Rage, mindfully rerouted,
laughing let me make light of war,
if it kills you, it's over, but if you
survive and crawl away, safe and sound,
suffering from fool's shame blamed r a p e,
can you envision My Khe and My Lai, really?
-- it is hard to unbelieve the minds used
== not by me, I had boots on the tarmac the next day.
Post Cognitive Dissonance Exp'osive
Escape into a Seventies Jesus Freak Cult
Forty years later, you finally see a psych…
and start writing your way back out
but quiet because you paid attention
to a coded message, possible angelic,
the God bless America, Merry Christ
message in the bottle, jolly good.
No, no, we went the way
of mushrooms, we see silvered ravens,
we, me and my associating intelligent spirits
sat in the dark eating the same gnoshit,
needful emptying one mind, refillable,
with unbelievably deep reasons
to make belief
be tried as spirits may be tried,
until truth outs
itself from sacred and undeniable
to plain self-evident.
--- note to any in grief, know it true,
death has no sting, it is only living that hurts this much.
Apr 7
Apr 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM UTC
Rage, mindfully rerouted,
laughing let me make light of war,
if it kills you, it's over, but if you
survive and crawl away, safe and sound,
suffering from fool's shame blamed r a p e,
can you envision My Khe and My Lai, really?
-- it is hard to unbelieve the minds used
== not by me, I had boots on the tarmac the next day.
Post Cognitive Dissonance Exp'osive
Escape into a Seventies Jesus Freak Cult
Forty years later, you finally see a psych…
and start writing your way back out
but quiet because you paid attention
to a coded message, possible angelic,
the God bless America, Merry Christ
message in the bottle, jolly good.
No, no, we went the way
of mushrooms, we see silvered ravens,
we, me and my associating intelligent spirits
sat in the dark eating the same gnoshit,
needful emptying one mind, refillable,
with unbelievably deep reasons
to make belief
be tried as spirits may be tried,
until truth outs
itself from sacred and undeniable
to plain self-evident.
--- note to any in grief, know it true,
death has no sting, it is only living that hurts this much.
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