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Majnun's Twist .

           
            
           
Rock Art . 1 .            
             
in the              
21st century            
majnūna            
is an acceptable            
complexity            
to opening lines            
of            
her life-story            
reconstructed            
while              
no streams            
float a reality            
to the river            
of dreams            
             
           
Rock Art . 2 .
           
             
Throughout history            
walls have been              
painted in songs            
of adoration;            
calling a        
lover's name        
as much as it sings            
a mad-man's            
feminine            
encyclopedia            
             
             
Rock Art . 3 .            
             
Herewith        
a fiery              
catastrophic            
stake burning            
love-story            
of a necromancer's        
conjuring;    
sparking fireworks        
and lazer performances     
calling out                 
in your name        
by night        
             
... I'd never        
have deleted              
"the kid"            
had it not been            
such an absolute            
asshole            
but then it did        
wash my rock            
in laquer thinner            
             
Rock Art . 4 .            
             
When emotional            
development            
transforms    
to a weapon of choice;         
the art of powdered            
fauna and flora            
depicting            
a beginning, middle            
and end            
through tribal warfare            
evolves            
to oiled canvasses            
and tapestries            
adorning            
walls              
of hunters-trophies            
the world over            
             
             
Rock Art . 5 .            
             
The leather clad            
warrior            
with catapult            
and small stones           
killed            
22 head of              
wild buck            
in a              
nonexistant              
war            
and then worshipped            
bare feet            
and fire            
before            
the feast and fiesta            
             
             
Rock Art . 6 .            
                 
future text books        
won't mention            
the story;            
alas historical            
digital            
graffiti            
will be the curve            
of geographic learning            
             
             
Rock Art . 7 .            
             
The black            
in his eyes            
could be referred to            
as a pupil            
though it never studies            
 
The sleepless black            
looks like punches            
in overspoken            
moments of insanity            
       
What then            
do we call            
the other black            
in the depth of that            
eye?            
             
             
Rock Art . 9 .            
             
I am a rock            
not a mirror            
don't look to me            
to find yourself            
in observation            
nothing exists            
in my death            
             
anymore than            
calloused fiction            
jingling            
in a lack of              
everything        
Disney        
             
everything            
from want              
to giving            
-in living            
             
             
Rock Art . 10 .            
             
Death is hard              
enough            
-hangs heavy            
in heart stings              
and blood            
 
The fantasy            
does it              
no justice            
-hurting like hell            
on innocent            
souls            
             
             
-x-            
 
Written by RevolutionAL (Alistair Plint)
Published | Edited 2nd Aug 2018
Author's Note
Letters to Layla.
Painting
Period: Zand or Qajar, Iran
Date: late 18th–second quarter 19th century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36.5 in. high 33.75 in. wide (90.8 cm high 85.7 cm wide)
Kept in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
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