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that it is a journey Of 1000 miles //                                             She was sittin on the bed with the 200 lbs of Macrame string that we managed to buy At Fisherman's Wharf With the help of 5 complete strangers Who had showered us with the Life altering kindness You think really doesn't exist ( but it does ! ) // And she said DO YOU WANT TO HELP ME MAKE THE BELTS AND POUCHES ? I turned to my brain and told it to tell my mouth To say NO Firmly ( but nicely ) I turned to her and said SURE WHEN DO WE START ? // JESUS **** ! I started screaming ( silently ) at my brain YOU TRAITOR ! And you , MOUTH  ! You knew !  You knew !! •• She became ecstatic ! And said GREAT! WE' LL START WITH ME TEACHING YOU THE BASIC SQUARE KNOT ! // I started to give my brain it's obvious instruction BUT ! I blurted out WOW ! I ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE SAILOR'S KNOTS // I turned in a huff to these 2 fiends of brain and mouth And said ( silently ) ALWAYS ? YOU MADE ME SAY ALWAYS   !? A WEEK AGO WE HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF SAILOR 'S KNOTS !! /// Then the song Of JANIS JOPLIN came to me FREEDOM ' S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHIN LEFT TO LOSE ---- // and I now had nothin left My life was surrendered to hers ( due to the love and kindness of strangers ! ) •• But  ( you see ) There was a massive mistake in my calculations ( again ) You see SHE had ( unknownst to me with my selfish heart ) Made a similar commitment to me ! And / more and more /only asked me to do what I really wanted to do ( even to learn to do macrame ) What I was afraid to do without encouragement •• WE BECAME A       TEAM ! // We both had different social skills She was so unbelievably compassionate She was so able to break thru people's fears And enter into such trust inducing relationships It seemed like magic to me // I was really good at organizing things Setting plans Seeing the picture of the goals We needed to accomplish // In a certain sense We never talked -- A glance back and forth A subtle gesture //. Complete unity •• People would ask HOW YOU 2 GETTING ALONG !? ARE YOU IN LOVE !? "" and we would look at each other and wonder GETTING ALONG ? IN LOVE ? And not have the slightest idea what they were talking about ! // And that might help explain Why When I read the poems here I don't know what you are talking about // ( not the slightest idea ) // Like there is a weird thing happening And then it gets weirder And then someone gets upset because it gets weirder But it was weird already ! •• And then the strangest vocabulary gets going Trying to describe some feelings that are really only thoughts About something that isn't really happening anyway ( or something like that ) •• So On and on it goes ! I just try to be Like those strangers on Fisherman's Wharf Trying to make the magic That is pure human kindness // To throw myself upon The BARBED WIRE OF EGO So that you might climb my back AND LEAP INTO THE FREEDOM OF INFINITY !
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 11:46 PM UTC
the first step is to know
that it is a journey Of 1000 miles //                                             She was sittin on the bed with the 200 lbs of Macrame string that we managed to buy At Fisherman's Wharf With the help of 5 complete strangers Who had showered us with the Life altering kindness You think really doesn't exist ( but it does ! ) // And she said DO YOU WANT TO HELP ME MAKE THE BELTS AND POUCHES ? I turned to my brain and told it to tell my mouth To say NO Firmly ( but nicely ) I turned to her and said SURE WHEN DO WE START ? // JESUS **** ! I started screaming ( silently ) at my brain YOU TRAITOR ! And you , MOUTH  ! You knew !  You knew !! •• She became ecstatic ! And said GREAT! WE' LL START WITH ME TEACHING YOU THE BASIC SQUARE KNOT ! // I started to give my brain it's obvious instruction BUT ! I blurted out WOW ! I ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE SAILOR'S KNOTS // I turned in a huff to these 2 fiends of brain and mouth And said ( silently ) ALWAYS ? YOU MADE ME SAY ALWAYS   !? A WEEK AGO WE HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF SAILOR 'S KNOTS !! /// Then the song Of JANIS JOPLIN came to me FREEDOM ' S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHIN LEFT TO LOSE ---- // and I now had nothin left My life was surrendered to hers ( due to the love and kindness of strangers ! ) •• But  ( you see ) There was a massive mistake in my calculations ( again ) You see SHE had ( unknownst to me with my selfish heart ) Made a similar commitment to me ! And / more and more /only asked me to do what I really wanted to do ( even to learn to do macrame ) What I was afraid to do without encouragement •• WE BECAME A       TEAM ! // We both had different social skills She was so unbelievably compassionate She was so able to break thru people's fears And enter into such trust inducing relationships It seemed like magic to me // I was really good at organizing things Setting plans Seeing the picture of the goals We needed to accomplish // In a certain sense We never talked -- A glance back and forth A subtle gesture //. Complete unity •• People would ask HOW YOU 2 GETTING ALONG !? ARE YOU IN LOVE !? "" and we would look at each other and wonder GETTING ALONG ? IN LOVE ? And not have the slightest idea what they were talking about ! // And that might help explain Why When I read the poems here I don't know what you are talking about // ( not the slightest idea ) // Like there is a weird thing happening And then it gets weirder And then someone gets upset because it gets weirder But it was weird already ! •• And then the strangest vocabulary gets going Trying to describe some feelings that are really only thoughts About something that isn't really happening anyway ( or something like that ) •• So On and on it goes ! I just try to be Like those strangers on Fisherman's Wharf Trying to make the magic That is pure human kindness // To throw myself upon The BARBED WIRE OF EGO So that you might climb my back AND LEAP INTO THE FREEDOM OF INFINITY !
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jeffrey-robin
Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 11:46 PM UTC
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