(Is The Mike On?)

Dear Rita,
we’re not all equal (egalitarianism not the same as equanimity) (x Democracy)
and people tend to form classes naturally (natural hierarchy). (x Classlessness)
“democratic values” is almost an anachronism already.
spiritual power…or, in this case (Occupy World) whether positive or negative
now
is what will change things
societal realities are moving more into their elementary particles
so even the phrase “social change” falls…”clunk”.
there’s no time and it’s getting to be a bit too much.

Marching Into The Future With Great Teeth

It’s getting to be a bit much
It’s getting to be a bit much
Marching into the future with great teeth

It’s getting to be a bit much
It’s getting to be a bit much
Saluting the policeman as you get out of the cab

It’s getting to be a bit much
It’s getting to be a bit much
Fighting over discount underwear you have to have

It’s getting to be a bit much
It’s getting to be a bit much
Looking for life everywhere but in front of you

The Algorithm Is Reaching It’s Five O’clock Shadow

The algorithm is reaching it’s five o’clock shadow,
and Billy hasn’t yet returned with the dumplings…
… don’t cha know you can go anywhere from there?

…the most significant piece of modern art is a urinal,
and I told my mother a thousand times we weren’t in trouble…
the people in control can’t control themselves, so,
“What’s eating you?” takes on a new dimension.

“Mandelbrot This! Cosmic Charley!”
was the headline….there were just too many pieces
to identify anything….but, at least, the hotdog stand
was still functioning…

Compassion

Look at it this way…you’ll understand
if you have children or parents…
you Love them….which doesn’t necessarily
mean you Like them. Look at all sentient beings
that way, because they ARE your family.
That is compassion.

The Purge Of Evil

For everything there is a season.
This is the time of hell on earth.
This is the time of the flowering of evil.
The Lords of Materialism have seized power…
It is their time.

The karma they accumulate from their evil deeds
Will rid the world of them for a long time….
They will not be reborn as human.
It is the time of the purge of evil.

Remain human!
Don’t get sucked into their trip!
This has to happen now!
Remain human! Remain human!
Don’t give into their bloody game!
What goes around comes around!
Cultivate compassion!
The leaders are lost in lust!
Their self-destruction is inevitable!

It’s Done With Mirrors

Must be…
if movies seem real reel,
i.e., done with mirrors…

All perception is experienced
in the mirror of your mind….
must be…perception of what?
Reflection…radar…

Clay-mates….we all are…made of the same…
genetic material mirror flashes…
memory beyond time,
cosmic meme…otherwise we wouldn’t
know to get lost.

Sitting In A Bus Terminal, Minneapolis, 1969

Tripping on acid….
Blowing bubbles with one
of those plastic wands…
grumbling from across the room…
the Ticket Master comes over,
says: “Stop blowing bubbles.
The old people don’t like it.”

Endings:

1.We knew it was the end of time…or, close.

2. We spent a week just thinking about that.

3. A Mandelbrot of endings.

Three D Poem

Panic at a pic-a-nic
reaching over the ants
for the cornbread
my stomach doesn’t need this
blurting out from my tee shirt…

…in mists of dawn no one thought
they’d ever see again, the shattered
landscape flowering with determination,
a possibility of balance once more…

…at the café on Rue Bouland,
perfect jour de printemps, her hair
in the breeze, the whistle from a
potato cart, bad news from the East.