"Way of Dragons": a reading by
Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra

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Way of Dragons (A Foreword)

 

Takin' away your
                                 silver dower,
Show me your sandwiches.
Show me
                   working electricity -- .

And tell me no fantasy
                                        lurking
In the factual, some magical
          geometry. But

Is there any way to avoid, escape
          my arrival
At the knowledge that I

          may be
                             a cell

and will change into another?

We're . . .
          are living in the finest

hours, showing you
all the flowers,
showing you
all these structures. . . .

tellin' y'all energy
functions in a marginal
dependency -- in wav'ring
religiosity/
                   But is there --

ain't there any way of enhancing . . .
is there any truth in "romance," or
Or . . . no survival
from the knowledge

that I
              may

be a cell,
and will turn into another!

              Well, . . . well you gave me containers of wine and
                  meat.
              then you changed your car to other colors:
              how can I forget the quest of-
              of makin' it through

                                        a way o' dragons?

              Mechanics, Science, and other labels,

                                 have

                                 far gone

                                 as

                                 I

                                 can

                                 see.

 

                                       -- 23 May/88

 

Way of Dragons
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The poet's Romantic "anti-song poem" poem cum elegy about an awed working class' consumerism. The piece also relates this class' condition to a conspiracy theory on the push by an elite society of the scientific findings on our smallness and/or genetic limitations. And so consumers become apathetic contented numbers, but really a horde kept from high-technology access.

Book Source Alternative Prosaicnesses (e-book)
Publisher Down With Grundy, Publisher
Credits Written by Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra circa 1990

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