One
Adeena Karasick
FROM THE FEIVEL GRUBERGER FILES:
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY KABBALAH
I
A seller went to the red dead sea to see what he cd…
II
Where is Kabbalah Springs?
Who is the Layman?
How much is a galgal, gilgul, golem, gimel ? (gag me..)
Does Kabbalah scanning require safety goggles?
yeah, i’d like, two Holy Names, a ray of light
and a side of historic distortion. Can you Supersize that?
i’m a little Klippot
full of doubt…
How much is a Mem? a meme? a midrash? address? sefirotic minidress?
What is a “cosmic bet”?
Can you tie a Red thread Ribbon ‘round a old, cloaked tree?
Hey Mister Gruberger,
Sling a psalm for me
of surface disturbances
loaded tilts, splotched secrets, écrites, collusions
Are there centers along the banks of Kabbalah creek?
All abuzz with abyss.
Does Kabbalah Cures
headache ointment come in a snack pack? six pack, sex pot hot pot zip lock
backpack. alphabetic black smack
My anointment is long overdue.
Whose cult currency
limp interlopery tzitzit slip knot of snaked corollary
scrolled hollers, holy salary!
Scan this
& wrap your Rachel’s tomb bling string ‘round
yr fully automatic inheritor of scattered disclosures.
Hey Madge, yr soaking in it.
Do Ca(nni)balists do it better?
Late Capitalists?
Intertextile text in exile.
in the K-center Philly fallow philip flopper curly man
of shadows downloads
exchanges
Yo dog, it’s Kabbalicious.
& who’s tallying the interval, the veiling,
the reveille valency, the value
of avarice, veritus
aerator (inheritor) of out-sourced mystification?
Hey mister,
mystify my love
you interloper of
consumable composites, socially soaked
mâitress matrices
mist me
(with an alchemic glaze).
Hey, do you want your “Light of Wisdom” in paper or plastic?
III
And, um i don’t mean to “get medieval on you”,
but it’s Zohar-ifying, this whore text, no core text
cobbled ballet broulé Kabul shit –
(gimme a high feivel)
Do the 231 Gates of Meaning come bottled?
Ba Ba-hir say
have you any []
yetzirah, no sir…
i’d like to buy avowal.
Don’t be so Kabalier about
yr one-stop twist top pop slop
upsized, down-beat, data-based, hyperspaced
bite-sized pre-washed post apocalyptic vacuum-packed cock-blocked
Kablahblah
(a astro-illogical consumerist surplus of ignoble contingencies)
And sit yr achra down
‘cause my Transcendental Signifier not a low carb cabled cabala bar.
free floatin’ re-mystification of messy masticates,
cosmically missin’ a missin’ a mise en a [] mass populie
So watch the scaffolding (scuffed folds) of
sultry recombinants, the giddyup of linked resistencies and gradual jams
(where in Sandy dunes did Kab’la Con)
a stately pleasure tome s’écrit
& ask whose world economy whose social subjects whose volatile grinding
wills in the sinewy script of soaked cycles
Torqued for the very first time.
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Adeena Karasick is an award-winning poet who has published six books of poetry and
poetic theory. She is a Professor of Poetry and Poetic Theory at St. John's University.
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