"A Billi' like a Big G.O.A.T."
I just want a guy
to bank-rub my broke
back. Quick wit running
mountains and all that,
lightning streaming but
not deep: I am that.
I just want to try
to be and devote
my Self to and show
him I’m free. He’ll see
my billion unknown
pieces and we’ll flee.
I’m less-than-kind-of
great, cutting keys while
I move, waiting for
proof. Of Life, of Light,
awful flights unmake
social lies made true.
An edition of Simple Simony
(2013)
Simple Simony
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(Poetry Collection.) “I hurt myself, but, I never die. I am a retired libertine who uses words as currency and this is my Revolution. I am here to tell you about an hour of upheaval that lasted twenty-five years—of poets, troubled boys, lizards, and, tyrannical kings. Tyrannical things. And, I am here to tell you that I am sick of immortality. I am Eran Nero—citizen of the world, but, no hero.”
Narrating his redemptive misadventures across three poetic cycles, Eran braves exploitation and encounters an inextinguishable f(l)ame, inviting readers on an excursion from perversion to the inner-sanctum of his true person. If heroes are gemstones—only facets of whom we can ever perceive—Eran shows every scratch and crack. Pulsating with a pantheon of classical meter and rhythm revived from the colliding crises of a quarter-life candidly confessed; Simple Simony is the lyrical memoir of a myth unsung.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments. xi
Prologue. xiii
The Deformed Transformed. xiv
I Blown Apart,. 1
Mythico-Hysteric. 2
Ten Days a Week. 3
Pelagiarism and Other Guilty Pleasures. 4
Elektra Complexion. 5
Decagrammaton. 6
The Altar of My Ego. 7
Pseudonymously. 8
82 Days Among the Limerent. 9
Economy of Autonomy. 10
The Land of Milk and Hunnies. 11
I Pay More Attention to Press than Soul. 12
First Mover. 13
Deminimis. 14
S(o)P(r)ECIOUS. 15
Laureate Letters. 16
Incrœdipal. 17
A Billi' like a Big G.O.A.T. 19
The Net Worth That Networks. 20
Chamber Music. 21
Entertamement. 22
Epigrammatical Terror. 24
Convict/Convert. 25
15 Minutes for 100 Days. 26
Palpable Papabili on Vatication. 27
Philosophy in the Boredroom. 28
The Question to Everyone's Answer. 29
Biggest Little Mistake. 30
Because the World's So Small (I Feel So Big In It). 31
Taxonomy Is One of the Many Tools of the Devil. 32
The Divestiture of Thomas Sloane. 33
The Least Famous of the Brightest Stars. 34
Whipsaw. 35
Rosetta Stoned. 36
II burning lips. 37
Mark. 38
A Visit to the Patron. 39
Tailor and Thimble. 40
Johnny Satellite. 41
Mr. Scratch. 42
מִיכָאֵל. 44
Peter and Paul. 45
Nekhepsut. 46
Dymphna. 47
Rita. 48
Magdalena. 49
Cartaphilus. 50
The Jōb Interview. 51
Impossibyl Angæl. 52
The Chair of Despair. 53
Remember King Jude. 54
The Cephalophore. 55
Francis. 56
(what am i supposed to do with tHIS heART?). 57
Summer in Avignon. 58
The Biblioklept. 59
In Praise of Dr. John O'Bourdon, M.D., Sometime Handler of the Pilgrim's Staff. 60
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, BREAK. 61
A Martyr in the Pores. 62
Decalogue. 63
Lay the Fennel On. 64
I Seek My Elizabeth. 65
The Visitation. 66
Mind's Eye. 67
Jennasis. 68
A Man Deserving Grace. 69
Loyal Awe. 70
Liquefaction. 71
III break silence. 73
Triple Entendre. 74
Ultra Retro. 75
Icarus Invested. 76
Traffic King. 77
Mary at the Gate. 78
Fire and Wine. 79
Helena. 80
One Face Among the Many. 81
Soul Proprietor. 82
Bethany Hilton. 83
V.R.S. 84
Valid (But Illicit). 85
Steganography and Other Lost Arts. 86
Shards of Shattered Thoughts (Translated like Relics). 87
Quetzalcóatl. 88
LT3F. 89
Jurassic Technology. 90
Heroism Born of Weakness. 92
Gather Ye Your Bouquet. 93
Bathsheba at Her Bath. 94
Economy of Passion. 95
Castanets. 96
Dymaxion. 97
Diasporah. 98
Estheria. 99
Gnostical Turpitude. 100
Jacob's Well. 101
Las Moradas. 102
Rider In the Clouds. 104
The Lioness and the Antelope. 105
Celestial Jerusalem. 106
We Are Who We Are. 107
To the Fatherless in Arcadia. 108
Epilogue. 109
Index of Titles and First Lines. 111
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First edition, published October 22, 2013.
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