“A Foto Album a Selveez” is yet another piece of Remembrenz uv Tiemz tu Kum, this one being a phenomenology of my personas, conscious and subconscious. My previous post, Psychological Notes, sketched out 10 categories of identity. I built it to help give me a framework to keep track of this freight train of personas I’m traveling with. The following is a rough draft of a brief excerpt from this poem:
… an then, mornenz on thuh porch
reedenz, feedenz thuh berdz,
chasen off skwerlz,
paje 346 uv Lazloez Seiobo
“… that great wrath was trembling…”
an yes, now I seeyen remember…
az leevz glissen in sun
steem drifs off thuh roov
thuh nite raenz pas
thuh lokus drone
thuh cherpen cheepen chuk chuk chuk
uv sparo, nut-hach, menneeyen finch
an mennee unnuther unname fren
thuh kaw, thuh winen hiway grine
sensate personuh shapen me…
an it rizen uggen, momentare kunseelz
that grate rathen me
it steemen drif
sumtime it raen
sumtime it drone ottonommiklee
a rath kumpoez, a rath kumpielz
uv mennee stranz an straenz an kordz,
a rath uv persennel expere
ubyuezd by ennemmeez
woonden by frenz;
a rath uv intellekshuwel sors
herd in leksher, red in bouk,
seen in myuzeyum, art, an film;
“… an thuh leevz kum a-tumbellen down…”
(in a littel ottum gus
distrakten my iyz-an-eerz…)
a rath tranzmitten frum my forbaerz
an now embedden in my selz
an thuh ellektro-magnettiks uv my DNA;
a rath spaken frum thuh seel uv me
wich duzzen orrijjinnate in this boddee
or of this time
or frum muttereyuh;
a rath that seez
a rath that knoez
a rath that jujjez
aks uv injustis, vilen, kruel,
that uwwaerz derreklee thuh sufferrenz
uv my pepel, Juez,
an thru that lenz
injustis that evree pepel feel…
an that rath iz wun uv thuh drivven Vois
az diktaten powesseez tu me…