Rupert M. Loydell

 

from The Uncertain Future

Mournful Delay

reclamation & reconstruction   subsiding into night
revels in abundance   amplified morning light
neurotransmitter chemicals   muttering paranoid threats
most likely sued for libel   no friends   no girls   no pets

airways over the city   not a flying man
the world has little room for him   or new adventure games
flat mundane description   collaboration has begun
work leads to mutation   authorship transformed

indulgent & expensive   black holes on the stage
garish neon lettering   photos on the page
the media our salvation   nothing hard & fast
investigate the process   separate sheep & goats

can sound put things together?   what is going on?
confused on several levels   translate all the poems
early literary history   got drunk   never looked back
things found in a junkyard   lines from other books

 

Not The Original Ending

disorder threatens orde  r kind of presupposed
all is true not interesting   however much we know
blend of corruption & promise   attention to design
cosmetic counter specific   intelligent disdain

depart as quietly as possible   ever so eager to learn
fabricated in the basement   disappointed man
gratuitous foreign diction   happiness out of town
in situations of extreme stress   he lights out on his own

textual experiment & shock   the idea of poetic sign
being locked in is unthinkable   too many words around
mind can move & loop & stretch   city's liquid form
mystification got away   it's now a darker world

underdogs in the catastrophe zone   angels sometimes win
universities that encode   formalised extremes
versions of the story   inherited status & power
we need less institutions   more reasons to write home

 

Copyright © Rupert M. Loydell, 2007.

Rupert M. Loydell teaches Creative Writing at University College Cornwall in Falmouth, and also edits Stride Magazine]. Shearsman published his A Conference of Voices in 2004 and will publish his new collection, An Experiment in Navigation, in 2008.