O! WHY WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW,
WHEN MY MIND’S SO QUARANTINED
WITH THE PEOPLES AND NATIONS OF THE WORLD
IN THIS BOUNDLESS PANDEMIC SPRINGTIME OF COVID-19 2020?
WHAT IS THIS I’M WRITING MIDST THE DYING,
MIDST THE GLOBAL INFECTION RISING RISING? … OOOOO
O! WHY WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW?
WHERE’S ARS POETICA’S MIRABILE DICTU —
THAT MARVEL OF POETRY’S EXPRESSIVE WONDER?
CONTAGION! CONTAGION! …. OOOOO
COMPASSION! COMPASSION! …. OOOOO
THE NEW-TERMED “C-GEN” IS NOW GROWING.
THE “C” AS IN COVID-19 IS ONLY PART OF
T H E C O N T A G I O N
OF SPAM, ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCIES,
SHOOTERS AND MANIPULATIONS VJA INTERNET, AI, AND
POWER GRABS OF RELIGION, HACKERS AND FAKE NEWS
WITH DOGMATICS OF SALVATION WHEN WE NEED
T R U E C O M P A S S I O N
A U T H E N T I C C O V E N A T I O N!!
ALAS! A LOVE THAT KNOWS NO BOUNDS AS DOES THIS PANDEMIC!
O! TO WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW THAT SOUNDS OF GEN-i-US!
THAT HAS MEANING IN ITS BEING – A GLOBAL PANPOIESIS FOR ALL:
THAT “SOMETHING” WHICH GRABS MIDST THE FLOW AND HOLDS ON —
LIKE “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM” AS THE DOLLY-KENNY DUET
SINGS AGAIN OF “NOTHING IN BETWEEN” – “US” ANYMORE —
“Islands in the stream
This is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong
Stay away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha…
Islands in the stream . . . .
IT’S ANOTHER WORLD FOR RELYING ON EACH OTHER!
COSMIC POIESIS TO EARTHLY POIETIS TO NOWS’ NEW POIEMA!
O! FUROR POETICUS! O! FUROR POETARUM! O! FUROR PANPOIEMA!.
O! FUROR ‘APOK’STROPHES’! O! GLOBAL GONG GONGING!
C O M E TO US — O! POESIE MYSTIQUE IN ALL THAT LOVES!
O! WHY WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW . . . OOOOO . . .
IF NOT FOR LOVE THAT KNOWS NO BOUNDS.

MDOK—3/26/2020 — APOETESSAY —