An SOS from the frontier

 

An SOS from the frontier.

 

This is a message from the borderlands

an endless void a windswept land

like all deserts stripped bare of features.

So I whisper the message if you could have heard

all that I’ve heard. If you could see all that I’ve seen

if you could have been there, far out there and if you

could have listened to peoples words, listened to those

broken hurting people and that place out there, in here,

in me, in you. The dark frontier, that secret place you know

I know, we know, we all know, but deny its existence.

(excerpt)

 

RAC

Excuse me poets – Tribute to Orlando

Excuse me poets

Tribute to Orlando

 

And so the wise

Write

Bland words

Clever words

But men and women

Have died

So they

These Sunday painters

Argue

About the style

The poetics

The rhyme

Whether children

Could have done better

But men and women

Have died

There is something

Missing

A loose connection

Technique

Fuck technique

Fuck if it’s

a quick response

Men and women

Have died

write something

about

what’s happened

don’t write

about grammatics

write about loss

write about love

write about grieving

that we

have come to this

write about

men and women

Have died

 

Where the boys sleep in rough weather

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This is

Simply

An invitation

To generosity

Of spirit

And grace

 

This is

Simply

An invitation

To hear

With

your hearts

 

 

This is

Simply

An invitation

To see

We have more

Than hate

 

 

This is

Simply

An invitation

To the strong

To hold

The quiet and weak

 

 

This is

Simply

An invitation

To feel

Togetherness

Not difference

 

 

RAC