a pervasive sense of threat
     keeping him
from healing

skirts across an inky shore
     where lucky breaks do not come
shrugging off the buggering sense
     he won't live to see one

finding strength
     in spite of this

he goes beyond the great beyond
     glittering bumblebee
his magic craft
     alights & shimmies

he defiantly ascendant
     propositioning the spheres
with surrealistic swagger

a battlefield ballet
     that doth uncoil inchworm-like
his penciling in cockpits
     cloaked by loopy counter measures

that puts who he is in play
     although his soul remains unseen
even by the meanest
     and the keenest
     highbrow radar



© 1996-2010 KC wilder

KC Wilder's "WILDER BLUE YONDER" CD

Tracks now available from Amazon.com. If you like this website, you will like the tracks on this CD! Wilder collaborates with the Acme Rocket Quartet, mixing poetry and music; Hear free samples here.

"Outrageously delightful!" - Howard Zinn
"These lyrics are fun to listen to." - Allen Ginsberg
"Very entertaining, funny, and touching stuff." - Maximum Rock N Roll

'DEFIANTLY ASCENDANT' READER COMMENTS

Interesting but I'd like to see more comments
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