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Saturday
Nov262005

secret

give me a tie to terrorism
so i can file a suit tailored
by pure fabrication
woven on time’s loom

lucky bamboo said i’d find you here
fit to be tied to anything
where spirit is good
matter is nature
spinning on its axis

breaking the tie
into patterns,
endless knot
one line
undertime, inside time’s mystery
time is only the past and future
not the present

sharing information with agencies
let me introduce myself

married to consumption
my name is fear
an acronym for Face Everything And Recover
consolation
my timid friends say it indicates
Fuck Everything And Runaway

the bigger the obstacle the bigger the joy
one does not need a compass in the land of dreams

‘operating instructions for plants’
growth flow initiation
dispense resistance
correct motives
patient generosity
honor receptive side of warrior nature

Wednesday
Oct052005

fear and consumption

We contemplated vast
silent emptiness on 9.11

“No language, no culture,”
Ahmed sang sitting on Sahara dunes
shooting stars played celestial tag

Strange but true elements of fear,
double edged messages, disinformation,
misinformation, bias, lies,
half-truths, whispers, paranoia,
irrational transmissions were issued
by government authorities
in every language on a spinning blue space marble

Human brains overflowed with data

Therapies in triplicate,
were issued to the populace.

Their remote control device was broken,
Too many channels.

Instant replay seared their consciousness
forever and ever and ever down all the daze

We meditated as peaceful people chewed,
swallowed and digested daily distributed
high concentrated dosage of wisdom,
clarity and insight

Distance, health, balance,
harmony, forgiveness, peace of spiriti sanctus

Scholars educated at the finest
universities and institutes of erudite
study started speaking
Latin
telling stories
about the rise and fall of civilizations

Oral stories written before their time
with hieroglyphics and cave pain paintings

Caves were full of survivors
Candles sales were brisk
“A tisket, a tasket, we need a casket,”
sang multi-lingual refugee children

Historians, political scientists,
talk show experts, taxi drivers,
fortune tellers, beauticians and morticians
took calls on their hot line

The number of callers increased exponentially
Suicide search and rescue teams were put on alert

Citizens packed hospital emergency rooms,
Medical schools increased graduation classes
to meet growing manufactured need as
demand outstripped the supply of fear and consumption

“What happens when they run
out of (in)security control programs?”
a child asked their mother

She was the mother of all answers

Wednesday
Oct052005

two bananas for dinner

mercenary
lost a piece of jade
wife moved to colorado
nobody wears halloween costume

full moon flies across black sky
above market roof
where young lovers hide in shadows
a fish seller sleeps
two boys dance in truck lights

a woman with three bags of rice
sits alone near fur coat store
counting a grain

landless chinese man
trailed by wife
tired of the city
labors their belongings
in plastic bags on thin shoulders

incognito nature shadow on the wall

blind man stumbles into sleep
a pile of rubbish at his feet

a man pedals past
husband & wife scavengers
steal night with plastic bags
pillaging trash cans
seeking coal leftovers
they can sell - or better still
use

people rolled in blankets on wood slats
dying of cancer
talk

a broken road their fragment of someone's dream

old grey haired man
observes ghosts
dancing through soft night shadows
curling around dark thick shanghai

Wednesday
Sep282005

water music

sitting near water
black and white
butterfly
torquoise wings
small yellow flowers
dance in wind

+

water music medicine
small brook
yellow flowers
butterfly for company
this is enough

Wednesday
Sep282005

heat particles

to 5,000 degrees
F
to know their precise
location

below this
temperature
they become invisable