People Poems · CTP-0002
Goddess & the 13 Candles



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Is "Goddess" nece ssary?
It's the word I speak of, not the ineffable entity,
For a true God or "Goddess" c annot be c ontained
by a measly word-thing--
But this addendum to the infinite, to the uncontain
ed: this "-dess"
Like to say femininity is extraneous--
like a 13th hour--to what is an essential, defined
core...or even to say "God" is an incompletion,
a non-started, aborted in the mouth --
how can we make such a vulgar rhetorical
battleground of that which we claim to worship?
So, just God, is it?
Man and his limitation, his precious, gleaming
coin in that hollow purse called a mouth--
words: hot air esc aping strange-formed
hot air balloons loitering the horizon
this way and that, inflated worth, these
words, if you ask me--heat and yet something less--
Where's the sense in the poet disparaging his
materials, his medium, his marble, his clay?
Who can say...in anything but more words, words,
words--borrowed, invested, divested, exchanged,
watch where they've been before you borrow them
on your tongue (else you might taste cocaine and
g-string).
God God God Goddess Goddess Godhood say it until
all meaning is lost and your prayer might start
getting somewhere, rising and rising like
a holy woman's heat in a chapel
or her 13 candle-flames.