Adaptations in Void
Inside Mercer's brain: Tread carefully, this can get scary real quick...
Thursday, February 1, 2024
She Walks in the Light
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
A Poem for George Floyd
George Floyd died under a policemans’ boot
And whitey’s on the space station
We got so angry our pain drove us to loot
And whitey’s on the space station
We held raised hands and screamed “Please Don’t Shoot”
And whitey’s on the space station
We realized it’s time to pull Racism out at its Roots
And whitey’s on the space station
We hit the streets to heal our wounds
with clinched fists
And whitey’s on the space station
We knew in our hearts
We must Resist
And whitey’s on the space station
Resist the Hate
Ode to the S.C.S.C
I began to find my way
while listening to the mystical magic of King Sunny Ade
Longing for sleepless Saturday nights
and endless Sunday sunrises
When I felt young
when we were young
when life felt new
when I felt new
When all the doors felt open
and everyone smiled and life smelled good and fresh
and without guilt and shame and longing
for the past
When the past felt less important then the future
Or the idea of a future felt so bright we welcomed the dawn and the light
even from our afternoon sleepy-eyed dream sleep awake
and onto the next dawn dancefloor of smoke and laughter
and sweet cigar wrapped madness
looked dreary-eyed into the endless summer nights of our teenage Heaven
etching our names into the magnificently debaucherous New York Ethereal Dawn
and young smiles that opened the gates of Heaven
and had God say:
You’ll be back.
Go enjoy the sunlight with deep breaths and wide open hearts
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Vinyl Anachronist: Our System at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest
I've helped set this system up - and, our dear friend Lee Weiland, of Locus Design has passed, so its so nice to have a part of him in the system. We MISS YOU LEE
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
To The Void
This is the first poem from a chapbook of poetry I put out years ago entitled Adaptations in Void:
To The Void
Fearless, speechless, know-nothing
Teenage cries for anthems,
Cigarettes, the quick fix,
Endless conversation.
TV vomit,
Youth magnet.
Teach, compel, bestow fallacy.
Atomic babies.
Plastered data,
E-mail eyes.
Indigenous types.
Smoke sours, voices cry.
Techno vacuum
Written By:
Michael Mercer 8, October, 1991