ARCHETYPAL CONDUITS: MANTAS, STEP FORWARD

 

051210 Archetypal Conduits : MANTAS & I :

Deviations regarding a partnership that could only spring

Alongside the bowel movement of a Devil’s Advocate Supreme;

See the Manipulator radiate an Angel On My Shoulder at Todd’s Wheel;

Inside the Quixotic Throat.

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Peering backwards,

To examine this particular Archetypal Conduit

To flow from the likes of studio apartment navigators

Mike, Jory, Shamsy, Manhole, Forrest, Loud & myself,

To name a few, at least,

Settling for a time within the intimate confines of the Monkey House —

NW 21st & Everett in Portland,

Shared bathroom on the other side of the wall,

Brown mucus sweating through and pouring down my side

Dripping from taped-up flyers.

Professing mescaline tears,

Refrigerator-related fears,

South Node Aquarian origin of a nebulous Goulash recipe,

A solemn Tower at the end of long voyage beyond the sea

(Death : Human : Australian pressing).

Laundry room/cellar:

Three bodies buried in the dirt patch,

Metaphorically Michael, Joris & I

Following the demise of ye olde Clitorectomy Ritual,

Was the landlord to forgive my neglect of the rent for four-months time?

Yes, he did, upon mention of said three bodies.

I discovered them.

041910 The burial of Swift : subsequent rescue of the cockroach at the Monkey House :

Spider at Bathcave : the Hari-Kari bee at Sawickster’s.

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And lest we forget Al-Sawickster,

From the Land of Wait It Out,

Who first colored in the item Archetypal Conduit,

Fleshed out the term.

And now,

MANTAS,

step forward.

(Again.)

 

San Francisco, 2012 (compiled from earlier notes)