Tag Archives: Anarchy

Microtext Prose Poetry

To The Director of Public Affairs

First let me explain. My art is meant to be anti tyrannical, it is the intention of many men of letters to fly their kites in storms. Whether or not it was you I meant to offend is another thing again. Do you pride yourself in sticking to the book, were you the boy who threw away the paper if the pencil left the rule?

If so then I repeat: We have abandoned the dead capital of the streets, the new networks are virtual, we are marching as I speak.

We laugh at Marx, have buried the hatchet in his head (we sent some blueprints through the post to that effect). Set out to that city with no pavements from the tourism catalog. Upon arrival we raced breathless to the cinema, caught a matinee session of The Man called Horse. It was part of a festival screening; Richard Harris with those claws in his chest, the Sun Vow Initiation, could you imagine such a test, to prove your worthiness, your dedication to the interests of this mass of men you rule with pen?

Didn’t think so, Sir.

What is the virtual comparison of dragging you screaming from your desk, tearing the emperor from his chair, the board of directors in a faulty lift, plunging to their death.

Visual Art

Meh

Creative Nonfiction Non-fiction

A Morning Adventure

It went down like this. Train delayed, running late for work…standing at the little red man for a  minute – no cars coming…I cross the road.

Four cops leap out from behind the crowd waiting on the opposite curb.

—Excuse me, buddy, says the burliest cop, why did you cross the road?

—To get to the other side! I say, laughing.

—It’s illegal to cross the road, in Queensland, says the cop, not laughing.

The other three cops grunt in unison.

—It’s illegal to cross the road?

—Against the red man, buddy…why did you cross?

—I am running late, and stopping now to talk with you defeats the purpose of deciding to cross the road as there is no traffic…what happened to common sense?

Cop laughs, out loud, an actual LOL.

—They took that away from us…right guys?

All four cops laugh.

I don’t laugh.

The female cop says; —What if someone ran a red light?

I think for a moment, and say —If they ran a red light that means that everyone who dutifully waited for the green man would have been run down…

She looks confused.

An elderly couple see the cops surrounding me on the footpath and give a wide concerned looking berth…I am, after all, a dangerous criminal that four cops need to hassle into submission.

—Look, buddy, says the burly cop. Give us your ID and we will give you a discretionary caution and not fine you forty dollars on the spot.

—So you need my ID to not fine me? If I don’t give you my ID you will fine me?

—That’s right.

—Well, I choose to not give you my ID…so fine me.

-Ok…we need your ID…to make out the ticket.

I laugh, shake my head and walk away.

All four cops stand there looking at each other.

They do not follow.

Logic wins.