Anecodes of the Antiverse
ANECODES OF THE ANTIVERSE
1. Literature – oglings, thinklings, inklings
2. Genius – maverick mind magellaning infinity
3. Divorce – laughter decomposing in coffin hearts
4. Desperation – umpteen zillion yesterdays counting less than one tomorrow
5. Despair – nostalgia for the happiness you’d dreamed you’d have when you grew up
6. Peace – the world’s greatest poet writing the greatest poem in the history of the world
7. Dreams – children gathering flowers forgetting to die
8. Desires – fleets of crimson creatures submarining thru the mind torpedoing inhiibitions
9. Art – thought encyclopeding reality with hot fires of consciousness burning passionately in the heart
10. Intellectuals – amateur thinkers alexandering thought
11. Intellects – thought artists columbusing mind
12. Boredom – that metaphysical monster haunting the nightmare labyrinth of meaningless consciousness
13. Together – to get her
14. Bad Luck – that dirty rotten bitch with a barracuda smile drooling along your lips with a lover’s guile
15. Plagiarist – bard of prey
16. Poem – a poetry work of poetry craft and poetry art
17. Poems – ink sculptures of earth shattering silence
18. Leftist – someone not quite right in the head
19. Lunacy – politicians borrowing the earth to buy the moon
20. Sundown – sunswallowing sea sunswallowingly swallowing
21. Bhudda – the first jazzman, boo-dah boodee-bee-dah
22. Head-Heart Wars – old-guard professors of letters battling new-guard pioneers of literature
23. Astronauts – revolutionaries shooting it out with gravity
24. Asceticism – freedom to desire freedom from desire
25. Red Tape – systematically systematic systemization of the system
26. Entrepreneurs – daredevils tightroping thru business on the highwire of chance
27. War – animals escaping from cage cities snarling death to zoo civilization
28. Urth – that peopled bubble bobbing loudly in a solar glass of water
29. Government – dinosauring predator blackspidering business, its mate
30. City – artifacted artifact artifacting
31. Imaginuity – unthinking the thinkable, thinking the unthinkable
32. Slavery – freedom from freedom to
33. Evil – evil means to gain noble ends, noble means to gain evil ends, evil means to gain evil ends
34. Consumerism – dictatorship of the consumer by the consumer for the consumer
35. Art – the sudden awareness of surprise, the sudden surprise of awareness
36. Sacrilege – worshippers worshipping worship, worship worshipping worshippers
37. Joinshareism – tribalism socialism communism cannibalism
38. Life – car-na in, car-na out
39. U4EA – revelry’s exultation, reverie’s exaltation
40. Poetry – sound holier than silence
41. Poems – heart bombs exploding in the mind
42. Censorship – the authorities authorizing authors to authenticate authority
43. Science – curiosity deciphering the hieroglyphics of reality’s smile
44. Laughter – joy’s cosmic rose flowering galactically
45. Imagination – a full moon trying to read the mind of a tree
46. Culture – intellectuals thinking artists’ thoughts
47. History – abandoned ruins of imagination imagining rebirth
48. Curiosity – consciousness looking up reality’s dress
49. Civilization – walls nibbling at the universe
50. Artists – connoisseurs of consciousness founding dynasties of taste
51. Romance – two mirrors exchanging reflections on the nature of glass
52. Ideology – dogma catma ratma pigma
53. Bureaucracy – government of the government by the government for the government
54. Fun – laughter’s sacrilegious heretic iconoclastically blaspheming ceremonial conformity to pain
55. Washington D.C. – a promising land promising promises of more promises
56. The Great American Poet – that mythical bard soaring high above tall towns gliding on airy nothing
57. Reading Poetry – armies of emotion corpsing thru the heart renaissansingly
58. Reading History – civilizations ghostowning thru the mind empiringly
59. Modern Society – televisitors voyaging, a voyeuring spectatorship
60. Paradise – orphaned dreams sleepwalking counterclockwise thru tomorrow
61. Reading – secondhand consciousness of hand-me-down reality
62. m(eye)nd – deep museful lake reflecting
63. 1+1=3 – the marriage equation
64. Orgasm – humanity tiptoeing thru death’s house to immortality’s safe
65. Man – mortality metropolizing time
66. Mystic – a street bum probing garbage cans for the means of life
67. Meaning: art – life’s meaning; meaning – life’s art; life – art’s meaning; meaning – art’s life
68. Imperial Vanity – government flexing military missiles in pentagonal mirrors
69. Exultation – an avalanche of marvels cascading thru your eyes into the pool of my dreams swimming in the river of our desire
70. Aging – anonymous inevitabilities sabotaging tomorrow
71. Ism – pathology graveyarding paradise
72. 1945 – a plague of city-eating mushrooms
73. Nuclear Holocaust – sand dunes neanderthaling across the void
74. Nuclear War – atoms atomizing adams
75. Public – private enemy number one
76. Progress – juggernauting technology apocalypsing paradise
77. Conformists – rebels rebelling against rebellion
78. Revelation – a moonlit sky illuminating the universe of a garden snail
79. Socialists – cornucopian utopians savioring politically
80. Religion – schools of th(awe)t swimming in the sea of righteousness
81. Originality – invention challenging convention to a showdown
82. Television – technology anachronizing family life
83. City Life – claustrophilia
84. Militarism – gunism and bulletology
85. Hate – radioactivity escaping from the heart, love’s nuclear power plant
86. Parents – mother nature, father culture
87. D(eat)h – ine(vita)ably ine(vita)ble ine(vita)bility
88. Nostalgia – happiness’s rearview mirror
89. Earth – a planetary ear listening for other ears
90. Noetry – word corpses decaying on the printed page
91. Humility – understanding believing, believing in understanding
92. Philosophy: life – art worshipping dream; dream – life worshipping art; art – dream worshipping life
93. Ego – I’s citadel of pride fortressing self
94. Reactionary – forward to the past, back to the future
95. Regret – memory exorcizing the inexorable
96. 4play – hands sculpturing desire into monuments of pleasure
97. Electioneerring – a masquerade of masqueraders masquerading
98. Positions – hilarious preposterousness, preposterous hilarity
99. Immostality – what you get when a son of Dickin downs a stein of Ein
100. Impatience – his fingers in a hurry along her skin
101. Dreamfire – waves of consciousness lighting up shores of reality
102. Death – the emperor of eternity empiring immortally his infinite empire
103. Love – gland to gland combat on the slippery slopes of romance
104. Poets – paraphrasers paraphrasingly paraphrasing the mysteriously mysterious mystery of timelessly timeless time
105. Dethdred – exipiration proximity inevitability syndrome
106. Mortality – omniscient omnipotent omnipresent omnivore
107. Charm – dimples exacerbating the excruciating exquisiteness of her smile
108. Politics – the struggle between the struggle for and the struggle against
109. Flirting – strategic eyes limitation entreaties
110. l(eye)f – (eye)m m(eye)nd
111. th(awe)t – con(shush)ness
112. Poems – head guns, heart guns: bang bang – you’re alive!
113. Age – autumn’s silver filling silently green summer’s mountian solitude
114. Alarmclock – a parking meter eating dreams on sleep’s sidewalk
115. Art For Art’s Sake – avantgardians bombardian humanians’ brainians
116. Free-Enterprise Capitalism – businessmen pursuing their happiness by pursuing your happiness for a profit
117. NME – IRRK
118. Arse Poetica – po-biz-buzz
Copyright 2008 by Larry Ziman
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