I Was Gone

Yes in the sense of those

lost Daddy-ohs of Chicago..

feeling the heat of the beat

in my old stomping grounds

and the generation that

generated me surrounding me

in the essence of their progeny

eating hot food perfect on the spot

together, all the histories snapping

to attention in what we all recognized

as a rare moment.

Then, the plumbing failed, and we all

suddenly realized, ( the die hards...the ones 

that were still there late)....that what we had

been theoretically intellectualising became

.....what?...two morphed Johnnies on the spot?

Addicted

Some are addicted to drugs or alcohol.

Some are addicted to love.

Some are addicted to their own suffering.

Some are addicted to the suffering of others.

Some are addicted to money, fame and power.

Some are addicted to having a good time.

 

The doctor is addicted to his patients.

The lawyer is addicted to his clients.

The policeman is addicted to the criminal.

 

The Christians are addicted to God.

The Hindus are addicted to Brahma.

The Moslems are addicted to Allah.

The Buddhists are addicted to so many things;

their position and rank, their practice, their understanding,

their patrons, their students, their hypocrisy.

 

Most everyone is addicted to the myth of survival.

Only the Buddha and his sons and daughters

are free of worldly concerns.

 

Condensed Rant

 “Ted Nelson’s hatred of conventional structure made him difficult to educate. Bored and disgusted by school, he once plotted to stab his seventh-grade teacher with a sharpened screwdriver, but lost his nerve at the last minute and walked out of the classroom, never to return. On his long walk home, he came up with the four maxims that have guided his life: most people are fools, most authority is malignant, god does not exist, and everything is wrong.”

Gary Wolf in “The Curse of Xanadu,” WIRED 3.06, June 1995.

"Or, to say it in another way, the paradigm of rational mind as the epitome of the intelligence of the humancreature, is dissolving rapidly and we feel it more and more personally all the time. It's like HAL, the computer in the movie 2001, is being disconnected....only this time, HAL is us." Anon.