Hopelessness

"No walking through vast Arabies of hot 
meaning...you just, numbly, don't get there".
Kerouac

"Everything's clear when you're cornered."
Trungpa

There is no hope…

no hope at all,

that it will all turn out OK.

There is no hope,

no hope at all,

that you will ever get there

from here.

There is no hope,

no hope at all,

that anything or anyone

will save you.

There is no hope

that your sunny side up

will get you past breakfast,

that she’ll ever return,

that she’ll leave you,

or anything in between.

No hope

for a better world,

salvation,

liberation,

freedom,

enlightenment.

Ah, hopelessness! 
What a relief!

Beating A Dead Hearse

(If I explain the joke before I even tell it,
what's the point of that?
It's a miracle I got this far!)

carnivorous gutter implant

(don’t scare the straight people)

domino effect affects effete 

adorable heartless collectable

paraphernalia proliferating

discord not discrimination

drag hands

knuckle heads
hoof-in-mouth disease

armed and dangerous

(it was fun while it lasted)

Going nowhere fast….

before you know it, you’re there.

You can’t get there from here,

(How many parallel universes

before I can go home?)

but, a red wheelbarrow.

(I could say something clever here,

but I won't)

"What Else Ya Got?"

So, Life, I overcame an insane family,

met an enlightened teacher when I was

twenty two, practiced meditation 

constantly for fifty years in spite of 

thinking that nothing was happening and

it wasn’t working, and finally, suddenly, 

all my problems vanished, just like that. 

What else ya got?

Tepoztlan

The first two mornings I was here

I started crying in the restaurant.

For the first time, I felt I was home.

And the people here feel like family…

how good is that? 

Not like it was when I was growing 

up in the suburbs; endless houses, 

one after the other, looking the same,

filled with strangers.

We prefer the pain we know to the fear

of what we don’t know.

To become human, we have to go

towards the fear.

Just because you walk on two legs,

doesn’t mean you’re much more

than an animal.

To An Alcoholic

Friendships and braincells are about the same....
of course some die....but only the weak ones.

It’s Not The Little World I Once Knew

I grew up thinking “progress”, “going forward

into the future”, “Brave New World.”

Boy, was I wrong.

We all were,

fed a bunch of garbage like they were

slopping the hogs.

"Look at how the deep state holds her....
I'll be moving in one day."

The world is no longer as little 

as we were used to,

and it’s coming as a shock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFudhpBf0q8

Buddha's Enlightenment

Gautama Buddha was the first example of

a fully evolved human being, and showed 
humanity the means to self evolve. Buddhists
have been aware of this fact and accomplished
the Buddhist path for 2500 years. Meanwhile,
science is still looking for itself, philosophy is
lost in thought, religion believes it has the
answer. Meditation works. A word to the wise
is sufficient. The rest have my sympathies.

The Purge Of Evil. (Poem written 11/19/11)

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!

PSA # 17 (WWG1WGA)

Coming off the fan:
mainstream media vitriol…

mainstream political losers

spewing…

(ladies, hike your skirts).

The Brenners, Comeys, Shiffs,

melting like Margaret Hamilton

in their own stink.

No, it’s not pretty, but the truth

is always positive, even if it looks

like shit.

Sorry to be so graphic, but I’m afraid

it’s necessary, so you begin to get the 

understanding of what’s happening,

and why you feel “the way you do”?

wondering what is happing…(by now…

perhaps)…in our world…like the rug

pulled out from under…like pulling the 

rip cord and the parachute doesn’t 

open…like a note in your pocket that 

says: “No coke today.” 

Worse than that.
Adults only.

Brace yourself.

No joke. No romance. 

This is what it’s like

beyond the yellow brick road.

The Idiot's Solution

When I die I will go back to what 

I was before I was alive.

What’s the problem with that?

After all, that’s where I came from

in the first place….square one.

Where is square one?

Everywhere, all the time, of course.

How can there be a problem?

When you solve a problem,

where does it go?

Back to square one.

Is there anything besides square one?

Not when you’re at square one.

Dum dee dum dum….

doo dee doo dee doo.

American Moloch

The old gods wear the bodies 

that wear the suits.

Baal sitting in the diner

doesn’t leave a tip.

Loki in his Lamborghini,

Satan in his sedan.

The curtain is the clothes they wear,

the mansions they live in,

their ceramic smiles,

the lies laced with larceny.

A movable beast, on the go,

fragmented into shards of darkness,

shivering with delight

at the actions they perform…

a whitewash if ever there was one.

Embodiment of evil, what did it take

to sign on the bloodied line? I know:

it was just easier that way, it seemed.

Beware when you wake up from your 

dream.