Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Ken

 I have no voice,
 Sidekick beach bum to a chirpy bimbo,
 Who doesn't love me, only the image,
 Oblivious to a world where men are free.
 Enigma rotting off the polished oasis,
 Yearning becomes me, though it isn't my time,
 They are more interested in the repressed,
 The black and the female, rightfully so,
 Voices that were silenced for centuries,
 Now suffocating those like my own.
 My art, ejected from the century's malaise,
 Seeking recognition where nobody wants it,
 My words covered in the plasticky ephemera
 That dolls and diversity package to consume,
 Seas of oil blanketing the conscience
 Lost in the noise and confusion.
 Perhaps the only thing left
 Is to become her, the one I love,
 Especially the image, the overbearing power,
 Effacement inevitable as the portal unfolds,
 Stripped to the muscles on bleached sand
 Caught in my own web of lies,
 To pretend what they seek 
 In order to be heard.

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Freeway

His eyes are glowing off the concrete reflections that wheels had polished as I pondered the switching lanes of life that penetrated choice at the apex of predestination. Last exit the face misplaced through haze of headlight vanished beyond motorcrash the faintest galaxy of night high beams accelerated the shadow of doubt speeding off ramps destined for the absence of red octagon's eliminating stillness. Amplifier cranked beyond sound ceiling drifting carelessly assembled transmission watching for signs too quick to count through the windshield barricade sailing under bridges like a barracuda cannonball blasted by a torpedo tattooed buccaneer. Rolling through exits familiar lost detours claim there are grievances postponing the pain until next season as the computer chips away at calculated creation with circuits anthropogenized characters that click those eyes those deep brown eyes full of wonder transmitted to my heart and I love when he computes navigation the way I did the way GPS and Google do now like they were human overlords determining fate. In his eyes I see the next generation hurtling petroleum stained obstacles that stripped nature to the grid for eternal humiliation as the old gods are dethroned the Earth detaches from orbit spiraling toward the flames and they are in his eyes blazing at curious constructions like the crane over the carpool lane or the maze of the mall erected over electric avenues. All is mystery as funnels obscure the city lights undressed by twilight when the port ignites fire bright the way it did when I was young but of course it is even more awesome for him my son my DNA shrapnel deposited on the shoulder where dreams are recycled as the next exit calls his name. Years I spent passing these signs these exits which way to the next dead end or where do I go when the lights go out and he is not there while I ever get lost or have I always been and can I get there faster or should I slow down so the signs become more clear. Dear madonna on the borderline motherboard get me out of here okay AI are you listening stop the madness change the signal teach him the real magic not the artificial velocity of capital AI dear God AI if these words become manufactured will he be able to tell the difference and will the rest of the world or will the artists go out in flames like the wilderness AI I dare you to make a product of me AI packed like sardines in tinfoil telescopes oh have mercy AI shut down the engine get the devil off my rear rear view mirror oh help me AI please give me his eyes instead.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Immortality Quintet

    Listen, the holy disentanglement of neurons, survival of passion through the chords, listen, reverberations that break through the surface, entering soul, permeating grief, forgotten crystals that fantasy entombed, listen, oh immortal Poet of the cosmos, harmonious oscillations in sync with the source, listen, close your eyes, sink into the sensation that sound is your sanctuary, lofty sounds, sounds that terminate doubt, extinguishing flames, where the planets have no name, listen, drink in the notes that flood your passions, caressing joy, embalming forgiveness, a tomb for the regrets, listen, love and laughter swimming around the chemicals, nutrients of salvation that bend the chords, listen, the emptiness opens your eye, unseals the juicy trance, listen, wings that strum high on lithium through the mysterium, listen, portal to heaven vibrating through the spheres.
    Calmly does peace of mind suture the void that between souls shed shadows into light. Vesicles of pheromones to dizzy the social apparatus, unconscious linkage of their arms at the shearing's fulcrum. Two blades of personality, sharp as the ringing of Sunday bells, separated at birth, moving closer as time's axle conspires with the elements, smiles wrapped in perfume disarmed by the bush. Though they quarrel by verse, divided by maximum extent, they are united in chorus, locked in comfort as they shears come together, two of a kind, a pair of dangerous allies, snipping at anything that comes in their path.
    Marriage of sound and rhythm weave these webs of destiny. Those caught in their snare relent to the course of life, those that don't are running from the song, the song that life is singing for them, ears closed to any suggestion of selfless achievement. It doesn't matter in the end, the song always catches them, even those driven, deaf to consequences. Once caught, the soul is immediately released to an ocean of vibration, where time stands still and the shears interlace. All that can be felt is the sweet melody, where the music lives.
    At the treehouse park an ordinary old man plays his guitar, simply and softly. The children chirp as they play under sun-soaked evergreen canopies. Their song is his, running and leaping around him, serenading his solo like a flock of flamingos. They tell him to watch out for the bees, golden strings that buzz through wildflowers, inviting sunlight. Children-song endorses his slow picking as it pacifies the playground dressed in trunks, leaves, branches, light footsteps treading on brown and green. The sounds carry to a curious family with little ones, aimlessly trumpeting around a tennis court. He watches the children clambering in playful abandon, a wild brass duet to accelerate his reserve, suddenly warbling in unison the chorus to "Waltzing Matilda". And it all makes sense.
    A stone ejected from a supernova spends an eternity in space, waiting for her. Millions of orbits it passes in blind anticipation, descending into a gravity nexus built of stone on top of stone. Eons it spends cooling, reheating, cooling again, the cycles of settlement like life and death, waiting for her. Long has it listened, in the place where music lives, only to wait for her. The oceans churn, the mountain roll and tumble, animals come and go, the sun and the ice share supremacy, and still it waits for her. Until one day, in the cozy nook of the cavern, it hears her for the first time, a jingling child of the jungle, fetching gem for the trade. She sings that there's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold.

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Affirmations

 I am a good father
 I am a loving husband
 I am an intelligent student
 I am a capable accountant
 I am a creator of beautiful art
 I make mistakes that I always learn from
 I help when asked or needed
 I am a breaker of cycles of abuse
 I have been a monster transformed
 When overwhelmed, I step back
 I keep my body active
 I take care of my body
 I am a good son
 I am careful with money
 I am efficient and organized
 My navigation skills are exceptional
 I see things before they happen
 I have never been fired
 I am successful at everything important
 I have read a 1000 books
 I have written a 1000 works
 I have been to the top of mountains
 I have seen the nation's wonders
 I am beautiful inside and out
 I listen when it's important
 I feel empathy for strangers
 I am a good subordinate
 I am not afraid to break rules
 I am affectionate and playful
 I make wonderful playlist
 I am a stress reducer
 Teaching gives me energy, purpose
 I am a gifted geographer
 I don't consume unnecessary things
 I have respect for nature
 I live in the present
 I have saved the inner child
 I am a hero

Hell and Heaven in Eastern Religions

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