Enlightenment is about
The rounds are open in the Tavern
Tankards and happy men
Merry women skirt about serious business.
He’s back with a smile on his face
Blonde haired and lippy
Eyes like a pill head in a 007 sequel
The Black Man
The Caravan
The plans for another SUMMER HOLIDAY
Lets do lunch next year in Paris
I’ll buy the coffee while you wet your old age panties
Maybe our children can swap notes
And plagiarise the generation of artistic meet up groups
But he’s back again and wants to share the drugs.
He who talks dares last
The Christian is owed some money from the past
The lighten is darkened
The Atman is heartened
The Indian is outdated by the Indie grunge ratings.
#Nirvanaisbackagain
Thanks for access to the mainframe
But when I’m a Jew I’m history to the hostile Dr in your time with religious experiences
Why do you need to stand outside the law?
AI Summary
The poem blends tavern revelry, cultural nostalgia, spiritual yearning, and generational disillusionment into a critique of how enlightenment, identity, and rebellion are performed in modern life. It moves from carefree summer fantasies to darker reflections on drugs, religion, money owed, and the shifting hierarchies of race, faith, and artistic relevance. The speaker watches old archetypes — the blonde charmer, the Christian debtor, the Indian mystic, the grunge‑era rebel — collide with contemporary anxieties about authenticity, belonging, and being “outdated” in a world obsessed with reinvention. Beneath the humour and cultural mash‑ups lies a deeper question about legitimacy and transgression: why some people insist on standing outside the law, outside tradition, outside accountability, even as they borrow from the spiritual and cultural worlds they claim to transcend.