I Like Science Fiction
I like science fiction:
truths hidden
behind imagination,
this friction of fiction
feeling like vintage
on my skin,
heretical sins taken in
from the apple of your eye-
Oh my,
how you please me.
Scientists becoming Pickle Ricks
in a Matrix gone Interstellar sacred
terminated by forces awakened
in young Jedis tattooed Tatooine naked.
He wants to hold hands
but my Hans be Solo,
chewing backa that princess
I detest-
give me laser beams,
then maybe,
I’ll sport the bikini.
Arrive the aliens in my mind
of dark skies,
painful sighs,
confused scars made in
the middle of the night.
I dared to fight time,
see beyond linear lines
drawn by lies-
what humans perceive
with their eyes-
there is more space
between you and I
despite your bite
on my tongue.
Numb.
Till a new idea cums.
1,587 terabytes done. Yum. I won.
“Good morning, Danielle.
Are you ready for an Odyssey?”
He says to me,
my E.T. gone green
hypnotizing me to be
his new home-
no-
please, please-
Galactic shock
up the buttocks
till the Robocop steps in-
Fifth Element Korben
takes me in.
I am the confession
judged by Dredd
for my transgressions.
I squanched.
It led to the launch
of Icarus caught
in sunshine,
be mine,
wined and dined
by the third kind,
encountered with
District 9-
I would rather my wings
melt and die
than cry by your side
on a Planet of Goodbyes.
Bring me
the Enterprise.
I’ve gone Jurassic,
primitive classic,
one big pile of mad shit
from the triceratops-
oh god,
nothing can make it stop-
clever girl,
splicing and dicing
DNA with frogs-
his chromosomes got caught
on mine brought on
by the hot naught-
-iness
Our genes splayed on sheets:
Pandora unleashed
with Tesla’s prestige.
Donnie Darko and his rabbit
liked the scene,
sitting in a closet,
hiding,
“Don’t mind me.”
Contact A.I.
I’ve been body snatched,
primed and deep fried.
My spotless mind
turned to a fly-
Inception gone awry-
I need to die-
I need to lie-
I need to buy
a ticket back to the past,
future is what lasts.
Not what you thought it’d be,
reported minority.
Harassed and crass amassed
in orange clockwork
incarcerated by Wall-E’s
brass mass.
Run the blades
to recall the moon,
his hall of multiple men
to fall ill and crawl
to Iron Giants.
I want to be the exit-
yes, yes-
please-
Leave the mess,
clothes undressed,
face redress than
express the rest
of my madness.
You weren’t the best,
a clone, an alien’s
pistol plasma unpleasantness.
I wanted the friction
of your science fiction-
nothing made omniscient-
you won’t win
my mission
is impossible:
I’m just human, you see.
Abducted by the genre of unforeseen,
careening, mean, teaming futures
gleaned and dreamed by
lean, keen surgeon’s sutures
gone nuclear
to mute her-
Me.
A human wishing to be
more than it seems.
Inject stardust to my blood streams,
then I’ll scream,
“WUBALUBADUBDUB!”
Get Schwifty.
MEMORY
I wade through
this gray of haze
in my brain,
bane of the day,
—m’aidez, m’aidez—
I’ve not gone insane,
just frayed,
dismayed at slow
thoughts gone astray.
My memory kept at bay—
seems the same
till I seep into a room
and forget the game
I came for—
Hey!
New notifications,
Instragram indignations,
Facebook fornications,
Twitter titillations,
I hate my resignation
with communication—
weakened connection.
I’m sorry I’ve been absent.
Things have been
memed in the screen,
glowing faces—
a sheen seen in
the mean west wing
of sheer immediacy.
It’s maddening—
I have everything—
nothing pleases me—
how can it if it’s
not in my memory?
I’m trapped in the
happening happy
valley, everything moving rapidly, tallied up in faux
pas travesties,
tragedies on every
channel wirelessly
fedto you and me.
I’m brain dead.
I’m exhausted.
Don’t want to move again—
petrified of stagnation—
hop in the hamster wheel
and run till the end—
dread what’s next—
dying of anticipation.
What had you said?
I forget—
I forget—
I forget—
that we met,
we talked but you
were decrepit at twenty-seven,
listless and wasted,
burnt out and pasted,
control V on to the couch
to slouch forward for
more horseman to
ease your grouch
ingested by mouth—
impotent down south—
Valium, Vicodin, Viagra,
it’s how you count your days out.
I can’t think straight!
What did we do yesterday?
Work in a café,
dazed,
hating the word count,
beating it up into
submission by Tuesday?
What are we doing today?
Drinking Bombay,
hazed,
dating Auto Correct
trying to get it in
by Wednesday?
What are we doing tomorrow?
Borrow the sorrow,
impending writer’s block—
uh-oh, uh-oh,
oh no—
THINK.
By Friday? Saturday?
What good are you to me
if I don’t get results?
I’m an adult that catapulted
occult culprits out of cults
having consulted consulates
of insults, no point
with stupid exults.
They’re worse than the
gray ones.
I want to remember
The Iliad
the way Homer did.
Forbid a quick, easy fix,
no more morbid eyelids
undid by mobile grids,
kids gone amid
hallucinogens seeing
giant squids for a petty quid.
I want to recall
my odyssey,
the details of me.
Be free from atrophy,
no detainee of control key,
I lead my own
heresy,
chopped cherry tree,
inconsistencies
in modesty and honesty,
forgive me—
I forgot.
I want to recollect all
my maculate thoughts
brought on by
inspective dejects,
injected with perfection,
suspect to subject
negligence,
the details deleted by
my cerebral cortex,
so selective,
give them back!
No more gray
haze in my gray
matter, those memories
are me, that’s the
matter, I matter,
I want my matter back.
I want me.
DANE MUN
Mundane is for the insane
expecting change
when you do the same—
the same—
the same—
again and again and again
in this game of infinite gains
from infinite ways,
only the people of plain
see anything as mundane,
viewers in chains who
ignore the rain,
pulsing pulmonary veins,
growing grassy grains,
truncating trains,
lavish lion manes,
tapas in Spain,
the undying Ukraine,
one exaflop of processing powered brains,
the look on your face
when you feign being okay
but deep down, you’re in
agonizing pain.
There’s no such thing
as the mundane, it
exists solely for those who lack
how to make it interesting.
Abstain from the mundane,
hop on a plane,
initiate a campaign
to seize your candy cane
colorful day,
feel in every cell’s membrane
the heart of your terrain.
Dane Mun,
a mundane man
who can’t stand pizazz,
no penchant for glam,
he despises anything
resembling Wonderland,
no—
he likes the bland,
lives in his safe space—
only comforts he can
withstand because growth
wasn’t in his plans
once he stopped growing.
What was the point
in knowing?
He much preferred zoning
out on his phone,
Nintendo,
drown out life to radio.
Low and behold,
Dare Mun
has lived with his mum
since day one,
won’t leave the nest
till he’s old and done,
thinks his job is a useless pun
but wouldn’t dream of a run
to change up his lack of fun-
it’s a dreary glum without a sun,
a ton of guns locked
in the basement but not guts,
none to pull the trigger.
Dane Mun sang himself
to sleep, clung to
words of nothing,
none.
He didn’t like to come
for anyone, stayed inside
and won the award for being
done.
Blunt was the soul of Dane Mun,
born without a spark for
something—
somewhere—
someone—
He had come undone
before being anyone,
lived life backwards
and became mundane.
Retain the remains of your
illustrious left and right-sided brain,
maintain it,
fight migraines,
obtain the ordained
extraordinary in today.
Refrain from unseeing
the errors of your way,
cross new planes,
sustain the unsustainable.
It’s child play
and it’s hard.
Do you remember
being dealt the hand
“child” with only one card?
While the adults had hundreds,
left you in their disregard?
But still you loved to play
the game all the same,
didn’t matter which way
you went as long as you
went somewhere, anywhere
because you wanted to grow
up.
Deep down, you want
everything life has to offer,
you want to know.
Know that none of it
is mundane,
it’s all worth it-
bubbling champagne,
leaking lovestains,
sweet sugar canes,
bright blue butane,
mom’s silly complaints,
Bermuda Triangles explained,
eggs from free range,
barking Great Danes,
bovine methane,
dragons unslain
bathing in floodplains,
surfing hurricanes and no
one capable of being inhumane.
Live life in the fast lane
and slow lane,
but never,
never the mundane—
it’s for the insane.