"whose knowledge is derived
from practice rather than theory,"
Experience in picking fruit and walking
a daysman's mile, itinerant
Old, old and weaker… thinker,
manufacturing consent…
ridding my present pond of windblown
wrinkles across time, as we imagined it,
not a vast sea, a sea within the temple,
common center post holding stretching
preparchment hides,
from lambs without spot or blemish,
get the picture, counting sheep to fall asleep…
What benefit?
What good fits where?
What good can one be,
waiting, fretting not, feeling
linear… line upon line, minding
my own response ability, making
historical probability statistics,
If, with these fingers
and these letters letting one
ignore calligraphic ostentation
ambitious or pretentious, a stretch
setting tenter hooks, a process mastered
eons ago to perfect the tabernacle long lost,
hold this thought… tie this time to me, idle
words whiling smiling inside and out, secret
pretentions, cardinal hinged portal passage
way, in fact, indeed, in actuality, presupposed,
anticipated, felt for… grasped at, and caught.
Here, on Earth, in our magnetic shielded
consciousness, whither all we need to develop
envelops us as if we were never then we are now,
exactly, we become more like ourselves, inner me,
spirit, mind, mental manipulator of letting be, so
Common Form, Kipling on my mind, If
you were never told why soldiers fight and die,
I shall tell you, as Kipling told me, we fight and die
because our fathers lied about what they knew,
and did not know, and could not have known,
and now, the lies that made America great,
face us, the practicing poets pretending magic-
al realization unveiling rereward protection,
"I gotcherback", memories are spirits, you know.
old buddies
of old men I knew,
hard-headed honest,
surviving Crusader types, too lame
to march in memorializing ostentation
too harshly tested to ever take off the helmet
of salvation, tested proven, see, I survived, true.
That's faith, a made up mind, what worth I am,
is if truth saved me for such a time as this, today
practically looked upon from space, vicariously.
Feel the ly making like, as a vicar may testify,
life on Earth, is delicate, confidence instilled,
fit for solid ifery explorations into categorization,
link think thunk, tied, fit to be labled beneficial,
good to think, good to think about, around
understanding once, as a seed, life was tested.