2 New Poems - 1 Nice, 1 Nasty. Both True.

Breed by The Piper Machine

I Might Not Mind The Fact; or, Lying In The Gutter. NSFW by The Piper Machine

Tarot sketch

Tarot interpretations as a 3D animation. The various prescribed words (or ideas? images? sentiments? intuitions?) associated with a card delineate the outline, a Venn diagram set, somewhere within which lies roughly the truth we are seeking. But the definition is no particular word - the ambiguous space requires the flexibility of imagination, the possibility or potential of several perhaps contradictory meanings.
It in fact exists somewhere along a 3rd axis, the circle extruded along it into the murky subconscious. "The answer lies somewhere or perhaps everywhere in the mass of the cone..."

Similar cones are illuminated from each of the five cards, sliding and stretching through the smoky darkness, like the beams of searchlights. They eventually intersect, to form a small bright gemstone, colours irridescing and pulsing across its five main faces.
But it is the face opposite the middle card, the synthesis, which shines strongest, enough to throw a new beam of holy light, powerful insight, sharp and clear, direct to a point, from the forehead (the third eye, of course).

By this means, the tarot reader locates the meaning of the cards, and understands it. The location - the intersection of the possibilities of all the cards - is also the meaning. The location is only a metaphor in this demonstration - but the meaning is all metaphor as well. This is how metaphor works, this is how tarot works, this is how the world works.

More Sexy Mythology

The Monster Eel - How The Coconut Was Acquired As Food by The Piper Machine

The Tuamotu Polynesian's legend of the battle between Te Tuna, or Phallus, the monster eel, and Maui, the Wonder-worker, and how Te Tuna's planted head produced the first coconuts.

Taken from the lips of Fariua-a-Makitua, of Fagatu, by JF Stimson, in The Legends of Maui and Tahaki, rendered by Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology

I've got a lovely hard folktale motif for you darling

A priest offers to show a pretty young nun the "key to the kingdom of heaven" and seduces her with it. She innocently tells the mother superior, who says, "Why that lying son of Satan; for twenty years he's been telling me it was Gabriel's horn, and I've been blowing it!" (Calif. 1952) This story is of Italian-American provenance, and is unquestionably connected with the folktale motif K1315.1.1, "Seduction by posing as the Angel Gabriel," which Rotunda cites from Bocaccio IV.2, and other novellieri, with further references to Lee and Di Francia on Boccacio's sources. (Motif-Index of the Italian Novella in Prose, 1942, p.102)

G. Legman, Rationale of The Dirty Joke, 8. MARRIAGE V. Oragenitalism 1. FELLATION BY THE BRIDE

Leg man, eh?