hermetic texts with stories in them of hot & 

dangerous women

Women with lascivious tongues, sharp eyes & claws

I've been working out, my muscles are strong

I'm pushing up the earth with all you try to censor

All the iconoclasm & bravado you scorn

All the taunts against your banner & salute

I'm coming up from Hell with all you ever suppressed

All the dark fantasies, all the dregs are coming back

I'm leading them back up now

They're going to bark & scoff & rage & bite

I'm opening the box

boo!

~ Anne Waldman

The Lie

Source: Unknown/Favim

Art begins with a lie
The separation is you plus me plus what we make 
Look into lightbulb, blink, sun’s in your eye

I want a rare sky
vantage point free from misconception 
Art begins with a lie

Nothing to lose, spontaneous rise 
of reflection, paint the picture
of a lightbulb, or eye the sun

How to fuel the world, then die 
Distance yourself from artfulness 
How? Art begins with a lie

The audience wants to cry
when the actors are real & passionate
Look into footlight, then feed back to eye

You fluctuate in an artful body
You try to imitate the world’s glory
Art begins with a lie
That’s the story, sharp speck in the eye.

~ Anne Waldman

The Lie

Source: Unknown/Favim

Art begins with a lie
The separation is you plus me plus what we make 
Look into lightbulb, blink, sun’s in your eye

I want a rare sky
vantage point free from misconception 
Art begins with a lie

Nothing to lose, spontaneous rise 
of reflection, paint the picture
of a lightbulb, or eye the sun

How to fuel the world, then die 
Distance yourself from artfulness 
How? Art begins with a lie

The audience wants to cry
when the actors are real & passionate
Look into footlight, then feed back to eye

You fluctuate in an artful body
You try to imitate the world’s glory
Art begins with a lie
That’s the story, sharp speck in the eye.

~ Anne Waldman