Monday, June 11, 2007

NAZI ART VAULT





NAZI ART VAULT






graffiti painting by Bood Samel, the "Tanks", south end of 49th St., 2004




I am thinking out loud and don’t want to imply




there’s any truth in what I tell you except the lie




looms large on the horizon slashed from ear to ear




just happy- faced with the results of terror and fear




has had on the working stiffs and the radical subjective saps




who create to live on the fringe that’s not quite where it’s at




the aliens under the radar pressed into service




by the all consuming Reich of real estate interest







Bagdadadelphia, maybe there’s somewhere healthier




no doubt it’s right to be worried now







there’s a big hole in the ground that won’t be null and void




for long, containers from China, the boats from Vietnam




cheap labour to dig the floor up to fit the fetishes got




under pretext of helping the third world here and there out




of the self fulfilling prophecy with foreign tyrants paid off




to make it look good to the bleeding hearts and ping-pong.




The Buck, the Yen,




a pound of flesh




and requisite dash




of salt under the skin







the stolen artifact




traded for sex




with a starved child




to weak to scream







it’s only another




Nazi Art Vault




come to an immanent domain near you




Spellbinder, hex laid on thick,







if only the Sea Witch knew




she’d give the devil his due




Beep heil, beep heil Nazi Art Vault com’n’ thru!




To a white washed black bottom near you.







Nazi Art Vault’s bigger than a bread-box




but never as large as a Black Hole




(there’s been a change in the zoning code




Beep Heil, beep heil Nazi Art Vault com’n’ thru!







UCD plus PNC is good clean family fun Nazi Art Vault




30th Street Post Office lost leased and Penned in by the tax




payer is Green Zone IRS Nazi Art Vault so is the World Cafe BBC




and the museum of Archeology the poster child of Nazi Art Vaults




Don’t mind the mad poet, don’t shoot the piano player,




nervous ticks, I’m possessed by beautiful Israeli spies




and I work down the Pike digging the Nazi Art Vault




for the absentee landlord and the precious gentrified.




I image you think, I imagine there’s something




not quite right with me and I witness the blistering




shell rise over the skyline Comcast like a gynecologist




high on meta- amphetamine scraping the heat inversion




architectonic, terrorist proof by volume and channel




locks to the degree the TV syndicates want us




to believe in God, in Country and the Nazi Art Vault




com’n’ through loud and clear channel high definition.







The acquisitive consumer could




just as well easily pump the blood




of a dozen Nationalguards men and women




into the gas tank of their SUV




or an Iraqi wedding party into a Hummer




but nothing compares to the capacity




of a spanking new Nazi Art Vault




popping up like poppies all over the Green




Zone phone home for a gold bricking binge.







They maybe the Beautiful People




but we’re better looking than them.




Carnivolution, Ellen Tiberino Memorial Museum. 6.8.07




note:




There's alot of local Philadelphia references here of course and then a casual reader might want to know the why and wherewithall of their inclusion. One needs to do a web search on the various references to get the impact perhaps of the usurpation of the great city's soul (including it's culture underground) by a combination of "conflict of interest" and immanent domain". And good luck in finding anything that is seeing the trees thru the forest! But I think we would all have first hand experience with the purpose of Comcast's erecting towers upon the metropolitan skylines, at least on the East Coast.




Otherwise I beg your forgiveness for the heavy handed polemics.