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  • Itza Chichen

    Itza Chichen by Steven ‘fly’ Pratt

    … that a Hawk, a Condor
    a vulture capitalist
    encircling the stone Temple?
    Kukulkan we come in

    a good morning Solstice sun
    casts 9 serpent shadows
    back down the Pyramid

    nose
    of feathered
    serpent: Quetzalcoatl
    in Chinese dragon year of
    2012, tick-tick & galactic

    alignment, Ahowl!
    21st of Pope Greg’s December
    this Venus morn
    the Mayan Baktun
    long count calendar

    counted itself
    into a new cycle
    at 5:11 a.m, i counted
    but lost track at thirteen

    Terence Mckenna & Jim
    Joyce playing about
    my write hemisphere
    with twinned
    trickster

    spirit voice:
    Ez & Charles Olson
    constructin’ scaffolds tward
    ma left

    Here under Chichen Itza sun
    gods meet in tents
    the Glyphs & dynastic

    histories multiple
    brewed into one river
    us individuating current

    Natural forms & DNA streamin’
    washwishing thru geoglyphy
    Ez’s ideogramix
    Joyce’s cross wordsley

    glossalilya
    here in seahorse
    frog snake vulture tortoise
    Venus star jade and Peyote
    force

    tale of the tribe
    swung by the Yucatan today
    some tales were fatted for
    news

    snakes, some woven
    Astro-archaeo
    linguistix

    ancient theology
    indigi’ and geni’ study
    shawomanism

    Mystery dubbled
    helix’d
    smoke on mirrors & dates
    & hours numbers knots

    Messy
    American stooges & wots
    Your epic poem of
    All-at-once History
    math magix and name games
    transfix and go
    hunting minds for a fuck
    in hot letter flames

    solid pictograms stare out
    of the greystone faced
    eyes and skulls of Mayan
    facebook profiles

    speech crawling brief
    tired and tensely
    along glyphic contours

    like army ants
    contemplating NSA
    global data centres from a
    leaf

    –Steven ‘Fly’ Pratt.
    (January 20-23rd January 2013)

  • Shannanigums Wave Book III Chapter XII

    Shannanigums Wave Book III Chapter XII

    Spore Of The Words

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/g5uev86

     

    Steven James Pratt

  • OOCUPY

    For the OCCUPY movement, the people and the spirits.–Steven James Pratt (Fly Acrillic 23)

    Occupy Your Mind
    The skies
    The stars
    Occupy hearts parks forests and stores

    Occupy The Streets
    Tweets
    And Occupied Toilets
    Occupy Beats and sing to highlight deceit to foil it

    Occupy War Street
    Your Walk
    Banksterdam,
    Occupy the Vatican of worms if you can

    Occupy Loan Don
    Switchaland
    Franchise,
    Occupy Organize Codify Ampliflies

    Occupy Pounds
    Occupy Cents
    Occupy Bill’s
    Occupy Beverly Hills

    Occupy Pence
    Occupy jails
    Occupy rents
    Girls penned in by pigs behind a fence,
    Poisoned like snails

    Occupy Bonds
    Dollars
    The Euro,
    Occupy The Bureau with Neuro Scholar Judo

    Occupy the Spyguys
    Occupy in face
    Occupy to Shock the eye
    The Ochre clings to the pepper spray
    Red Octopi tents tackle dragons and lions
    Occupy Occidental
    Sock your thigh your legs
    Occupy your pants my dear
    Occupy a wig
    All through October we’ll
    Occupy a jig
    Let’s Occupy November
    December through March
    Arab Spring and all,
    Then we’ll Occuply […….]
    And the Seasons revolve,
    Occupy the planet earth
    Coagulate, Solve.
    Steven James Pratt

  • NAUGHTIES DECADE 2001-2011

    DECADE 2001-2011

     

    INTRODUCTION

    Hi I finally got around to posting this, it’s been hanging around for a while. I hope you’ll forgive my errors, any feedback will be well received.

    So friends…which events seem important to you? Which would you choose to define any given period of time? How do you make sense of them, what conditions nurtured them, which human interventions and which natural disasters led to the events you pick?

    If we are to make sense and meaning of history, and sanity–a risky endeavour in these times of global Internet but one which any poet worth the name might pursue–then a ‘poem including history‘ of the last decade seems a good place to start to me. (after writing this introduction I learned that Mark Zukenburg and facebook plan to release a ‘timeline’ application that allows for a similar chronological study of events. However History also moves in cycles, and non-chronological spirals, it is of my opinion.

    The launch of Wikipedia in February of 2001 has impacted this writing a great deal due to the simple list of some events deemed worthy of inclusion by the Wikipedia commons group, that are made available for all to see and make sense of at your own risk. The risk seems to me to be somewhat reduced when attention is paid to the subjective nature of perception, and to methods such as ‘operational language used by some-but-not-all scientists and ‘E-prime’ and its variants, used by some-but-not-all linguists.

    When put Into chronological order it becomes increasingly difficult for me to avoid drawing conclusions based on the ordering, one thing leads to another, or so it seems to a linear oriented mind set. The question remains: which ‘events’ should become pivotal ones and which shall be relegated to the footnotes or relegated all together? How did the author or protagonist come to choose such events based on which values and principle, what ordering system, what right knowledge? How many are justified by later events and how many need revision, considering, let’s say; the Wikileaks exposures of the period 2007-2010, or the News Corp. phone hacking racket?

    Silent But Dudley: Black Country Blues

    by Mr Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/7KhqHcL

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  • Race Riots and Revolution in the UK

    Hi,

    The riots in the UK earlier this month (aug. 6-10, 2011) have provoked a number of textual reactions and experiments from me that I present here in a mish-mash-up style. Typically I have the beginnings of lots of different ideas, poems, screenplays, on-going research and rants. I might need some help editing some of this stuff.

    I decided that Race Riots and Revolution in the UK could be a title theme that runs through these writings. Please enjoy, share and feedback. And remember to try and think happy thoughts as ften as possible. Please, thankyou.

    1.

    FLIP FLOP CIRCUIT
    Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Bombs, Massacres, riots, revolutions, eclipses, sun flares.
    New friends, free storage space, wikipedia, social network, medicinal Marijuana.
    Banking fraud, spying, physical abuse, murder, robbery, torture, gang violence.
    Flash mobs, geodesics, massage, wireless power, permaculture, genomics, crowd funding.
    Phone hacking, arms dealing, oil spillage, shooting, rape, volcanic eruptions, bee death.
    Space flight, organic farming, e-bay, yoga, twitter, multi player gaming, aural sex.
    Coercion, sea pirates, con-men, lawyer run capitalism, road side bombs, liars, cheats.
    Tablet computing, prosthetics, hormone therapy, MP3’s, hugs, open source democracy?
    –Steve ‘fly’ Pratt 23
    2.
     
    QUESTION CRIME?
     
    Bits and thoughts like branches and leaves budding
    earth seasons seem to bring politcal and ecological changes,
    the city map of life inside a city map world ripped by a rat.

    Talkers gasping for fresh air, to make sense of the senses
    to pit poverty of imagination against scandalous expenses
    to lay seeds, to plough the fields and jump fences

    I am sucked into the babble slang and the prattle
    what’s in a name, what’s in a battle
    who traded pigs for whiggs, and precious coin for cattle?

    The scrupulus meanness of money magic
    the comedy in a staged collapse, tree’s felled: tragic
    politicians need MDMA for empathy and to help fight
    capitalist cancer outbrake.

    To gamble our land’s life support on the mad-Bull market
    gives off a reckless and putrid stench of rotting corpses
    cannibals of europe are eating their children,

    Each human mind encompasses the whole universe
    the whole multiverse contained inside a criminal thug?
    please, we are all interacting nervous systems beyond classification.
     
    –Steve ‘fly’ Pratt 23.
     
    3.
    HOW TO LOVE A HOODY?
     

    What does it take to love a hoody?
    never mind hug a hoody love a hoody,
    tuff love buddy,
    a flood of reasons to show empathy
    as some wise man once said ‘love thy enemy’
    so… how might we love a hoody

    What’s inside that hood

    Who’s under the street monkhood
    What creature lurks beneath the Addidas and the Nike garnments
    What feet creep across broken glass in Fila boots
    what’s inside the head wrapped in Burberry
    all day crime think? think again, 

    These are human beings just like you,
    criminality seems a pretty flimsy stick these days
    as one man goes down for knickin’ a shirt
    another walks, like Tony Blair, what is fair?
    To me Tony is no better than a hoody,
    Gangster activity, lack of insight and foresight,
    disrespect, bad judgement, personal benefit
    at the scandalous expense of others.
    Criminal intelligence is intelligence

    none-the-less.

    a gang is a group or slang for a coup
    on the sinister crime-minister’s ‘gang-think’
    David Starkey scans the culture darkly, 
    dimly, shortsightedly.

    –Steve ‘fly’ Pratt 23.

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  • TTOTT in 12 lines or less

    TTOTT in TWELVE by Steve ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt.

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

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  • Stephen Hawking: RIVERRUN ENVIRONS.

    Joyce’s ‘pancosmos’
    may still yet send shock waves throughout the physics
    Cluster community consciousness…may yet, may yet.
    (and the global internet by default)
    if we would give equal credit to
    the inner-space of mind-like spaces,
    & the outer-space and external phenomena: still mind-like in fact,
    I guess… see our faulty wonky perception, the
    Shadows often mistaken for the ‘things’ themselves.

    LO! to balance the equation of being, of being, of being
    Like how James Joyce seems to balance ‘being’ the equation
    With holographic prose, prose writing the tightrope, spun prose;
    Innovated, deployed and distributed evenly
    Trughout Finnegans Week.

     

    Time flows like a river and it seems as if each of us is carried relentlessly along by time’s current. But time is like a river in another way. It flows at different speeds in different places and that is the key to traveling into the future, —Stephen Hawking.

    riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend
    of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
    Howth Castle and Environs. —James Joyce.

     

     

  • TY is for TRANE YOURSELF. Nov. 2003

    TRANE YOURSELF.
    By Fly Agaric 23.

    Fly: Selected Poetry

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/3of5XFj

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  • WP for World Piss: The Spore of the Words 08 (now Shannanigums Wave)


    Merryvirgin forbed! But of
    they never eat soullfriede they’re ating it now. With easter
    greeding. Angus! Angus! Angus! The keykeeper of the keys of
    the seven doors of the dreamadoory in the house of the
    household of Hecech saysaith. Whitmore, whatmore? Give it over,
    give it up! –James Joyce, Finnegans Wake Page 377

    Spore Of The Words

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/g5uev86

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  • 30 Seals: The spore of the words. Cuts.

    Ice Birch* deep blue coral fungus ocean of azure Tahoe.
    Fade blue in my memory but i am trying to stain deeper
    Granted green tin flash of emerald, amber, merald gambosa fade,
    To Sun* burnt toast, lavender fade, sparkle swirl, short circuit
    Electric blues, now white moire swirly glass, misted frost neopolitan
    Isje cream, royal blue diamond swirly xanthoderma blueberry,
    Maple fruit fire and burnt, ouch swirlyelloworanga tanned black
    Coal to white swan snow burst, zebra wood with orange teeth
    And black cloudcover, cedar teac toxoranga tanned, turning crillick
    Birch* brazen backface to amanita virosa and whiteyellow,
    Brawn twisted lingreening, twisted tomaat finnash ash monty
    Python snakeskins acorn texture nobbles and more cloud rounded
    Brown toffee swirl.

    Whats these 32 track loops about?. Looping. Am i now “LOOPY” huh?
    Timespace machine, built using dynamic sauce material,
    Churning with tribetableurns “The Cantos by Ezra Pound,
    “Finnegans Wake” by James Joyce, “Coincidance” and “Illuminatus”
    by Robert Anton Wilson. fuel for the engine which is a sort of map
    You seer it. Patience. Wait for wind. The paradox of a modern verse epic,
    A poetic response of a particular llicka’ writing from his own semihemi
    Milky shakespace perspective. Freethoughtout, throughout freedohm.
    Freedom attracts historikal forces from the future, imminace!
    Trancending any single consciousness or mument.
    Dubble dub plate vinyl sling slinging Aphex twin druqz
    Anna Livia Plurabelle Ambient music for airports Brian Eno
    Boards of Canada Anna Livia Plurabelle John Lee Hooker
    Country Boy Cabbage boy sausage doctor Anna Livia Plurabelle
    Boards of canada, Max 404 oddity Shem the penman Cyril
    Cussack Pressage The media Miles Davis live at Filmore
    Wednesday Miles Jello Biafra The big ka-boom part one Cabbage
    Boy sausage doctor Anna livia Plurabelle Shobhan Mckenna Timothy
    Leary Jimi Hendrix Buddy Miles You can be anyone this time around
    Aphex Twin druqs T.S Eliot East Coker from the four quartets Duke
    Elington. Sep 2005.

    USA. Spinning currency is good for productivity. Flowing free.
    Healthy circulation makes for good productivity – goods multiply;
    Wealth increases, health too. Stealth? who are YOU? We all live
    A happy good life with abundance and plenty. Our life blood flows
    Free as tree sap and our heartshead strong like oak.
    Add a correlative harmony between humanity and nature
    Spirit of dung and material wealth, self and cosmoss, above
    And hello hello’ smell the corpsemanure. Each and every
    Elemental of the mircocousin pull/pushes into re:relation with its
    Currespundingdong element in the macrocousin.
    Its a family affair. Twinkle Twinkle little star. How i wonder what precious
    Metal you are, Terrestrial to the celestial i wonder…Precious…Oh….my……
    Presshuss parasoil. The power to purchase can never (under the present system)
    Catch up with prices at large. Who issues it? how? Who blocks the bog and why?
    Seems like world trade organizations need a collonic.

    Blow it out your assets!

    30 SEALS

    Please support my writing:

    Spore Of The Words

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/g5uev86

    Steven James Pratt