DEFINITION OF
SUPERNATURAL
Written for a spoken
word performance, Oct., 1998
streamlined digitized friendly misterrodgers
supernatural beings for the 90's
propped up on display boards at the mall
advertising Anne Rice's latest supermundane
neuroses
cobbled together from too many martinis
consumed in the corridors of her pricey
smart talkative good-looking vampires mummies witches
ghosts
now available from amazon.com
supernatural beings?
yeah right supernatural my ass
what IS supernatural?
the absence of blood surging through one's
veins
like the silent centaurian
soldier
what IS supernatural?
ghostly beings without substance
like the ominous flickering distilled MTV
personalities lunging at me gabbling at
me through 5 millisecond quick edit jump gates of optical stimulation pulsing wildly through tortured television
cable connections to the land of beezlebub
what IS supernatural?
dark creatures of evil devoid of God
like the gloomy clerks from a Franz Kafka credit
bureau nightmare sitting in perfectly
designed industrial grey cubicles pulling up my life history altering my life history on a menacing
devil-worshipping Gateway 2000 Windows NT computer
what IS supernatural?
unseen entities watching you
like the phantom geosynchronous orbit satellites up
there in that blackness the blackness
taking digital photographs of the number of hairs on your head as you piss into the wind again
what IS supernatural?
invisible poltergeist presences
like
the remote control artificial intelligence microprocessor television
stereo overhead track lighting wal-mart sliding door public toilet flushing itself garage door open sesame DEVICES controlled by
infrared demons from below
THAT'S
what supernatural is