Call the Kraken
Let it unstate itself // It is easily done // And unleash them onto destruction
I continue with politics — it is the climate for it. I have chosen Magritte’s ‘The Collective Invention’ to go alongside this piece. It reverses the mermaid, making it something unsettling, sinister even.
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Call the Kraken
Make the sea sad She said to me But it is already sad I said to her But I want it to weep I want it to drown its creatures And throw them to the land I want enough sacrificial offerings to destroy — But we are on a boat... Call the Kracken, the leviathan Let it unstate itself It is easily done And unleash them onto destruction — But we are on a boat.... Let the Kraken lick the sea of salt And pile it atop my feat Baptismal cleansing For one — But we are on a boat... For one, for one, for one She chanted this into the sea Putting her face closer and closer Into its surface, gargling saltwater, Until it hit her lungs.
Politics of the elites.
That is all I really want to say in reference to this piece. I find that I am becoming increasingly reticent to analyse my work. I wanted to put this line on a plaque underneath, like a painting with a title. Why not the title? The title is as much part of the poem as the poem itself - this would be like putting a title in the middle of a painting. It is too much and takes from the poem. No, it is better as a line underneath, softened by italics.
Elites cannibalise this planet, but we are all on the boat.
Really powerful and cruelly desperate!
But we are all on the boat <3 love this piece, thank you for sharing. The painting adds a powerful touch.