RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.
I've done disappeared into every dilapidated corner & crevice of Virginia
born & bred (& taking that thoreau at walden thing about a couple square inches to heart)
easy to slip off to eastern shore's 1970s freeze frame
or wander the Blue Ridge landscape, chasing the clouds (sometimes in hydrocodone fog)
or slide back thru my homeland/wasteland of southside VA - that venn diagram of what used to be 804 but is now 434
[Did you know that if you divide 434 by 14, as if you were making a sonnet, you get 31? And that if you choose to count syllables in syllable-ass counting style, the two stanza haiku/tanka form is 31 syllables? So if you compose a 5-7-5 haiku with a 7-7 tanka, and then do 14 of them in a sonnet, it is 434 syllables? And that if you are born & bred Southside Virginia wanderlust wildbird poet who might think of doing such things in handwritten style on a notebook so that the 14 tanka stretch across pages so that the sonnet is entirely impossible to actually type in any readable by printed matter ways, it's a beautiful yet unknown poetic combination form called The 434?]
but where to go once all the local going is gone, & no longer make the blood fill your metaphysical penis?
disappear into the world? it seems impossible
I'm just a simple countryboy with skynyrd lyrics in my children's names, not meant to walk the streets of Istanbul (or Konya)
or walk through the Maghreb or Sarajevo (or Tirana)
or chase my wanderlust where no one talks the way I do
or mb the impossibility is the psychic fences put up, the same ones that cause ppl weaker than me
to think nationalist frenzied thoughts & to believe this place truly is an exception
rather than just another place where ppl do what ppl do
like everywhere else on Earth
maybe I am meant to be in Kabul
not flying under the radar
(because the literal implications of such a phrase in that place are wretched)
off the radar, not flying, idling
as unseen as possible
(& mb it is not possible to disappear there, please do not internet me with explanations of the realities of places we are not at because of things we have read about things which we do not know firsthand. this age of know-it-all dominance of knowledge is not one I believe in philosophically. if I cannot get it's dirt on my hands, I do not accept it as pure known truth. this is a dirtgod theory, that there must be microbiome & rhizome tendril connection to KNOW. sterile stainless steel white background wiki-knowledge does not infuse depth of realness.)
{but even if it is not possible to disappear to Kabul for example, there are so many corners and crevices on this giant Earth planet to do so, where even as whatever it is about me that makes me stick out I can blend in and disappear. where is my destiny? I don't know for certain, but I do not feel like I have walked through that place as of yet in my life.}
[Ahmad Zahir only lived for a prophet-like 33 years, who only spent about a decade in the 1970s actively fucking shit up with music, but cranked out over 30 albums in that brief period, feeling the muses deeply. It doesn't take long when you're truly tapped into that creative microbiome/rhizome/universal flow zone of Creation.]
heartbeat of anxiety, wondering for what the blood
pumps
hyper-pulse towards holographic horizon never more
than one right swipe away
digital nanoparticles manufacture data
which devils mine for details (keys) to gain
access to our psychology (neurology)
and implant their fear-based metaphysical fetal
position syndrome technologies
into our minds
the gut is a chorus (kin to the muses) saying
"NOOOOOOOO!"
in that indiscernible tingle linguistics way
science has yet to decipher fully (foolishly)
the heart is the frontline, where gut's resistance
to brain's ignorance is held at bay
hopefully (hope foolishly)
but how to trigger the muse? can brain force the
gut to talk more often (or at all)?
I have disappeared into music since the beginning
Sunday mornings with albums playing loud as
parents navigated hangovers (or dad was still drunk?)
were the most peaceful memories of back in the day
eggs & sausage cooking, stability in the
moment
soundtrack loud enough plenty of room to run wild
with play
music always been the muse caller
thus hoping to pierce the fucking nanoparticle
veil again
all of this of course means nothing too. digital
publication of words is no longer exercises in true nonsense gibberish because
the nanoparticles have polluted us all to believe everything is important, all
must be curated, share every piece of info openly. we have been trained to
self-snitch and aid freely (without pay) in the manufacturing of data, to be
mined by the devils, to access our metaphysical spaces. still though, fuck it.
I’ll share these shards of fogged out hope stabbing through the invisible net
that has entrapped me, stifled me, slowed me down to where false concerns
occupy more of my grey matter than ever before. the bots have gotten to me, and
sometimes they even seem sexier than the real thing. that’s why the sensuous
siren song of the muse is gone – I am digitally domesticated, trapped inside an
electromagnetized fence, afraid to escape because of all the predators they
have told me await just on the other side of lolololol meme.
[when an American, who liked DJ Screw, was an EPL star]
[25-Man Metaphysical
Roster is a football dork methodology meant to establish a listing of players
who have been most active for English Premier League teams in their past 100
non-friendly matches. Essentially, it is calculated by minutes played, but weighted
towards most recent games. The end result is a listing of the 25 players in a
team’s recent history who have had the largest hand on their metaphysical
sporting trajectory. The English Premier League was chosen because it is the
highest level of football played in an English speaking country, and I speak
English. Also, it is what comes on TV here in the USA, where I fucking live. And
yet still I should clarify I hate English, and also America. Thus maybe I hate
myself. Should I not fail in maintaining my unpaid deadline, a new 25-Man
Metaphysical Roster will appear on the 1st and 15th of every month.]
When I was first getting into EPL, I had
contemplated being a Spurs fan, but then I came to my senses. Anyways, catching
up on old dork data. No blurbs.
#1: Eric
Dier
#2: Hugo
Lloris
#3: Christian
Eriksen
#4: Dele
Alli
#5: Toby
Alderweireld
#6: Jan
Vertonghen
#7: Harry
Kane
#8: Son
Heung-min
#9: Ben
Davies
#10: Victor
Wanyama(previously #23 for
Southampton on 1-Aug-2017)
#11: Moussa
Dembele
#12: Kyle
Walker
#13: Kieran
Trippier
#14: Moussa
Sissoko
#15: Harry
Winks
#16: Danny
Rose
#17: Davinson
Sanchez
#18: Michel
Vorm
#19: Erik
Lamela
#20: Vincent
Janssen
#21: Kevin
Wimmer
#22: Serge
Auerier
#23: Fernando
Llorente(previously #17 for Swansea
City on 1-Nov-2017)