Feb 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
229.
But from its top I can behold the sea
across the street our little stream
in spate she said
ironies and departures
you know how to get here start from
here
a little movement in the leaves says
I’m alive
everything I give you is a sign
this’m is the blank sign
carry it with you till rain or sun
shadows the blankness with messages
then think they come from me
who have nothing else to give you
just one word after the last
word.
230.
Pause in the middle of meaning and
mean something else
there is no road or rule just
treefrogs singing
just blue sky gleaming through dense
green leaves
everything is an interruption
the newborn innocent screaming
a day red in the face angry at
wordless men
they try their ruler games but
weather is god
I’m not saying I’m just saying
if this is not me talking then who
are you
from the torn purse no gold coins
spill
long low quiet run of Avenue R
civilization is built on personal discomfort.
Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
227.
Of course do it for the other the hot
blue sky
what hurts us helps the corn
protein the decisive factor in
cultural history
egg white is intellect tempera and
madrigal
for I was another country when I
slept
and now am you
Interdependence Day each man a king
belonging to one another we are spoken
from Being
he was the only one who made a little
sense and look what happened
marauding mind trapped in a stale
idea it had
horror of hurting another for the
sake of an idea
Bruno burnt among flowers.
228.
You don’t need me to tell it is never
right to kill
Holocaust or unsolved murder
only the numbers are different
to kill one person is to kill the
world
capital punishment corrodes the state
to kill one woman destroys the human
race
Jesus was a man murdered by the state
that’s all you need to know about the
government
no one ever has the right to kill
this is the only thing I know
and out of it I lift stone by stone
my feeble tower
to make a work where all of you are
safe.
Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
225.
Born again normal in a nullish world
dance in the drugstore waiting for
your pills
description is prescription
ask the subway florist for gardenia
you’ll see why later she explained
walk along the esplanade all those
ships are thee
nothing’s better left unsaid
or are you Irish before all and
grassy
I want to know where the lost ones
live
touching our fingertips together is
enough to start the dance
a flaw in the pattern is the meaning
of the weave
a gnat drinking salt from a child’s
eye.
226.
Music finds you
it was made to do that
to be small and slip in everywhere
the crawl of beauty through the null
you don’t hear anything if you listen
don’t listen to the quartet like a
mechanic checking the engine
listen to music the way you go to sleep
all of you at once
anything else is college stuff
required courses in tonality reality
a proud humility is the way to do
anything
listen reverent as a king hearing the
first robin in spring
can you do that can you take it
gently in the hands of your ears.
Feb 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
223.
Then again the linden trees this year
blossomed
we sleep and wake in the scent of
them
pale obscure little flowers that fill
the night air
but am I a character in your epic
uneasy narrative of words spewing
words
stochastic craziness full of ancient
Greek
when I just want to smell the flowers
rest again on someone’s cheek
as if the war had never shattered my
electron shell
left me gasping naked on the shingle
beach
before the monsters crept back to the
deep
and the ospreys dropped fish for me
to eat.
224.
Long comber by the shore of ease
why did we ever leave
who are you talking to now
in red or in bed
the harsh bondage of rhyme
subtle bondage of sound
by clang alone bring matter in J.T.
will heal the legend lost souls of
this pale day
find me kindling for my water
dig a hole in air and shove me in
the sound of a word is a niche around
me
sense turns me marble from head to
toe.
Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
221.
I never knew anything it was all made
up
all bluff and prophecy
willful history of our feigned race
imaginary archive of testicular
witness
none of the cathedrals were real
none of the bridges skating rinks
nudist beaches
stockmarkets rainstorms Glastonbury
all loving lies I made for you
all Plotinus all Shakespeare Nag
Hammadi
the lotus garden where the princess
yawned
brass basins of the Temple the rites
of man
national debt all lies and all for
you.
222.
So the perception of the other is the
first mistake
till the Mind is peace and luminous
once it senses other all the stuff
begins
the offerings and arsenal the blood
and fear
until the only cure is to become the
other
sink into other, make the glad of the
other your whole work
then the mind’ll be one again
full of its own serene excitements
beyond the dark and light
try it if you don’t believe me
do enough for the other and nothing
for me
let the ocean show the quick way
home.
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