CONFESSION IV - Arrogant Bastards

Most likely to be published later this spring of 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

CONFESSION IV - Arrogant Bastards

      While writing this book, there persisted a hounding (from heaven) conviction for appropriate self-condemning in addition to contending, confessing as well condemning of others, Oddly yet rightly, this poem serves the purpose quite well. When first drafting the verse with a smirk on face and sting of truth on the rocks, intentions were of course more satirical thus less actual. Nonetheless, God used time to methodically, pointedly, applicably reverse the effect. So as originally noted, quoted and composed for the book Commentaries of an American Poet (Jan 2007)…

Note:
While listening to Green Day’s American Idiot CD, written on 27 October 2005.

There is a great amount of poetry within

unconscious fastidiousness.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Poets are arrogant bastards, opportunistic romantics

Whining, sniveling, pining, reminiscing, proselyting

As though patrons hesitate on every verb and adverb

Adjectively alienable yet solitarily co-dependent

To the psycho-babble bullshit immersed in the egoism

Permeating the intellect, where the sub-consciousness

Lose identities, conjunctional collisions of non-beings

Where Parmenides’ one becomes elusively ostensible

Or is it so, the shrouded consciousness joins hip-to-hip

To ancestral continuity inheriting both sins and blessings

A trough of self-exaltation, a horn of plenteous conceit

Hence, wise is the stoic silence of the indigenous

Wake me up…when humility rains upon the parade

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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