The Lost Religion of Men by CEE

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The Lost Religion of Men

poems by

CEE

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Y2K, didn’t, to our knowledge, destroy the world. But for the demise of the VHS format, neither did the 21st Century shepherd in a New Age, on cue. Media, the merchants and power brokers told us so, but if one paid attention, 2000 was 1999 misspelled.

Likewise, the blitz of a “changed”, “renewed”, “happenin’” America of Peter Max, was never born free, New Year’s morn, 1970. Midwifed, but never birthed. Commercial television screaming even its colors, merely said so. LOUD. REPEATED. B.F. Skinner, for a divided nation. Media, power, persuasion, ‘said’. And, Cold War Americans eased down a road chosen for, not by We The People.

CEE, enigmatic street poet, in The Lost Religion of Men (All Bob is Clemente), gives us exposition of rude, personal experience: an 8-year old, falling asleep in the land of alpha and home of the nuclear family, awakened bagpipe, into “change” as a Jedi mind trick. “Things Are Different.” The strength testers and arms of might, have gone. No protest. No debate. It’s already happened, Joe Pyne. You fell asleep, and these former things passed away.

The Lost Religion of Men, sports dreamy and dividing ca. 1969 period pieces, shot through perspectives on a vintage Golden Arm arcade machine. Unwilling to view culture shaped as anything but conceded mores, CEE gives us The Ways and Manner of Old as a forced hand, mighty men outside the Self Help section, brutal dispassion. Soviet terror, as daily accepted. Joe Frazier as one-man buzzsaw, nodded at with pride. Vengeful woman as machine-girl released. At turns, angry fists beat as enemy a world of no choice as child-sensitive imagery speaks four-color, of Valhalla denied. In The Lost Religion of Men, Guardsmen sight students along the barrel as Unitas fades back, slomo, to trumpets unheard. From his hermitage, the poet tells us for the millionth time, to think for ourselves. To reject human mechanization, even as suggested. That “individual”, the known, pioneer ideal, is up to each. No other.

Mickey Mantle as legend, doesn’t roll up like a poster. Hardhat culture doesn’t wither before hair and daisies, because someone clapped hands. Fonts frivolous and social marketing games, are tools. Behaviorism has power, only if human persons permit.

“It’s over; now, we’re Here.”

No, we aren’t. We’re as Establishment as we wanna be.

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“Alpha”

(Gamma-alpha-mu-alpha sigma-alpha-sigma)

And, I blow the tight-jawed SOB

Into the street, dead

No, I’m a crazy asshole

Default: COP

And, I brain the humanimal

With a semi-pro bat, keep swinging

No, I’m a psycho

COP

I kick his ass in the parking lot

Of a gangland watering hole

But don’t stop at first blood, bowed head

No mumble-sorry, crummy Eastwood

No, I’m a dangerous thing

COP (at least one, lazy, raising questions)

There isn’t any Defeating The Myth

Of evo-psych lie creature

You can’t rend him from his bestseller

“I read to be a man, I larn it from a booook”

You just have to be silent

Allow fake WBA belt to grace

Fake champ’s whatheis

Figuring, hoping

He’s one of ‘em who goes to a supermax

Rape-rape, rape-itty raperape,

Because he killed his Her, anyway

Or he’s one looking wise and hormone

Her, too, and proud

About all the erections that are really

Dishwashing

Give Me Mantle, Standing One-legged

The Metropolitans

That’s their actual name

20^th Century expansionism

Trying to be Abner Doubleday

Nodding, Father Time, at kids’ kids’ kids’ kids

The N.Y. Metropolitans

Very Mudville, that name

“Casey” ‘tache, dark wooden hanger

Gilded Age slang and flat cap

Strong, the way Choynski was strong

Charlie Mitchell and John L., Peter Jackson

Patina’d hard, still frightening through Taft

Respected as strolling greatness, Depression

Deathbed, must wheezes, Korean Conflict

And, it is The Space Age

And clowns have eyes rolling Vegas

Until a miracle no one saw coming,

Like the pipeline of farm system

Giving out, dark miracle, on the Yankees

And tradition, legacy, antiquity

Became just that, and The Pyramids

Rented lesser and aging, harmed might

Stand field, Round Table after Punic Wars

Lancelot’s eye is not dimmed

He sees it

He gets it

New World, fun for horns blaring

As in, OH! New World! Open the wrapper!

Antiquity, though, knows

New worlds are Technicolor whitewash

You can call ‘em Amazin’

You can call ‘em Ray

If Mickey Mantle was immortal

There’d be no argument

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CEE (American poet) (b. 29 October, 1961 Peoria, IL; d. 2 November, 2000 Time Travel Institute, Little Rock, AR) [citation needed]

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