DEEP SCRATCH

Category: Poetry

Poems, shards, fragments, prose, experiments

  • just a few things that wus’ running through my heeed

    Preservation of the self

    to jump ship
    and join the self
    preservation society
    resist creeping humility
    the others
    the 7 billion or so
    others here on planet earth
    kill or be killed
    no its program or be
    programmed and so
    both and more
    all for your genes the pool
    they happen to come from
    did you ask to be born
    to the genetic and class
    you ended up in?
    the elite and the high brow
    looking down from top dog spot
    moral superiority to go with
    privilage and invisible righteousness
    those who are stupid
    and damn sure
    stupid and certain
    those know-it-all
    fascists

    (more…)

  • Genepool Lifeguard Journal 1

    ‘How can anyone describe the whole until he has learned the total of the parts.’–Sufi teaching.

    …went swimming in
    deep emotional bias for my gene-pool
    mygene-pool-space country
    stung by the rising ‘fuck the others crews’
    and the ‘i ain’t got time to entertain
    animals and plants you mad’ lot, and thought
    DNA first!

    A chalked cue to beat
    your gene-pool players
    neuro-relativity rules
    AGCT bigger than that, them and IS
    DNA first!

    Twistin’ NRA into RNA with
    ribonucleic bazookas
    blowing identity windways
    to the facebrook flooded seas
    of gene-pool chauvinism disease
    DNA first!

    Many drown in gene-pool
    conceits and strong
    chlorinated conservative dislike
    or borderline hatred of anybody
    not of their own gene-tribe
    DNA first!

    Blinkered by national shampoozy
    paralysed by stinging patriotism
    drowned of all-life by hatred
    revenge prejudice and ignorance
    DNA first!

    Swirling bio-alfuqbets
    mass of uncertainty and chaos
    spitting out programs to build
    our physical body and meatspace
    Jeez, have some self-replicating respect
    DNA first!

    humanity second buy seconds
    no reverse that–just a sec
    thirdly–put an end to
    groupthink on all levels
    religio politico thug-dialect
    end it and sever the head
    DNA first!

    Stop!
    consider your DNA
    first ask what would your DNA say
    perhaps on behalf of your own
    gene-pool? what IS your
    gene-pool filled with?
    not your name silly, your code mate
    DNA first!

    AGCT party politics
    DNA first! my me we and ALL
    my people my family my
    land my army my money my
    friends my my my wake up to
    the tale of the tribe and what is
    mine is yours too
    i am you and you are me right? we are one
    DNA first!

    Amino acid party get together come
    the corkwynding fist of
    twinned strands second
    triple helix no problem
    whos your daddy?
    DNA first!

    Nice n’ wickid ancient
    self-replicating biotech
    heart soulseat brain lungs
    and all living things
    ALL to mean all biological
    organisms on earth
    ALL people too. A real majority win.

    Oh, and Non-Servium
    DNA first!

    no theists no state-ists
    you them and us all related
    by an awesome acid factory pool
    of micro-biological wet-ware
    embroidery inresonance
    DNA first!

    Pretty sick futurefuture
    hobbyhorse shiz’ i mean
    the dynamic process of
    RNA DNA transcription makes
    a scmockery of science
    4 letter words spring boarding into
    cellular life to fuckplicate again wow
    DNA first!

    No party political platform for DNA?
    i mean really…what is life?
    by definition humanity
    the rooting of compassion
    to come with and into the deep end
    DNA first!

    Jump into the gene-pool of life
    wider than any silly political
    party narrowmind n’ naff’ splashywashy
    a real manifestation of things
    things like you and waltzing
    in helictical jacuzzi jizz
    DNA first!

    belief illness
    patriotism and nationalism
    illness in need of a foot bath
    ISNESS IS AN ILLNESS
    illness illness illness
    isness isness isness
    identification WHA’?
    DNA first!

    By us i refer to humans
    so how many of us boss?
    how many of us have you met?
    ever suspect the others might be
    different to your suspicions EH?
    Jesuspect Christereotype
    ever meet your ancestors?
    DNA first!

    Study isillness get yr’ goggles on
    Islam ‘ism’ and isn’t ‘ism
    identification in racist ideology
    purity lunacy certainty gene-pool
    chauvinism and the curse of the ‘ish’ suffix
    the ‘ism’ suffix the crucifix on which

    poetic justic hangs roughly from the top board
    DNA first!

    ‘we live as one family’–Rough Justice

    –Steve Fly 12/02/2015,
    Amsterdam.

    Steven James Pratt

  • free speech. work in progress

    free speech speech about white wash bleach and a poetry peach wishing on sunsbeach political son of a bitch makes my nerves twitch turns the black pitch sketch my thoughts which scratch the laws itch
    defined by the resilience of the people against slavery freedom sits bound and gagged ground and slagged off abused and bruised by news crews on a snooze cruise to your oceanbrain drain what about MLK and JFK Ezra Pound and Assange James Joyce and Bruno Socrates and Snowdon what about Glenn Greenwald Binney and Hastings Swartz & RAW 111 and Chelsea Manning what about Turing what about Wil Reich Tim Leary and David Icke Chris Morris and Amiri Baraka what about John Lennon Freedom of speech but with the consequence of death threats or worse the curse of authority on a non believer pun be weaver fakebeliver patsy cake speech free

    Steven James Pratt

  • 2014 highs

    The Artist Taxi Driver relentless
    daily feedback on behalf of
    the silent majorities

    Heathcote Williams and UK
    historical poetry activism
    in fine fucking form

    Russel Brand trews and
    social activism in the face
    of painscream

    James Corbett and the
    Corbett report consistent
    open source research

    Bruce Sterling lectures
    and on going socio-cybernetic
    prose

    Cory Doctorow every note
    Plus all great work by
    the EFF

    Chaos Computer Club
    lectures and shared
    feedback all mutants
    come home in glory

    Steven James Pratt

  • i will not vote until…

    some free form streaming thoughts shared,
    happy new year…

    -steve fly

    I will not vote until
    open source democracy
    operates open source

    i will not vote until
    i find an M.P worth voting for
    somebody to love respect and
    look up too like Alan Moore

    i will not vote until
    The trident missile
    program is cancelled

    i will not vote until
    Russel Brand and
    Mark “The artist taxi
    driver” McGowan
    and Galloway join
    forces to create
    respekvolution
    movements for peeps

    i will not vote until
    legalisation of Marijuana
    and all substances currently
    banned by corporate run
    governments

    i will not vote until
    the banking sector
    offshore and all tax havens
    investigated

    i will not vote until
    the Royal family are held
    to account for massive waste of
    public money

    i will not vote until
    Tony Blair appears
    at the Hague international
    court of criminal justice

    i will not vote until
    Britain stops selling
    arms to Saudi Arabia
    and the rest of the world

    i will not vote until
    an M.P can show to
    me they have read
    at least one book by
    Robert Anton Wilson
    and tried the exorcises

    i will not vote until
    Julian Assange is
    allowed safe passage
    out of the UK

    i will not vote until
    ConLibLabourKip
    can define their
    differences and
    show compassion
    for ALL humanity

    i will not vote until
    nurses receive pay
    rise and the firemen
    in line with bankers

    i will not vote until
    the police become
    personally accountable
    for actions they take
    on behalf of corporate
    state of her majesty

    i will not vote until
    we see a full
    investigation into UK
    and US torture (both
    physical and mental
    abuse) since 1947

    get involved with your
    local human universe
    be the change 2015
    have fun

    x

    Steven James Pratt

  • Heathcote Williams and hard poetic critical trews

    After watching the much hyped latest episode of Question Time i quickly fixed up proper with Heathcote Williams, my new fav. UK poet-rebel. Williams can say in a 3 minute poem what would take a question time guest a decade to communicate (perhaps the comedian could keep up?) further evidence to me that poets hold the key to understanding politics, and Heathcote Williams speaks for Billions of people around the world with his critical prose. Lets hope that more people hear and read him, especially those in the UK.

    I would highly recommend his work titled ‘American Porn’ featuring a prose poem about Alan Turing which i wager contains more information, as Claude Shannon would define it, than the entire new Hollywood movie about Turing. I doubt, for example the movie will include the link with Apple computers, and the current exploitation of foreign labour and the need for suicide nets at some Apple workcamps, which in the capable hands of Heathcote becomes a poetic fact, and in my head yesterday when i heard it for the first time, epiphany.

    http://www.sea-urchin.net/news/heathcote-williams-american-porn-news-2/

    http://youtu.be/x-QqMKdexZA

    Steven James Pratt

  • the wake of the headless one pt. I and II

    Fly: Selected Poetry

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/3of5XFj

    the wake of the headless one pt. 1

    …posting past to post
    first to last longest
    header to footer to goal posts
    get in

    modernisn’t pist on post apocalapse
    timespace spice-trading post
    pipped at the post by the male ape
    adam nohbiginning noh ending
    nohawk at the well

    the flight of plural bella
    goodness in life in love cycles
    turning of gyres and the screw
    ages and angels and angles new
    old to now in cyclic dragon
    drops

    dew drop fish-eye everything
    everywear everybody eve
    of construction co-optical
    stairway to fireworks display
    distraction

    eternity beyond the senses
    behind the veil the viol
    all against allness of it
    all of it hidden by timespace tricks
    past life lines of writing
    behind the times but first
    place to write shortest
    plane line point paper…

    the wake of the headless one pt. 2

    …notation of the rotation flip it
    words and meaning change
    they charge off the page off
    the gauge unreadable

    the rubble of history
    the immediate mystory
    of itsperience
    ticket in hand fleeting
    thoughts mixed
    no word symbol fixed
    unless fixed by a fixionalist

    last of the page blast
    intwo timespace
    mist the boat bus ship
    mist everything everythink

    primordial mister gas
    alchemy entity milkmaid
    mother mist mamma mummeries
    primal chaos like
    mist of potential
    coagulate all elements in
    human being and keep
    spinning the word whys word

    eclipse what ‘is’ with em’
    a blanket of mist blown
    like fairy dust
    into the minds of the people
    when the mist clears
    the past-present-future
    are one…

    (St)Even Rat Fly
    27/8/14. Westerparc, Amsterdam. NL.

    Steven James Pratt

  • poets who spoke in poetic characters’ Vico and the artificer

    While modern theories of knowledge begin with something present to the mind – e.g., Descartes begins with self-evidently true, clear, and simple innate ideas – Vico, begins by asking how it is that the mind comes to have anything present to it at all (Verene, 1981).
    And it is precisely to this question that Vico claims to have an answer, indeed, it is the master key of his science. “We find,” he says,

    “that the principle of these origins both of languages and of letters lies in the fact that the early gentile people, by a demonstrated necessity of nature, were poets who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary life, because with our civilized natures we moderns cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men” (para.34, my emphasis).

    But to understand what he means here by saying that the early people were, by necessity, poets (where the word “poet” is from the Greek poitetes = one who makes, a maker, an artificer), we must divide the process of making involved into two parts: i) the first, to do with the forming of a sensory topic, and ii) the second, with the forming of an imaginary universal which, from a ‘rooting’ in it, ‘lends’ the topic a determinate form.–John Shotter, CMN/UNH, http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jds/VicoNotes.htm

  • natural abundance of flowers

    …we are all shotdown by the
    painstream media
    dammed by knee jerk reactions
    to the stench of truth

    what effect do you wish
    to have surpriseshock
    and horror awe wonder
    mystery suspense
    does it entertain lull
    at what and at who’s expense

    to use the word as a massage
    and all its meanings and shades
    as exotic oils feathers and music
    new uses to uncork the soul
    and spring the genius out from
    within each and every heart
    so mote it be

    so build playful bridges of
    paperclips daisies and spaghetti
    yet not past a point
    beyond where the ravioli orbits
    multiplicity
    shoot down hate with
    love bazookers

    tune into others and
    walk a mile
    gain insight of foreign
    alien knowledge in new directions
    from maps and mold
    memorable metaphors from
    the natural abundance of
    nature

    purple flowers on bodies
    disaster strikes and all thinking people
    sigh another dumb ass destroys
    life direct hit to every humanitarian
    circumstance differs
    death horror destruction are hard
    to make rational sense of today

    varying emotions arise
    and fall around the planet
    in step with graphic images and
    graphic details bouncing into the
    eyeballs of billions

    chatter in the streets
    web searches later before
    tweets what is the question again
    who how why for what
    what can the news reports
    tell us

    what of the lead up
    what next mind the present
    the ever present grief and sadness
    of violence greed corruption
    and abuse at all levels
    going on right now

    what about the lead up this
    event specifically who benefits
    who profits who looses and
    who gains what
    whooooooooooo

    and on and on spinning and
    twisting through gazillions of
    neural networks data crunching
    networks analysis and probably
    probabalistic feedback on pretty
    possible outcomes
    leading to a headline
    [insert bogeyman here]
    did it

    the wreakage and horror
    of crash sites illustrate the
    destructive force of weapons
    no matter which primate fired
    we feel the result of military
    weaponry manufactured
    marketed and sold 

    and for the victims families
    and loved ones and friends
    i point to the description
    of delicate purple flowers
    and lush grasses surrounding

    the grave and to the soil and
    the surrounding flora
    motionless silent and simply
    soaked in the traces of  
    sentience dispersing out
    into infinite space
    into the hearts and heads
    of billions of people
    around the globe

    may the sympathy overpower
    the rage for revenge
    may you have strength to
    tune out from the painstream
    media and into

    the tangible
    flowers and grasses
    stars and clouds and the
    natural world where the
    souls of their loved ones
    and all of us may go

    a little word to recycle
    snatched souls into
    worlds of natural abundance
    and the eternal memory
    with budding language

    let the future bloom
    and forgiveness blossom
    worldwide…

    –Steve Fly 22/07/14
    www.cosmictriggerplay.com

    Steven James Pratt

  • Amiri Baraka Reads at the 4th Charles Olson Lecture 10/19/13 Pt. 2