If you don’t know who Nina Power is, you’re about to find out. She’s a philosopher queen, poet, and true renegade when it comes to freedom of expression. She recently had to “resign” from Compact Magazine because they didn’t understand that esoteric thought was not the same thing as Nazism. Fortunately, people here on Substack have supported her and will continue to do so. Nina is beyond left and right and was kind powerful enough to send me this poem for The Cultural Futurist.
The Revelation will not be Televised
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And will we find poetry in key-taps, back-ache
And eyeballs chained to a madman?
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Prometheus, Icarus, aeroplanes
The exhilaration of the moving target
As the crow dies
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Dionysus got eaten by dinosaurs
And the tiger came for tea
There were not enough fig trees
To stop the conflagration
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Each man his consolation
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Scented with ashes and civil war
Six fingers around his neck
She whispers
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There is heaven in chaos
Future in the past
Samsara is the new sex
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And all I ever ask of you
Is to understand
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the revelation will not be televised
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I didn’t know Nina did a speech on Julius Evola at an Israeli bookshop in Berlin holy shit hahaha
It won’t be televised but it Will be broadcast on Cultural Futurist!