People Poems · CTP-0002

Goddess & the 13 Candles

2024-09-14 · Legion Park Farmers Market

Original typewritten page for Goddess & the 13 Candles by Chris the Poet
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Transcription

Is "Goddess" nece ssary? It's the word I speak of, not the ineffable entity, For a true God or "Goddess" c annot be c ontained by a measly word-thing-- But this addendum to the infinite, to the uncontain ed: this "-dess" Like to say femininity is extraneous-- like a 13th hour--to what is an essential, defined core...or even to say "God" is an incompletion, a non-started, aborted in the mouth -- how can we make such a vulgar rhetorical battleground of that which we claim to worship? So, just God, is it? Man and his limitation, his precious, gleaming coin in that hollow purse called a mouth-- words: hot air esc aping strange-formed hot air balloons loitering the horizon this way and that, inflated worth, these words, if you ask me--heat and yet something less-- Where's the sense in the poet disparaging his materials, his medium, his marble, his clay? Who can say...in anything but more words, words, words--borrowed, invested, divested, exchanged, watch where they've been before you borrow them on your tongue (else you might taste cocaine and g-string). God God God Goddess Goddess Godhood say it until all meaning is lost and your prayer might start getting somewhere, rising and rising like a holy woman's heat in a chapel or her 13 candle-flames.