VARIATIONS ON A 2ND PHILIP WHALEN THEME

Posted by on Jul 22, 2016

“The unthinkable is not a blank.
Not a non-entity
not to be dismissed as imaginary,
not death, not sleep.” – Philip Whalen

The unthinkable has ways
to weave itself around
what cannot be
& give it shape.

The unthinkable festers within a vacuum
of nebulous perceptions,
darkness and confusion.

The unthinkable derives also
from Oswaldian pseudo-grandeur,
Sirhanese patho-logic.

The unthinkable gets big headlines
in the National Innuendor.

The unthinkable is alive
among the super-powers,
and from East Africa and Calcutta,
to bloody patches on strawberry fields.

1975 or 1976
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