First, Kerouac came to visit;
He brought jars of magic potions
Out of which flew ecstasies and dreams.
Then the ghost of Chris McCandless
Flew in threw my window
And leant purpose to my heart.
I go to the window and look out
To see storm pregnant phantoms
And zombies wrapped in chains
Stretching all the way to the edge of the world.
My body [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2010 by admin
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A socket in the woods: an eye;
A pond so placid, cold, alive.
A dark, mysterious window:
A pattern sheathed, a dark control.
What does the toadly tenant see
When through the kingdom of the leaves
A man and dog come walking by? –
The dog in just a blink of eye
Attacks as if an asteroid
Slingshotted through the empty void.
What monster [...]
Posted on September 9th, 2010 by admin
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Reading is a mystical transaction. All books are warm with the Spirit of their composers. How do I come to know a person if not by the words they have spoken? Without the capacity to communicate the contents of the mind, the person remains invisible. What is the essence of an identity except [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2010 by admin
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The center of all things draws a line straight through the depths of my being. All souls are shorn from the same cloth. The stirrings of the soul are the tinglings of the entirety of being. What is the aspiration of aspirations? He who unifies himself with the foundations of creation defeats death.
Images [...]
Posted on September 7th, 2010 by admin
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Asteroid, Asteroid, Asteroid Man
Flying through the cosmic spaces
All fire and raw-edged implacability,
Impervious to the railroad
Elliptical conformities that befall
The lesser bodies.
Asteroid, Asteroid, Asteroid Man,
Self-directed, Iron-willed,
A shooting star is a joy to see:
Comet tailed silver slicing like a scimitar
Through fixed celestial geometries.
Asteroid, Asteroid, Asteroid Man
When I heard of the catastrophe I knew
That a cloud of [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2010 by admin
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Ragged clothes adorn the frame
That hunches over the cane, propped
Like a mass for which there is no longer use.
A crown at his feet is slandered with mud
And his contorted visage and dark eyes
Seem like the firsthand account of travesty and travail
Imparted as if by a mythical bard on the aged skin and bone.
Before him span [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by admin
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There has been a significant amount of discussion lately concerning the proposed Islamic Center which is to be built two blocks from Ground Zero. The issue of its construction has sparked a conflagration of oppositionist sentiment. The argument against it seems to be based mainly on the notion that it is offensive to those [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2010 by admin
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There is a horror – it’s alive -
Concealed behind all knowing eyes –
A tiger stalking in the trees,
A jungle prowler stealthily
Emitting low toned growls that are
Like visions from the dark afar,
Like winds that carry in their hands
The riches mined from hellish lands –
A predator that knows the art
Of menacing the human heart
Of waiting in his [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by admin
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Lawn mower mowing
Across the Street
Instruments! Instruments! Instruments!
Doings
A man at the helm,
A man at the man;
What causes?
What moves?
What drives?
Women live in my head:
Distillations, essences,
Prismatic
Projections,
Charms that will
Like a sun
The ocean’s mighty pulse.
Where is the intersection
Of spirit and matter?
How did we, as humans,
Climb out of the dross?
What is this hubris
Of ego and
Free will?
Why is there this fire
That can [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by admin
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What was it that propelled
My ancestors
To Drive, Drive
Their wind drawn chariots
Across the deep, blue violent chasm,
The storm hungry sea?
What caused the flocks
Of humans to fly
In great migrating droves:
Wave after wave of egoistic
Flesh falling like promethean comets
On these American shores
What was it but the desire,
A personally distilled impersonality,
To improve –
The selfishness of souls
Whose bones lie scattered [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2010 by admin
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