Split by lightning


In the storm


•
•••••••


Just an old man

)(

In the story none talk about



)(


we

Talk a story none care about

( about doing the cuddly wuddly

At the

LOVEY DOVEY BAR AND GRILL

ya know !

Down in Yuppieville ! )


//

The break ups

The **** ups

And all that crap

//

Ya know

The stories no one cares about

Cept a bunch a ***** babes

Who like talking ****

,~,

The tree -- !

( the real man ! )

Split by the lightning speed

Of the lies being told

( the humiliation of Reality )


//

Come !


Lovers

Let us walk thru the forest

And feel

The breeze

Let truth cleanse us

Let us free each other

And the world


.

... dear child

:::

as gentle as you

( falling and rising )

•

walking thru the falling years

Watching the children

Trying to catch them

Before they're gone


//

Listen to the song of the

Falling rain

Listen to the song of the

Fallen child

:/:

Listen to yourself

Sweet flower girl !

•

Gentle

The falling is real

And also the rising


Dear sweet child


.

"'O""  ""O""
<>
\
                          __)
                          /\              /\

•••

love (!)

( a mystical creature none dare ride ! )


::

Our poems (!)

Made of dust and smoke !!!

love ..... )?)

WE CAN'T EVEN FOOL OURSELVES

NO
MORE !

)(



love (!)

******* on body parts (!)

)(

Mindless

Sexless *** !

Going thru the motions !

//

Trying to pretend to be normal (!)

::

Idiot love (!)


.

.





she comes :

( She said she would )

;:;


She ... (?)

...


She is a woman


••

She is here

:::

dignity !!!

"""

it is simple

It is good


)(

we are together


////

Love


.

.




The 40 horseman !

Come to set the world on fire !


Thru the valley (?)


RIVERS OF BLOOD !


from the womb of human birth

::

from the ****** battlefields

From the Harlem midnight hell

Of simply knowing

Everything

•


the sabbath stray sense of justice

( The girl newly ***** )

The catholic honeymoon

( the altar boy and the priest )

//

The naked show

)(

Humanity released !!!!!

••

We settle slowly

Every now and then

Someone remembers


The first ***** Dawn

( down by the river )

Waiting

Yeah
Waiting


Jes me and you



.

.



//// • ||
<>

/ ( •.  ( • .  \

######


we come with the first seed

We create the world .....

•

Generosity


( we create the world )


//               //

The silence of the storm

The one lost boy

The only little girl


//

We create the world

••


She comes when she is ripe

.:

We come with her

//

We come with the first seed



We stick around


.

.





()()()()()()()()


""

sometimes you just gotta go to the mountains


------

We have lost the meaning of our own

Most personal symbols !

••

We have lost the means of talking about

Ourselves !

)(

We ***** and paw and call it love

)(

)(

in the mountains a fair maiden

A fair maiden in the mountains


It don't matter if you ain't there !

00

We are here

Oh yes

We are here !

We are always here

All the time



.

<•>          < •>
~~


we be here !


we be ready !



••

a long night !

So far

So very little is

Happening


Weren't there supposed to be

All these LOVERS around here !

NOPE !

Caint see em !


•

we just hangin around

In this camp built for refugees !

//

We'll be here till our dying day

( without ever trying to escape )

)(

So

If we want love


I guess we ' ll

Have to admit

ALL THERE IS IS US !


So

( well ? )


We know what we gotta do



A very simply thing to do



.

.


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


...


( be still ! )


)(

She wanders

///


She shall know

And she shall act accordingly


)(

She goes to where

True Love grows


THERE IS A GIFT THAT SHE

IS

BRINGING

(!)

//""//

•


She has made ONE PROMISE !

//

That

IN FULL POWER

SHE WILL BE THERE


.

.



in the final end

we' ll find

That EVERYTHING had an

Ultimate motive


)?(

( & you TOO my friend ! )

|||||


Even in the dark rain of these

Alien streets

Some hint of truth

Always remains


;:;

Soft !

Her ******* !

She feels them there before her

And  now knows  HOPE again


)(


The subtly reborn child !

We shall know him

Very soon


)(

His eyes !

He feels a magic !

He knows that it is quite alive


//




Across the bridge !

He' ll be off at the break of dawn



.

.



and so ...

(?)


in the hour of our choosing

If or what (?)


......

WHO KNOWS ?


////


everything is simply fading

)(


Only the underlying love


Has any reality at all

•

Come !


Let us assume that a power MUST be calling us

To come awake (!)


Why not ?

Not to try seems like the mistake

//

and who knows


The rules of the game ?


///


We ' ll

Pick a song and sing !


Until we set the story straight



.

~~

/ ( • ) ( • ) \

###
####
#####
/\


.

she my love is everywhere

••


In every window

On any street


We are seen

•


time gathers meaning

As the story becomes clear

•


And child like eyes appear

And real songs drift in


On real winds


•


Lovely bodies sway


:::::


This we all know


//

Within the shadows

Of rainy days


//


We meet

And stand together


Face to face



.

~~

V

/-/-/-/-/


the little


The lovely


LIFE !


///


Walking on water !


Being !


( a thing that heals ! )


"•"


the freshness !

The constant DAWN

//

The sweet **** !

Everyone !


//



Under the mountain star


With the dragons and unicorns


We gather together

All
The people



.

.


sometimes there are tears


Sometimes

It's just the falling rain


Listen !

A little girl is singing

"""


Nothing exists but love

;:;

revolution comes when you return to the seasons

To the earth

To the real power

)(


Human kindness !

Given freely to any other !


;:;

Listen !


The whole world is singing !

( ain't that right

YE lovely girl ! )



.

.



The train is leaving

And then it will be gone



( and all
Hope

Done )

••••

><

We have decided here

Not to talk about important things

><

><

The corpse lying there at your feet

Will be a treat for a zombie

Some sweet day !

)(

Like a lover like the kind we write about

><

After the tears and the razor blades

><


After we wash the *** off the sheets

><


And wash the truth from our memories

><

it's just a corpse of a kid we knew

><

><


The train is gone

We are in ghost towns

Kissing the dusty winds

;:;

Days swirl around

Faces

*******

The naked *****

( our toys )

::

Oh god !

What are we doing (?)

Over and over

And over again


.

.



... was a big wreck here this morning )>

Caint remember her name ...... <(

•

But she looked a lot like you

//

........ after the wars ain't nothin pretty

For a mighty long time ......

"""""""""

All the babes of hello poetry !

Who glorify their helpless dependence

And call it LOVE !!

( the funny hello poetry babes !  )

)(

Their poetry is the verbal equivalent


Of a TERRORIST ATTACK !

)(

some morning

Be quiet !

You will hear them

Whispering to each other

)(

No

Ain't been nothin pretty

For a mighty long time



.

*** !

( you ! )

//////

we called out for Heroic Warriors

& !  ( what ? )


some ***** lovers with broken hearts (?) !!!

)(

writing ***** love poems

Which they  **** into the wind !

••

(( oh god !

Please forgive us our dementia

And

Demonic sins ! ))

••

We grew fat and weak

Dragging our bloated genitals

Everywhere

)(

In whatever form we chose

••

And now

TODAY !

fills us with emptiness

Which fills us with shame

//

And what matters  (?)

WE AINT REALLY SO SURE

RIGHT NOW

//

Ah yes !

THE ANGELS (!)

•

We called for angels


And here we are


.

.


Skip and jump away ...

From all these trite poems

Which so abuse us !

)(              )(

( about that *****

With the whip

And her ***** lover boys ! )

••

Playin HOUSE with themselves

Just like mommy and daddy !

///

Gentle rain

Come wash us clean

Below the power of the sun

And the wisdom of the stars

;:;

(  ( to grow again ) )

""""

Tiny little boys and girls

We grow up and marry

True love

&

A new world comes

And sets us free


.

.




I (?)

...

I think something

Is calling me

~~~

one thing

~~~

Saying

THERE REALLY IS A PLACE CALLED

"HOME "

::::


Yeah (?)

Well ..... (?)

Now what ........... (?)

••

Of fragmented identity

With no dignity

Other than what I

Can inspire

•

( A lovely image

Here and there )

//

beyond the trivial

A certain story comes down

::::

She sold her birthright for

A bowl of boyfriend

"""

Now

The ancient myths


Now the fiery Storm

::

Now

DEATH

)(

Some one thing is calling us

To the Road

That goes Home

//

( put that lump of lover down

And pick up your walking stick ! )

•

With every child by the hand

;;;

calling us

DO YOU BELIEVE ?

that there is a place called

HOME ?



.

.



& the whole universe

Residing

Inside us all

Tells us what we need

To know

••

••

the immaculate conception !

""

The greatest of lovers

Within the fullness

Of a Complete Birth

//

We are here

""

Let us do what we come to do



.

0      0
~•~




.

she speaks of me when she speaks of love


( Many many are our years )

oh

We've used so many names

What really can we say for sure (?)!

)(
•

Hand on breast (?)

**** on **** (?)

Hand to hand (?)

Eye to eye (?)

)?)

Memory !

( Such is the greatest miracle )

)(

Gentleness so undisguised

|||||

We are gentle miracles

We pass thru all years

In the form

That we know as

LOVE

><

We are the fertility

Residing in the soil


We know

( Amongst other things )

Each other

So very well


.

.


.

:
_

(              (  •  )              )


little are the dreamers but the dream is good


||


We seem sometimes to be so very far from here

& that we've been away a very long time

••

In truth

We ain't looking so good no more

•

& we ain't so good at dealing

With what's going on

)(

Little dreamers (!)

)(

Yes

But the dream's still good

)(

Yeah

( We good )

//

//


We gotta keep on comin

Till we're

Truly all together



.

.


I love her till today


••

A SONG BY

the 4 girls

///////


//////  

mystic entities !

the gods and goddesses reveal

Tiny fragments of themselves

///

( one should never fall in love

With a mere mundane boy or girl ! )

••

There is a River !

Come !

Let us bathe !

••

The light illumines

What is true

•

She dishes out chop suey in the most

Exquisite Way !

)(

...

I see !


Everybody who is here

)(


In the every prayer and dream

)(


•


We walk together

Thru all illusion !


//

At last !



PEACE !



.

.



Fragrances !

Along the lonesomeness

Of this spring morning

6 a m

Central Park
New York


==


she reigns !

In her realm of playfulness !

•

One could feel

That every child in this dawning
Moment of a sacred day

Knew she was here

Amid us

Again !

•

Every girl was afresh in fear and wonder

Every boy was picking up  ( in his mind )

Spears and swords

//

Every tree and every cloud in the sky !

Everything alive !

•

•

I sat and watched

And I tried

Reflect the fire in her eyes

••

••

The day is over

I sit here alone


But still I feel her love

And I know


That at midnight

She shall come !

Yes !

At midnight

She shall be here


.

.


come

See

Know

//

The power of pure destiny

//         //

//       //


Inside the love !

We must go

Deep inside the love !

""""
•
""""

Flickering images of lovers  (?)

These all fade

)?(

One Higb Tree. ... !

ONE MOUNTAIN

(?)

One stranger over there

I feel I should meet  !!

•

THE ..... lover !

)(        )(

The day is still

FATE

)(

On the real street of the world !



.

.



.. Come sweet child !

Away !

//

All the poets here have fangs

And forked tongues

And no redeeming qualities

/////

They are lifeless

They are fake

•

They only write of taking

They have nothing to give

••

Come away
Child


We shall start a real world

...


Beware the "lover " who praises your love but offers

None of her own !

//


Making love in a graveyard

And dying in their ******* poem !


Vampire words

From the undead


•


Come child

Enough said

.

.



Maybe a zombie will

Eat you

And live your life for you

( since apparently

That's all
Anyone wants )

and you can then write ****** poems forever !

//

It's all cool

Now that everyone is all the same

And creativity is gone


.

.



winds

Blowing thru

///

The graveyard yields it's dead

///

too numb

The poet falls face down

///

The brazen nakedness

Twitching soundlessly in the mud

<>

She never felt a thing

Fake love

Fake sorrow

//

Winds blow

The graveyard creaks and moans

//


We were dead before we died

Face down in the mud



.

.



I used to know her

//

Then she went and  invented for herself a boyfriend

And died !!

//

Now she is another hello poetry babe !

Good grief !


.

RIGHT ! ) ... .. .


---

:: ( they always do , don't they ? )

///

( yeah )

Still SOME  smart kids left !!

••

•

---

in terminal pain


she cries aloud


( to no - one )

( about nothing )

•

She's just a pathological *****

( or something ? )

Something we don't really want to

Think about

)(

( the harm we do to one another  ! )

/||||/

She

Made her bed and now she sleeps in it

With what's - his - name

( a guy who really seems to

Make the rounds )

//

Yeah

Good ole what's - his - name !

The name of her first lover

And probably her last !

•

Oh boy !

& soon soon !

We shall get to read


More pathological *******

( as we so arrogantly call them )

And their

BROKEN HEARTED poetry !

••

Yep

There are still some smart boys

Out there !

//

Who actually want to be

Men some day

//


And so the winds do say !

And soon the earth shall follow

And who would be redeemed .... (?)

( Sure ! )

we ask and thusly we receive



.

||      <>      ||

/ ( • )  ( • ) \

/  \



:::


.... )  & what really matters any more ?  ( ....

//

//                  //


the cold winds howl !


All the children

Dying in the streets


( even they don't care )

====

will tomorrow ever get here !

//

Drug addicts

Looking to get laid


<•>
/\

Writing poems

About these sorts of things



.

.



New born


//                           Yet

( Somehow )

We can't change a thing !                          //

//

Hardly

( really )

HUMAN at all

//

Like patsies taking the fall

For all the governmental thieves

••

Love perverted

Loyalty betrayed


Children crawl the streets in ****** underwear

Looking for love

****** & *****

)(

Another night is over

::

In the morning ( ?)

???


Lying still born

In countless gutters



.

.


hopping a freight train goin west

//

//

Yeah

FREEDOM was a thing

Meant somethin then


••

In a little old diner by the side a the road

We raised our child as best we could

••

in a small cabin in the woods

We all found god together

)(

little our day is like a creek to a mighty river

But

Oh !

It was do good !

)(

In the hobo hovel

Outside of town

//


We dreamt of true justice

And the world was found



.

:
/\


//


ATLAS

Holds up the world !



//

oh humble god who graced the world

With tiny images of himself !


Oh gentle warrior who doesn't ****

Unless the moment demands as such

;;

Oh tender maiden whose love so chaste

Is bestowed on everyone

|||~|||

•

Who wanders the starry skies
at Night

And lies with whomsoever she pleases

••

As children in a sheltered place


We love completely

And the tale is done


.

(      (          •       •           )      )
             <>              

/\

/\


;;;

  All right

Time to quit ******* around

.

.


she comes out at midnight

Every Full Moon

And flies naked thru the sky

Riding her broom

While smoking a Big Cigar !

//

you really should see her !

//

My girl

Doesn't **** around



.

.



the rain

Gentle maiden

Alone  in  foreign hills

__

Once the young boys were known as warriors


::
""""

A long time ago it was

)?(

A few remain

In the rocks in the mountains now

She too

Remains

)(

We are as we say

We do what is necessary

We love as was intended


•

You too

Do what you want

And are as you choose to be



.

.



her ******* were as she was

In the moonlight

//:://

from the very center

Milk and honey

//

the universe !

We are

AT WAR !

//

Come dear child

Stay with me

<•>
/\

Freedom (?)

Well

The "word "  actually

Means something


(. See the young boy on the road )

++

Oh mother !

I promise

I shall be home

Before it gets late

)(

We 've done it all before

//

By now

It should  be

Gettin easy



.

... In the Heartland

of the Country

///

Let it rain pure blood

Before we pretend that we are ignorant

And should do nothing !

//

How can a person make love to a

Coward ?

( ( by huddling together in shame --

Somewhere hidden

From the true Story ! ) )

•


If you say

I LOVE YOU !

fer Christ sake MEAN something

Why don't ya ?


.

... the story surely goes like

This


/////

Lost figments of

The imagination ..... (?)

MAN

!!

Writing clumsy sentences

About

Hardly conscious lives !

••

But .....

OKAY !

//

We all doin the best we can !

••••

In the lost figments

Of the imagination

We

Dwell and then simply fade away


Hardly learned anything

But it was nice to meet you

If only for awhile


.

( how are you ? )




""

The long day

This peculiar season


Lives

Devoid of reasons for even

Existing at all

))


falling for the ugly

Lies

That are all around us now

((

It's all
Good

))

You too are strong

((

in a moment of pure

Memory


Everyone and everything

Will become what

They truly are

)(



..

/            \


< d o  y o u   s a y

YES ?

or


d o  y o u  s a y

NO ?

//

The whole world awaits your

PERFECTED JUDGMENT !

//

We do need

LEADERSHIP

Now


//



These fiery times


( Joey wants to get laid

He ' ll be back

When it's all over !! )

::

These fiery times

Walking around with

Our head up
Our *** !



.

.




If not ... (?)

WHY NOT ! .. ?


//

we are as debased a lot of soul sick creatures

As has ever existed ANYWHERE !

//


read your own poems !

//

THE MAD AND INSANELY

CRUEL AND SADISTIC WAY

YOU SEARCH FOR LOVE !!

//

such pathetic examples of god's grace

//

we are shame incarnate

//

The rage-aholics

The silent mental abusers

The psychological enslavers

WE **** AND ARE ******  !


:::


Come dear child

Enough is enough


This is no place for such as you to play

We shall go home

If it takes 1000 years

No worry

We ARE going home


.

.



Most poems

Are just

VERBAL SELFIES

gone bad

//

YE know

Like the pictures of prom queens

With their ***** popping out

//

How we like to talk of our ****** misfortunes

//

Just

VERBAL SELFIES

with the ***** popping out


.

.



another hello poetry babe got dumped on by

Her boy friend !!

//

Which one ?

Hey

There are already

100's of em lining the left edge

Of your screen by now !

""


Probably 1/2 of em on their 2nd or 3d

Dumping !

//

It's quite a show

..

Caint YE just see

All running around naked

Trying to cover themselves up !

Everyone throwing **** and  garbage at them

And giggling at their bouncing *****  !

""

WHAT A BUNCH A GIRLS !

These hello poetry babes !



.

.






Poems float freely thru the night

Touch them !



( They are all your own )


/\



all  the rythmm

In the world!


The young boy comes to say hello !

////


& I say

" hello , boy ! "

////

The mountain watches hopefully

( Love is only

For everything )

•

The one hand caresses all faces

The one smile

The gentle knowing laughter


::::


And of course

THE LONG HIGHWAY

always brings us back together


.

.


From the

High Country


( floats like a song )

Don't touch her !


( Just get to know )

//

Warm nights and stars

The dance of joy

When the children come

)(

Lost art !

But in the moonlight

All true endeavor

Is placed so clearly

Before our eyes



.

.




sure


It's easy !

//



//


Ya say ya want me back ... (?)

Sure

No sweat

Just come on over

•

See

Nothin's really hard

//

People are good

( aren't ya (?) )

•

Love is love

Man

& it ain't nothin else

SO ?

DO IT !

( love )

IF YA WANT

//

I do !

So

Why don't ya just

Come on by

.

||         <>        ||

/    ( •   ( •  \

/ \


:::

we coulda gone somewhere

                                 But we stayed           here !

( WHY (?) )

||
||

little child !

Offers you her tiny hand

)(

The death rattle

The terrible eyes

The sight of horror

Produces only humor

)(

We mock ourselves and god

We play with pain

••

The long cold shore

We sit in the sands and await

The drone airplanes

Circle in the poisoned skies

••

" Quick !

Will someone please come **** me ! "

Is the only thought on our mind

;;;::;;;

The end of days


::

It's happened already

!!!

We pretend we did not notice


.

.



                                                       survival song

-----

far from the

           LAND of
                                      MILK
&
                                HONEY

++

Oh child !

Riding on the bubble of

Your own fantacy

///

Beyond any sense of what's going on

••                          
Disaster

Stares us in the face

Even on the way

To the movie theaters

Where we see the distorted

Images of love

( & believe ! )

••

Death is an ugly thing

:::

Your cut wrists are not beautiful

And fear can be smelled

For miles  & miles
•    •

Shall you

COME AROUND ?

I don't think you will ever dare to try

//

But then again

You might surprise me


.