Nobody Intellectuals

By Lotophagi

I hang suspended in the hallways of nobody intellectuals,
the strangers of this generation that slay the blood from their hands
and the engraving from the metal plate; writing on a wall.
I sit with my back turned against the cloth of secrecy,
obscuring the vision of the youth standing in front of me
and I understand their anguish in dissociated lives.

This side of popular culture stands the beat of a drum,
unlike that seen in the streets of walking decay,
hammering with uneven pattern;
a design filled of rhythmic, randomised echoes
from the stillborn child, wrought to fulfil empathy of morality.
These legions of cerebral individuals lead the charge
to cleanse themselves of the gorging from the eras preceding them,
wash away the festering moulds of gluttony corporate insatiability,
the peak thus far in the globalisation quest of the civilised society
to become a truly ethnocentric superior system.

But they separate from conventions of thought,
meander off the path in search of new exploration,
gather the armies of the new age
to kill what is left behind in the ravaging of an old corruption.
The question of the quest my friends is this,
have we yet learnt from ancient mistakes,
or are we still to flog the channel we follow blinded
in the certainty of our supremacy of status on earth?

Take the hands of the corpse beside you my dear,
show how much you cared for the revolution
of an avant-garde empire, converted to conservative flaws.
And as you moan your disbelief regarding the death of an echo
turn not to me but to the society blemished by the doings of age and time,
whisper your fears to beloved institutions and understand
that they too have evolved with time into a commercialised company,
and never have had your concerns held within the heart of a conviction in faith.

Where will you turn when the glass skies above you
crack into splinters, tumbling from the airy recesses overhead,
where will you look when the radium poisons your mind
and takes the lives of your fore bearers and future fruits?
The faction to which you belong has elasticity,
so stretch it to an absolute limit and see what has do be done,
look beyond the infinite historical conventions invented
to prophesise a future of this ethnocentric civilised humanity.



Lotophagi

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Copyright 2004 Lotophagi
Published on Tuesday, October 19, 2004.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: Amazing...amazing....amazing...and...amazing... no, shitty comment that would've been, I know. You have this gift, of seeing everything and giving it the artistic potential it needs. It's practical but deep and dark and riveting at the same time. I actually envy it in a way. I'm satisfied with my emotional poems and trying to express every corner and crevice I can cover, but, this type of writing could inspire me.

  • A former member wrote: this was epic and so so so true. it seems with everything you write you never waste a breath or use an unnecissary word. that amazes me, really. ....-samone

  • TheBardOfBlasphemy On Wednesday, July 20, 2005, TheBardOfBlasphemy (357)By person wrote:

    Written with the forethought and clarity of an intellectual and yet criticizing the very same thing. Powerful ideas here

  • A former member wrote: Outstanding. A very monumental piece declaring a very powerful state of mind. Without a doubt a work of art worth stamping in places where the public can see.

  • AniDayz On Tuesday, April 5, 2005, AniDayz (812)By person wrote:

    absolutely brilliant[that being an incredibly sad understatement]. i am completely struck by every part of this piece, pulling at every cell in my body...you are *wisewisewise* beyond belief...i respect this write with my whole heart.

  • knightmirror On Friday, February 4, 2005, knightmirror (426)By person wrote:

    i am put on the ground by this....brilliant...that's to say the least....*where will you look when the radium poisons your mind and takes the lives of your fore bearers and future fruits?*....just to make one quote....i will definitely come back to this a

  • knightmirror On Friday, February 4, 2005, knightmirror (426)By person wrote:

    again....to get another feel for this...to look a little deeper....to see a little more clearer....thanks...-knight

  • A former member wrote: Superb writing. I enjoyed every line.

  • A former member wrote: information age...devoid of value...full of pleasure and selfishness...i feel you. you should read "the closing of the American Mind", by ALan Bloom...good write, and not just because we think alike..hehe

  • ShadowFlight On Monday, November 1, 2004, ShadowFlight (105)By person wrote:

    I really like the way you think... either that or you're hanging around in my world... great write!

  • OLd SouL On Thursday, October 21, 2004, OLd SouL (717)By person wrote:

    I would say write a book for me.. I could read you all day long.. but it would take ages for me to finish.. I would have to put it down every hour and digest the words for days. Unique and well appreciated you are. :::OLd

  • A former member wrote: something new and refreshing indeed, quite unlike anything else i've read on here. my warmest welcome to our humble abode. awesome write.

  • A former member wrote: you are real and i second to what doctor just said...me thinks if we need to give her pen and swords, i bet she will really make a difference..awesome write..

  • DoctorAsh On Tuesday, October 19, 2004, DoctorAsh (371)By person wrote:

    very very very nice .. a statue of wood now rises from my pants, we need more poets like you - where is the button I must push to duplicate you. Excellent write. [D&A]

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