Salmagundi Gallimaufry

 

Published March, 2017

Lulu Publishing Services

104 pages, incl. color graphics

Genre: Poetry

Copyright © 2017 by Jack Suss (aka Wyman Wicket)

To order a copy:

http://www.wymanwicket.com/buy/

 

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

 

Plight of the Cultural Mutant

 

Published Jan. 6, 2017, 

Lulu Publishing Services, 170 pgs.

 

Genres: 

Autobiographical Literary Compilation/

Subversive Non-Fiction 

 Copyright © 2017 by Jack Suss (aka Wyman Wicket)

To order a copy:

 http://www.wymanwicket.com/buy/

 

       What is considered mutant today was more the norm of yesteryear; the values of today’s mutant are actually steeped in the time-tested lifeways of tradition, while today’s normative dweeb snubs tradition in favor of “anything goes” (a vacuous and self-absorbed automaton reveling in an artificially enchanted, materialist universe).      

       As one whose feet are firmly planted on this Earth, I cannot identify with a planet steeped in lies, fraud and false consciousness; and as a natural-born American I do not pledge allegiance to a USA, Inc. that has been instrumental in steering the world along this self-same, doomed path.

       Thus, I am a cultural mutant; I cannot and will not bend and subscribe to what consensual reality and culture trance demand of me.

Extract from The Cultural Mutant’s

Guide to Consensual Reality and Culture Trance,

by Nathaniel Sos, the protagonist in 23 Skiddoo

(See, http://www.wymanwicket.com/ )

 

              Introduction

       The cultural mutant somehow missed out on being or becoming a part of the neo-American dream: the techno-modernist vision, the triumphalist society, a person capable of easily identifying with the vapid, false consciousness of the age.  Society revels in its self-referent, solipsistic definition of success: its self-absorbed, materialist consensual reality and a culture trance that lulls ill-informed citizenry into complacency via rampant consumerism and an occult mind control.  The cultural mutant bemoans the decline of the authentic and agitates against the cultural Marxist, self-hating white liberal podunks whose politically correct rhetoric gets thrown in one’s face.

       Follow the plight of this writer and accomplished blues piano player/singer, whose  study of law and esoteric subjects (e.g., consciousness, Spirit, secret knowledge), provide a template for engaging the world, for framing reality, yet are not areas that translate easily, if at all, into money-making enterprises.

       But hey! Stop for a moment and consider the very nature of money and finance in the modern world: the ubiquitous Rothschild banking dynasty that controls the whole usurious System (e.g., the private, central bank cabal known as the Federal Reserve that creates money out of thin air, viz., by “fiat,” and then uses fractional reserve banking to charge interest on money that it never really “owned and loaned” in the first place). And flowing from this are the many, Hydra-headed corporations, think tanks, universities and professions whose participation in the System has seduced them into the same, Luciferian, materialist world of false consciousness and faux reality known as “progressive modernism.” Non merci!

       There is no comfort, safety and security for this cultural mutant—only his plight.

 

The Federal Reserve is in the business of counterfeiting money.

The mainstream media is in the business of counterfeiting news.

The pharmaceutical industry is in the business of counterfeiting medicine (Biopracy! They are stealing molecules from nature then counterfeiting their own patented variations.)

The medical schools are in the business of counterfeiting medical degrees. (When a doctor graduates from medical school, he still knows virtually nothing about nutrition.)

Doctors are in the business of counterfeiting false medical authority.

The mega-sized food corporations are in the business of counterfeiting food. (Processed cheese food product, anyone?)

The global consumer product companies are in the business of manufacturing counterfeit consumer products such as “baby oil” (which is really a petroleum product).

Social networks like Facebook are in the business of counterfeiting friends. (Please LIKE this article, okay?)

Cookie-cutter home builders are in the business of constructing counterfeit homes out of plywood, styrofoam and sheetrock… many these homes will not be standing in just 20 years.

Local city councils are in the business of counterfeiting power. (Obey or be punished!)

Public schools are in the business of counterfeiting school diplomas. (Huh? What? Who needs to learn how to write, anyway?)

The Pentagon is in the business of counterfeiting war. (Don’t have a war to fight? Bomb the World Trade Center and blame it on someone!)

Mainstream historians are in the business of counterfeiting history. (Everything you were taught about history in public school is a lie…)

The globalist banksters are in the business of counterfeiting debt. (You thought it was money, didn’t ya? But it’s really just debt.)

                   Mike Adams, Natural News  9/2/11

       Ah, but this cultural mutant author exhorts one and all – “take no guff and keep your sense of humor at all costs!”:

“Awaken, oh human beans! Be Not Content. Do not despair. Arise! Walk tall, immortal souls!” 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

My Plight......1

Afterword......9

That Old Woods......9

Tales from Arabian Days......10

The Ballad of a Disgruntled St. John’s Student (or, Did I Do So Badly In My First Semester?)......19

 

A Fractured Neo-Platonic Fable......24

Reflections on The Evolution of Consciousness ......35

Howl Reborn (or The Effect of Consensual Reality and Culture Trance on the Evolution of Human Consciousness)......56

 

Decolonizing History, Recolonizing the Academy: Lusting After the Things that Oppress Us......65

 

My Ayahuasca Conference Experience: Shamanism, Science, and Spirituality......77 

Dissociatives Anonymous......85

Underdog Reaction to Attacks on America......91

A Meeting with Morris Berman (or How I Got Up My Get-Up-and-Go)...93

SUV for Sale......97

The Real Culprit: Corpocracy......98

Evidence Mounting for Armchair Revolution: Ambivalent Couch Potatoes Mobilizing......102

 

Corpocracy’s Designs Still Off the Radar Screens of Public Policy Makers ......104

 

Civics Test For Those Wishing To Be President of the United States......106

 

Don’t Vote For Archie or Jughead......109

Legal Brief....110

 

Transforming Human Systems: The Values of Originary Custom, Integral Consciousness, and a New Epistemological Framing of Language......111

 

Eco-Community Land Trusts Holding Title as Corporations Sole: Organizing the Global Ecovillage Movement into a Network of Semi-Autonomous Zones......118

 

Stubby Knuckles......124

Fact Finding......127

The Weird Task Specialist......128

The Undercover Chauffeur......133

Jack, the Truck Driving Man......137

23 Skiddoo......150

A Coat of Arms for Friendship Heights......153

Epilogue......157

Diddledorfer and the Emoticons

 

Brillo pad

Glad bag

Emoticons

All done up in

Paper mache

Papier-mâché!

While lying

Prone I

Won't sleep a wink

Sleep a wink

 

Diddledorfer claimed

His wife

Josephine

Wouldn't serve him

Coffee

On the stage

While he called

Dances

All last year

 

Gosh darn it

Daggone

Emoticons

In a cul-de-sac with

Hors d’oeuvres

Hors d’œuvre! 

While on a

Lenten fast

I won't stay 'r go

Stay-or-go

 

Diddledorfer died

In his armchair

By the window

On that fateful

Day, while

A brief pause

Occurred in the

Square dances and

Josephine sobbed

 

Fandango

Ready RoundUp

Emoticons

Like festoons 'round

An R.S.V.P.

Répondez, S’il Vous Plaît!

And I, the

Risqué fiancé,

Won't clap or leave

Clap or leave

 

Diddledorfer was lain 

By a brook

In a private place

On a Tuesday

As Josephine stood,

Bleary-eyed, 

In her Sunday best

Flinging flowers

Before the dirt fell 

 

TWADDLE

Squeeze McNugg
And his noogies

Plan and write

All the flooie.

They pimp and

​Sensationalize

Drip and fantasize

But they'll never

Internalize the crap

They boondoggle

Cuz they're caught

Deep down in their

Own ooga-booga,

Ranting and railing

To poop out their

Twaddle

THE PLIGHT OF STUBBY KNUCKLES

 

 

Copyright © 2016 Almost Slim, Jr.

 

Few bluesmen can hang their hats on the peg of Stubby Knuckles, whose life defies all logic. His life is littered with a multiverse of dead-end career paths. Even his deep persona of blues piano player and singer shows signs of tatter and disarray. Still, Stubby Knuckles plods on, pounding and shouting out his own Chicago/New Orleans-tinged brand of the blues, peppered with old ‘60s tunes. He’s appearing the Saturday-after-Thanksgiving at the Cambridge art, music and wine emporium known as LivAgain. The music gets going at 8 PM.
 

Stubby has lately been posturing in the guise of author Wyman Wicket, shamelessly hawking his metapolitical thought-bomb sci-fi thriller, entitled 23 Skiddoo: Way Back Beyond Across the Stars. But sales went flat long ago. That’s the blues. Now he is lamely scouring the streets looking for a new publisher for his latest: Plight of the Cultural Mutant.

 

But Stubby’s most recent incarnation is not confined to failure in the star-studded literati realm. He has also been a psychonautical inner space explorer down among the ayahuasceros of Peru. However, his subversive talents and skills are not just limited to psychedelic excursions. No indeed. He has worn many hats and walked in many worlds: that of the law, military officer, English professor, and –surprise! —the Knuckleman is even a PhD in Humanities. These thwarted life callings are not your typical bona fides of a bluesman, at least not your run-of-the-mill bluesman. That’s what makes Stubby Knuckles such a special treat. And if you’re lucky, he may just regale you with one of his poems (e.g., I’ll Never Own a Leaf Blower; or Last Night Out with the ‘69 Coupe deVille).

 

Stubby is accompanied solely by drummer, Fast Fingers Freddy–an intuitive, RingoStarr-like extraordinaire. FFF knows all of his songs because he grew up listening, often involuntarily, to all of Stub’s tunes. They’re brothers. They used to have a stand-up bass player but ditched him because Stubby’s left hand is busy enough in the lower register–and besides, a bass player just cut into their already marginal profits.

 

When Stubby's in town and on the 88s, you'll be in good hands. He always guarantees two fistfuls of the blues. Be sure not to miss this rarified-retread-of-a-Renaissance-(blues)man live on stage, 11/26 at Cambridge’s LivAgain.