“Apocalypse Now (Port Of Call: Jonestown)”<\/b><\/p>\n
Ryan is Willard
\nJones is Kurtz
\nthe camera shows the assassin
\ndazed
\nhis shirt torn and speckled with blood
\nno more games, friend<\/p>\n
Cuba, Brazil, Guyana
\nobscure swelters
\nfor a spook exiled from faith
\nplaying God<\/p>\n
dispatch the one
\nwho had to go
\na thousand lives
\nspared
\nthe void of the vats<\/p>\n
a secret
\neludes history<\/p>\n
in the jungle
\nDad touches you
\nand takes you into
\noccult waters<\/p>\n
the others drink while
\nyou blow him away<\/p>\n
one last orgasm for
\nthe cause
\nDeath delivers
\npower to the people<\/p>\n
<\/a> too awful to bear a screen door, a pop machine the day after (Writing about his three Jonestown poems, Stirling Noh says: \u201cOver the years I’ve seen a number of documentaries about Jonestown and Jim Jones. I did a bit of research and I became interested less in the tragedy of Jonestown and more into the weird electricity of Jones and his lifeforce if you could call it that. He seemed to be a guru and a seeker, but what did he seek? What did he find? What did he lose as he took on other seekers in his journey? He was progressive yet dangerous not just to himself but other people. My poems are an attempt to capture that occult spirit. History is full of moments when people look to Great Men or Great Moments, but I prefer to look at undercurrents of dissonance and rogue signals. I don’t believe in conspiracies. I do, however, believe in entropy and slow drifts into evil.\u201d<\/p>\n (These poems by Mr. Noh are from his collection, Black Light<\/i>, which was published by Atomic Quill Press late last year. The collection is available on Amazon Kindle here<\/a>. He can be reached at stirling.noh@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Apocalypse Now (Port Of Call: Jonestown)” Ryan is Willard Jones is Kurtz the camera shows the assassin dazed his shirt torn and speckled with blood no more games, friend Cuba, Brazil, Guyana obscure swelters for a spook exiled from faith playing God dispatch the one who had to go a thousand lives spared the void […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":40242,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40261"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89471,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40261\/revisions\/89471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin the tapes
\nthey found this tape
\nplanted by a false witness
\nto tragedy<\/p>\n
\nwithout the balm
\nof conspiracy<\/p>\n
\nthe sounds of a snack bar
\nmiles from the carnage
\nand yet
\nthere are voices
\nperforming kabuki
\nto confound truth<\/p>\n
\nall the seats were occupied<\/p>\n