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843 · Jul 2016
Woman as a Literary Device
She's a rainbow

-- that rainbow in every
rock song about nothing,
a hidden hook that snares
a sucker's wallet

   *I'm so hot for her, I'm so hot for her


She
is the philosopher's stone transmuting
garbage lines into shiny trinkets
in desirous minds

   When you're old, nobody will know
   that you was a beauty


         What would pop culture be
         without woman to exploit?

   She's a gooooooood girl
   crazy 'bout Elvis


Obscured, behind
the Micks and Pettys
   the Kellys and Ushers
      the Pauls wailing MAMAAAAA
         the free spirit groupie cliché

is Woman fictionalized
by peacocking pimps
deceptive plumage splayed

is Woman
   sung about
   talked at
   reduced to an abstraction
   dispensed with
   forgotten
   and sold
   and the men
get rich.
804 · Mar 2013
Shoddy Forever
Call me haphazard
your toot-sweet boutique of skill
a pillpopper's dream

I'm not impressed by
the tongue your mediocre
narcissism speaks

what fading color
propagating hues, faker
saturate the blues

drown that puppy right
pay your ******* dues, tighten
the knot of the noose

Now is your never
you wrought the wrong from the right,
shoddy forever

Now is your never
sever the tongue that divides
wrong from the Right Now

Blasphemed the subtle,
broke the trust, popped the bubble
and wandered away

Call me a savior
I'll interrupt with a lie
truth can never repay

Defenestration,
when the face meets the pavement
your artifice blooms

Sitting stagnantly,
in the shade of the tower
it's toppling soon
My regards to the city of cross-less roses.
If there were any doubt, each stanza is a haiku. And toppling is 3 syllables because I said so.
796 · Sep 2015
Wüstenland
Home is where the heart
breaks.    (fall into bed)
Familiar smells entrance
and lull, the warm
hearth of embraces
shushes    (a murmuring wellspring)
where spirit fails,
soul and body crumpled up like
scratch paper.

Hemmed in by excess
of Self, persona
blind to its orchestral
shadow,    (wrought by irony)
the mind scribbles
and raves unrepentant.

       (subtlety aches for
       skillful instrumentation
                to give it breath)


Singing the pain
of ages past to mourn
these harrowing visions

Beating on in leaden
veins to the lurch of a pulse
    (the crows take cackling flight)
         time the river pours off

The edge of the map.
787 · Aug 2015
Panic Attack
This was the last
ragged dishwater gasp
before the panic
overwhelmed

Before the bloated
swell of a sagging heart
stooped down
to ache

its gutters overflowing

choked with drowned
rats and mildewy leaves
and when at last those
flaccid lungs failed

The sun shined through
inscrutable walls of cloud
but its aura could not
woo the mud
785 · Feb 2014
Liber Plangere
We are trapped in a world that Is.
There are many things that Are Not,
and to see them is to see their entire lives.

I see beings.
I see their entire lives in an instant,
being devoured and loving and living
in a world that does not realize
it is already over.

Space is false.
Reality opens when your eyes close.

Space is a lie;
reality is the key that unlocks the lie,
and it spreads like a disease.

Awareness is pestilence.
It is the devourer that thinks "I"...
Automatic writing; divine moments of truth.
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This was a visionary experience of great visceral intensity, received after performing a particularly effective banishing ritual and group Enochian middle pillar exercise.
768 · Jan 2013
Cold Snap
With snowflakes in Her eyelashes,
crystalline shapes past window's door,
piling into berms and caches,
seek to fractate soil and moor;

What passing phase -- full of longing
for endless Alaskan days, so white and pure,
when silence met the sunset, dawning,
dusk, and midday -- shall I endure?
In the noise of the city I find myself daydreaming of rural Alaska's uninterrupted solitude.
744 · Sep 2013
Anatta
There is nothing beyond Self.
Also, there is no Self.
No-thing remembers.
It slumbers and wakes.
The eye of God opens.
The world-dream shuts.
That's how it goes.
729 · Jan 2013
Motion Is By Mind Alone
Discern all things in seeming motion
from the mover that casts the spell.
Thus one apprehends the notion
of a mortem free from from hell;
though self-created hells our sojourns,
while upon on this earth we dwell.

Know "I" beyond pain and passion,
the balm in Gilead that soothes
thy frail division with detachment
as the mover knows the moved,
never leaving Self to fraction,
needle never skip the groove.

There is naught that is not That;
motion is by Mind alone
the maker that our dreams begat,
turning boundless Light to stone
and crystallized in maze and map --
that veils how brightly it once shone.

Unto the Light we shall awake
by seeking out the way between
all words: the shackles that unmake
thy Self by stretch betwixt extremes.
Transcend all boundaries that break
and reify the dream.
Automatic writing.
Produced 10:50am-10:52am Pacific.
Sun in Aquarius 10º, Moon in Taurus 28º.
727 · Aug 2014
God's Church
Isn't Earth God's church?
Isn't Christ against money-lending?
Then, isn't it a sin to own a mortgage?
Guess you're all going to Hell!
724 · Oct 2015
To Be A Great Lover
'Twas the firm and fervent
    wish of a youth yet
        to flower into a jaded
           blossom, before understanding
        what it meant to love or why
    it was so important to learn
  to do it well,

whose childhood ended rather
      abruptly, watching the slow
        crumble of supposed soul-mates
            as love was not enough
        to overcome the inertia
   of their own.
721 · Jul 2016
Thirty-five
Frenetic rhythms
smooth, softening and
ripening into
grooves, the space
between notes
now comes-to-presence
in dimensions
younger ears
will someday hear

waiting for unsure
notes to catch up
to the perpetual
pulse of the hidden beat
that drives this ecstatic
dance of self-undoing

orchestrating
a dynamic storyline
within the silent
odeon of an aging heart

where one day
Wisdom will sing
the Beloved to sleep.
715 · Jul 2013
Armageddon Day
These last excuses,
scribbled and scrawled on my skin
weak in the marrow

Feet on the sidewalk
wearing the shame on my sleeve
Grief, grant me reprieve

This is not my show
caged up, they're brow-beating me
into submission

Lashed me to the yoke,
lashed until the sand ran red.
These last excuses.

Teach me how to crawl,
how to harm until it breaks
under the dead weight

Give me all you've got,
I can swallow all the pain
till my stomach burns

No more prayers to say,
woke up two decades too late,
Armageddon day
x-x+ (****-****-****-eat - a forthcoming project)
702 · Nov 2013
A Critique of Pure Reason
Wherefore
what we believe is what we become,
and what we Are is what we have Forgotten:

Whereas,
as Begat gives way to Self-begetting,
even Logic must be subjected to the Will:

Whereby
thoughts are things and things are waves
beyond the Father-machine's comprehension:

Wherein
faith in science and progress yield a sickly life
devoid of personal meaning, a suckling of experts:

Whereof
prevailing views are reinforced by shame,
ridicule a guillotine to stitch the countering lips:

No Reason is Pure;
Truth escapes the clutches of thought.
Every head has a mouth - and words to lie with.
687 · Jul 2014
Ballast
I don't give
a single fuçk
about your ego.

Your attachments
are like ballast
for your soul.
Life is hollow for the hollow.
"To a worm in horseradish,
the world is horseradish."
~Yiddish Proverb
668 · Jun 2015
Daze That End In Why
the trance of sorrow
      falls flat; behind,
           the universal joke.
                and behind the universal joke,
                     the trance of sorrow.

then the weekend comes
and goes

and we remain,
questioning,
yearning to be

disappointed.
And behind the disappointment...
the universal joke. ;)
652 · Sep 2013
Liber Atrocitas
1 THE UNIVERSE IS A BRAID OF STAGGERING FORCES.
2 This is all there is.
3 You are a being.
4 WHY is the answer to WANT.
5 Everything is awake, devouring itself.
6 The world-dream is a lie.
7 Tomorrow is a promise to Self to survive the sunrise.
8 The vampiric tendency is awake in all Being as a check against Itself.
9 There is no magick beyond the provenance of Being.
10 This is a record of the Enemy of all that Is.
11 What Is, is Thine. What is not, also Thine.
12 What Thou art is an unimaginable terror
      reflected as beauty in the eye of the beholder.
      Pour Thy Self into the Graal, and be a cell of the blood
      that stains the lips of BABALON.
13 Then will you know me as the eye that never shuts, the eye that blinds.
Automatic writing: Divine Moments of Truth.
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650 · Apr 2014
Wounds, Our Wisdom
Pain is awakening: the expansion of consciousness.
There is no half-way mark:
ignorance in sleep, health in full waking,
bound the gulf of hallucinations we call life.

In that Abyss of lies we deceive ourselves
until at last Truth annihilates the deceived,
unveiling the hidden Glory of the liar.

In the mantle of victimhood, Identity accretes
like a pearl on the tongue of a mollusk;
and a narrator, lost in the telling,
comes to mistake the story for reality,
wounds for tragedy, scars for harm.

Identity forms about Chaos,
a shell of experience that shrouds
a kernel of Truth.

A pearl is but a grain of sand
made beautiful by pain.
645 · Aug 2013
It's The Only Way
The stronger you are,
the more poison you can take.
It's the only way.

A spine bowed under
the ordeals of a wage slave.
It's the only way.

Picking the cherries
and popping them carelessly.
It's the only way.

Maudlin or merry,
dash sentimentality.
It's the only way.

Songs of our fathers
died in their skeleton mouths.
It's the only way.

******* of our mothers
died in ours, poured their milk out.
It's the only way.

Just a little blood
satiates the cravings now.
It's the only way.

Came to know myself,
realized my fate points down.
It's the only way.
638 · Apr 2016
∅,
shoving ∅self rudely
over ∅s conspiring back,
was abased, and gave birth
to the cosmos.

Every star,
freshly born, at once
saw the joke and laughed
until they all winked out,
spent.

Yet Laughter
lurks in wait --

to shove the dead
into Life.
∅ is the mathematical symbol for an empty set.
633 · Jul 2014
The Same Hand
The savior's Hand clutches my heart.
The adversary's Hand clutches my soul.
It is the same Hand.

Yet when I think of It, It becomes Two;
from the wrist, I follow each to its terminus,
finding but one Body.

Love binds conceiver and conceived,
whose polarity conceals a Balance:
the war of the One.

Being is the Conclusion of Thought
that opens up the window of conception
which ends in Body.

Birth begins long before conception;
death shall inevitability follow birth;
between these, vespers.

Seeming parts of dreaming Self
drawing and quartering One Reality.
The Hand is my Own.
631 · Aug 2014
Listening
I start listening
when you stop talking

"we're all just blowing wind
until we stop"
Try shutting up sometime. Thoughts too. It's good for you.
630 · Nov 2013
Six Months
Viral orchestrations
spread like wildfire,
swallowed her up until her body was a cage.

The deft ministrations
of threadbare desire
burrowed into my skin as I choked on my rage.

Rhythmic scintillations,
flesh as hot as fire,
the book closed before she got to read the last page.

The end of trepidation,
alert the town crier:
her white blood cells fell before a vast macrophage.
604 · Nov 2015
Myself
What is there to speak of
when identity includes
all things?

Generalities flowing
in breathless currents, drowning
        these hollow perceptions
        and empty comforts
        in wondrous depth --

Who is this "myself" but
attachment to a cage, a cage
that scarcely contains the force
  of conviction, the assault
       of passion?

Time the river of blood
flows upstream to source
in a pregnant oblivion
obscuring abortive abstractions,
   carelessly dreamt.

Something rages,
ever watchful. Whence
comes this terrible Eye? Whither
does it sleep, sparing
its awful gaze
and the hallucinations
of unceasing desire,

But in every bed?
578 · Aug 2013
To Be Mine
Spooling out again.
Bleach my soul until it's clean.
Black out till I'm blue.

Suffering the sweet,
tongue the sore until it heals,
worry for a salve,

Anything for you,
I just can't keep swallowing,
can't keep swallowing.

Heartbreak clamping down,
never wanted you to know,
never letting go.

My teardrops were right.
The nightmare had to be true,
for it to be mine.
561 · Oct 2015
Mind Is A Dog
Mind is a dog
that barks, a dog
with a bone that is
never buried,
and thought like
a dog's instinct without
the anchor of volition.
We train dogs to bark in order to teach them not to.
561 · Mar 2014
War of the Words
THE* objectifies ALL;
OR disavows ALL.
They beget OTHER, politicizer of ALL.
There is war.

AN marginalizes ALL.
THEM dismembers ALL.
The ANTHEM nationalizes ALL.
There is war.

MY manipulates ALL.
ONE misconstrues ALL.
They beget MONEY, commodifying ALL.
There is war.

From misunderstanding
arises *sorrow
;
from ignorance,
conception.
508 · Jul 2014
An Unseeable Image
That whose nature is Nature
is That whose existence alone Is
unimaginably imaginal
Reality is a living picture, stroking itself to impossible heights
472 · Jul 2013
That's What The Stars Feel
Time still stands between,
dunes arise to hide the miles
to Desert's Spring.

After departing,
a cameo in my dreams,
a name off my lips.

But the scars still hurt
when we remember too much
how it felt to be.

Swallowing heartache,
fighting the urge to be free,
it might be too late.

That's what the stars feel,
watching their neighbors burn out
vast light years away...
466 · Apr 2021
What Pain Is
Needed what I never got --

got what no one should have --

now I yearn for what no one should,

and it hurts like
a dog tethered in the yard
barking its fool head off

and no one is coming home
440 · Oct 2015
Anywhen
To get to Anywhen,
be Here
first.

Then,
proceed forward
in any direction
whatsoever.
415 · Feb 2013
In The Crowd
Find me in the crowd: I'll be holding the sign that reads
WE ARE NOT THE 99% - WE ARE THE ONES.
No matter how attractive, never subscribe to division.
408 · Oct 2023
Effort
So much

goes into being
    only just

a cold,
   dead,
      thing.
394 · Jul 2013
Thou Art Enough
Thou: the address to Self.
Thou art: the decree to Self.
Thou art x: the conception of Self.
Thou art x that: the expectation of Self.
Thou art x that must: the defecation of Self.
**** not thy Self.
Thou art Enough.
386 · Mar 2013
How to Write Good Poetry
379 · Apr 2014
AIN's Law
Being the Law
of Nothing,
which is
Our Law.

The Eye
Opens,
and Nothing
becomes Truth.

Truth becomes
the Law,
and then
the Right Way.

Leaving behind
the lie
that we
were Right before.

We, always Left,
were Wrong,
Nails in
God's coffin.

Abandoned by
a Father
who never
saw Himself in Us.

But then,
there was
Nothing there
to see.
244 · Sep 2020
Anchor
Letting go of the pain,
it falls to the earth,

an anchor
to the torment of men,

a world on fire,
where I breathe smoke and dream
of a dreamless sleep.
243 · May 2020
Sail
The wind blows;
turning the sail, I allow
an aimless drifting, between
the billows, caring nothing
for the ****** of the gale

and everything
for the pistoning
of the wave
213 · Oct 2020
Ashtray
The smell
   of smoke from my father's Winston
   in a Datsun Z
   on a hot day in California
        in the summer, the crinkle
        of a bag of chips

with the wind ripping
through the window, a skip
through the cities between
there and home

Childhood
memories like
ashes in an ashtray
191 · May 2020
Totem
I put myself in,
partition myself off,
sever the tie.

Separate, umbilically
severed but

still connected at the belly

A vehicle in
the stars, a pair of
legs dangling in
eternity

Wandering alone
in the wastes,

with you,
my significance
in the void.
I have not written in years.

— The End —