NATIONS AND COFFERS MEASURED IN PERCENTAGES
there is no compassionate interest
or empathic interest
but financial
national
and
sexual interest
all
ruling the poor and the wealthy
in differing percentages
of possibilities
and
probabilities
and
chance encounters
with serendipity
or worse
a
fluke
fluke = surprising bit of luck; a tape worm with suckers and hooks
ahmet cafer celebiler
January 10, 2026
COCKATRICES REVERED WITH A VENEER
sycophants
look for omens
in chicken behaviour
in cages
built by owners
invisible
or
themselves
very visible
justifying
the words
o culo d'angelo
for dukes of parma
ancient
and
modern
though
dissimaler to a rooster
even when
it becomes a cockatrice
viewing
the world
with mortal greed
lost for thoughts and words
petrifying all in its vision
ahmet cafer celebiler
January 10, 2026
CEREMONIAL WASHING
not maundy
or
mikvah
but for purity
in marriage
helps couples
to couple
with taste
and pleasure
no cobwebs
slime
or dirt
between bodies
just matrimonial sweat
ahmet cafer celebiler
January, 4, 2026
SCROLLS AND TRANSCRIPTS
some in cuneiform
some in hieroglyphs
on sand
stone
and
parchment
remain to puzzle
puzzlers
scouts and adventurers
leaving Voynich aside
and disregarding
artificial intelligence
not appreciating
plants
roots and leaves
lose interest
in knowing
knowing themselves
and all else
ahmet cafer celebiler
January 3, 2026
SEEING SOMETHING ELSE IN SOMETHING
poems are interpeted
also judged
by any and all
except the illiterate
holy books are judged
and interpreted
by all
including the illiterate
who also
judge
looks
speech
gestures
mien
attire
earnings
evaluations are short
and long
and mean
and
replace
the poem
or a holy book
in languages recherche
as litanies
invocations
and
incantations
not so divine
the poem has a short half life
the holy book lives on
for the violence
and revenge
to
recover
its losses to the poem
even when the poem is no more
ahmet cafer celebiler
December 31, 2025
ALL DAY SICKNESS
not just in the morning
anxiety or depression
political poisoning
or intracranial pressure
appear
as flashes
or dim feelings
upon
a fall imagined
physical
or financial
even
matrimonial
to lurk
ever reminding one of those occasions
with and without other people
ahmet cafer celebiler
December 28, 2025
COLLECTIONS OF SCENES AND PEOPLE
what was seen
and
who walked into a life
do not always find a solid niche
and
if they do
they need strong guards
charms
and talismans
as well as
frequent chants
to hole up
fortified to the brim
even then
with no dutch boy to put his finger in a hole
trickles of words
and visions
and battalions of persona
results of creation
not at all subjected to evolution
march out of the destruction
to their new abodes
in oblivion
ahmet cafer celebiler
December 26, 2025
