(                
(      
(
\/
/  \
/      \
------------

love
---

The timeless moment

( beyond recall
Beyond memory )

•

Love

///

To say

HE LOVED ME THEN BUT NOT NOW

is meaningless

//

Everyone who knows love knows that this is so

//

winds of change

Cannot alter love

•

Love
---

The seed at the center of the world

.:///:.
../..
0   0

DON'T LOOK AT ME !

she vented poetically

I' M JUST A USELESS PIECE
OF **** !

//

I looked around

But then said

YEAH

I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT

/./

YOU ******* ******* !

she started screaming

•

I turned toward her slowly and with
The look of total sincerity

I said

I LUV U !

../..

YOU DO !

she cried out
Her eyes popping out of her head

As she ripped off her clothes and fell to the ground

Spreading wide her legs

And grunting in anticipation

///

Everyone in the lunch court

Looked on amazed

:::::
(              )
                                          ­                        & so ... ?

BUT ALSO

Death is boring

& so ... ?                                                            
//

/////  • ||
<>

#####

We are bored / we are dying
We are dying / how boring

####

( & so ... ? )

####

Out to the open field

The oft proclaimed Wilderness

( of free choice and understanding )

•

We can numb ourselves
Call lust love

Hurt each other
Hurt ourselves

Get mad
Take revenge

Forgive
Say *******

Get depressed
Take our meds

Rip ourselves to shreds

pretend our dreams
Have more than a
Snowball's chance in hell
Of coming true

Since we really have no dreams anyway

YOU KNOW

JUST KEEP DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING

until we actually commit an ugly suicide

Or just plain die ugly

--------

OR NOT

-----------

But we can't just do nothing
Cause that would be boring
And boredom is death
As we know

/////

??         Now         ??

WHAT REALLY MUST WE DO TO BE SANE

AND HAPPY IN TODAY'S  WORLD ?

would be an interesting topic for these

Poetry exercises people get into

••

Wouldn't  it ?

••

But

We

ARE MASTERING  THE

PAIN GENRE !

We

ARE

POETS OF THE


GREAT BROKEN !

we have become

MASTER POETS OF

REVENGE  RANTING

////

to build a new world
A LIVING WORLD

we would have to

START ALL OVER !

CREATE REAL MEANING

GIVE UP ON OUR

SUPER STARDOM AND OUR SUPERSTARS

///
/:::/

& so ... ?

What is it that we must do ?

••

Well

NO USE THINKING ABOUT IT

HAVE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS ABOUT IT

INVEST OUR LIVES IN IT

IF WE ARE NOT REALLY GOING

TO DO IT

IS THERE ?

///

( & it IS fairly obvious

What it is


Isn't it ? )

//////

Well

I 'll talk some more about this later

And just hold every one in my heart

And assess how best to go from here

In a manner that is easy to enter into

And useful and kindly

//://

000
/    \
                                                           ­         ( the final incarceration. )
•

I really thought she was the one
But she turned out to be poison

YEAH
I KNOW GIRLS LIKE THAT

I saw her pain / I caressed her broken wings
And as we made love I begged her
To learn how to fly

BUT WAS SHE EVEN GRATEFUL !?

That's it exactly !
I would melt inside her and merge with her soul
And lift her by my strength and purity
Unto heaven

But her eyes were like tentacles always holding me down
And she poisoned my heart with her greediness

WELL
THANK GOD ITS OVER  !

to think I plumged my immortality
Into such filthiness
And planted my seed into such murderous soil!

Shame ! That's all I am left with though I am also
Haunted by a sense of failure for not being able to heal
The girl I loved from the monsters devouring her

But when she used them to devour me I had no choice
But to give her up unto her evil self destruction

AS PAINFUL AS IT WAS FOR YOU
YOU DID THE RIGHT THING

AT LEAST SHE HAD A CHANCE
AND THAT IS GOOD

maybe so
But still I feel so depressed
So empty
So lost

I hardly have the will to live

I hardly dare to love again

I don't have a clue

What can I do ?

WELL

WE COULD GO OVER TO MY PLACE AND **** ?

wow !

That sounds like a good idea

what else ?

I ask

/////
/////

Justice rides the  high flight

The long bow sends
The arrow to its mark

The archer readily reveals himself

We are men after all

""""""

Enough the standing around

The gawking

The
OH GOLLY GEE
YOU MEAN ME ?

shuffling on the street like slaves

::

The dry raw lustied ******* in the alleyways

::;

( yeah --- MEN

That's what we are )

/../

In our ornamental disguises of falsified memories
We rage we plunder we entice
Young people to venerate our ghastly sins and crimes

//

We call it LOVE

love of country
Love of god
Love of freedom
Love of peace

Love of twitching pulsating human bodies
Below us

Love of lust
Love of hate
Love of greed

/::/
/;;/

Justice rides the high flight

The long bow sends
The arrow to its mark

The archer reveals himself so readily

We are men

We are free

//////

))((          ))((

+

--

His vulture eyes sparkling with the mania of total greed
the unblinking eyes set on capturing the world economy
the hidden soft placing down of the necessary bribes
the drooling anticipation of the coming deaths
the child falls so lovingly upon the street

//////

0        0
0

_

The outline of the knife puckered in the bright red glow of hate
the flick of a wrist that drinks in a life
the careful placing of the blade
As time stops and the air is filled with dread mortality
And lovingly destroys the soul

0
||       (       )       ||

/\



Come on now sweet child
Just leave the world behind

All these broken hearted lovers
Are gettin too easy to find

//. //

Much too easy to find

//.//
//////
////////

she said :

I look into your eyes and see your soul
and your pain

And I want to be there for you
Forever

//

I said :

If you really see  my soul you would see

The light of god which is the life of man

and that this is something that you cannot possess

Just cause you smear your ***** juice

All over it

Like you are a dog ******* on a fire hydrant !

//

She said :

You have broken me !

Can't you see my pain ?

//

I said :

Your pain is fake

And if I feel sorry for you

I sure as hell am not stupid enough

To say so !

//////
//////

Come on now sweet child
Just leave this world behind

You know that all these broken hearted lovers
Are getting too easy to find

//

Way to easy to find

We


We die too young and too easily

//

Looking thru the used vaginas

He finally found a girl

••

she ( alas ) was hardly human

But she was there

::::

::::

Take my hand
( softly child )

Easy
So very easy

//

If you ain't really lookin for what's true
What do you
Think you'll find ?

//

(?)(?)(?)(?)

A song drifts freely from the hill

You can hear it if you try

You can see the dragon blowin flames

Upon him you can ride

(!)(!)(!)(!)

Easy
So very easy

The love so fine for you to drink

( They brew it strong in the hills )

Why do you want to drink it weak ?

( Comin and goin like a pack of thieves )

//

Hey kid

The dance is now

The show is real

The death complete

//

Love is no escape from pain !

Love is the seed of pure human strength

::
::
::

Take my hand
( softly child )

Everything is on the line

Easy
So very easy

It's really easy to live

And hard to die

And we are dyin way too easily

( So lovelessly )

Like we ain't really tryin

//

Huddled in shadows
Huddled in darkness

They write LOVE LETTERS but no one is there

//

They hear

Boots marching on the street !

==

They write LOVE LETTERS

that no one recieves

Because no one is there

//

Hungry mad eyes demand love

But no one is there

••

afraid to leave the shelter of their despair

They huddle in shadows and then disappear

0
)) ((
/\

(            _           )


moon                                                              

( Above the hill  )                          

                                    She has collected the wood for the fire    
                       And he the water from the stream

//

( the dream that is real )

//

READINESS

0                   0

0                   0

They gaze out of their window

To the children playing on the street

//

They are READY for the Day to. Come

•

( They have Sanctified their Love )

||||

they sit around the fire and eat

Of the dream that lingers here

0(  )0
/   (  •  )  \
/  \

#

Gentle river

( the sweet )              

The song lingers


( But we ? )

                               We are needed now

""

The wilderness !

Come !

Destiny awaits

Oh yes !

Emerging warships heading toward

Once pristine shores

Thought so secure

/////

We are needed now

/////

The fires are lit !

( we are not hiding )

All of the Power
( all of       Creation. )

We are the fire

We stand

This very Hour

Upon the Hill

//

Your Eyes

See everything

Your Heart

Knows and contains

The Home that must still be

Here

Tomorrow

For the child's sake

•

We are needed now

He come down


he

Come down !

••

( he come down )

he a comin down

•

•

•

THERE HE IS !

•

•

•

In your own heart

Time to be a seperating

The Living from the Dead

//

Holy bodies in the sunlight

The utter beauty of creation

Every truth has already been spoken

Let us live by these again

//

He come down

And here we are

( just the way it's always been )

••

He

He is a comin down

/////

HERE WE ARE WITH HIM AGAIN

////

So

What'll we do now ?

What'll we do now ?

////////

( Such a lonely day )

""""

Lonely

•

This lonely day

||

I am coming

On this lonely day

( do you want me ? )

On this lonely day


////


soft eyes shining

Everyone who
Wants to

Can see

/\

A new dream forming

Containing children playing

Freely on the streets

""

A New Man

Created and creating

A new day

///

Lonely day

Becomin lovely

So very lovely

New faces

The new man coming

Coming to stay

No more

This talk a pain

//

You are what you want to be

This the only thing that is always true

••

Only one power inside of you

And it is good

//

This you know intuitively

//

//

Certainty is the only thing we certainly believe

""

Everything prepares itself for you

//

Little lovely child

//

Everything you want or need

//

Speak

Honestly aloud

//

NOW

everybody is here at last

o
(  )
(    )
/--\

I see you ( yeah )
I see you

Comin out

( I see you  comin out )

••

For many days

You been
locked away in the darkness

But

You're coming out

Out from the shadows

You be comin out

//

With the whole world

Safe in your arms

Every child

Knows you

They know you

Know that you will keep them free from harm

///
///

We ain't gonna play

In the dark no more

Aint gonna be

The ****** or the *****

We know

What we are livin for

///

She comin out

Arm in arm with The Lord

///

We know

What we are livin for

To free the people

And to take back the world

To free the people

And to take back the world

//

(                                    )
/ )  ) \                       / (  ( \
/ \                               / \
( we )

we know that we
Shall never meet again

(  no       no )

It's only an illusion

our
FOREVER AND A DAY

Life is always aging

And you shall be just a memory

( come --- we know
How everyone must       drift away )

•••

•••

The story that we say we need

Can but be a fantasy

So live the moment fully

You will cherish what you give

You'll be ashamed of all you take

//

Every moment is the same

Raw power pulsing freely

Sometimes it takes a human shape

That is born to constant change

••

So stay free

//

We shall never meet again

( no          no )

SO

in this moment let us truly meet

yes

In this moment let's create the world

(^)

I say I love ya cause I need
Your love

But then I find out ya need love too

Now what am I supposed to do ?

//

BOO HOO
BOO HOO

BOO HOO

///

You supposed to carry me on

Carry you ? -- you know
I ain't that strong

///

The only thought that's on my mind

Is that you just ain't the LOVIN Kind

//

BOO HOO
BOO HOO

BOO HOO

••

I gave you such a mighty good ****

I guess that I just am out of luck

I just wanted a love so true

How was I to know

You wanted love , too ?

//

BOO HOO

BOO BOO

//

Only thing that I can say

It hurts so much to be betrayed

•

I needed you to carry me on

Carry you ?  
You know I ain't that strong

••

BOO HOO
BOO HOO

BOO HOO

we are
                                                               drifting

so far from home

( we are )

So far from home                                      

••
••

Hey I know your name

It's

LITTLE MISS  LONELY CHILD

//

the winds hit your cheeks

some say you are crying

//

( Drifting

Drifting )

••

so far from home                                  

//
//

                 You

Have learned to see so far

You              

have come to sense all Reasons

beginning to know

just who you are

••

Starting to understand your freedom

////

On the wild periphery

Where all true souls are gathering

Away from the subtle games they teach

That lead to only slavery

///

WE ARE DRIFTING DRIFTING DRIFTING !

to the center of LIFE ITSELF

with no regrets
No hesitation

Drifting

•

So far from home

To

wherever the pure road leads

To be
whatever is needed now

WE ARE THE HUMAN RACE

and we ain't goin anywhere else

Than to our own true EARTH

no matter what the War Lords say

//

We are drifting

Drifting free

And free we shall remain

I am          Come

//

Everything

That
You want

( I )

•

•

I am here

•   •

Stand only in Righteousness

You are the Only Power

/////

You know that all the Suffering

is only games of make - believe

//

Some say that Love can cause such pain !

( how stupid do they think we are ? )

||

I

I have come

You

You too are here

JOY !

We are

THE SEED OF TOMORROW

and we shall grow

Unto FRUIT most heavenly

0
(  )
(    )
/---\

                                     you are he

••

water

                                          Flowing

( knowing )

||

We too

•

Creating ourselves out of who we are

//

Soft and sure

•

Feeling

--

What we have a need to feel

::::

Love

//

We do

//

in this

the sacred placing

Of ourselves

//

We walk amid the rest

We are a power

We know

Each other

In the moonlight

Oh so very well

//

Truth is simple

••

Riding the el - train

Into the dawn

oh my lord

----

Young girl

I am yours

//////

Lovely dream

Soft and pure

///

( just like we are )

Yes we are

Yes we are

•••

wisdom and kindness are one and the same

//

Sitting alone in the park

Is to be there with everyone

///

Every child can find a knee

And a hand to wipe away
Every tear

//

Softly we sing

And sure

See

Who it is

Coming this way

:::

Soft song

--

Oh my lord

///

How could it be

Any other way ?

Pristine

( behind the lies  )

Your EYES

//

It's good to know you're back again

.... that only yields such useless pain ! )



AND SO
HAS EVERYONE FORGIVEN ALL WHO HAVE
OFFENDED THEM

SO THAT WE CAN UNITE IN LOVE

AND CREATE A NEW AND A REAL

AND A VIABLE WORLD

TOGETHER  ?


Good !

////

only one love

only one life

only one lesson to learn

//

Live it in love

Live it in peace

Live it in harmony

••

••

who and what you are

Who and what anyone else is

Has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do
With what is going on the world

But it is TOTALLY dependent on the fact

That we have no real KNOWLEDGE of

The eternal
Meaning

Of the word

GOD

Of the POWER

that this word points to

Or of the MANNER

in which we are to access
To enter into

The realm of this Power

••

But this truth is known

And is revealing itself

In its own way

//

So be of strong and pure heart !

You are surely a part of the poem

Being written here

.... What would we do ?

<<                        ( )                        >>
(    )
(      )
/---\

                                                      in this the darkest night

without at least a candle (?)

we face doom

••

LIGHT ! LIGHT !
everywhere

but alas we cannot see

////

But certainly

We still know

Of the one man standing there

•

SACRED BREATH OF HOLINESS

beyond its hold is mere illusion

//

figments of imagination dressed like men

••

Such we are unto each other
Such we are unto ourselves

::::

The only story written here

Is

ALL OF US ARE GOING HOME

///

There is Somebody In the shadows

Lo and behold he wears your face

The drawn out story of the dyin day

<<                ( )                >>
(     )
(       )
/----\

•

what is it ( really ) you call GOOD ?

::             :;

beyond the phony bible story

What is god ?

•

The sacred power  beyond time

The breath that is pure consciousness

////

( you know -- I know -- what must be done )

•

Everything we talk about
Everything we write about

Everything we think we are experiencing

All our hopes and loves
Our lives
Our fears

Have no basis in reality

REJOICE !

( you are free and can come here )

•

& be with me

•

We are trying to live with only a

Very small fraction of the Spirit ( the Power )
We actually possess

•

We can say

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN  ?

well

It did

••

So    (?)

TURN IT BACK ON !

It is still here

Here and waiting just for you

•

THE LORD IS HERE

( yes he is )

///

What he is ?

You will know

When you see him and he sees you

•

It won't be anything you think you already know

//

It will be so easy to understand

ragged limping beggar boy

||                                  ||  
( we all can see that he is unseen )
||                                  ||

LONE WOLF HOWLING AT THE MOON

||

Young girl sleeping in icy bed

••

Guarded by demons till they can steal her for good

:////:

FATHER , FATHER

I WOULD BE FREE

//

the Myth unravelling

The mystery

O

will the Wolf become a Man ?

will the girl dare face her fate ?

Will they ever chance to meet ?

//

And dear reader / what of you ?

Will you see the Lies and try Escape

Along the road of your own truth ?

........ was the road

she walked upon it so majestically                                                    
­
//

Now anybody may follow

Anyone who would come home

••

( oftimes it is possible to say

That we are          too vain )

||

Thru the ***** pounding

Thru the rich boredom of        Complaining

Thru the poison of               complimenting

//

Into the light of the honesty

///

The girl !

She is free

•

Will you try to harm her ?

( I'm not sure but I fear you may )

Thriving as we do on self abuse and jealousy

//

A walking in the rain / she

Is prepared for anything

( even for a touch of love  )

Or any gift you choose to bring

0
---|---
/\

//

In the land of the living

( it's more than just a dream )

•

Lovers are waiting

~~~~

( waiting )

+

Contemptuous love

(More like hate )

Contemptuous love

( like a bunch a devils who just love to fornicate )

That's what we got here

That's all we got here

AINT IT TIME  TO ESCAPE ?

/./

To the

Land of the living

~~~

Where RESPECT still means something

:::::

:::::


well I know you girl

Everything you are

Everything you want

Everything you need

( we live or die )

0"""0
^
<>

/~\

//////

and will Tomorrow even know Today !

He leaves the door

The alleyway

Seems to have a ONE WAY sign

-----

the children are at play

( why does it seem to be

For --- the very last time ! )

••

He can hardly even remember her face

••

••

We have kept this feeling hidden for too long

//

And now

( perhaps )

It is too late

/////

LOVE

we knew it was more than some romance game

We knew

But we lied to ourselves anyway !

•

( and we'll keep on lying till we die )

/////

He stepped out into the flow of time

//

Children's bodies decaying before his

Lifeless eyes

::::

Her soul poured into me

My life !

My soul !

It is yours ! ( I cried )

•

•

The garbage truck

Rumbles down the cobblestone street

As the early song of the errant birds of morning

Warbles so majestically of our

Undying love !!

//

I LOVE THE WAY YOU CALL MY *****

" THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP "

I said to her

Thru tear filled eyes

••

the gentle stench of the sweaty sheets

That hold your soul right next to mine

fills me with the sense that god has blessed

Our union

and that tomorrow may find us

Still in love

••

Y
O
U

!!!

Magic phallus

( Golden ***** )

Holy **** , batman !

Heaven is here  

../::/..

Goodbye goodbye sweet human race

I've chosen love instead of life

and though I know all love is pain

At least it is devoid

Of any sense of responsibility

/:/

Her soul ! And mine !

We huddle together over the dictionary

To find out exactly what we mean

///

0
(   •  •  )
/   \

######

?   Love  ?

--

The true lover NEVER gets hurt !!

( this we all know !!)

--

THE PAIN  

( which we talk of so incessantly and childishly )

ALWAYS comes back upon the false lover

And is felt ONLY by the false lover !!

//

THE DENIAL OF THIS OBVIOUS FACT

IS THE ESSENCE OF THE POEMS

ON HELLO POETRY

///

what is called LOVE here

Is merely POSSESSIVE INDULGENCE

//

The REAL FEAR  that we have is of

Actually BEING LOVED

//

For in the LIGHT of the TRUTH OF LOVE

all our games are exposed and we are simply

Left standing in the existential terror

That is our society

//

We mask this actual terror by

Playing the GAME presented

And playing it with such RELIGIOUS ZEAL

that it tends to temporarily

Protect us from the knowledge

Of our EXTREME VULNERABILITY

////

the results are disasterous

we sink farther and farther into

Depression

And play the GAME more intently

To ease the shame

••

We should change the story !

We should make it ours !

We should LIVE !

WE MAY SURVIVE

Basically

All our poems say :

I 'VE BEEN HURT AND SO

I MUST HURT YOU

BUT I HOPE IT'S NOT SO BAD

////

that's it !!!

That's the best we can do !!

??

///            O            ///
||||
a rain falls
()

The child lies sleeping on the ground

••

////       Softly !     ////

()

They dared to touch one another !!!!

/\

( Really        Touch )

AND SO THEY NEVER HURT EACH OTHER

;;;;;;;;;

a long roads winding up thru  the hills

//////

A soft song singing

Let us follow

I really want to know the singer

••

( living )

The joy that remains

•

•

•

The child sleeping on the ground

He hears the singing and he gathers

The remnant dream unto a Courage

That guides him to the road

And to the hills

"0"
/ (•) (•) \
/  \

()()()

the sum total of all our poems is :

I WOULD RATHER SUFFER , EVEN DIE

PRETENDING TO BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

SEEKING THE CULTURALLY INDUCED

FALSE AND CONTRIVED LOVE

MY PEERS HAVE CHOSEN TO ADOPT

AS REALITY

THAN TO STEP BACK

AS AN INDEPENDANT AND FREE PERSON

AND TRULY COME TO UNDERSTAND LOVE

AND ITS PEROGATIVES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

IN THE HERD IS PEACE

IN THE TRULY HUMAN THERE IS

A FEAR OF SOMETHING THAT IS GREATER

THAN EVEN THE INEVITABILITY

OF A WASTED LIFE OF FRADULENT

EMOTIONS AND PURE SHAME

AND THAT IS TO KNOW ONESELF AS

A TRUE PARTICIPANT IN LIFE ITSELF

A PARTNER OF GOD

A CREATIVE HUMAN BEING

/////

this we state

Over and over and over again

As we pretend to be unknowing

And unknowable

And that falsity is our only defense

Because the truth does not set one free

But rather

Truth enslaves

< ( ^ )  >
//// • ||
<>

•####•

she ?

You want her ?

what ?

••

The magic of life ?

You want it ?

THIEF!!!

•

I LOVE YOU          he said

OF COURSE YOU DO !           she replied

So don't talk so stupid !

"""""

Life is as simple as

The Great Waterfall

Floating in the Sky

••

She said

( ? )

!

••

The day

The man / the woman

The child

•

_

^
"  "
~
/         \
/\
•======•

Alone

( where we meet )

I and the god you are

//

she loves

( Night )

Children are born

//

We are good

We shall be healed

Tonight

"""""

she said

I am Jesus / who are you ?

MARY MAGDALENE

•

No no no

We are not afraid

All the sacred words are ours

••

The sacred word

For the human body ?

LOVE

•

Only I AM is real

Said everyone

To each other

•

God is a word

Meaning I LOVE YOU

( obviously )

<<<<         ?        >>>>

666

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In truth

THE BEAST

is the name of a sacred ancient goddess

( Gaia )

and refers to the

COMPLETE TOTALITY OF  BEING

It's Number

600 + 60 + 6

Is formed from the letter/ number

Vav

( in hebrew )  
The 6th letter of hebrew alphabet

6 being the symbol representing personal interaction
And communication

6 -- at the physical level
60 ---- at the mental level
600 --- at the spiritual level

Combined (?)

666

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AND THEN CAME RELIGION !!!!

And

AUTHORITY !!!!

And POLITICAL POWER !!!!!!

and to maintain control

This interaction amongst people was suppressed

And replaced by the AUTHORITY preaching

To the docile population !!

//

Same with the word SATAN

which refers to the POWER OF LIGHT AND LOVE

SHINING FORTH FROM THE ENLIGHTENED

COMMUNITY

which of course would undermine the mind control

Of the RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY

//

We see this clearly in the word

BLASPHEMY

from the Latin

To bloom or blossom

Before the family (or community)

It originally referred to the initiation rite

Of one entering and then fully participating in

The spiritual life of the community

••

Then ( again) the AUTHORITY enters

and only they may speak

••

••

All religion is a complete sham

Disguising its criminal violence by merging

It's enslaving agenda onto real spiritual values

Creating out of LOVE images of fear and self loathing

///

If you do not master the ancient tongue

Avoid all religion for it is only a prop

For the RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY

which ***** up your power unto its own

)))))                                                        ((((­(

some say love is here

X
X                 X

kissed by pure reason

His eyes that see

The FOOL

dancing on the hill

••

Come pretty girl ! / he sings

to the shy ******* the sands where time

Writes strange enchanted stories

Of slavery and wild escape

"""""

The naked rapture

The golden light of the soul aflamed

In the sacred meaning

Of his dream

••

We say so much about love !

//

( We say so many things )

••

Eternity

Knows nothing of FOREVER

on the ole freight train

The HOBO

&

THE PERFECT STRANGER

sing the song

For she who would remember

that the  FOOL dancing

Is simply / the heart as it beats

Sweet
                                                  Is my Song

//

Love                                
                                          love is my  meaning

//

Play the drums
Play the harp

Play

••

Let the flutes be heard

Hear the melody                                    
                               Of the stars

••

Courage

( Raw courage )

Is my Name

••

Unafraid of dyin

Is my undyin game

///

Sweet

How you sweet you are

•

•

•

Your song !

( I'm hearin )

And here you are

#

^^^^^^
/////

I was sitting high on the hill

We had this LAND in the costal range near Santa Cruz

//

( a castle for the ages )

///

In the meditative flow of absolute freedom

///

Then the words of a song by THE BAND

came into my mind

I LOOKED OUT MY WINDOW
TELL ME WHAT DID I SEE ?

I SAW THE GOLDEN CALF
POINTING BACK AT ME

///

the place ( 300 acres ! )

Seemed but a postage stamp as I let my eyes

Drift south along the range  to Mexico

//

North thru Canada ( no ! -- up to Alaska! )

Out  over the Pacific

Up thru the Cosmos

/::/

I got up and descended the hill

Out to PCH 1

And hitch- hiked Berkeley

and the smog

And the  congestion

And the people

And I asked for forgiveness

And that again I might be human

And that the years might flow

And that GOOD might come

AND THEY SAID

sure brother !

You're always welcome

and here I am

)(
/\
( • )
/\

_

many ( if not most )

Of our poems are written to

A ...... You

More properly spelled

Y
O
U

rising up as the ******* symbol that it is

/::/

By addressing the poem to this

Y
O
U

The real audience ( the actual readers )

Are effectively erased from the writer's consideration

And all responsibility for the poem is likewise erased

•

Y
O
U

as the subject matter

Totally de-personalizes the person who is the subject

Of the poem and renders him as a mere object
( phallus )

In the writer's mind

•

This enables the writer to invent any SELF desired

The usual SELF  is of

THE VICTIM

category

//

This VICTIM status

Has been raised to a religious level

As

THE BROKEN PEOPLE

have replaced

THE CHOSEN PEOPLE

as the god given identification for mankind

•

With its ritual mutilations

( real or fake )

Commanding its ritual amens

And commiserations

///

be wary

DEAR YOUNG ONES

and try to write real poetry

For it can heal both you and the world

)(
/\
(•)
/\

_

Who you are writing to

And

What you are writing about

And

who you think you are who is writing

///

ARE THE SAME

///

It all becomes a simple

CLARIFICATION OF INTENTION

//

And hence the

CREATION OF THE WORLD

o
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0  0

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the manner and amount  of respect we have

For the image of our audience

And for

The image that we have of our subject

And for

the image that we have of ourselves



ARE ALWAYS THE SAME

and eventually this becomes

The very essence of our lives

//

That is

""

When we use the audience as a sounding board to vent our harsh feelings to ....

About someone we dislike ...

Who we say has broken us...( poor pathetic ME )

WE ARE MERELY ALLOWING OURSELVES

TO BECOME A USELESS AND MEANINGLESS
ENTITY

///

Now

You might say

ISNT THAT WHAT YOU ARE DOING
WITH THIS POEM ?

///

The answer is No

•

I am picturing everyone in my mind here

With love and respect

//

I am addressing the subject of poetry

As a beautiful and healing expression

Of pure human feeling

//  

I am doing this out of a feeling

Of myself as a GOOD HUMAN

Caring for the fate of Humanity

)(
0    0
/\
( • )
/\

We come together !

While some speak of the Sacred Forge

And

Of IDEAS AND IDEALS

::::

we                                                  ( unlike these phonies )

write love poems to our

***** an *******

To tittilate ourselves and others

As a sort of spoof on the world

And create for ourselves

A safe haven in which

To hide from our anxieties and our fears

)(
0     0
/\
( • )
/\

We come together !

We are the Sacred Forge

We mold our very Lives

INTO THE IDEAS AND IDEALS

that shall surely save the World !

)(           playing in the Garden            )(


•

SOMEWHERE

the simple truth ....

Let us wander

••

( we wander )

••

So close I can feel you

So far that I can see you Eye To Eye

||

( and all words come so naturally )

And all words come so naturally to be of love

•

We come together

We part

Little yin ! ( so lovely )

Little yang  !  ( more like a man - day by day ! )

••

Gentle breezes

Merge and mate

And fill the air with life 's Seed !

//

MANKIND !

Join !

it is a wondrous place to be

/\
^
o
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||

softly tears

The young boy he

Finds her again

///

the poor

The weary

The weak

::::

children live forever as long as they like

///

The magic is always here

"""""

She was weeping

He went there

( he always goes there )

••

The empty pier

The seagulls fly

Across the waters ill at ease

•

Will we rescue our dreams

Or keep on dying ?

""

I return

Over and over again


••

Once in a while

I am known

lookin my girl friend face to face

( confessional ! )

-----

I said

I DON'T KNOW THAT I SHOULD BE HERE

I CANT REALLY SAY ----- I LOVE YOU

:::

WHAT ?

She said laughing

YOU SAY THAT AS IF YOU THINK THAT

I LOVE YOU !

YOU REALLY DO , DON' T YOU

YOU' RE SUCH A PURIST !

AND I RESPECT THAT

BUT OF COURSE ITS NOT --- PERFECT

WE     ( WE )  ARE NOT PERFECT

SO WHAT ?

LOOK

GO IF YOU WANT

STAY IF YOU WANT

STAY IF YOU WANT AND GO AWAY LATER !

GO IF YOU WANT AND COME BACK LATER !

I CAN BOTHER CARING ABOUT YOU

I CAN BOTHER CARING ABOUT WHAT I KNOW

YOU ARE TRYING TO DO

BUT I CAN'T BOTHER CARING ABOUT

SOMETHING LIKE THIS

////

well !

What could I say to that !

::

we looked closely at each other

We looked and ( sure ) the Trust was there

""""

WELL ( I said )

IF YOU PUT IT THAT WAY

I GUESS I' LL STAY !

(She kept looking at me -- they was no drum rolls
Or other mystic musical accompaniment )

OH  ( I said )

I GUESS I SHOULD HELP GET READY FOR DINNER

//

YES , ( she said )

THAT 'S THE WAY THINGS WORK ROUND HERE

((((   • ))
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/      (    (     \

/  \

XxxxX

so there I was in Maine thinking of my
old girl friend in San Francisco

( pregnant -- with kind of a untrustworthy boyfriend )

And a took the I Ching to ask it my fate

••

My new girl friend came over to see the tale unfold

••

DO NOT CROSS THE GREAT WATERS !

STAY PUT !

( over & over ! )

•

So I turned to her and said

I' M LEAVING !

she said

BUT IT SAID TO STAY !

I said

BUT I' M ALREADY THERE

MY SPIRIT IS THERE

ONLY MY BODY IS HERE

and I was gone

////

I saw her again 2 ( maybe 3 ) years later

•

We were laughing about our I Ching adventure

And then it hit me ... !

YOU WANTED ME TO GO , DIDN' T YOU !

//

OF COURSE

she said

//

I felt such love for this being

I started to cry

••

She said

I KNOW YOU

I KNEW YOU COULDN ' T ABANDON THIS GIRL

WHO YOU LOVED AND WHO LOVED YOU

IN HER HOUR OF NEED

( by the time I got back there the guy was already gone,
As I had anticipated )

She laughed at said :

THE WHOLE I CHING THING WAS THE FUNNIEST THING

I HAVE EVER SEEN !

//

//

The years come and go


The faces really always remain

For LOVE never changes

And

NOTHING OF VALUE IS EVER LOST

And the little boy ( who is now a man )

Is fine and good

and now it's time

To heal the world