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Revolution of the Wolves

from Syzygy by Eighpse

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As a little baby boy
I was abandoned in the woods
I struggled to determine
who was evil or was good
I was pre-Manichaean, dude—
a nudist in the raw—
when a wolf who was a Buddhist
scooped me gently in her jaws
talk about a diamond
in the rough, all undeveloped
I was protoplasm, spasming,
in Heaven, still enveloped
in a haze, and the amazing thing:
she fed me power pellets
and Scooby Snacks and taught me
how to stay away from booby traps

–But who’d he ask to help when it was time to change his diaper?

I didn’t wear a diaper,
I was training as a sniper
With the vipers that inhabited
The holes around our cave
Learning death as a profession
from the lessons that they gave
A viper with the venom
piercing leather, melting denim
cuz when in Rome, homey
I’m binomial as Leningrad
and Petersburg, I’d feed the birds
and when they started eating
I’d pounce and kill the leader
and the feeding turned to bleeding
it was savage, but me needing
me protein and me so greedy,
she taught me how to dance
and bring the rain to the Kapiti
plain
and my graffiti
curled in funky types of letters
I taught them to the wolves
who thought me craftier and better
than the average animal and when
I came out with the wheel
we began to gain dominion
and to manufacture steel
the factor was appeal
to the violence of the wild
harnessed by the brilliance
of a wolf-raised human child...

(other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)

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from Syzygy, released December 26, 2020
D.Dahlinger track/production
art by Ikeda Manabu

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Eighpse Tokyo, Japan

poet, performer, writer, translator, curator, creator, professor. author of Syzygy (2020). co-author Sea of Trees: Poetic Gateways to Aokigahara. co-author √IC: Redux. Editor-in-Chief of Tokyo Poetry Journal.

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