I can't imagine

Lorenz

Music won't save me 

from my dissociated sphere.

But I don't want to be saved

to sing like a fool in the rain

and see me  convicted

in the name of universal love ...

I am merely an acrobat of chance

dancing o the roof of a bipolar rainbow 

and painting melancholy night comedies...

  A hangman's rope on a beat-up  guitar .

It's Mozart who is being murdered 

and Lennon won't be coming back ...

  I can't imagine .

 My machine broke down in a time bubble

between Ibiza and a summer love ...

 I didn't fill up your patchouli enough .

 Hippie lost in a Walmart aisle 

shouting at people on the escalator

slogans for midgets knit in a bowl 

 of lucky warm  porridge ...

  In this cynical world ,naivety is subversive !

  I am the last Dadaist ,sanctified ,

A scratched record from the 70s 

stuck in my head ...

  Mandatory happiness 

in the back of the monospace !

When the great orchestrator  

stops the tragedy ,

everyone rushes to the coffin 

in the joyous echo of a hope-for death .

  I can't imagine ...

 On the gibbet of insanities 

well rise up proud iconoclasts ! 

 A genderless executioner 

rekindling the flame of the worldliness ! 

At  Altamont ,I'll palm 

this damn machine off an angel 

and in a prodigious trip ,

I would fall asleep in psychiatry 

until the next century 

where life will be even worse

sprawled out on the pink sofa...

 Darling,I gona to bump you off ,

I don't want to leave alone ...

 But this will not amuse poets 

whose verses have the architecture

of some tasteless  clichés...

  I no longer believe in cubist mirage.

   Can you imagine that ?

  • Author: lorenz (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: October 20th, 2025 10:47
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  • Ellen Marsell

    Powerful poetic energy: there’s humor, passion, and a clear delight in the “game of apocalypse.”
    The text feels alive, intense, and ironic, with a genuine love for the imagery of the old school.

    • Lorenz

      You know I am a true naive painter !

    • sorenbarrett

      Surreal a cubist in a world of realism it an existential gestalt that tickled Freuds fancy and got a raise out of him. Loved it

      • Lorenz

        An innocent in the ruins of a world ...

        • sorenbarrett

          Aren't we all.

          • Lorenz

            I can imagine !

          • Priya Tomar

            " Naivety is subversive " .
            Great surrealist poem .
            I really enjoyed it .

            • Lorenz

              Hmm...So "submersive ! "



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