Starman By Alex S. Johnson

In memory of David Bowie

Tracking the echoes of the

sidereal mystery show

Where red platform boots lick the stars 

Where the shadows of white stains glyph

themselves to the crimson carpet ride

Where unspeakable dimensions of 

foreign objects immersed in expired milk

Crack the yolk of the actor within

Being and becoming the tempter or Satan

Lacerating the heart with the will to break spines

Lancing minds with Crowleyan knowledge

And oh how good it is to be King

in the shimmering desert of Malkuth

Long live the sephora the wheat from the chafed ass chaps

In cybersonic sedition forever the Holy Ones unite 

Their limbs surrender thy Uncle's politics

Ever more disturbed to crack the primate archives

and break out the dancers of white heat red hot

They surely know the boogie grimoires on separated

sheets of blotter acid

They surely know birasure fissures of men

They sought the Kingdom in the waters sifted around the

toes of the Kingfisher

They melted into psychedelic vampires ultimately

And Major Tom's the space vampire they warned you

about

Spinning eternally through the abyss of Deep Time

And magick cancels magick thrusts its hips rhythmically to the warp and creak of 

the Starman's astral footprint

A sensation novel to the taste what's the frequency Giatri Spivak

Yet somehow the subaltern does speak contrary to all expectation

In the liminal spaces statuettes plunge from the cliffs of Aldeberan into the Holy Grove

And lost minds are herded like cattle through the 

Egyptian afterlife 

Photonegative zombies clench fucked jaws in supplication of the homoerotic meat

We salute the arctic traces of your tongue on our

flesh of memorial marble

Kissin the whip in final surrender. 

John Shirley, screenwriter of The Crow (1994) with David J. Schow wrote of Alex S. Johnson that he is "the Baudelaire of our time; the poet of the underground." Johnson has worked as a developmental education specialist, a secretary to entertainment royalty Tom Sullivan and Betty White, assistant to the CEO of the boutique Los Angeles ad agency Haller Schwarz, and scorer of the AP English exam for the Educational Testing Service. His books include THE DOOM HIPPIES, FUCKED UP FAIRY TALES VOLUMES 1-12 and FINAL DESTINATION: WIPEOUT. His forthcoming books include GRIMWAR: A BOOK OF POETIC WARFARE in collaboration with the legendary Steven Johnson Leyba, ordained a high priest in the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey, a magus in Thee Order Ov Psychick Youth and founder of the Church of Coyotel. Johnson lives in Carmichael, California with his family.