DEEP SCRATCH

Category: Poetry

Poems, shards, fragments, prose, experiments

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

  • Fungal Economics (2007) by Fly Agaric 23

    Fungal Economics
    branching words and
    money walk

    the shit into our future
    your words
    our words and their
    words of air-sound-sutra

    why is money and
    how did it get all stinky
    who issues it and how?
    a coin for a cow
    paper for gold
    our money their money
    overnight

    who has the magic wands
    the words and the rite
    disorder of things and stuff
    multi-ordinal terms fed to
    herds like worms to morning
    birds

    credit/debit digit edit
    where is the source
    the root and sacred well
    spring of your knowledge
    our nohledge and their
    scholedge
    who issues shit

    and how holy dung
    holy chao
    money exchanged
    for words language and
    economics co-ming-ling

    honey does not grow on trees
    the bees bring it to each
    branch
    the river bank connect
    with moon goddess via
    the rising and falling water
    levels

    make every river bank
    a bank you can trust
    and the fungi
    facts decompose rotten
    money theory

    a natural fungi force
    consumes carbon dioxide
    and releases carbon
    monoxide

    like wise a new natural
    economic order will

    start with fungi
    and mycelium as the
    fiscal roots and financial
    fibers that in the buginning
    fed

    all the money by
    the process of decomposing
    using smart drugs
    depreciating truffle skins

    the truly regenerative and
    maximum interests inherent in the
    fungal feeding
    of the planetary and
    inter-planetary bio-sphere
    make most but not all forms
    of banking and international
    financial doings on this planet
    seem deceptive

    at best and damned sadistic
    and apocalyptic at worst
    new webworking tools
    help to communicate more
    scientifically how and
    why mycelium networks
    have spread into earths biosphere

    in turn the field of fungal
    economics seems less
    of a joke to me
    and more of a biological
    fact observable in nature

    for fly this fungal
    economic reorder fits with
    the animal and plant kingdom
    and the propensity for doing more
    with less

    and maximizing information
    output to the benefit of all
    no dropping carcass seed
    or shell left behind not
    even zero is wasted

    the whole biological spaceship
    earth recycles energy freely
    between species and
    kingdoms of living systems

    some very influential humans
    on the other hand seem to
    have a propensity for hoarding
    life support
    in all its forms

    for a few chosen people
    or a few International syndicates
    at the expense of the many
    –the Majority of humanity on
    planet earth

    who issues it and how
    what is money and how did
    it get that way, to paraphrase Ez

    the fungal metaphor
    maybe the most eloquent
    and beautiful metaphor to
    employ in 2008

    pitched against unrestricted
    global capitalism driven
    by private interest and
    crooked double crossed
    intelligence tsars

    depreciating currency
    imitates the fungal process of
    breaking down biological matter
    making more room at the
    bottom by recycling

    transform and keep the process
    moving along
    if you stay in one place too
    long with your savings

    chemical compound interest
    you will rot at the bottom of the pile
    without jumping into a new
    state of energy

    by the magic transform process
    see transbutation
    holy communion and
    the u.s fed bank of england

    the deception and trickery
    of the global banking
    fraud-gamer community
    is also mimicked

    on a global scale within
    fungal communities
    in fact mushroom myceilium
    germinate those very orchids
    that so many banksters
    are infatuated with

    even penicillin and all its
    synthesized relatives
    are fungal entities
    claimed patented and
    exploited by global pharmo
    corporations

    the dream-drug in its
    penicillin incarnation
    fungal intelligence
    has already penetrated the
    money maze

    not to mention all the
    other medical applications
    and drugs synthesized
    from mushrooms and/or
    fungal bacterium

    but the poet with mould-money
    and mushrooms spilling
    from his mouth does not stop
    here

    mushrooms and fungus
    metaphors deployed to
    synergize human
    financial intelligence

    just the sprouting tip
    of a swarming underground
    body of evidence

    sometimes sprout a fruiting
    bodyblog and spilling
    billions of its viral meme
    spores into earths atmosphere
    every second of every day
    for a billion years to come

    once the poet has sharpened
    his gaze and the haze of terrestrial
    primate politics and economics
    has vanished in the maze

    we can begin to revision
    our future past present perfect
    days all-at-once

    an enpsychlopedia Fungi
    galactica a languaging entity
    a self-replicating fungal blogject
    spore of the words

    money and wind and
    seeds and stars all-at-once

    –fly agaric 23.
    Amsterdam.

    Footsauce:

    Giles Chase: Shanigums Wave, Oillyseas, Publiners, A Sculpture of the Banker as an old man, Excommunicated and the albums Ballads and Strange Folk. Epiphenome’. Faben & Faben.
    Ira Pod: The Dantales, ABS of Revolutions, 17 Stereotypes of Damnbiguation. Videoglyphic method. History is not a dream from which I am trying to awake. No Direction Press.
    Martin McLure: The Gutterverb Autopsy, Misunderstanding Money, The road to Shennanigums Wave
    James Shermon: Mystical doctrine of sports and greedy behavior
    Nesta Venossa: The Wildstyle Grafitti Character as a Medium for Math.
    J. Nathan Shaft: Skully Von’s Travels.
    Sonny Cob Laughlin: Blooming Magnus Trilogy, Neuro-Trigger, Flasks of the really hot tea, The Windows Sunshine, BOG: Bogus Occupation Government, Quantum Theology,
    Ali Fowley: The Book of flies, The book of the wall, poetry without tears, 111 and other writings.
    Jacky Muller: Nine Joints to the moon, Operating manual for Shennanigums Wave, Sin-Energy-Zetitics, On the Path, Planet Terry Sociology.
    Carson Wools: Citizen Murdoch, War of the Words, McGriff, C For Cake, Touch of Usury.
    Manfred Humanski: Religion and Insanity, General Pendantics, X’tenshun Method.

    –Steve Fly Agaric 23
    Amsterdam.
    Thursday, July 17, 2008/Saturday 11th January, 2014

    Steven James Pratt

  • Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

     

    “The first was Ernest Fenollosa’s provocative essay ‘The Chinese Wriiten Character as a Medium for Poetry.’ He found the Pound-edited text of the essay in the latter’s book Instigations and excitedly copied out its main arguments into his notebook that June. Fenollosa’s account of the exhaustion of poetic qualities in modern discourse resulting from a degeneration of the original capacity of language to mime the physical processes, and his implicit advocacy of a return to the state of primal verbal immediacy, with words once again becoming instrumental to the creation of ‘a vivid shorthand picture of the operations of nature,’ held for Olson the same appeal it had for Pound before him.–Tom Clark, Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life. pg. 103.

     
     
     
     

  • The Mohawk Club

    Mohawk Artwork by CHU www.schudio.co.uk

    The Mohawk Club

    down
    to gothamsterdam
    city clouds curl
    like hair parting
    to reveal grey root
    beneath

    platinum breaking
    through air
    to reveal silver
    moonlight
    streaking down

    solid rays bouncing

    off the puddles
    street amber
    tiger lightning
    shattered glass
    outside
    that stinky moon
    eclipsed by rolling
    marshmallows

    snatching the eye
    back

    cracked street light
    the car lamp &
    reefer torch
    burning the other
    out

    Big Chief: Getting High With John Sinclair And The Fly

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/czUbrSA

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  • Lo saturnalia

    Lo saturnalia
    drink new flesh 
    news flash
    equiknocking em

    back with kwantum
    mechanix

    Fliegenschwamm
    through Mukhomor
    flowing on about many
    moments

    drunken bard pist
    somber past
    summert’

    felt like tao-mouche
    Amen EAT!
    born from
    nothing

    woids into la
    picene 

    dark mother Earth:
    early autumn

    Δtummy full
    mummiflied earth
    nourishing dark belly of
    night

    Δrise
    receptive southwestern
    mother mother
    plant

    Weak yielding
    and democratic mother
    Dharmadollar ghosts
    Holy dung

    holy graal leg
    Ξnds grow
    sovereignty

    To brew Tea
    sacred ceremony
    rise you fruiting
    bodies

    Great Eastern Sun
    saves and radiates
    all perception as gamb
    owl mixed
    and matched inside
    our skull

    inside and outside
    our wombowl
    and under the
    almond-trees
    goods

    Lo!
    lands of Cyberia
    Siberia and Peteurasia
    raise ya.

    Persian Haoma plus
    ➄ indole Eztheotextz
    plus
    Chinese written
    characters plus pranayama

    may equal “stoned”
    perception
    concrete mixture

    Steve Fly – World Piss Chapter 21.
    (line edit 21/12/13)

    Steven James Pratt

  • Make a NEW mountain by Steve Fly

    sweet mountain
    sprawling giant
    big enough to move
     hearts to
    top to peak the top story
    elegant

    mountain top
    from which views to the
    four corners are processed
    clear sight
    for every
    eye

    brave bulge
    of sheer rock
    spurting out from

    the ground
    towards the sun
    upwards, higher
    reaching outword
    released spells

    snow capped
    cloud
    banked
     hugged
    mount’ of marvelous
    awesomeness

    the world hq
    of snowdon
    national

    parks
    open source
    whistle-blowing
    activity weekend
    family research centre

    mount Snowdon
    is our vision
    our headquarters
    shamanic entities gather
    about these rocks and trees

    we rain psychic acid on
    the
    NSAGCHQ
    curse to cripple
    our ecosystem

    snow what
    everything comes out
    NOW

    we make it NEW
    you cling to the
    OLD

    we make it NEW.
    you cling to the OLD

    we
    make it
    NEW

    –Steve Fly

    Steven James Pratt

  • Liffissippi River to Joyce’s Poundland

    …and when the mode of the
    music changes
                               the walls of the
                                        city shake

         a perspective from relative place
                      humbled individual to their part
    in universe and other

    single individuated mind
                                          in time
    gathering tales and knick knacks
                   of history into a trick bag

    do you feel melody and riddim’
    in verse
           word sound image sandwiches
    attention to source
                       to _____ and just story

    word jazz s c r a b l e m and
    recontext’ of everything
                       in John Coltrane and
    James Joyce

                  Pound’s eccentricity flows
    to American in Europe, Joyce’s concentricity
                                           circulates the planet

    two sides of a new shiny coin
                                        ideograms on side a
                             hologrammic prose on the flip

    two torrential rivers of ink
                             bleeding shared currents
                                                               liffissippi

    Joyce’s Be-Bop and
                                 Pound’s symphonic compositions
    cut and mixed together

    Homeric history and Ulysses
                           in a conch shell sunset
                                      and a Dublin street fight

    the inner
    Joyce and the
    outer
                         Pound dynastic index
                             Irish American tell all tales

    The Cantos awake
                             a wake Cantos:
                     a dream/nightmare from
    which I am trying to awake
    (not)

                    sleepwalking giants leave
                           footprints in the mud
    trackers reverse the prints
                                          into beasts

    explicit Cantos give us facts
                  weights and measures, the dates
    places, names and flames to wit

                         implicit Finnegan offers us
    truer ficts, rubber inches,
               neurological realism and the funnies

    …like J.C’s Ballads versus
                                                       Stellar Regions
                  it’s a whole different thing
                                           consistent in its genius

                      ‘FW is psycho-archaeology
            Dr Wilson said.
                 ‘no mystery about the Cantos,
    Pound said.
                                                 they are the tale of
                            the tribe

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cantos
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Tribe

    –Steve Fly
    Amsterdam, 9th June, 2013

    Steven James Pratt

  • Hoggers of the harvest

    Hoggers of the harvest
    by Steven James Pratt

    “and they have broken my house” Ez, Canto LXXVI

    House of supreme court and
    whitechapel packed since 1776?

    1970’s U.S. Gov. policy trending
    deregulation to bait business
    less oversight
    less disclosure of                       information
    about banks and other                financial
           institutions

    thus, policymakers blind to
                     gangster role played by
    financial inst. investment banks
                                            hedge funds and some gov.
    funded enterprises
             a.k.a the SHADOW
                     banking system

    October 82’ U.S. President Ronald
                                      ‘star wars’ Reagan signed into law
     the Garn–St. Germain Depository
                                   Institutions Act

    sleazy adjustable-rate
                    (mort)gage loans death pacts
    the slithering process of banking
    deregu’ proceeeds
    92’ Euro-members sign
                                            mass-tricked treaty

    97′ Alan Greenspan fought to keep the
                        derivatives market unregulated
    Nov. 99’ U.S. President ‘Wild’ Bill Clinton
    signed into law the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act
                                         more loop holes for dereg’

    01’Off-balance sheet entities
    invoked by Enron as part of the
                                           rabid scandal

    03’ Warren Buffett on derivatives:
                                     “financial weapons of mass
    Augustus Gloop is stuffing his
                face

    And if a few bankers and financiers
    were jailed we would all be
                                     better off now?

    04’ U.S. Securities and
    Exchange Commission relaxed
    the net capital rule and the shit
                                    flowed into the mortgage nappy

    06’ housing froth and bubble burst
                                   in dung-bloom burst cycle peak
    values of securities hand-cuffed to
                                                     US real estate
                                                            drop
                                                        like pennies

    Fannie Mae and co. stroll on…
                                           predatory lending and/or
    mortgage fraud,
                                                 okey-dokey

    Gov and central banks
                        react with fiscal stimulus, an iron fist
    further funny-money policy buffering
               and institutional bailouts or
                                                       jail outs.

    07’ August 7
                       BNP Paribas Netherlands
    liquidates in financial bone marrow cancer

    08’ U.S Total over-the-counter
    (OTC) derivative
    notional value rose to $683 trillion
                                              hell, a bit O.T.T mate?

    2008’ U.S financial crime wave
                                           Bang! 08-13 global financial crisis
                     Boom! European sovereign debt crisis
                                                  crisis crisis  for the love of Isis
    what of barley, rice, cotton, tax free?

    can we have balance and neutrality
    in all courts, in ANY courts?
    is their a truly honest judge
                              anywhere on this planet earth?

    and dullards CasaPound hijack a turtle
                                         and a good poets worst
    ever mistakes

    08’ The U.S. Senate’s
    Levin–Coburn Report sez
    crisis was the result of:
                                 “high risk, complex
    financial products
                           undisclosed conflicts of interest
                                   the failure of regulators
    the credit rating agencies
                                and the market itself to rein
    in the excesses of
    Wall Street”

    Greedy sneaky double crossing
                                     fraud and conspiracy to commit robbery
         were not considered seriously
    in 08’?

                                                        Hanging from a cemetery door:
                              TO BIG TO FAIL
                                                       TO BIG TO JAIL.
                                                           (1913-2013)

    Several major financial institutions
                               collapsed in Sept’08
                                             global recession, we taste
                                 the great credit
                                        crunch
    snap!

                                     number of U.S unemployed
    rose from approx. 7 million in 08
    pre-crisis…
    to 15 million by 09’

                                 and if a few bankers and financiers and ministers
    were jailed we would all have been
                                                  better off by now?

    yet the richest
                                   criminals run wild and free
    buy footballs teams, industry and
                                       daytime TV
    all to raise the price of
                                                            stocks

    09’ Another G20 summit
                                          the great new long lesser global recession
    kicks in
                  ministers only appear at night

    In Ireland unemployment rose from 4%
    06 to 14% 10′
    the national
    budget went from surplus in 07’
    to a deficit of 32% GDP in 10’
                                            the highest in the history of Eurozone
                                                     control of the outlets?

                                      According to the CIA World Factbook
    from 2010 to 2011 the unemployment rates
    in Spain, Greece, Ireland, Portugal,
    and the UK increased
                                       and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

    11’ financial crisis inquiry
                              committee found that…
    over the past 30-plus years
    we permitted growth of
    shadow banking system – opaque
    and laden with short term
                                          debt – that rivaled the size
                of the trad. banking system.

             “criminals have no intellectual interests?” Ez, LXXVI

    who knew the multitrillion-dollar
                                      repo lending market?
    off-balance-sheet entities? and
                               abuses of over-the-counter
                    derivatives were hidden from view
                                                            who Who WHO?

    The crisis was avoidable
                                      disinformation ops on behalf of
    international finance capitalism
                                               usuriocracy

    like giving bunk directions to an
                                      elderly blind tourist

    mass protest movements
                 errupt
    responding to crime wave
    with peaceful alternatives, some
                                   riots and open revolts bloom

    12’ By the end of 11’
                Germany was estimated to have
    made more than €9 billion
    out of the crisis
                               investors flocked like vultures to safer
    but near zero interest rate German
                                         federal gov. bonds, binds, bundles, bunds, punds

    12’ July, the
    Netherlands Austria
    Finland benefit from
                                                    zero or negative interest rates
    may the reader pause for reflection

                                              the debt crisis crime wave forced
    5 out of 17 Eurozone countries
                    to seek help from other nations
    by Dec. 12’
                                            and no such thing as public opinion

    16 Dec. 2010
    the Euro Council agreed
    a two line cocaine fuelled amendment to the
                                                      EU Lisbon Treaty to allow a
    permanent bail-out
                                  mechanism to be established
                                      by political chicanery

    the Euro Stability Mechanism (ESM)
    is a permanent rescue funding
                                      programme to suck seed
    the temporary Euro’ Financial
             Stability Facility
                  and the Euro’ Financial Stabilisation Mechanism
    July 12’

    but postponed… until
    after the Federal Constitutional Court
    of Germany had confirmed
                                              legality of the
    measures 12 Sept’ 2012
                                   dragons snort rolling in pools of gold coin

    London excluded from
    future financial regulations
    including proposed EU financial
    transaction tax
                                and crime minster Cameron juggles
    his nukes
               who tried to buy peace with money?

    26 countries had agreed to the plan
    leaving U.K as only
                             country not willing
    to join.

    in case of economic shocks
    policy makers try to improve
                                  competitiveness
    by depreciating the currency
                           as currently in Iceland
    which beat-off the biggest financial
    crisis in economic history

                                               13’ China, India, and Iran
    with sluggish growth
    some drone attacks and
                     terrorism have NOT entered
                                                            recession

    however eurozone countries
    cannot devalue their
    currency
                                            as Silvio Gessel and C. H. Douglas
    and Ez might suggest

    this may nip usury in the bud
             and present a new solution to
                                                          boom bust cycles
                                  derivatives and crimes against nature
                                                              crimes against humanity

    “A system which becomes in practice merely another hidden and irresponsible tyranny is no better than any other gang of instigators to theft and oppression—Ez, the proof of the pudding. 1937.

    –Steven James Pratt (Fly Agaric 23) 25-28 May 2013.

    Steven James Pratt

  • Art and money, how?

    Art and Money?

    How is it, who issues it
    creative and yet counterfeit
    for nothing

    a second look
    double take
    the time space
    inversion with

    value?
    empty things in time space
    filled with space time
    what do you call it
    money or art?
    artney/moart?

    which technical abilities
    aesthetic reflections
    information content and
    originality

    in economics
    the painted euro
    fabricated pound
    sculptured dollar
    projected bit

    coin from paper to
    data and back to the newest
    paper cash

    canvas
    mini illustrated notes
    of limited beauty
    money as counterfeit art
    art as counterfeit

    money
    draw you notes now
    to Elmyr and twenty Bob
    what’s unique and rare art

    what value system is held
    in s/place my numbers
    5, 10, 20, 50, 100
    limited proportions
    artistic value

    distortions
    Art & money raise
    question:
    what is money,
    who issues it
    how?

    Steve ‘Fly’ Pratt
    (Amsterdam)

    Steven James Pratt

  • Police Horse Blues

    Police Horse Blues by Steve Fly

    I woke up one morning

    with a horse in my bed

    after a hard nights work

    this is what she said:

    –

    I don’t wanna work for those police no more

    Oh no, i just don’t wanna do it

    I wanna roam in the lush fileds and grass

    not bust up unions for Norman Tebbit

    –

    So i brushed up my horse

    and took her round’ the course

    she ran like the wind

    and then she said at the end

    –

    I don’t wanna work for the Police no more

    they just treat me like a pig

    i don’t belong in the city at all anymore baby

    like a bear don’t belong in a wig

    _

    Then the cops came and got her

    carted her off with their trotter

    now she’s back on the beat

    stompin’ heads with shoes on her feet

    –

    Oh lord, that horse don’t wanna work for the police no more

    that horse just wants to run free

    if it was up to me honey

    I’d free dogs from the clutches too,

    let em’ all be.

    –Steve fly
    Amsterdam. Wednesday 15th May.

    Inspired by seeing two police horses foaming at mouth while on my way home from work today. Poor bastards, i thought. 

    Steven James Pratt