Poems (211) Pandemic

By Elias Sassoon

Poems composed in a state of societal disruption, contusion and near complete destination. Combined with political insolvency and perpetual hatreds and fears, the collection was composed and then deposed. Remember the time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elias Sassoon
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9780463896426

Elias Sassoon

I am a houseplant fanatic and collector. My collection of tropicals, cactus and succulents, african violets and rare bromeliads have been chronicled in the New York Times and New York Newsday. I am also the author of published novels, short story collections, and non-fiction. These include: Brothers of the Four Corners; Sassoon’s Sketches; Headhunter’s On Parade; Hero Bountiful; Jewish Days; Some Arab Souls Dripping; Pig’s Court America; Record of Mutilation; Sassoon’s Friends; Sassoon’s Sketches For A Saturday Afternoon, The Sassoon Society; Costume Parade; The Brilliant Idiot’s Club; Tales Of The Syrian Night; Tales Of Modern Judea; Oriental Cover-up; The American God: A*NOVEL*Tale; Menopausal Musings & Other Stories; Blackened Nights; Sassoon’s Heart Beatings (poetry collection); Sassoon’s Work Burn (poetry collection); Scholastic Carcinogens (poetry collection); Strumming Through Middle Age (poetry collection); An Individual’s Dream (Philosophy); 13 Months of Sassoon, A Diary of Time (non-fiction diary); Sassoon On The Art Of Creative Writing; The Diary Of An Unemployed Gentleman (non-fiction); Hashish Dreaming. His credits also include published articles on Middle Eastern subjects. Mr. Sassoon has a Masters Degree in Islamic Studies from McGill University in Montreal

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STAGES IN AGES

Stages in confounded confusion set to rigid standards.

Staged maliciousness.

Fixed positions in life.

Running up and down aa iron ladder with its voided top.

For what? For when? For where?

Choices, humans fixed in undemocratic phases.

Free will, none to decipher. Free will, none to bare.

A sad state of illusion that is delusion.

FERRIS-WHEEL SAGE

Programmable loops.

Execution in devolution.

Instructions within digital morass.

Morass featured in computer hieroglyphics.

Executing steps within circles that repeat.

Efficiency promulgated in orderly ration.

Instructions repeated loops

Loops of IF and the ENDIF attributes

Instructions mimicked and circled.

DO and WHEN constructions.

Repeat, spin, wash, repeat, spin, wash.

Humdrum to the boredom.

Portraits in life steps, executed and administered.

Exact order duplication twirling towards a terminus.

Looping through execution.

Orders in digital steps.

Conditions met. Passage complete.

Execution terminated. Loop beguiled.

Termination in actuation.

Program ceases to the nihilist pose.

REBELLIOUS INTRUSIONS

Blighted, marinated, confiscated, plagiarized, removed

Rebellious attacks against the queue that is you.

Rebellion against following the familiar patterns of the cherished familiar.

Artists, writers, philosophers, wayward political scientists beware.

Taking the humdrum and trying to turn it on its head.

Attempting to remove the patterns and replace them with a new spark.

Fighting to go beyond the intransigence of a traditional blend of tradition.

Artists, writers, movie makers, philosophers, people of science.t following down the numbered lists.

Lighting fires to procedural technicalities.

Zooming in on zooming out.

Changing for the sake of instilling new thought.

Mystics seeking God; political scientists seeking pathways untold.

Seeking to blur the lines, remove the lines, shatter the lines.

Rebellion against, rebellion for.

Humdrum places with numbered lists of life be told.

The end of the mindless and a vote for the mind-for

TRADITIONAL BOMBASTS DISSOLVED AND DISSECTED

Property distinctions foreshadowing demise and constraint.

Yesterday, then, past dues, charred memories.

Yesterday, did it that way, yesterday, must be the way, yesterday.

Yesterday sanctified in the trough of cement surrounding the breathing apparatus..

Today in lockstep with yesterday, following sanctification and pacification.

Past judgements swelling into present tirades.

Today, obeying the registered regulations never proved or in the groove.

Traditional morass into current muck and mire.

Daily lives spun on fabrics long won.

Some good traits passed on to the surrogates of past directions.

Many repugnant calamities passed on and surrounded with blasphemy transgressions.

Sanctification of the structures born in the age of darkened intelligence.

Sanctifications of history book tales!

What sanctifies past beguiled movements that led to the ravages of the natural codes?

Sanctification based on what?

Sanctification, not science redeemed; sanctification, power brokers allure.

Doing it this way then

Performing it that way.

Worshipping it your way then.

Obeying it my way then.

Follow the bouncing ball for centuries of long deceased humility.

Logical implications then.

Right makes flight; flight makes tradition, tradition makes law; law makes the spotted carriers of yellow fever blights.

Traditional bombasts leading to current currents of medicinal arsenic infusions.

Horrors passed and prided within the bosom of a worshipping world order.

Sanctification as the jailhouse of perfidious hearts.

Perdition as the teacher of history in mundane schoolhouses filled with the cyclical assemblage of the old and tired.

Sadness is everyone and everywhere.

A conclusion reached?

Goodnight and god bless.

HISTORICAL HYPERTENSION

History is not the teacher.

Barbarism engulfing times down deep.

History is not the teacher.

Cruelty on mass scales that garner up the victims in wheelbarrows of our times.

History is not the teacher.

Stupidity masquerading as political philosophies that do not outlive the century into which they are born.

History is not the teacher.

Man’s inhumanity to man that decimates the beauty and raises the scorched earth.

Explaining it all; understanding it all.

Lack of mind combined with lack of feeling combined with the inability to think, culminating in the stupidity of perpetual thoughtless action.

History is not the teacher but is the recorder of all that it surveys.\

MOTHER KNOWS

I know.

I am sure.

Sure of myself, not yourself

Positive.

Smarter than you. Smarter than them.

Smarter. Wiser.

No faults.

Faultless to a fault.

But you.

Yourself.

Your friends. My friends.

Faulty.

Guidance needed.

No fault.

You are wrong.

I am right.

I am right about everything.

I know better.

Better than you.

Better than everyone.

I know and let everyone know.

Know. Know. Know.

Decisions impeccable.

I command.

Don\t do this.

Don’t do that.

Listen to me.

I know. You don’t know.

Commands.

Don\t make a fool of yourself.

Don’t follow your heart.

Don’t obey your mind.

I know.

My judgement.

Obey. My judgement. Obey.

Bow. Descend.

Until the end.

You thought you knew.

Illusions illuminated.

The demise.

The age in old age.

The dementia of time.

Time reveals.

Old missteps show.

Old faults are seen.

You did not know.

Better than all, no, did not know.

More than. Better than.

Truth be told.

You, know not.

Realization.

Death uncovers.

Facts hidden.

Lies hidden.

Mistakes hidden.

Mother does not know!

Life lesson learned almost too late.

SON KNOWS

Know it all.

Everything opinion.

Opinions all.

Possess it all.

This is what you should do.

This is what you should say.

Knowledge.

Everything in a universe and out.

Knowledge infinite.

Glory to the savior of answers without questions.

Father taught him.

Father cultivated him.

Father knows the truth.

Genius with the right but not the wrong.

Father taught him.

Filled cultivated the confidence of infallibility.

Self-righteous and sure.

Father cultivated it.

Father instilled it.

Possesses it all.

Father cultivated it.

Son embraced it.

His advice is golden, golden words, golden thoughts, believing it..

Listen to him.

Follow him.

Young and vibrant and all knowing.

My father knows it.

He knows that I know.

Needs my guidance.

Turning on him.

Old fool.

Does not know how to live.

Nobody knows how to live but me.

I am the one.

I am the only.

Signed, A DELUSIONAL CHARACTER IN A FILM ABOUT MYSELF

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SISTER KNOWS

Chicanery and falsity.

Smiling at the depth of a scream.

Plummeting into the dark shadows of false royalty.

Stealing to mislead, misleading to steal.

Artful in trickery, blighted in thought.

Pretend life blossoming into a life not attained.

Anger vented in a wider grin.

Secret thoughts of filtered grievances.

Psychiatrist house too much.

Childhood haunts too much.

Parents apparitions too much.

An aging female crucified to a mind all her own.

SHE WOLF

Screeching through the apart like a banshee gone loose.

Spitting into the rooms without her brooms.

Pulling out her hair in a tropical flair.

Teenage uncontrolled lice turned vice.

Angry to all the spoiled elements of abuse.

Abuse. Whine. Curse. Put down.

Bitter. Unkind. Egocentric. Egomaniac. Hurtful.

Disgusted with the petered image in mirrored walls.

Disgusted with the lack of a cheering section.

Disgusted with the lowly commoners under her dainty feet.

Screaming epithets at mothers and fathers.

Destroying the incidentals in her way.

Castigating and defying.

Whining to the tune of WHY ME?

Vision of yesteryear engrained in snow.

I am the one, the queen, the princess, the aristocrat, I am, not you, I.

Outbursts

Cosmetics thrown about, aggression spewed out.

Objects smashing, everyone around dashing.

Teenage angst or the blight of one against the humanity of human.

Spoiled in youth and willing to breath abuse.

Parents bound. Sibling bound. Dragon unbound.

Household of use with the ugly smiling and the lights disappearing.

MUTE

Little girl engulfed.

Overblown in family smothering.

Air lifted from home.

No thought. No idea.

Control.

Distort.

Little girl engulfed.

Not talking. Not looking up/.

Little girl engulfed.

Drawing beautiful pictures in a darkened room.

Creating beauty within the walls of the controlled and lifeless.

Little girl engulfed.

Speechless. Clueless.

Drawing beauty from a beautiful space unknown and unlabeled.

Until the day when they came for her fame.

Parental controls raised.

Brushwork consumed.

The little girl engulfed sitting now in the silence of darkness.

CHAPTER 2 -WOMB

INTERIOR DIMENSIONS IN A HUMAN FORMAT

Exterior structures as mind based exaggerations.

Exaggerations as condensations of false presentations and representations.

Roles used to manipulate the popular.

You are and so you be.

Easy dismissal of the meaning of what it is to be alive.

Dismiss and sanitize.;

You are in the realm of the literature of the time.

On paper and nowhere else/

Biblical implications in holy book derivations.

The idea becomes the reality; the reality that is untrue.

Ideas driven in the rational brain that is assembly line produced.

Paper tigers and paper dragons without the reality of now.

Roles built on concepts, concepts masking walls, walls fostering barriers.

Contact denied.

Exterior structures as the construct in spacial observations.

A sad state that beckons the demise.

WOMB GYRATIONS

Baby gyrating through the multicolored birth canal.

Appearing in slow quirks of fate.

Appearance finally delineated, contorted, pain filled but successful.

Cords disengaged.

Cries surcharged.

Screams recharged.

Relief and smiles enlarged.

Baby, uncontaminated birthing into a sterile world.

Gyrating infant engulfed, immediate, without meaning.

Relationships defined instantly.

Doctors and nurses twirling into hallways towards oblivion.

Parenting clinics opened.

Feedings and cleanings and beddings and all done with instructions emanating.

Language learning in a world amiss begins unobstructed.

Growth spurts in nurseries that become clinics of behavioral science.

Schools activated, communities alerted.

Baby gyrating through the tussle and the bustle towards another staging area.

A baby, then a child, glued to a world built in thousand year stretches.

A child put in a mapped hole, given labels of preconceived existence.

Evolution on a personal basis, a baby to a child, then to a teenager gyrating.

Gyrating in time.

Becoming, overlaid.

Principles dealt, philosophies provided, religion set, citizenship stamped

A human gyrated and contorted to fit the preconceived.

A baby to a child to a teenager to an adult gyrated.

Into the beltway that is our way, Frankenstein lives and thrives.

Creation day as the end day.

A life betrayed.

BETRAYER OF SENSES

Law of gravity.

A heavy book dropped from a high place falls to a jaded floor below.

Gravitational pull as defined by Newton of the day.

Theories offering proof. Mathematics offering the coronation of fact.

Observation confirming and affirming the doctrine of the day.

To some but not all.

To some but not that dispute for disposition sake.

Newton, sir Isaac, the law, scientific in scope with no hope.

To some but not all.

Drop, fall, down, not up, down, below, gravitational, fact.

To some but excluding all.

Interlopers, deniers of scientific realms, denying the obvious transmission.

Deniers, taking what is proved and disproving, ridiculing, slurring.

Denying the world and its creations and the reasons that be.

Denying the historic realities of inhumanity and injustice in the realm.

Humans, taking the obvious and disputing the natural order.

No, chanting, no, putting up- walls, no, putting up questions without answers, no.

Taking issues received and throwing gravelly ridicule at them.

Legal, educational, historic, scientific parlance, countered and ensnared.

Taking the truth and blasting holes.

Taking, twisting, falsifying, terrifying, blurring.

Movements in historical reality purposely erupted.

Dangerous precedents without consequences.

No proof, no theory can counter the amorphous.

Cloud makers where there is a cloudless sky.

Pretending, inventing, manipulating, castigating the obvious and immutable.

Turning the lessons into fabrications for purpose s obscene

Varied ways in abysmal stays.

Societies bathed in the dark shade of doom.

ANGRY EVERYWHERE

Irks me.

Riles me.

Infuriates me.

A world not of my own making.

Disgusts me.

Plagues me.

Contradicts me.

A world in which I have no say.

Confuses me.

Baffles me.

Stymies me.

A world that seems to be out of control.

Just a simple fellow musing on this day.

EXISTING FOR WHAT?

Exist

Tax collectors.

Rent collectors.

Government stooges.

Salesman in anonymous suits.

Bill collectors with targeted efficiency.

Clerks.

Bureaucrats.

Insurance agents without assurance.

Milking.

Bilking.

Lawyering.

Object to be.

Getting it.

Draining you out of it.

Object to be.

Using you.

Abusing you.

From birth until death, a fatted calf.

From birth until death, an economic driver.

From birth to death, a person of moneyed interest.

Just another day in the land of Worth.\

TRANSPARENCIES OF LIFE

Dead.

A universe of passing souls.

Significant to the unknowns.

Dying through aging processes known.

Dying through diseases born unknown.

Dying through the murderous inclinations of raucous souls.

Dying through the tortures of war and disasters of earthly proportion.

Dying through incidental accidentals by fate unseen.

Results.

Resulting in.

Friends leaving.

Foes leaving.

Celebrities retreating.

Family members cleaving.

Tethers that bind fraying

Rubber bands exploding.

Everything changing.

Horizons obliterating.

Results.

Resulting in.

The familiar growing dimmer.

Memories distilling into the ether.

The meaning?

- We live in a temporary place temporarily.

WOMAN BABY SWELLS

Woman bursting forth.

Man bursting.

Woman producing on the ultimate stage.

Man rooting in the ground for ideas to be.

Woman harmonizing creation in elation.

Man singing a false tune of jilted notes.

Beautiful flowers bursting into bloom amid the fallen seed of Cain.

MALE DEGRADATION

Trying to get into.

Male of a species.

Attempting union with a dark place of chemical insolvabilities.

Needing in, dying to get in.

Aggression in isolation.

Anger in displacement.

Male dominance revealed as desperation and demise.

CHAPTER 3 – RAINBOW EXPRESSIONS

RAINBOW REMEMBRANCES

Seeing colors forming at the apex of a blurred sky.

An artist rendition that is the opposite of perdition.

Monterey Bay in the day.

A California hub that forms the nub.

Canneries in marked up tourism trades and jaded memories of novelists past.

Misting and dreary that is enough for destroy all theory.

Overhead, forming, there, over the waters of a Bay that is.

Artistic