Kaleidoscope Paradigm

“A violent order is a great disorder, and a great

disorder is an order. These two things are one.”

                                    Wallace Stevens 

You can’t tell the players without a program.

Language tries to mask what’s really going on.

Propaganda has been continuous since Eve and apple.

We see how that turned out.

Sophistication is the pride of the Devil’s tongue.

Simplicity is the ground from which we all spring from,

to which we return.

In between is self importance, self aggrandizement,

building ephemeral thrones.

The truth is an acquired taste.

Once you have it, it’s indestructible.

“Why don’t you write something more nice?”

I’m not a Hallmark poet…there are too many of those

stinking up the place.

Suffering is the first truth Buddha taught.

He gave the bad news first.

Krag beats on the heart like a drum.

Winning and losing but never satisfied,

unquenchable thirst for more than we need.

Merry-go-round, merry-go-round.

Beating a live horse.

If you shoot the messenger you lose the point.

Buddha’s tough love is for all eternity.

I love you, so, wake up before it’s too late,

or try again the next go round because we’re 

all on a self evolving path, know it or not.

There’s no time to waste, 

but plenty to do nothing,

if you only do it right.

What are you waiting for?