The havisham factor.a road trip.a

THE HAVISHAM FACTOR: A ROAD TRIP
PHILLIP.BALDWIN@GMAIL.COM
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1Saturday, August 17, 2013

Havisam factor: A Road Trip
The great expectations
That American wanted
Were over except
For those which came from
The inside
Of making.
On the road
Beatified
I was not disappointed:
Vast steel factories
Turned into casinos
Bethlehem.
Busloads of old
Whites,
Some blacks,
Many Chinese…all old.
Spending the rest of their pensions
Or the house they just sold for
A mint
Now on the blackjack tables
In a former blast furnace.
When the immediate present involutes
It is immediate satisfaction
Which is the itch.
This is the ‘anti-Faust’ hell
That denied a second chance.
And above ground the
Socratic pedagogues
Fight the
‘Narcissism of the small’.
The sound every body listens for is the ‘win’.
In the orgy which was industrial America
The farm boys emptied from the leveraged
Interior
Could find warm winter’s work
From the elements
From the rust belt snow.
Knew how to weld,
Would not starve…
Like my de-agrarian grandfather.
Making
Submarines.
The rust blast furnaces
…Too expensive to remove
Become
Tombs
Or ruins

To a great society of this industrial orgy
Boom and bust
Controlling spending desire
To have that radio
That model T.
I travel in my van
Removable room
Of urban layers
Smug that where I depart from
Unlike bovine hoards
All are thin
And have yoga classes
On top of working 60 hour weeks.
I push the Burgundy Astro further
Into Germanic lands
Everybody is heavy from drinking
Sugar water
Eating corn fructose…
And they wonder about their health.
It is all a function of education of course
Then stopping the harvest which is themselves
Havisham’s entitled sad nostalgia
That the contract is broken.
I drive on.
On the left of the radio dial
There is nothing but Christian evangelism.
This is less the opium of the people
And a store of vitamins of the weak
‘Always uplifting’
As I push through
Sugar water and tobacco food stores
Somebody has harvested them
Or?
Is it the insurance companies?
Is it food?
Is it the car leasing for the new tin?
Is it the home credit?
Is it the pharmaceuticals?
Is it
The prisoner’s dilemma of two?
Making more whelps to breed
Onward into
Great expectations?
Amongst the bovine
Are the scattered Stellas…
Knowing that they have youth
Fitness

And a thirst for a ticket out
With their bodies…. their destiny
Werden.
Young every men too…
Pip.
In this open land of whole towns
Replicated in miniature
Some idea of ‘it’s a wonderful life.’
Small and industrious…
Blind
Compulsive
Jingoistic…
Push a button and make
The blacksmith bangs out
Metal
In miniature…windmill turn…
Circus
Swirl.
60 years of perversion he spent
Some guy
To make this…
All of that sublimated libido…
Clipped Thanatos….
Youth is like clay…
It is writ into
You stay
And become fattened
Clay form never fired
Bulked by corn fructose…
There is
The youth
Less listening to
Anti-Moslem propaganda
And more with a thirst for a ticket out
Who go and hitch up….
Solider
To come back broken or amplified…
Fallugia is the
End of the nightmare casino.
There is the clay that breeds
Right away
Hearing the call of the wild
Inside
Make fat babies…
The Christian cover
Blankets all
With the bland.
The Amish look with small grins:
At least they took care of the diversions.

Havisam sits torturing Pip
With Stella’s sex…her porno beauty…
You can have this if you try…
From her dusty fragile interface…
Of a flea market room….
This is the contract broken
She says.
The highways of sugar water
Are
Filled with
Faith
In what?
To use Stella’s youth
As capital reserve
As the reserve
Of the toxic small
As flammable as
The every bit in this dusty
Internet room.
I am a fat left bride
Bridzilla gone
On
To make a parasite
Of her rapture and possibility.
Use it Pip…
For your engine at least…
Don’t settle for
Her
Wondrous idea of fecundity
As your
Drive
You will have dozens like her better
In the big city
I only use her
Because I am bored
Of redemption stories
And flea market detritus.

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