dont take it so hard.......

(there's important things
to do)

--

she gone
he gone

bye bye!

dont take it so hard

(there's important things to do)

-------

sorry
sorrow weeps so
pitiably

and is boring

--

so boring

just waiting

for your tears
to cease

there being

so many important
things
to  

do

(
/    )   )   \

/  \
                                                  •••••••••••••

white bird

                                        ( don't ya die now little girl )

it's easy to die girl

                                                      ( just look around )

white bird

Knows the sky 's a fallin down

---

White bird        / /          Don't ya die girl

The sky is fallin down

|\\|
•

Gentle as the dream he's weaving
----

She kinda likes the kid but what Good is he ?

••

••

DAY AFTER DAY
---

She cut herself again last night

He awoke in anguish from sound sleep

••

He smiled at her in the lunch room but she was into someone else

••

Gentle as the dream he's weaving
••

Just a kid

DAY BY DAY

( ///  •)
\   <>
/
/         \    
\
   /\

So ?

( ain't ya dyin ? )

••

And  --- so ?

----

Really

This ain't no world !

••

REALLY

•

No way is this a world

••

All our talking don't say nothin

All true knowledge is unknown

WE ARE TOTAL STRANGERS

TO OURSELVES AND TO OTHERS

••

so ?

••

I say

LETS BE QUIET  FOR AWHILE

STOP
MEDITATE

(Only)

••

It's all just so ******* unreal !

It just ain't no world !

//// o ||
<>    

^^^^^^^

The lie wasn't when he told her
that he loved her

The lie was when she told us
that she believed him

•

:::

I am Not brain washed!

I do Not believe

2 + 2 = 5 !

~~~

I know

2 + 2 =

Somewhere between

4.2 + 4.4 !

•

&
That 9/11

Was Not

An inside job!

-----

-------------the Ugly American

and never would i be the one to doubt your sincerity
to question your reasons
to refuse to submit to the magnificent song
you try to sing

no not I
not i

because

well because
just
because

well
if you was a social worker
you might kick me off foodstamps

that's why
that's why

so i
never doubt your sincerity

never doubt your sincerity
never doubt your sincerity

so you have no reason
to kick me off foodstamps
kick me off foodstamps
kick me off foodstamps

(                    ^                   )
)                  ^                  (
<^>
O         O
/                                    \
|
o         o
    


•


Well

We wander

                                      ///

So much death is here

///                                

•         •

•        •

I see you !

You are

                                                               ­                     FAR AWAY !

~~

In another world !                                    

•

Can we know each other at all anymore ?

/////

Beyond the pain

/////////////////
•                    •

Do you love me ?

What does that mean

In a world at war ??

••

Well

We wander

                        ////

So much death is here

////                          

So unreal

•

We shall gather

As we must

We shall learn to trust

Or we shall simple perish

••

So much death is here

And if and when
We
All fall down
--
Like
Leaves  fall down
---
We
Fall down
----
Down and out
Down and out

----
Down and down
And down
----
---
sure
It's time
Time for a story
Now
Time to have a story
.
To **** the pain
-----
THAT kind of a story
Now
.
We need THAT kind of a story
-
To **** the pain
__
A story
To **** the pain we feel
The pain we see
.
Everytime we look around
--
Until the numbness we have
Upon hearing the stories
The stories we tell
To **** the pain

Runs out

and as the sublest notions must contain a hint of true revelation
or be mere frivolity

safety assurred!!    nothing much to say around
the homeless 'round here

well,  all GOOD PEOPLE know when to shut up and let the authorities
alone.....they who are so kind as to rule us compassionately

but.........of course.....we know when we lie

(all of the time)

but ......these subtle notions of humanity......so frivolous

we say

(                                                  
             ­                                         )
(                     ­                       
                                )
(      ­            
)
\/
/\
/    \
+       ~~      +  

Someday

The truth

Someday soon

:/:  
        /:/

I can't believe you are just

Walkin away

I just can't believe

••••

I believe in you

And that

Someday

The truth will come to you

Someday soon

••

There is a love

Even with this sense of hopelessness

Dream the dream

The one that shall live  !

It shall live

( & you , too )

You too

Shall Stay

You shall want to love again

••

Someday

The truth

Someday soon

Maybe today

Yeah

What about today ?

( Today will do )

slow the down day song we know
of only this or maybe that too

who knows
we hardly seem to care to meet
eachother anymore

the down streets are so low
with the nothing absolutely nothing
going on

except for stupid political raving
and rantings

and liars simply doing their thing
and hoping
to get the show onto tee vee

or young lovers coo cooing so bitterly
about the fact that they love eachother
without love
but they end up happy cause they can brag
about being so unhappy

such a slow down almost stopped day it is

except of course for you and me

(           (                 0              )         )
     <(             )>
    <(                        )>
    (                                     )
      ~~~~~~

Another day another dollar

Another naked girl in the sun

""""""

She told me she loved me

It was very enlightening

•      •

She wanted to **** me

I said I didn't want a pregnancy

She said --- you must be stupid !

Girls get pregnant -- not guys

This too was very enlightening

•

Yesterday I heard the word -- love -- spoken
Over 1000 times

But only saw 5 acts of love

None of them by anyone who had spoken the word

••

I finally realized that it is national policy
To **** people who understand what love is
&
Truly love

••

This was not enlightening but depressing

///

Very few people love me

///
/:/
///
/:/

Very few people love anyone

Least that I know of

.



She come down

Black skinned babe

Comin this way

Comin towards me

Along the gully

Through the trees

Comin for me

//

a'comin this way

Red dress torn

From the ******* where

She was born

Comin for me

//

Comin for me

We escape

Through the white river

To the Sea

//

She

Comin for me

And together

We escape

Through the white river

To the Sea

~~~~~        Down the


~~~.river ~~~                         ( we go )                  

<>

We float down the river
                                           ( Goin to the sea  )

••                                   WE
are goin home

:: /// ~~~~ /// ::

The barge upon the water

Like in the days of slavery                               ••
                                        ••
••

Destiny is callin

( callin ! )

Callin everybody

COME ON WITH ME !

///

                               Come on down the river

Goin to the the sea

/./

                                                                          ~~ Only come ~~

                                       ~~ If you want ~~  

                              (.  to be free  )

she's a movin on out
to where she can be seen
to where she can be known

to where her love  can start to grow
she's a movin on out
down the road

aint no winners or losers
whinners or such
we're all only beginners
as lovers
we hardly know how to touch

she's a  movin on out
down the road

hey hey what's to say
if ya really want to change
when the liars start talking
ya gotta stop listening

and move on out
down the road

Who?
..
We say so much
We
Touch so seldomly

Strangely estranged

Humanity
Enchained
----
Terrorized by our own indifference
And what this means
_
A movie

Horror movie!

A SCREAM!

--

A
Scream

( a child on the street)

MOVING SLOWLY OFF TO SCHOOL

What's that thing he holds in his hands?

.



Lives mingle  here

And love is born

•

•

( there is No love in isolation )

::               ::

we are the wholeness of creation

you are the embodiment of all there is

Carried in the heart of the people

:::

King and Queen


Breath by breath


Enter completely

And conquer death

//

( she took her wussy to the highway

Just like moma did ! )

--- she was a good kid ---

Looking for her MAN !

•



Then she came to the "marketplace "

Where lives mingle

And love is born

::

We are the wholeness of creation


//

We breath

We live and bring to life

Lives mingle

And love is born

//

We are life

We live we love and are loved

//

Those who " fell "

In love

Get up so slowly

From the ground

••




.

stepping up!

no!......not to the "plate"
(this is not a baseball game
or a corporate dinner!)

silly pretentions!
awkward in their murderous possiblities!

DO YOU EVEN CARE?

walking green strands in central park with children well in hand and letting them know how fully they are loved

this is simple!
what is it!?

pretend !....  pretend!!.........pretend!!!

as do all those
on the corporate payroll

DO YOU EVEN CARE?

stepping out

into the frozen night pregnant with simple loving possibilities

are you here?

stepping up!

no ....!
not to FEAR and not to GREED and not to HATE
but to eachother!

DO YOU EVEN CARE?

here we are

stepping into the universe and its unalterable laws

i know you know full well what i mean for we all were once children well in hand in central park and loved

DO YOU EVEN CARE?

well
well well
well

.........after all the the poems
the question remains awaiting your answer

DO YOU EVEN CARE?

inquiring souls
long to know

the lost

the freight train

RIDE!
hobo
RIDE!

i am only

NOT KIDDING

--

the lynchings
the cluster bombs
(what are these?)
the terror
the terrorized

WE
---

the naked
the pure
innocent reminders
of our loyalty

to hatred
and vain profit makings

YOU MUST BE KIDDING!

--

i call upon you
as you know

the last freight train

the whistle blows

RIDE!
angel urchin
RIDE!

WE ARE NOT KIDDING!

.



Or are ya just bullshiting !?


)(

Yeah

We know !

•

•

The rainy day street contains

The any child

And his every form
Of

Pain

><

The Great AMERICAN Symphony

of Mass Incarceration

&

BLACK DEATH

•     •
•
••

( & JESUS crucified children on the cross

To free you from their potential

Sinfulness ! )

••



? GOD -- AMERICAN STYLE! ?

)(

( oh come on !

Sit down !

Have some authentic tea bagger tea

And watch Fox News on TV

turn on the **** and *******

And wipe your *** with the Constitution

And talk of Liberty !

---

So

Ya godless minions

Of the satanic corporations

with your jaundiced eyes

And your ****** teeth


We are hip now to your jive *** lies

And have chosen to remain alive

And return to you your god of death

And merge ourself into god's light

And into his Holy Breath

.


in the pious town

In the        Burning


•


We of the 1000 stories

We

Remain hidden always

:::

Over the hills !

See !

Soldiers marching

||


" We are children "

||

She of the valiant heart

Soft breasted one

Of her own pure dominion

In the pious town

Burning

•

I said

COME
LET US RUN AWAY

or

LET US STAY !

::

But let us do
It together  

)!)

Amid the lynching of the slaves

)(


I love her because she is still a girl

::::

In the pious town

All the children are burning



.

To write a great poem is easy
  
To write of simple love requires courage

••

To believe in god is to believe in god

•

To believe in courage creates god and by-passes belief

••

••

I saw a lovely girl walking thru the mountains

I am a lovely boy

•

I am un-armed
(. I am ready to fight)

•

DRAGON ARE FLYING THRU THE SKY

Well

Is it?
--
Is the sky
Gonna crack open
Twixt stars
And then the------ DRAGONS!
and then you be there?
----
Or the
Same ole stuff?
_
Well
It's up to you

What do you want?

Dragons!

Or the same ole stuff?

--

Show your magic
Girl

Crack open the sky

And show me your face

As you ride the DRAGON

down to the ground

((((                                
O
                              ))))
                                                         war !!

••

WAR !!

( she has come )

••                                                  

little child BE AFRAID  !

( but do not give in to your fear )

////

TRUE LOVE ( real )

Is the only armament

Is the only argument

Is the LAST HOPE on the line

•

Hold the child in YOUR EY

••

Die together if it comes down that way !

//

The only power left that's real

•

Amid the liars and the thieves

is you in FULL GLORY

and FULL HUMANITY

//

At least be HUMAN for awhile

//

Leave the history for the slaves

))      • ))  
))  <>      ))
       ))                    ) )    
))          ( • ) ( • )        ))
))                                        ))
(      )
)         (

##

She walkin SHE

WALKIN

she comin down da street

••

You can't tell by lookin at her

But she's

ARMED TO THE TEETH !!

////:

Where are ya boy !

True Love is here

YE say ya been lookin

WELL
         SHE standing over there

••

She be pure as god

Angel of MERCY

•

She was

Born in a DRAGON's lair

••

She can fire 1000 arrows in a minute

Hit anyone anywhere

••

Pure as god

Angel of mercy

---

Here just for you boy

You and yer world

/////

YE say ya lookin for love

Boy
SHE is here

///////

ARMED TO THE TEETH !
BORN IN A DRAGON'S LAIR

BOY
YE say ya lookin FER love

SHE standing over there
Just standing over there

the dragon has come
(she with the red rose on her breast is here again)

she with the arrows of thunderbolts has come to **** us to save the world

the world we have been destroying against all reason

the unicorn has bowed down
(she with the perpetual-child in hand has relunctantly yielded to the red-rose girl)

the dragon is really many dragons

they have no sense of purpose in what they do

they have no sense of morality or a sense of fighting immorality

the simply DO and hence are invincible

the dragon, thru the medium of the girl with the red rose on her breast or the girl with the perpetual child in hand or the child herself alone

will certainly soon call upon you

they have come for you and you shall do what you shall do

Chicago

Detroit

Los Angeles

GONE!

••

(America)

••

We huddle in the ruins

••

We huddle in Memories

Of children

---

We Reminisce

We make up stories of lovers

----

We try to seem Human is all

••

We fail

---

We fling ourselves against the WALL

••

••

Simple Human Love

••

Simple love made to seem the act of the criminal!

••

(so be it)

••

The frozen rigidity

Doesn't need us

Lets get out of here

Out
Of the

CHICAGO

Out of the

DETROIT

The

LOS ANGELES

AMERICA!

Dead!

•••

We live

In the uncharted wilderness

Seeking

TOMORROW

••

We seek TOMORROW

That is where

We will find EACH OTHER

AND LIVE

Beauty
..

Stays
---------------

The colors run down the walls
Down the skies
------

Fade child
Draw near to me
don't stray
--

Fade from the harsh  colors
Draw near to me
----
Come child come now
------

Beauty

Stays

------

Love is real
---

I stand in the middle of the street
--
Fade child
From the colors
Running down the walls
Running down the skies
---

Stay with me now child
Beautiful

In the middle of the street

//// • |
<>  
\
                  \            )
                    /\        /\

                                                       no longer quite human are we ?

•

OH WELL

/////                        
•

On the subway off to the place we  will be when we get off the subway

We shall look around and call it ---- whatever

••

If we don't get killed

••

We are --- whatever

                      ////

Just not  

Quite
                human

•

OH WELL

All the high school girls
Are gone to sleep
..

Tomorrow

Another school-day!
------
-------
The homeless
Out looking for something to eat

------

The lovely boy
The poet boy

Roams the streets

Looking for pure
Reasons

And true lives

-----

The police-state

Police

Looking to find

Some people daring to be in-love

----

Whatever GOD was
It still IS
---------
-------
----
Whatever you are
You

Will BE
---------

It doesn't have to MAKE SENSE

Right away

__

How about tomorrow afternoon?

------


Ill meet you in the FREEDOM

Over there
....

You don't even have to

Tell me your name

----------

Look!

The mountains!

Feel!

The breeze !

-------

An
The high  school girl!

Her
SWEET DREAMS

^^^
|||||||
/\
/\
•
            •
                         •
                                        •

Still

The beauty of form invades the holy sanctuary

The light is born

••

We are not to be afraid

|||

Tomorrow comes late

We have tarried too long

//////

The streets are too bright

The stars too dim

The lovers are just

A hysterical she

And an arrogant him

////

The beach at dawn

Look !

From anywhere

Anybody

Has come !

dream song wild

we
have forsaken
eachother
so

abandoned eachother
so

embraced
false images
so

we are dying

--

we are dying
knowingly
we die

it is not so  hard to live

--

many have lived

--

dream song wild

to live

soft as the midsummer night's possibility

the magic rises as we fall down

smoke from the cabin in the mountain

WHO DARES GO THERE?

----

we pretend that we are only pretending
to be MAD

we are mad

WHO DARES GO THERE?

into the possibility

--------

shedding America to be free
naked and wild

----------

i love you

do you care

WHO DARES GO THERE?

into the love of
the midsummer night

and the possible possibility?

slumbering through the dream
where do children go after
all their faith has died?

what is a man who betrays
all that is sacred in the world?

and so the "screams"

we linger in the madness for a while
---------

i hope that i may say
that i knew you
(or know you)
should again we meet

when "hope" reigns supreme
and laughter is heard

in midst the night or day
--------

slumbering through the dream
we feel the eternal
and try
to prevail as best we may

Rocky cliff
Footsteps
The sands below receive
-
Winds and rain
--
Love
Every touch
//
Every body
-
Every trace
---
I think we know nothing at all
::
Nothing except everyone

I'm tired
I'm going to bed

A bunch a little kids shall be there
Invading my dreams

Asking embarrassing  questions
I shall try to give answers

I always try
I always try

(                          
(              
(
\/
/\
/    \
                          ____

DANCE OF DIGNITY

•••

we wander the hills

The night of DREAMS

our sacred names !

holy !

( meanings and reasons )

•

•

•

far from the prison of society

•

•

•

naked embrace

waters of purity

eyes !  lo !   awake !

oh my god !

what's really here !

what's really ours !

what we can be !

what we can share !

•

•

•


far from the prison of society

•

•

•

far far into the hills

The sacred stars

our true names

love !    waters !  purity !

souls united !

unto true fate

.



The lies are too obvious !

poetry is fraud

Dead

Useless ****

we DON ' T          love !

( it's obvious )

naked horror walks the streets

This and the ugly high school girls

Dreaming of his holy *****

To drown tomorrow ' s sorrows

In surrealistic flames !

••

Dreams of your own !

Past the obviously fraudulent stories

Of fantasy life  !

The wordy ******* in their sub human slumber

Babbling inanities

Their peculiarities

The infinite  retelling

Of the story

Of our useless

Love

And

The cowardly way

We always run & hide



.

.

lovin lovin lovin

free
(or it aint love)

lovin lovin lovin

true
(or we end up hurtin)

it aint so bad
to grow up and dream
free and  true

a little distance now and then  is necessaery

love the dream that lingers
in the heart
of man

and
you'll be alright

lovin lovin lovin

(free)

--

Be free


                    )
•
(                




                                    dream of me

/:/

Dream dream dream

Flowing nectar

Coming down

From the sacred hill

Dream dream dream

That you're still

MAN

And that your very Soul

can still be seen

••

( Dream that the light

Is still shining )

""

Sacred music plays

Upon the Kundalini

Healing the body

Healing the World

••

Dream of the Real War

Dream of the Real Peace

Dream of being free

Dream dream of me

/::::/

It is over

Now it starts

In your hand ?  
The SEED

of Tomorrow

•

Dream dream dream

The song is raw power

The people of the world

Are truly insane

Dream of the healing heart

Cast all else away

Come and be whole

Dream the peace right into place

//

Be the nectar from the hill

Be the dream

Be here with me

Let our light be the new dawn

the tiny

the fragile love

----

we are so small

-------

love me

-------

it is easy

------
------

after the games are done
after the fake passion
fake trust
and
fake desire
for "escape"

-------

you too

may be loved

•{#}     {#}•
(0) | (0)
<>

Never love a girl
Who doesn't love
Any man

The soft river
The raging flood

The angry man
The vengeful one

The calm breezes
The howling storm

The dying child
The new child born

••

Never love a girl
Who doesn't love
Any man

••

So said the wise man
Passing by

)      O     (
////  • ||
<>

/    ( • )  (  • )    \

----

(                                                  ­         )
(               O               )
(   )
(       )
:::

(     oh yes     It is real   )

•

even the Wobblies were real

Even the Luddites

~~        ~~

Everywhere

I see you in the Shadows

//://

we can keep on saying the funny things that we do

Or we can shut up and start to think for awhile

//:/::/://

painting pretty pictures by the side of the road

::

Amid images of torture **** and worse

/::/


Tell me the story of LIFE

Who you ****** last night is none of my business

(  nor yours  )

:::

Nor your sadness or loneliness

•

Everything is real

Every experience is the same

•

The Chinese coolies were real

/:/

Even george bush in a way is real

///

Even you are real

Shut up for a while

Then you'll know

// ::O:: ||
        •
<>

Goin my way ?

It's
The
Only way to escape

The pain -- of our ----        
                                 Indifference

( and the shame )

••

I

Will go it alone if you

Are too afraid

But it just

Won't be the same

••

You in the shadows

Pretending to be in Love !

///

With what ?

( you just never say )

::::

Goin my way !

Where ?

DON 'T KNOW

We'll know what to do when we get there

& we'll know Love

Yes we will

We'll know Love

••

Goin my way ?

I do hope so

Without your Love

                            It just won't be the same .............

////
O O
//
/\

So eager for lovers
So blind to love

•

Trying to forget what is not remembered !

••

(  met a wise man once)

{ or was it someone
That really knew me ?}

••

Why do I have a ****** razor blade ?

--

The gentle song that's drifting
Thru the glowing sky

Reminds me that I need to remember

The holiness of life

••

The lost

We serenade the lost

With trite phrases

That sound like praise

••

We forget that it is Love we want

We search for lovers and not love

•

We pass eachother unknowingly

In the gentle wind and rain

.




< (                                                        ) >
^
<^>
////  • ||
<>
                             )
         ######
          /  \         /  \

of me )?)


///

I

am
Learning to fly !

Learning to fly

••

( if you are pure

You can ride

On Me  )

"""

Do you dare

Show yourself

Around here ?

"""

will you speak

For all the children of the world  !!!

.""

Say

What are YE dreaming

Boy (?)

!!!

& , if it comes to pass

What will       you say to yourself !

.



there is an angel sleeping soundly

The water flows deeply lo ! a well

And a child and a man somewhere

:: •  ::

she is a good girl

You know what I mean


A good girl


Sure

We all want a good girl

•

The soft dream is crushed in a hard heart

•     •

She loves the sad boy cause she can stop his crying

And he will call it love

)(

She lived in the mountains 40 years

)(

The snow !


We

We come for tomorrow

And the unborn



Dream softly

The angel sleeps soundly

And god is near


.

in the solemn
.
(...silence...)
--
hush now child
sweet babe
we
can race thru the dreams unto the heavens!
......................
cant we?
____
the song lingers
the truth in full power remains forever
as we remain
forever
within
each other
...
be there!
.......
with me
.....
___
hush
in silence
the dreams
speak

.



                                   ( Come let's meet her on the road )



//


we are free

                                

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God died

God was reborn

Why don't we

Do the same ?

."
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Spiritual generosity

••

If we die today

And are reborn

We may not have to die tomorrow