website will not be updating any more
for the foreseeable future
peace
- raven mack
Monday, September 25
TH3 L4VGHT3R 0F M1L1T4NT...
the laughter of militant
police as they recover
from tear gassing the public
Sunday, September 24
TRY1NG T0 ST1LL S33 TH3 SKY...
trying to still see the sky
while these madmen keep stacking
bricks higher all around me
4 TH0VS4ND T1NY BVDDH4S...
a thousand tiny Buddhas
manufactured in China
scattered across five acres
Saturday, September 23
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 13: KAISEI (8-5)
("Dohyo's edge" starring River Phoenix)
Brazil is known for
jiu-jitsu, not sumo, but
along come Kaisei
previous basho, suffered
demotion to juryo tier
but big Brazilian
got back to makuuchi
in time for Aki
day thirteen, he was looking
to get his kachikoshi
Ikioi got him
turned the wrong way, stumbling, and
it didn’t look good
Kaisei recovered before
falling, still at dohyo edge
Ikioi charged in,
elimination in mind…
it didn’t look good
somehow Kaisei recovered
again, with slight sideways shift
as Ikioi hit,
Kaisei caught him by shoulder,
carried momentum
Kaisei’s recovery now
complete, kachikoshi made
no return down to
juryo next month for Kaisei,
position maintained
low center of gravity -
metaphysical level
MVLL31N B33N MY M1R4CL3...
mullein been my miracle
ear; like myself, it loves old
railroad tracks and riverbanks
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 12: CHIYOSHOMA (5-7)
(the knockout)
Chiyoshoma and
Nishikigi fell at same
time in sumo bout
looked pretty obvious that
Chiyoshoma had won though
but ref pointed the
other way, causing side judge
consultation thing
strangely though, Chiyoshoma
was not declared the winner
instead, do-over
was done, to break the untied tie
(sumo is sketchy)
Chiyoshoma wasted no
second chance at victory
Nishikigi got
knocked the fuck out split second -
long enough to fall
[slow motion repeats of both
men falling are transcendent]
men falling are transcendent]
D3W3Y D3C1M4L CLVST3RS...
Dewey decimal clusters
scribbled like the cryptic codes
they are, in thin blood red ink
Friday, September 22
M0LT3N 34RTH C0R3 SH4P3D 1NT0...
molten Earth core shaped into
steel sticks to help transport rats
back and forth with urgency
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 11: ONOSHO (7-4)
(Onosho rag-dolled for third straight L)
Onosho - after
eleven days - stood at door
of strong arrival
no one since Hakuho went
kachikoshi first three times
(a fellow sumo
enthusiast informed me
of this on twitter)
Aki basho seemed like it
could belong to Onosho
but eight wins appeared
more difficult a psychic
hurdle than he thought
losses day nine and ten left
Onosho looking shaken
Tochiozan was
his opponent this day - what
should be easy win
but Onosho never got
off the mark, smacked back, stifled
no forward progress
after his initial launch,
young Onosho lost
pushed out by Tochiozan
into dohyo-side front row
Onosho looked back,
flustered melancholy look -
psychic weight heavy
“how to turn this energy
back to something positive?”
big boy momentum
moves in metaphysical
ways as well as “real”
Onosho stood in that door,
but was not ready to cross yet
but was not ready to cross yet
C1ND3RBL0CK CLVB 0N SVND4Y...
cinderblock club on Sunday
morning back road Maryland -
scattered trash and bouncer's chair
PR0P3R P4P3RW0RK 0NC3 W4S...
proper paperwork once was
required for pigs to listen;
now they seize it from the sky
Thursday, September 21
P4R4S1T1C V1N3 CR34T3S...
parasitic vine creates
vein up white oak spine, thousand
spidery tendrils clutching
B4CKW00DS M3T4L S1GNS P3RF3CT...
backwoods metal signs perfect
for making buckshot patterns
while suffering mundane life
Wednesday, September 20
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 10: ISHIURA (2-8)
Ishiura, for
the love of the forest gods,
please eat your fish broth
your miniscule missile launch
style has become comedic
other rikishi
predict its arrival, so
please eat your fish broth
fill your chankonabe bowl
up with seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths
wrestling under shoot
name, driving your McLaren -
the novelty’s gone
less than a year removed from
your fighting spirit award
something is missing -
and perhaps added stones will
help uncover it
so Ishiura, please eat
your chankonabe with gust
your chankonabe with gust
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 9: CHIYOTAIRYU (7-2)
(slo-mo oh no Onosho)
western digital
commentary on sumo
unnecessary
adding to self-important
canon through tanka is too
my love for sumo
need not this expression to
be validated
my love is perhaps fetish,
tasting foreign big boy sport
“I enjoy sumo”
from sheltered confines trillion
terabytes away
an excuse to create gifs,
practice weak poetic forms
still though, I ask you
to regard Yung Onosho,
this basho’s upstart
three makuuchi into
his rapid (college boy) rise
this basho appeared
to be potentially his…
LOOK OUT ONOSHO!
BEWARE CHIYOTAIRYU’S
IMMEDIATE SLAPBOXING!
(fifteen bouts broken
into five-bout trimesters -
energetic’ly)
(it takes stubborn solid three -
connecting the trinity)
Onosho did not
look out day nine, and he got
slapped back down to Earth
Chiyotairyu palm thrust
way into my heart (today)
way into my heart (today)
[full bout if you so desire]
M4RBL3 M4RK3RS F0R K1DS T00
marble markers for kids too
young to have gotten named in
abandoned cemetery
SW1MM1NG THR0VGH 0XYC0D0N3...
swimming through oxycodone
fog in the upstairs back room,
lights (real and metaphor) dimmed
Tuesday, September 19
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 8: TAKEKAZE (2-6)
(the full bout, in gif)
old Takekaze
cracks me up, losing in most
spectacular ways
NEVER GET DEMOTED,
TAKEKAZE; (retire first)
old rikishi who
lack credentials for elder
status - what happens?
I hope old Takekaze
wanders abandoned forests
I hope he talks with
crows, and learns their mystery
polymath language
I hope he practices deep green
wizardry, blessing the woods
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 7: TAKANOIWA (5-2)
(slow motion absorption of open handed slaps)
a glorious day
seven slobberknocker with
vicious slaps galore
Takanoiwa absorbed
attacking energies well
resilient big
boy in the true big boy sport -
sumo, ya bitches
after slapfest was over,
Takanoiwa waited
when Kagayaki
fell forward with a feeble
attack - game over
Takanoiwa tossed my
boy, then stood victorious
(watch full video,
and see him twist his face like
“damn, motherfucker”)
(still though, “damn, motherfucker”
with those bonus envelopes)
with those bonus envelopes)
[full match below, had to google in Japanese again,
internet gentrification creates western hegemony]
TH3 S4DN3SS 0F 3NSL4V3D C0RN...
the sadness of enslaved corn,
forced into robotic rows,
spliced of all feral spirit
DR34MS 0F 0P3R4T1NG 4...
dreams of operating a
halal goat kebob food truck,
with homemade doogh recipe
Monday, September 18
M3CH4N1C4L R3S1ST4NC3...
mechanical resistance
to trends in consumption -
living that late model life
freestyle sonnet #096: MUNDANE LIFE OF BOREDOM
Quick cheap fast sonnet torn from stream of conscious since
day is full of mundane (fool Monday) and this work
I waste my hours (life) with... when I think causes wince
as hopelessness winches death closer, little perk
to step through bureaucratic labyrinth heavy
with devils angling passive aggressions at all
times. Fact of the matter is I'm shitty Chevy
Monte Carlo Supersport with less punch than stall,
sitting on three Daytons and a donut, riding
with little confidence through realm of leased Benzes.
I'm minimum payment in maxed out World, sliding
down actual wealth chart, in shit-tinted lenses,
being instructed to see myself as success,
while suffering somewhat relentless mundane duress.
S3C0ND-H4ND F4SH10N S3NS3 BV1LT...
second-hand fashion sense built
piece by piece from various
sources, learning to make do
Sunday, September 17
GVNS N' R0S3S P4T13NC3 L0VD...
Guns n' Roses' "Patience" loud
as fuck on Sunday morning,
gone from nowhere to nowhere
Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 6: ICHINOJO (4-2)
(had too google using Japanese for this clip)
an underwhelming
basho thus far, though perhaps
life’s what underwhelms
boredom and failure demons
circling, awaiting doomed flesh
“idle hands are the
devil’s playground” - biblical
quote I imagine
not one for reading bibles,
was raised firm sensualist
work is meaningless,
and home is obligated
entirely to work
both hours and money wasted
chasing unattainable
foreign digital
distractions (sumo, football)
do little to help
A: what the fuck is the point?
B: if no point, what to do?
life is too much like
this day six Ichinojo -
Kagayaki bout
life is like Ichinojo,
clutching, in fact crushing you
with relentless grip,
it weighs against you; you think
“how do I get free?”
the weight doesn’t ease enough
for obvious opening
finally, you think
in frustration, “fuck it, I’m
gonna make my move”
soon as you do, relentless
unforgiving life throws you
lying in a heap
(yet again), you look up, and
wonder what the fuck
there is no answer, no point -
it is endless (yet, you’re not)
it is endless (yet, you’re not)
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