Published March, 2017
Lulu Publishing Services
104 pages, incl. color graphics
Genre: Poetry
From the back cover:
Marylander, weird task specialist,
and author, Jack Suss documents
his red pilled, outlier existence
via science fiction, an intellectual
autobiography, and now—poetry.
Also a bluesman, Suss advocates
for using laser-like mental faculties
and deeply intuitive sensibilities.
His work seeks to flesh out the soul
of authentic reality, and to unveil
the many hideous manifestations
of its antithesis.
A
raconteur of all that passes before the windscreen of his mind, Jack Suss,
spins poems as he traverses both the geo-spatial and ethereal terrain. Here is
a choice record of anecdotes, some scruffy and mundane, some outlandlishly sublime.
They are highlights from almost a half-century in a bewildering “driftscape.”
Suss
exhorts the reader to search the words “salmagundi” and “gallimaufry.” Then, dare
to submerge yourself into a poetic mixed bag that guarantees to serve up some
delectable mince-meat-for-the-mind.
This
volume of poetic paroxisms aptly captures the playful perspicacity of the
author of the Plight of the Cultural
Mutant (2017). Those who are similarly inclined to wander and ponder may be
gratified by much of what is found herein.
This
volume of poetry includes selected gems chosen by the author as representative
of his work, taken from "wasted days and wasted nights" that span almost half a
century. It's beat poetry with existential twists that pop and sizzle, serving
up a soul platter of surprises, red pill detours and meditations for the potato
head in all of us. The poems are peppered and laced with color graphics meant
to be pleasing to the eye, offering respite from the text (not to mention mundane reality).
Table of Contents
1 Twaddle
2 An Apple Is…
3 From
Adolf to Tuli
4 Yet How Often
5 This Burden, Life
7 I
Feel the Crush of Fools
9 Killed Myself with a Peanut Butter
Sandwich
11 Memoirs
from the Doghouse
16 Knothead
17 House of Constipation
19 Half a Man
21 Surreal Domus Familiae
23 The Sissy Prigg
25 Conundrum Bum Twisties
27 Spyoptaelip
29 This Glimpsing of the Essence
31 Where Echoes of the Ticks of Clocks
Dissolve
33 My Life on Bits of Paper
35 Like the Many Cats of Istanbul
35 Well-Fed Farm Animules
36 Animal Captives
37 Transpersonal Progress
38 Living in the ‘70s
39 Last Night Out with the ’69 Coupe
deVille
41 I’ll Never Own a Leaf Blower
42 Amerikan Culture: Dead on Arrival
44 The Plunderers
47 Profound Comments, Quickly Jotted Notes,
and Suggested Titles for Future
Great
Works—OR— What Is It You Would
Teach?
52 Both/And,
Either/Or
53 Restless Leg Syndrome
54 Persian Conversion
54 Ibn Al’Arabi’s God Found
55 Cut Funding and Impeach
57 Symptom Bearer
59 Gumpety Rumpety Jackety
60 Supermarket Tour
63 Whose Eye Atop the Pyramid?
65 By This Sovereign Union—Patriot Mythology
67 Another Day Has Passed
68 Jack’s Xmas List 2013
Pop
69 The Sick Book: A ۷ Poem
78 Waiting For a Friend
79 Love’s Magic Glory
81 Ashen Skies
82 I Will Still This Soul
84 Others Are Hovering
85 Disco Bump-Hump
87 Factory of Bad Attitudes
89 Korean Mirage
91 Kingdom of the Hermit Minds
93 Ranting, Raging, Barking
95 Maybe Today’s Mail…
97 Today’s Mail from Yesterday
98 Hearing
99 Let This Dark Night Pass
101 Let Go This Day
102 He Who Left No Mark
