Dead, Frank Moore – Poet, Shaman

He died October 14 in Berkeley, at the age of 67 years, American performance artist Frank Moore, shaman, poet, writer, painter and musician. Moore was born with cerebral palsy, he could not walk nor talk, but was able to give life to many works. He has directed and acted in film, written books, poems and songs. Frank Moore has been considered by some as an icon of the counterculture underground and an endless source of artistic inspiration. Others, such as Senator Jesse Helms have defined his works simply as "obscene."

You foolish idiot!
You want to make
everything,
everyone
normal!
You want to cure
prevent
all crips,
freaks,
crazies,
oddballs,
slow ones
misfits,
bums,
artists,
poets,
and all other impractical
different looking
strange mutations
you fool!

How to condemn the human species
to extinction!

Look…
the game of evolution is
change by experimentation.

We freaks are the experimenters

the name of the game
is flexibly adapting
coping
leaping
risking into the unknown newness
of uncontrolled future
we crips,
we misfits have always been the adapters,
the leapers

hell,
I’m not wasting my time
talking to you about magic and such
just about evolution

well,
if you don’t need us crips,
us misfits
if you don’t need us no more…
our advice is
don’t breathe deep
in your air-tight coffin
of normalcy
and move very slowly
very carefully
in your thin-skinned world
of ever increasing fragility

oh yeah…
good luck!

Mutation is Evolution by Frank Moore

To learn more, please visit the Frank Moore retrospective of his performance..