Eight Micro-poems by Paulie Lipman
#1
I have thrown so many
thoughtless fists to the dim lit air
blackened both of god’s eyes
fighting to pull profound
out of 2:30’s greedy a.m. teeth
#2
Unaware Abandon is
the realm of 5 years old
Nihilism is 13
Arrogance 21
Havoc is so 25
Rebirth 33
I’m 40 now
I wreak Love,
motherfucker
#3
Hallelujah
is exhausted
hearing its name
called so casually
Waiting
for its syllables to
be given proper revenance
Its Joy
should never be
casual
#4
The Big Bang
was the first rebellion
as it broke the only rule that existed:
Nothingness
Death,
is our defiance
of everything since
#5
War
breeds a strange ingenuity
and a savage intellect
Genius
comes easy when
there’s no one left
Peace
is ten geniuses standing
in ash
#6
Revision always
follows Innovation
Every rickety shit tinkerer
all too ready to
throw defintion
around the infinite
#7
Jean Michel Basquiat
blender of all before him
flipped graffiti
to the Whitney
Don’t watch the throne
but the crown and all
its glorious sound
Boom!
#8
Audre Lorde
kicked through
Other’s barred teeth
refused to be
swallowed into
triple invisibility
shapeshifted English
into Queer language, invincible
to revision
