One Thousand E.T Balloons

[ Spielberg & the Death Guru ]

Death Guru, Isobel Kubler Ross,
A rung up William Blake’s “I want”
drawn ladder to a fantasy moon
has said: ‘I want… I want’

‘a thousand helium balloons
printed with the image of ET released’,
for when she at last looses
her want, her ignorance
of Death and Dying

So, we come at last to this our
Doctor’s final bedside wisdom
in a fictional extra-terrestrial
chemically gassing up to space
as a blessing, and for her, a sign
‘of unconditional love’

And Steven Spielberg will preach
funeral obituaries of rubber stones
a spiel throwing up daydreams for
bouncing off Mirror mountains.

Isobel’s bone-ash will turn to dust, as
her soul finds 1000 tollgate trials in the air;
and those thousand balloons will burst
into the unconditional truth…

avoided like crap while terrestrial.


29 May 1998 © Wayne David Knoll