Hegel's Owl of Minerva
Flies Only At Dusk
Although Hegel
Poet
Shocked by
Poetry
Always One More Lady
To fit into the scheme
(Super long poem
(The scholars will argue about
(Until Kingdom Come)
Sugared dreams
(I don’t know
(If I can go
(Living one more dream)
[Poet signalling vainly
[To his
[Students
[there was never
[Hegel
[Hegel those communications
[From his mother
[Hegel was never nobody
[World spirit
[Devil’s End
[Devil’s Hole
[Deep as the deepest deep
[Jimmie’s Hole]
World Spirit
For
Heaven’s
Sake
Constant comment
Is always said
To be obscure
Some of his images
Live to fight
flight
Another day
Reason my friends
On first dawning
April Morning
Common Sense
Spartacus
Is always obscure
What is rational
is actual
And what is actual
Is rational
On the wings of an angel
He says in the
Preface
To the Philosophy of Right
The philosophy of natural law
Nature’s God
But look at it another way
What can be more rational
Than a traitor
Than a lover
Or even quite as actual
I wanted to say
Just saying
Sexual jealousy
Shocking imprimatur to the way things are
Lay Lady Lay
Lay Upon My Big Brass Bed
God leaves poets
To trace the Universe
Potter figuring out
The Alouettes Regrets
On that Night Train
To Chasey Delaney’s
Manchester
Manchuria
Night train to Phoenix
I am saving up for the Potter poem
Saving Private Ryan
I wonder if
My other favourite poets of Substack
Hey listen to my little friend
Are listening
Like Shakespeare I enjoy a big tent
Especially when I am paying for it
Patris
Malcolm McK
Paul Wittenberger
Sounds German to me
Nina Power
Remember my poetic powers
Are limited
One deaf ear and can’t hear
Out of the other
Sure
I have other
Secret favourites
Double Indemnity
But I digress
Tender is the night
I wake up
Every morning
Figuring out
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Convinced
The world’s sins
Lie on my shoulders
All the drunks and lost lovers
All my lost lovers
Except you
The standard interpretation
Is that Hegel’s Owl of Minerva
Only flies at dusk
Because the Owl’s flight
Signals a World At End
And philosophy can only understand
What has past
There are only two choices
Said the Lord
Drunkenness and Love
Sure she said it before
Even as doing the Owl’s work
Some hearts are broken
It’s a syllogism
Drunkness and Love
Standing here at the Oscar’s
I want to thank
Hollywood
For Drunkness and Love
Said Kotzebue
Like any poet
Named Karl Sand
I was put here to suffer
Sure some moral syllogism
Made me forget
Drunkness and love
I was put here
Like John Donne
To electrify poetry
With Sights
Of Kepler
And His Mother
Circling California
By way of
Hudson’s Bay
never the mind the G-Force
Until we looked them in the eye
Another poem
I shall learn to regret
such as ETA Hoffman’s
Master Flea
Finally the Palace Revolt
Where all of world literature
turned against Hegel
But the answer is simple
It was never
Hegel
Hegel
Eve’s gift to humanity
Adam’s apple
Hegel recreating best
The world of the future
The lover’s wish
Who will die first
I bought out of space
when it was
Out of style
Once more my friends
Into the Apocalypse
Today
I remembered my mother
Queen Louise
Hitting the tarmac
To save Prussia
Only it was in this case
Canada
For what?
I wondered
Her hair as black and fine
As mine
Ppl forget
The Owl
Had a destination
At dawn
all my life
a fable of my own
Making
So many successes
In America
all my cousins
Soon forgotten
A fucking uncle
You would not believe
US high grade
One Hundred Percent
Every fit of his suit
His tie
So elegant
And my Aunt
Ruth
Dying of breast cancer
when you wanted to be free
The bad milkman from the USA
Hegel said
At bottom
Everything is sex
But Hegel
Is no Freud
with his wondrous
inventions
Maybe closer
To Jung
In Heaven
Than Marx
Or Queen Louise
Sun so hot
I froze to death
Prussia
don’t you cry
How Britain created
Frankenstine
In 1945
In my Dad’s communist
Ottawa
He was my most secret spy
Even when the kid
Gets blown up next door
To Us
Blood on the Tracks