WRITING - BROKEN REALITY/BROKEN POLITICS

DEMOCRISES

We continue with a selection from the yet to be published book, ‘Democrises’ with sections called ‘BROKEN REALITY/BROKEN POLITICS’. In the book Jack is exploring the failure of democracy; the voice of the people being subverted by the the voice of the State. Jack never minces his words when it comes to Politics. This gives the roots of his style of poetry called ‘broken lines’.

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BROKEN REALITY/BROKE POLITICS:

BROKEN (CONCRETE) REALITY:

Concrete reality is often spoken about in glowing tones; as the personification of the Real.

It is a harsh reality, born of the concrete sharp-angles of certitude and mathematical precision and meant for sharp-angled people, with cutting edges.

People who seek to hide away in concrete institutions, from the tidal flow without, that is, the incessant tide that brings change, reject fluid forms with a human heart-beat. They prefer the stillness of emptiness.

Concrete reality costs lives; brings death from its ingrained need for conquest.

Whenever anyone speaks of this concrete reality in those radiant terms, beware of the consequences.

They will lock fluid people in concrete cisterns, which do not permit flow. Ideas may float, but they are in stagnant water.

Ideological manifestos are really construction blue-prints for political gaols and correction centres, camps that concentrate the mind on the inevitability of mortality.

Barbed-wire fences hum with political ideological power; blister the skin and cut the paper flesh of the oppressed to shreds of unreadable testimonies.

We are left with ‘broken lines’ of poetry. Staccato pulses of resistance.

BROKEN POLITICS:

What is the animating principle in this world system? Could it be but a spirit of darkness, of trying to obscure the light? Or to slant it scientifically, perhaps the animating principle is one of anti-matter and to put it theologically, of Anti-Christ.

If you work through the system, or the system works through you, then sooner or later the Light will break through despite all your desperate attempts at securing its obscurity.

To find the animating principle, is to find the means of destroying the stronghold it has built to defend itself. Within the stronghold, that is where the slaves work, that is where the darkness holds sway and that is where the artist must go, albeit to the edge of it; shining into, but not shining in, it. After all, the aim is for an exodus and not a grand arrival.

Tunnels are best dug underground!!

Jack Stanza