falling
forgive me if this poem sucks, but then again
so too does falling
what does the devil have to say about falling
he fell for a long time lucifer and his whole crappy
anti-photonic crew, those dull grey angels
but milton doesn't much discuss the endless
flailing
helplessness of falling
he focuses on landing, how satan made out of hell a heaven
and all that defiant latinate oratorical shit he famously utters
& how he rallied the demoralized likes of bespoke and
beshat demons like beelzebub around him
gathered them up from the frozen outhouse of hell
told them to man up
get they asses together
(forgive me but lucifer was like jordan peterson except for demons)
and comprised them into a regime
but of falling itself
milton was strangely mute
which is weird
'cause he was fucking blind
so didn't he ever tip over
(on milton's being blind yet not fearing falling many doctorates
could be written )
point being
from milton on
falling itself is unexplored
though i am in a plague of falling
people my age
tripping losing their balance landing on their faces their
arms their backs
more brittle than they were
coming up busted
fearful of the next time
more of us all the time
arthritic sclerotic neuro-nastily damaged
i blame paradise lost for not being truthful about this
for covering it rhetorically over
and beyond that blame genesis
which sets the stage
so adam and eve had to walk the earth
or maybe that was cain
but nobody actually toppled over
suffered the fact of falling
(footnote: it actually it was christianity that made a big deal of the fall, qua fall.)
i blame all that history
for why this poem needed to be written
which maybe it didn't
including why
i think
it's lacking . . .
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