Sunday, October 30, 2022

Oasis In Chaos

 


Oasis is a place or a state of mind,

a Casablanca or a Xanadu…

…the Zen archer shooting calmly

amidst the confusion of battle…

¨La, la, la, I´m not listening to you¨

is sometimes heard.

 

Oasis is where you find it,

in nature,

in art,

in your lover´s eyes…

a moment that passeth any need

for explanation…

the square one of square ones…

the fourth moment which is

always the first moment.

Of course,

there are some nice trees.

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Random Nectar

 

Mountains, valley, buildings,

movement, activity, culture…

smoke and steam arise from my

cigarette and coffee…I´m like a

locomotive resting at the station.

 

People passing, universes unto

themselves, the street a celestial

display of cause and consequence,

momentum of karma, each part of

the hologram containing the whole.

Each square-one-snap-shot a facet

of diamond.  

 

It takes a while for the plot to unfold…

like…forever? No wonder our

temporary lives make us nervous.

There are plenty of instructions about

how to deal with it.

For starters, stop watching the news.

Friday, October 21, 2022

Round Peg In A Square World

 

That´s what the Beats called them :

 ¨Squares¨ which means; 

                        ¨asleep¨,

                        the same as it does now.

 

¨It is no measure of sanity to be well 

adjusted to a profoundly insane society.¨ 

J. Krishnamurti

 

¨Can´t you try to fit in more like the other

boys/girls

whites/blacks

Republicans/Democrats

Protestants/Catholics/Muslims/Hindus/

Bahai Yada Yada Yada?¨

 

Why complicate a wave, a vibration,

a frequency into a maze?

Why make everything,

which is Nothing,

into something?

 

Sad fact is, it´s what we do.

Good news is, we can undo…

no joke.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Ashes

 

¨Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.¨

We only hear these words

on one occasion,

                              never

                                   considering

we walk around

                     ash-holes dreaming

we´re better than dirt…

might as well be tumbleweeds…

prairie clouds

moved here and there

by the wind

for all we know

 

not the same as we once were

as it once was…life furnace

fueled and consumed sooner

or later

a few photos in a book

reminders of flames.

 

The funny thing is,

there´s got to be more,

and there is,

because…

the Phoenix, for one.

Monday, October 17, 2022

Date With Sister Morphine

 

Sometimes it´s good to revisit old lovers

to see what happened with them and

remember why you left.

Drugs are the same…similar desire,

fulfilled or not…memories of good 

and bad times….similar addictions.

Derangement of the senses is a good 

way to stimulate creative imagination 

that goes beyond pedestrian 

viewpoints…that´s why there was 

modern art. It´s good to feel the old 

crutch in your hands and remember 

the pain…one last moment with your 

old lover to taste the ashes.

 

The Beats weren´t the first….the 

Romantics weren´t the first…even the 

people that wrote the Vedas weren´t 

the first. The hippies may have thought 

they invented LSD, but humans have 

been using enhancing substances for

thousands of years. My generation just

reminded the USA there was something 

more to life than suburbia. The message 

derailed the certainty in the American 

Dream. ¨Back to square one¨, (didn´t 

one of the Founding Fathers say 

that once?).

A Date With Sister M. #2

 

I have a question. What if the real square

One is not the one we´re living in? What

if we´re living in a real Truman Show, a

made up reality based on a Wizard-of-Oz

manifestation?

 

Suspend belief for a moment. Doesn´t it

Make sense, given what we know about

how infinite the universe is, that, since

there is life here, that there must be life

elsewhere? Is the square one we´re going

to experience a truth that has been

hidden by agents of control for decades?

 

The certainty of point of view in the middle

Of uncertainty, chaos, change, is like a life

preserver made of cement. Those that

cling to it will surely drown.

 

That train just ran out of track.

 

My mind drifts to Odessa, a romantic

name  to me. A sadness that that place,

with so  much history, has to once again

endure the torment of human folly. 

I would love, I imagine myself, in a tea

shop, looking at ships in the harbor, smell

of the sea, cries of the fish sellers, me

and a few old men that have survived,

smoking kief, drinking Turkish

coffee, at home in ancient hospitality.

A Date With Sister M. #3

 



Sunday, October 16, 2022

Look Who´s Talking

 

 

¨It´s the alcohol talking.¨

 

Have you ever heard that used

as an excuse?

 

¨It´s the schizophrenia talking.¨

 

¨It´s the Catholic Church talking.¨

 

¨It´s the brainwash talking.¨

(No one who is brainwashed has the

self awareness to be able to say this.)

 

¨It´s my parents, background,

upbringing talking.¨

 

¨It´s my beliefs, prejudices, opinions,

discursive mind talking.¨

 

¨Shhh….do this: listen closely…what

do you hear?¨

 

¨What? I don´t hear anything.¨

 

¨That´s it….nobody talking.¨

Tepoztlan Is My Burning Man

 





Thursday, October 13, 2022

Faux Tableaux

 



Sunday, October 2, 2022

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