We, who live the most preposterous of lives,
laugh with our secret thoughts.
The poet is a fool who does not embrace his father-
the great father that was banished by the witchery of
clever minds. The father who is a light path from the
heavens to the small square of latitude we move in. The
father who drives weakness from the son and gives strength
to the daughter.
What is embedded in us that pins us to the corner
of our shrunken latitude?
The space between significance’s provide a field
of play- ah, but the game leads either to heaven or hell.
We enter into those spaces with great vitality and
believe, for a moment, that the world was created solely
for ourselves. We met women in those spaces and they demand
our secrets. What! Those? Never! Praise our significance
women! Praise, praise, praise or you will get nothing.
Among the wealthy, entertainment is a lull between
fits of sleep and eating.
A culture can drown in laughter as easily as it can
drown in its tears. The piercing sounds of our laughter
may be propitious questions of the spirit incubating some
needed dream.
Terrible American who can not define himself in
relation to his dream. Oh, terrible American who is frozen
in the fantasies of someone else.
There are two crucial moments for the poet and thinker.
One is when he is absorbing the information and knowledge
of his culture. The other is when he is emptying it;
the beginning and ending of something. Does one see the
vessel that is open at either end and the energy that is
rolling from one to the other?
We pray for the day when the ego flies with its
burdens, plucked from our weary heads; hanging from its
beak like intestines. The disease is lifted from us and we
are healthy again breathing the air the world will not
permit itself from breathing.