123 IB

Fashion

2009-10-13T15:49:00.000-07:00

Walking along Avenue D by the housing projects,
I noticed they wear clothes that do not fit,
baggy jeans many sizes too big, dangling
around their ankles, falling past their ass and
balanced on their rump with just a tightened belt.

I noticed that their t-shirts hang down beyond their knees
like over-sized night shirts, dresses, or hand-me-downs
enveloping their small frame like a cotton blanket
sagging to the ground.

And I know about unconscious motivations,

subconscious revelations, manifesting in the flesh,

silent gestures of the body – emotional reality far from words.

And I know they do not fit into the economic system of our getting and spending, the international-business-school-corporate offices-in-3-continents, headquarters on-Wall Street Dow Jones-Industrial-revenue-cost-cutting-G8-policies of year-over-year GDP budget-growth forecast-quarterly-earnings-we-must-pay-dividends-to-our-stockholders system.

They are too small, too little for the big money-making scheme
that supersonic jumbo-jet-sized, overwhelming monopoly of a board game, dangling above their heads,
falling out of reach – all balanced precariously
by just a belting, on their rumps.

MySpace Street Rant

2008-02-28T05:42:00.000-08:00

Alexander - "The Prophet IB"

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Intro to IB

2007-08-07T18:26:00.000-07:00

Poetry Reading: Night Journey

2007-08-07T05:16:00.001-07:00

Reviewing 123 IB

2007-08-06T20:09:00.000-07:00

123 IB is a prophetic dark 'n dirty playful dance through everything of life: parties, potties, politics, religion, night life, low life, high life and love life. If Allen Ginsburg started the beat-revolution with his inspired poetic ravings, what revolution will come from these choreographed rants and raves? 123 IB re-interprets and re-mixes all the Big questions... and like a skilled DJ, Alexander programs his musically-inspired book with rising crescendos, melodic interludes and mind-popping beats.

Of Tigers and Men

2007-08-06T20:02:00.001-07:00

image credit: Lloyd Ian Bishop

Night Journey

2007-08-06T19:49:00.001-07:00

image credit: Lloyd Ian Bishop

Book Cover

2007-07-31T11:48:00.001-07:00

I am not

2007-07-31T11:43:00.000-07:00

I am not a poet
I am not my words.
Who I am can not be spoken,
like this or like that.

I am blue electric thunderstorm.

I am not peace.
I am not love.
I am fire flowing water,
burning through your inside,
thirstquenching,
smooth, pure, Molten lava.

I am not hate or anger.
I am not judgment.
I am white hot blue heat,
Icicles of frozen light, solid-dripping
melting off your outside.

I am not compassion.
I am not mercy.
I am not That.

I am blue electric thunderstorm

Not as you think,
or as you know,
unspeakable.
Only, perhaps
you can
Smell me
in the air
as you
inhale.