Asskiss Factor 7

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Subject: Asskiss Factor Seven
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 10:21:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: gillespie william k
To:

Asskiss Factor Seven

helpful advice from doomed people
persisted to a sustained pitch
shrill ubiquitous hum

siren of reason
blind
connected to no
body

no short cuts
you can't do that
that is cheating
listen to me
would you just listen?

Asskiss Factor, ferry me
into some posh room in a big
city where some important famous
asshole is with a paring knife delicately
shaving off crescents of my brain and extinguishing
them in gin fizz

within the system
to change the system
within the system
to change the system
within the system
to change the system

change the system
you fucking idiot
would you change it already?

Asskiss Factor, ferry me
right fucking here
where I stepped off the bus
beside the construction site
kneeling in the dirt
in my good slacks
this notebook
the first pen I grabbed
purple
in my fist

you would not know it to look at me
but I am a man in command of my destiny
which is to write this poem

within the system
to be changed by the system

a sealed cocoon
suffocates its newborn butterflies

Asskiss Factor
I believe you now
I believe you are lying

 

2002