As a kid
u learn young
does
not mean
immature &
as an adult
u realize
older
does not mean
wiser

The media gets it all wrong when
they try to depict geeks & nerds;
I knew a geek, he was a poet who
worked the Coney Island freak show.

I knew a female nerd; she fronted
a punk band & won the crown
at the Mermaid parade; Coney Island
is obviously a paradise for nerds;
ask the gangsters on Brighton Beach

Bespectacled & goofy gamers?
How about metalhead stoners
on the front lines at Antifa rallies
throwing rocks through store windows
& idolizing the Weather Underground

The media thinks Mark Zuckerberg
is the ideal nerd & Steve Jobs was the
ultimate hipster; that plays to mass
conformity but it's a lie; Van Gogh
was a geek, Picasso a nerd; Jackson
Pollack was a nerd; Einstein a geek

Nerds write novels & poetry;
geeks have brilliant but unrealistic
ideas; a far cry from the colorless
Everyman they try to convince u to be

Let's rip it up & start again;
this world is too heavy w/
ur soft, leathery soles trod
the sodden misty ground;
let's start from the beginning
where u enter the world
upside down & inside out;
Let's blow it up so we can see
the details of a microscopic
other world where u are
worshiped as an unseen thing
vast beyond comprehension;
yes, I know, u are a headless
goddess w/ three heads
nonetheless that u can take off
& put on like masks; there is
only u where u are & what ur
made of is the stuff of novas &
black holes implode in
symmetrical chaos; crystalline
eyes & deep sea desires motivate
the sycophants; walk w/ me
on mars to discover long hidden
lost civilizations where they
worship ur brains w/o being told
by the light of ur grace; holding
my hand beneath the moon & sun

Narcissus invented the selfie; Echo was the first stalker;
  how little things have changed since the Golden Age