LAZY STREET CORNER'S IDEOLOGY (A FREIDA / KUBLA COLLAB)

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in the dead of winter's arctic chill

and the heat of sultry summer's night

you render me poetically impotent

flipped the switch of immortality's light

enduring blight patterns in perpetual spin

concepts on overload's redemption

deliverance from evil salvation's undertow

rescued by a vessel with unattainable oars

drowning in drifts of your sin's pollution

bitter humps in my breath keeping salvation awake

albeit in the pallid placenta

of this incessantly emotive coma

my despondency's senseless battery

I was pushed with nostrils unprepared

into currentless Styx

your aim made stiff and precise

ratifying the erect assurances of

your weather-laced conceptual divining rod

wicked abomination's extortion spat at public view

aborted on laissez-faire's lazy street corner's ideology

inculcating fear trumping Athenian philosophizer's hype

atheists ran amuck ringing toll bells of indiscretion

born again of aversion's ruptured inclinations

knelt in holy water's puddle of indistinguishable rapture

torrid lucidity's revulsion erupted in convulsions

waving uncle's white flag in dubious surrendered conquests

the season of the muse sleeps

in the numbers on a calender

slumbers conquered, heartbeat imbues

a virus on progressive impressions

sealing it in the faux closure of December's page

lathered books accrue in time's standing army

quotes pulled from their must like taffy here and there

Shakespearean production's detestable actions

genuflecting afore ice sculpture's entry passages

withering on the vine of Heathcliff's offences

plunged into icy atmosphere's unplugged desires

defenses frozen in a time before poetry rhymed

I forgive you for your sins of dropping those names

a bulb just signed away its tungsten heart

that was when it felt like the living started

I'll even in willingness send you off with a clock

You are not forgiven for the dropping of my virtues

in the river of the dead like a sacrifice

to fair weather while I grovel in Stygian propaganda

yearning secretly for the de-horizoning delta

offering a path less swam to make all the difference

Author's Note

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

Too many lines to mull over here, but I am super fond of the "pushed with nostrils unprepared into currentless Styx" -- for me it's about forgiving some things, but not the ones that left you to drown ...
P.S. the author's note is just a blank black box for me, but because of all the water references, I did think of Theory of A Deadman's latest DROWN, when I read it.

[Frieda P]

Benji's brilliance at work in that line...thanks so much KL...good song, why didn't I think of that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_vTIa66ec

[kublakhan27]

So glad you enjoyed our collab, thank you K...very fitting song...

[willweb]

This was one crazy dance step, but the two of you performed it seamlessly. This was great - both of you. It is hard to tell where one stops and the other picks up. i really enjoyed this today.

[kublakhan27]

It's cool that you read it as a dance, I know Freida will appreciate that :) We usually spend more time tinkering and arranging than writing...so glad you enjoyed it will.

[Frieda P]

Wooo, you know I'm dancing on the ceiling to this one....merci beaucoup!

[Sami Khalil]

A great collaboration and production. So many wonderful lines to quote. We are in a progressive impressions mode now...Excellent...:)...................

[kublakhan27]

Thanks so much Sami, I'm glad that you enjoyed our collab :)

[Sami Khalil]

Yep. You are welcome...:)............................

[Frieda P]

I don't what mode it was, but it was fun, thanks Sami :)

[Sami Khalil]

Yep. Fun is goifld. Welcome...:).....

[Sami Khalil]

Fun is good. You are welcome...:) :)........

[Willow Radcliffe]

This is incredibly beautiful. The imagery was fantastic and I absolutely loved this poem. It's one of the best I've read on this site.

[kublakhan27]

Thanks so much Willow, I'm truly humbled by your kind words, and I'm sure Freida will be as well...so glad you enjoyed it.

[Frieda P]

Grazie mille Willow, jazz'd you enjoyed, so kind of you to say...!

[Matching Socks]

Lots to ponder and digest in there. :)
(I haven't had coffee yet... Good morning!)
This deserves a second read when I don't have any distractions around me.

Tungsten heart - gosh, I love that, good one.

[Frieda P]

You might need more than coffee Ance! :) Ahh that was Dali's (Steve) genius concept...thanks muchly!

[kublakhan27]

Haha Coffee is a good thing...I was actually just following up on Freida's motif from earlier in the poem...so glad you enjoyed it Ance, thank you :)

[Matching Socks]

Anytime. :). But Frieda's right, I need more than coffee.