The Pumpkin

photo by Dhina, Dylan’s father
The Void fashions thought,
gives it the clothes you wear.
We bury the world there.
We’re all over each other
in drowning reality,
and each one of us wears woe is me clothes
tryin’ to describe our reality to another,
even if we don’t feel that way.
It’s the default among us.
Just read some poetry and see.
It won’t lift you to the skies,
poetry club after poetry club.
Do you know how bottomless this is?

I don’t know where to end this.
By Dylan’s side.
I don’t think he’s learned to be sad yet
as his disposition.
He’s two,
and I wear him on my sleeves today
his minder,
really protecting his freedom,
no anger, no swats,
and no is not a word I cram down his throat.
I like his natural freedom
and his natural state of joy.


Where does it come from?
I can sit in the same tub and not be happy.
He’s an expert at this.
He knows where the joy is,
the merger inside of him with his environment.
I don’t think we’ve reached a separate Dylan yet
all in his own clothes.
The joy is phenomenal.
He just screamed and looked at me,
and I gave a pirate’s laugh.
I like the sound of joy.

His frank littleness operates on my moods,
and I can taste his taste with the world.
You have to hold on
there’s stickers there.
The world will grab you,
and all falls down.
You have to be careful there,
and everything has eyes you know,
even the water bucket.
How amazing this is.
I coo
and talk to those eyes
a speech pre-language wears.
Identified with Dylan
with a poet’s laugh,
I’m in his jolly roger don’t you see?

Now what happens when we’re three?
Identity with the world please,
it no longer storms our room.
I could be seven,
and joy becomes something monumental
we chase the dogs with.
It’s not homegrown anymore.
It’s not our natural state.
We’ve put on man.

I’m on poet’s wings,
and I’m identified with what’s in front of me.
You can’t do this writing about your make up.
It’s how we discover the world,
reaching poet wings
reaching the starlight,
where God sees everything glow.
It put us together in ancient times,
grabbed civilization out from the paws of nature,
a poet’s look guide,
and we’re born you and me
so much’d civilized clothes,
and a poet born language don’t you know.
It came from the skies
added to our feet down below.

Where’s all this goin’?
And we write it down in speech,
great big letters of world maker’s art
that came in vision or dream,
and we fountain a language with it.
A poet saw that.
I’m not here to hear you scream,
and kill all these damn flies.
That’s the muscle we wear.
The poet has the architect of civilization
we grasp here.
You don’t know from on high.
You don’t know these robes.
I’m speechless.
Yeah, you would be.
Well I be damned.

The chaos of the toddler,
it writes your poem.
They don’t know dirty,
and they have no sense of mistake.
They don’t know danger.
A grandpa’s life is dangerous,
and he gave that toddler reach.
It’s not playin’ with the same cars
of a society toolkit.
They meditate together
on meaning.
The boy feels the rush.
It’s living.
I can’t draw your papers from here,
but I’m showin’ yah how we’re made.
I can’t explain it to yah
so that you wear the same cars,
but I accelerate growth.

That’s not dangnabbit,
or any role of violation.
It’s where that guy sees the stars.
Are you with me on this?
For a nice mental health,
where it counts,
it’s in that toddler child.
You don’t want to falter there.
They’re bright and shiny objects from the universe,
and they just love to play.
They don’t need a hard time.

Just organize them
the storybook of the universe,
and they mean something more
than I am tired,
irritate me one more time and I’ll slap you,
or I’m horny please me.
Don’t be confused with their gatherin’.
There’s a child there with their tall eyes
bein’ the Earth for you,
and every touch counts,
and they love to be touched and cuddled.
They wear your fingers
for the rest of their lives,
your harsh tone,
your can’t take it anymore.
All of humanity needs to see this.

Listen,
it’s not possible today is it?
This is too cutting edge.
This is too model.
Don’t take their joy away.
Let them be rising and kind and kids
by you’re conducing a sacrifice
for their wellbeing.
Can’t you see this Paul
when you get home from work,
and you’re tired,
and momma there in the kitchen,
that meal’s better than that child?
And we can reverse the roles and do the same thing
or join them.
What would daycare say?
Keep them busy no.
Let them occupy themselves
with whatever,
and watch them there.
We want them to organize themselves,
no just obey masters
and do what they’re told.

Can you see my thought’s skies?
We don’t want a subservient human being.
We want society to challenge the world.
We want a greater world bear.
We are on earth for no other thing.
How could you argue with yourself?
Beginning right now,
make that toddler’s world better
by your lovin’ hands and freeze,
no shouting, no hitting,
no inappropriate hands.
Goo Goo and Ga Ga,
they just inherited the world,
and it was nice to them.
Oh man see this.

Make a child’s day.
Make every moment count.
Can yah?
Will yah?
It’s growin’ up to be you.
A vehicle burned by society’s ways,
a damaged vessel,
do you really wanna put that on that kid?
Let them play in the dirt and mud.
They’re not going to murder themselves,
hurt society with it.
Aren’t you right there
to prevent mouthfuls
and rocks up their nose?
They’re testin’ time,
where all the dirt goes.

Aren’t you glad you see that,
their special put together?
It makes for good kids,
lettin’ them be the little animals they are
when they’re two,
no inhibitions,
not feedbacks.
They’re beautiful little tigers,
and we give that little creature kindness
and consideration
in every mood they wear.
We just don’t let them tear up the ship,
or express their violence towards other people
and puppy dogs,
and we teach them to be kind to ourselves
with the kindness we give them,
and who would let a toddler hurt himself?

You gotta be swift and fast,
and you’re gonna make mistakes.
The little monster’ll test your patience,
the little cuddly bear.
You’re farmin’,
know that,
and you determinin’ that child’s life.
A great big heavy thing in life,
we shape our children by our touch and mood,
and the most important time’s before three,
monumental she wrote.
I’m infinity’s cards,
and I’ve just showed you the spasm of life,
where it most counts:
hey baby,
oh you new thing.
Can you dig it?

It’s the living fetal position for animals,
the punishment chair.
Stop this motion.
Order the pens to our insight.
I was thinking first of Dylan.
I didn’t chatter my teeth there.
My comfort,
his parade,
he got the money’s worth.
I can’t spell this out for you.
It’s long on time.
What do we do with him,
pull his pants down and shoot ‘im,
arrange him in the corner,
blister his butt?
Let’s call him kings,
and you’re his subject
most of the time.
Can you get that?

Wow he’s free
to make decisions
that don’t harm him.
You’re followin’ him around a puppy dog.
Did I just say something mean?
It is exhausting,
but you’re right there
as he explores the world.
Too wild to keep,
my parents put a dog there,
highly efficient at watching me.
Outside he followed me everywhere.
I brought some of the memories back.
Can you believe he talked?
Used all the sounds a dog makes
to convey meaning.
Boy get away from there.
You stop that behavior at once.
It was a pleading sound with authority.

Buckshot was extraordinary,
a big dog from army parents,
half Shepard half Collie.
He came from a military base.
Can you see it?
We’ve been doin’ it all along
in our homes and in our backyards,
but we can make it an official duty of mankind,
train dogs to watch kids.
The little one’s too exhausting to keep up with.
They need special care,
and a good dog can give it.

Am I meaning here?
Do you know how much this helps the child?
The love of a dog
opens up society to them
in the ways of love,
and if it’s a lone child,
they pay attention to another person in their play.
Let’s put a handle on their selfishness shall we?
That big dog can protect itself
and is a sense on the world we don’t.
The consciousness shares
between a dog and child,
that’s the link right there,
but I’m gettin’ far ahead of you.
You don’t know you do this with Dog.
We are more than their masters,
and they are our children.

Buckshot grows.
Would you believe he’d take my hand in his mouth
and lead me back to the house
if I passed the invisible barriers that said too far?
There was a dog there
on his way to human.
You don’t know that’s what dogs are doing with us.
In the evolution of soul
they become man
after climbing the latter of Dog.

What did you think they were doing with us?
I put dogs in the throne room too,
kids with fur and tail
and adorable ears.
There was this hole in evolution,
and we created Dog
to fill it
when we were ready in soul,
when we became men and women firm enough on the ground
to fill it.
At the role of civilization,
and then came Dog.

I’ve gotten angry again,
and I just shut it off and move on,
apologizin’ profusely to that kid.
How is this learned?
The heart is open to soul.

The heart is open to that kid.
Profound love dwells there
that can heal anything.
Careful with that soul.
I guess I’m a witness
that you let out.
I’m not an icicle.
I am love everywhere found,
deep feelings of release
into the sincerity of the moment.

You are love there
watch your nose,
and you obey your nose
no longer.
You’re not led by the nose anywhere.
You’re compelled to soul choices,
complete understanding
not offended by anything,
and where you find love
you find the wisdom to use it
to correct that child,
the strong love that knows its pants
that can say no to things that harm
and make that child know he caused it
without those feelings of guilt that block remorse.

You surface the soul you know.
It’s what takes over
as you’re doin’ it,
a sadhana out of ego.
It heals.
It wears a crown.
It makes everything right.
That’s what we’re doin’ here,
being soul,
a manual for the new millennia,
how to be safe with our kids
in diapers and into the terrible twos,
and they’re comin’ unto themselves threes and fours.
We are expensive with the toddler,
lavish on them
our heartfelt attention,
and that’s the history of science
that makes a better world.

We need a role model,
and I’ve lifted up a poem for you
that comes from higher sources,
the role of a poet,
a special use of language wear,
and poetry that I have,
I’ve returned us to our origins,
where the poet revealed to us the world
and gave us strong ideas how to live in it.
It be compatible
with what the world needs.
I can’t account for its audience,
but here take another poem.

We walked out a miracle.
We walked out back.
Did yah listen?
The applications are enormous.
I am in any thought
you use to harbor children.
A family of pioneers asks a lot about a new generation.
Well I’ve got that orbit.
I’m asking me this I’m asking you:
what’s conducting God in our filthy experiment?
The eyes of the child.

The pictures,
we’re gonna keep looking,
and another FMG,
it was on the film net.
Would you cause me to live?
I’ve gone further than I am,
and I don’t feel badly about it.
Broadly I read you.
You know Stoppa was running.
They didn’t know what they were doing.
This was the parade.
I’m tellin’ yah I’m sorry.
I'm not fighting wars with children anymore.
Can you get a load of that redemption?
Be hostile where joy was,
their glasses
whole birthplace humanity
right on time.
Good afternoon.

The change in consciousness ahead,
get me my improvement
I’ve penned these days.
Why would I be running from it?
See a bullock cart,
I can’t get out of this view.
Got some dirt,
it springs into anxiety.
I put it
on the lawn
and deal with it.
I don’t know exactly when it happened,
the line of consciousness drawn.
I’m a senior builder.
Stopness,
seriously wellbeing,
birth has a lot more to do with it than nature.
Is that so?
I gave a poem
that talks about
relief.
I’m not gonna pull it to my pants down.
Were you like a screwdriver yet,
you’re used?
Can I answer that question?

An Appointment with the World Today

image by the author, Earth in space public domain via Wikipedia
The world is at the skid point.
We are so caught in this movie we can’t even see beyond.
Tell me you don’t care.
Tell me you’re hangin’ out clothes to dry,
and your little one’s screamin’,
and that’s just big stuff on TV.
Got caught in the movies.
I know you ache at night,
just about to spill it all,
everything you know about the world but don’t.
You don’t know what to make of it
it holds you so close.

Can we climb out of this?
We can sure get lost in it.
Will you play with me?
I’m a poet from Skid Row.
No I’m not a drinker.
I’m a free world thinker,
and I want the world to last
longer than its appointment
in the annuals of our sun.
I’m with you on that.
I want to outlast the sun
where I know I can be happy.

Have you ever seen the world up close?
It’ll finger your dickens.
No, no I’m not talkin’ about the rovin’ mania all around yah—
the whole teeming world
as an entity in front of your face.
Got boxes
and spring cards,
but it’s the real McCoy.

I don’t know if you know what I’m talkin’ about yet.
I scrap it off my shoe
no.
This is a divine appointment in time,
the world as an organization
that brings God on earth,
and we can’t get over the word divine.
I’ve lifted up your skirt
and showed you religious offerings.
I mean an intelligence bigger than the skies
that can fit in our green Earth
and bring it to the next level.
You think of the universe as a flat individual organization,
but the many levels of the universe go beyond the universe,
and I tell yah Earth is scheduled for that.

I’m far from the clothesline now,
but that screamin’ kid,
I’ve gotten into his ache.
We want a better world,
expressive of need,
and the world as an organization can do that,
be unto our need.
It’s flat and big
everywhere we look today,
but have you met the world yet?
That’s what I’m tryin’ to say
so that it matters,
so that we can get bigger than ourselves,
knowin’ the world’s done
with livin’ for your kin.

Bigger than any national flag,
the world is our step-brother
that needs to know its name
spoken on your lips.
Oh no Mohammad you don’t own the world,
nor Jesus Christ,
and certainly not Hindu
or Buddha,
and the Jewish people will not rule the Earth.
We’re all gonna get goin’
to see the world in each of us,
to understand its nature
bigger than the machine.

Are you with me on this?
I think you’ll fight me some,
until we realize Earth’s got an appointment
in blue skies,
and we will all revel in it,
giddy with the realization of harm’s end.
Do you know that cost?
Can you turn around and see the world today?
Flabbergasted can you see it?

A step-mother,
seven kids,
and digital shock,
can you grab that?
Help me chase it
to we meet the world there.
I’m not horseplay.
I’m the world looks in on you,
not the teeming multitudes,
the world as a being in front of you in time,
and I’m travelin’
a poet to forgotten shores,
what a seer give society,
its determining wings,
how it lays out itself
and what it be's.
It’s the arms of society to tell you the truth.
You must not let that little you.
It’s the One looking in on itself.
You’re the One.
I am really here for you.

Now sing along.
You can’t fool me anymore
by your nonchalance.
I know the score.
You can’t shoot me anymore
either.
I know what I’m about,
and even dead I’ll know it,
and so will my poetry.

Open up in there.
There can be no losers.
Bite into something hard.
Stare into something new.
I gave you the congressional service.
No shame in that.
A wardrobe
you know you can catalogue
here take this self:
we’re goin’ to the
end of society
as the machine.

Sheltered animals move and breathe.
They just don’t get away.
What was defeated in Mexico?
Waiting by the bomb.
You’re encountering
that work’s envitalment,
and you can’t get out of it.
Best documentary
That Worked.
What are you doin’?
Getting our own hands dirty in blowing up the machine,
a long action
that we can do without war
or blowin’ people up
or shooting them down.
Here I am doin’ it don’t you see?

Never mind the behavior
they stopped us from realizing it.
What was that membership?
Blowin’ up the world
in I don’t care,
oh no.
I’ll give you as much as possible
to farm time
freedom from the machine.

Love,
it actually
gave us tomorrow,
is the active ingredient.
I find that news with anything.
It’s real
and normal
if you realize you have met the world
out during the day
in every box you’ve met today,
in every pair of eyes staring out at you,
all of it,
the whole damn show.

And the Vehicles of Discernment

Where autism rides,
nobody believes in it,
and the vehicles crash.
Madness in America gave us this lay:
autism comes from television
and screen time.
I laugh at every little thing. [sing line]
This is the public mind.
Where do we go with it?
We can’t take it anywhere
in the fundamentals of ourselves
where we’ve encountered the unknown.

I’m dancin’ on thin ice.
I think this is the public construction of our ego today,
or whatever you call that we are now,
how it’s made,
where it comes from.
Everybody’s ignorant here.
Nobody knows what’s goin’ on,
and nobody cares.
Too many other concerns crowd the show.

How do I introduce you to you?
Let’s take your dream last night
the closer you are from waking up,
when you’re patterning on dreamless sleep.
You’ve gotten down that far.
This is really weird.
The forms bite you.
They do not contain waking life
in anything recognizable
except maybe a sandwich you’re a part of,
that you’re being eaten by.
They are larger than machine.
They swallow you whole.
You were merged with that odd substance, weren’t you?
The separate self was hanging in thin air.
You didn’t recognize it yet.
You were the forms you saw,
and you are all mixed up.
You couldn’t tell yourself,
but you were there.

Have you ever woken up from this
merged dream content?
It’s oddly familiar.
You feel basic with it,
like you’re on a slab of reality
you’ve know before,
when you first woke up from sleep,
somewhere in womb-time,
but I think after we’re born the show begins,
when we hold the world tight
indistinguishable from it.
We are merged in our identity
with all around us,
but the body localizes us
in our surroundings,
and we are so bodily there.
Mommy and springtime,
that’s the season we wear.
Her face, her touch,
her smell,
we know those are safety measures,
and we don’t know much else.
It depends upon the daddy.
Some are right there,
and it doesn’t have to be a parent.
I can’t give you the lists
without breakin’ ‘em up.
We’ve got to talk about the thing.

I think slowly we wake to the blows of life,
its insistence on its kin,
and we separate ourselves from our environment
slowly,
little by little.
You can see this happenin’
if your look’s engaged.
That sense of separate self is precious
a wee one becomes a person in.
Are you three
when you’ve balanced life
and can give a wink to other people
here I am, here I am, how do you do? [sing line, popular nursery rhyme]

I’ve just studied your rabbit.
You think you’re localized in space
a separate consciousness in time.
No, that’s learned.
Now put all this in a TV show,
some stupid video,
and you see what you got.
I can’t distinguish myself from time and space
to begin with.
Now add another layer,
the absurd,
the inane,
the chocolate freeze cake,
and some children don’t make the match.
They can’t distinguish themselves in time,
and spectrum autism
makes them their relationship with the world.

One in 36 is it?
Anyway it’s huge.
I can babysit
a two-year-old,
and I don’t have consciousness breathin’ down my neck.
I make contact with the kid
casually.
I understand his price.
I see him there
pullin’ himself out of the world,
tryin’ to make himself work in it.
I dream about him,
have him in vision.
We have open lines of communication,
and I don’t wanna mess it up,
that delicate balance he has with the world
as he’s findin’ himself in it.

No extra touches when I wash his penis,
no emotions in my hand,
and I’m careful with that anus.
(I have no sexual desire for the child.)
I think these are where he is localized now
as the body reaches the sky,
right there at the birth of thought.
No they are not the majors in the room
that determine his life.
There’s just so much feeling there,
and feeling’s what it’s all about
when you’re two.

I’m crowdin’ in on your crash course in reality.
I’m tellin’ yah how it’s made,
our sexual preference,
our sexual alliance with the world.
We can become gay or straight,
pedophile or necrophiliac,
and the list goes on,
and we can this and that
or just someone who harass women,
touch them somewhere
they don’t know where it’s at,
respect,
and if you wanna rapist touch them more momma.
An old movie,
don’t worry;
I’m taking it to see daylight.
It won’t take long.

We need good parental hands
with everybody who handles them,
our genitals.
The equations will reach the sky
with anybody who touches them,
or squeezes them against ourself
in diaper rub.
Add some kissin’ on top of that,
real romantic feelings
with some male role model,
and if you’re boy you’re gay.
Watch and see.
I just let the cat out of the bag.
Can you see it?

Autism spectrum disorder,
it’s not the only thing that comes out of our threes.
Every touch counts.
Every moment’s involved with us.
A screaming parent,
two fighting parents,
and that’s joined in our identity don’t you see?
You got it all wrong.
Those years count the most,
and they’re the hardest to bear,
aren’t they?
Hit that child and see
you’ve got a child there
the world has slapped by,
and they’ve been betrayed by everybody.
Can’t you see it on their face?
Don’t you know it’s in their pain?

I love you Dylan.
I really do.
Anyway,
there, I’ve done it,
showed you reality.
Can you get my dig?
Cryin’ all the time, [sing line, from the song “Hound Dog”]
no.
We wipe their tears with our love,
always addin’ to the world
their place in it,
and the roles are clear,
and that’s heavy, ain’t it?

I can bring understanding
to many roles in your life
and to horrible times.
I can do that.
When you even begin to walk,
we’re gettin’ some stuff done.
We’re gettin’ some stuff done put well on you.
Like what can you do
if nobody wants to be well?
Kid you know
travel love,
and make that the aim of life
the immediacy of this moment.

May all your memories and all your steps,
may they be easy.
Okay,
I’ve tuned you to the ages.
That explains it,
what went wrong.
Daddy, daddy! [vision of Dylan standing and turning to look at me and saying this]
Come there
even for your own purpose.
You know as well as I know
the movies,
trauma is almost illegal I’m carrying
to bring Dylan through this touch and screen of madness,
someone
experiencing the world
his play bubba,
his romance,
his mastery,
and we all look for spiritual change,
don’t we?
Evolution,
it’s what’s you do with a kid.
It be like
huggin’
sha-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la tee-da [sing line, song “Brown Eyed Girl”]
and never gettin’ caught in it.
You’re free.
Why would you want to take a child anywhere else?

Pop! Goes the Weasel

taken in Cape Coral, Florida
Behind the Biblical,
wow, is that real?
Challenges,
let’s not escape from that.
Never get to say it:
the worth in the characters in the Bible are real.
They had time on earth.
How do we listen to them?
Not through their own venue.
We’re encountering the past.
It has weight today,
relevance,
but it’s not our lives today.
Humanity hadn’t reached that far,
to understand more in life than the tall tale,
and fairy tales still ruled the day.

We believed them.
They made us mad.
They got our goat.
They made us worship the sun
and put deities in trees.
We abided by them,
thinking the world a magical place,
air tight,
and no laws apply.
The moon could stand in your living room,
and decapitated heads could talk.

We listen to them today
out walk our sun,
conspiracy daylight.
A bunch of Democrats
extract from children and child sacrifice
some blood elixir,
and this is their insulin for the day?
And do pedophiles rule the world?
Do you know how mad that is?
It’s from the Middle Ages.
It shows a huge decline in the population
in critical reasoning skills.
It’s moonbeams,
lunacy,
and so many Christians believe it.

They can’t get their fantasy straight.
They don’t know what it is,
all the magic in the Bible,
and we come down to miracle.
Does it exist?
Everybody’s seen it
down through the ages
in every culture on earth.
Miracles happen,
but they’re not the order of life.
They are rare instances of great change
in some little module or another,
a superseding a nature for a moment.
They happen and they don’t happen.
So much gets mixed in folklore
the impossible our daily ride,
and it’s quite possible
we hallucinated a lot
in times past,
even on a mass scale.
A consciousness change did that,
gave us reason to guide our lives
and put out the great eye of the cyclops,
Poseidon’s son,
so that we would no longer drink from dream and vision
right out there under the sun.
They receded underwater,
and the subconscious withdrew into its cage.

We tarry there now,
not even believing in dream and vision
and not knowing how to open it again
so it doesn’t swallow us.
That’s the crux of the matter.
I have held a telltale shark
in this escape hatch.
I am swallowed by dream and vision.
I mean it guides my inner life,
disrupts.
It surround me,
and I have to know how to negotiate it.
I spend half my time there.
It’s loud, and it’s free,
liable to take you anywhere,
and it’s costly.
It plays with your mind all the time.
You have to keep it in check.
You can’t just let it run amok,
and you can’t believe everything it says,
shows yah.
So much of it’s a lie,
a representative figure shown on a screen a moment
that’s followed your fancy,
your fear.
It scares the hell outta you.
It tears you apart,
and it gives so much hope.

You learn these are lies
to mess with you.
You learn discernment,
and you’re dealing with creatures more intelligent than you.
Jung will get you goin’ a long ways:
this is just all inside your head,
and your head is much bigger than you know,
but I’m sorry there are cosmic creatures,
angels and demons and Gods and Goddesses
and a whole host of nature spirits and world voices
and a whole bunch more.
You can communicate with the cosmos.
It communicates with you.
So you sit in the cosmic consciousness
and learn how to handle it.

You see miracle there.
You see it every day,
because the future is in your dreams there to discover
every single day,
and the hearts of men and women are laid bare,
everybody that touches your life
that you need to know about,
and the great world engines are revealed to you
and secrets no one knows,
but there you are a pauper in your room
of no value to the world.
It doesn’t make you rich.
You’re dealing with symbols,
representation,
fairy tales to most people.
No one understands the science
of dream and vision,
and I have gotten it down to a science
in my room.
Will you blast me for it?
We will see.

You’re stupid you know
when it comes to showin’ us the times,
men and women who are beyond their time.
They are persecuted or ignored,
made fun of
and sometimes killed.
I have been ignored and cast aside,
like being in an eye of a storm.
I must show you what I see
because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t.
I have divine beings breathing down my neck,
and do you know how smart they are,
how well they can manipulate our kind
to get their packages done?
I shoot the bird at them all the time,
but I get my job done,
and I resisted this poem last night,
but it haunted me this morning,
and I gave in.
I submit it to what,
several people?
Great world pretend,
oh well here I am again
crossin’ paperwork
and understanding a poem.
Do we just sit here and call snakes?

Chase the Button

Special thanks for this moment— Bruno. At his side, he getting a life-saving blood transfusion, I wrote the poem
The most gates at society,
hey!
Propped on the sand
in an eurythmic sweet sense,
I look at humanity in raw oysters.
There’s nothing there
that makes us rise above our bull.
We get decimated sometimes,
and the humility lasts an hour.
I don’t understand all this mess.
It’s popcorn and candy
to our sense of self
tryin’ to prove our worth to one another.
Look how big I am,
and we can say that so subtly.
I mean look at me will yah?

Can we spend this?
It’s expensive not to see.
I count this in humanity
in everywhere I wait,
in all the plays of the crowd.
I want to get bigger than myself.
Little everybody treats me,
and I’m offended in my self-wears,
and little I am.
I can’t seem to see this
when I’m in a fight.
I don’t know how to handle it
when I’m spellbound.
Can I list my achievements please?
Can I show you my worth,
again?

Do I have to eat lunch with myself again?
You’re not listening to me.
If I was two I’d pitch a fit.
That’s where I learn to get you to pay attention to me.
I get expert at it
by the time I’m twelve,
and then all hell breaks loose,
and I’m just shit-canned again,
too old to get my way.
Is that when the braggin’ starts?
I have got to show you I’m worth,
but I’ve lost all the old ploys,
and I’m doin’ it again,
wantin’ you to validate my self-worth
the modicum of humanity.

Is that all turned on
to kick-start our humanity,
the pedestal I preach to you?
Wow, I can sound so good in words.
Do I hide behind my writing
I knock down every word I say
in some pinch or another
that my hypocrisy wears?
The hypocrisy of others stuns me.
I’ve never seen anything like it
anywhere on the planet.
There is no accountability for it.

Wow do I read sweet words.
Can you solve the problem with love without love?
You just get likes for it.
Nowhere does it bring social change.
The social understanding that you’re the victim too,
my God that’s the pants we wear.
Get people arrested will yah?
That’s all you’ve done.
You’ve crime and punishmented the thing.
Everybody gets mad at people.
It’s how you social change,
with a baseball bat,
but we can’t hypocrisy our way out of this.
Love has to be love or it’s not love.
Understanding holds you sweet.
It doesn’t embarrass you in front of the crowd.

Where do we go with our social understanding
to see the lies arise in everybody
where we find our brotherly love?
Can you understand that?
I can’t cover this.
I can’t even say it.
You just write beautiful words.
You don’t mean them,
and there’s no way to show you you don’t.
You’ve got that covered.
You can’t see them
in the arms they wear.
You can make yourself sound pretty good,
but unconscious springs get yah
when the spell of your unconscious arise
and offers your behavior to meanness.

There is not a day I don’t encounter this
in somebody.
You’ve encountered a rat
in everything society says about me.
The principles of love and pray don’t apply here,
and you have permission to shoot me
in your thought,
and that’s a release mechanism
like all society wears.
If I even say the name you’ll hate me,
and there is no way out of this.

I could have done a better poem
and kept my social status out of this,
but we can’t spend your hypocrisy on nothin’.
You’re just bruise your shield
in that unspeakable name.
Now where you at?
I don’t think it’s in loving shares.
Oh you do your family alright,
a satellite I,
but to love humanity you must wear
everything in humanity you hate,
identifying with that behavior.
It don’t come out any other way,
the principle in your subconscious
communicating that spell
“oh I’ve encountered someone I don’t like,”
and in the roles of identity
you have to know you’re there:
I am humanity.
This gets larger than everybody,
but you can’t find it
without accepting everybody.

The roles are mean,
even in children,
and I need to see this in myself,
and I bridge it that way
to its appropriate goodness.
You hear this now.
I’m taking myself and getting myself out of the way,
not for any humanity worth,
not so you can see me.
I just want to be myself, okay,
the actual me,
the thing I am behind the play,
not yet angel wings,
but the natural me
that’s not stuck to anything
that can afford to be nice
because nice is what it does
our human soul,
and nary a subconscious spell can touch it,
no matter where you meet life.

The basement’s all cleaned out,
and this comes down from on high,
if you want to know the truth of it.
You can’t just declare your love.
You have to raise it up out of you
in the skeletons you wear.
Can you get my pen rose?
Can you hear it please?
You have to get down and dirty and clean,
at least in the eyes you wear.
Whatever you do,
see it.

I’m gettin’ down to the natural colors of my room.
Do you hear that?
Look at yourself some mirror.
Roles involved with sweetness,
and you’re being bigger than the heys of the crowd.
Just don’t recognize that’s where you want mental health to go.
Good for her,
good for him,
take advice.

A Crown Road

Real life forum for the discussion of school peace,
a brick,
that brick has something to do with you.
We don’t wanna do it,
continue,
and we face certain destruction.
Death is ever on our knee,
and the world fail is in the picture now.
A sudden storm could kill us.
We are never safe,
and we just explode all the time,
come to hope and then crash,
come to bay and then sink.

If you are left out of this loop,
eventually your cross will come.
We are not safe from crisis,
and we are manipulated to star’s end
over the avoidance of such.
Some have good fingers,
some no.
Just look out
for what’s right.
You have it all the time,
in some speaker in your room.

The avoidance of death is not possible,
but we can make peace with our time that comes.
We can ground ourselves in reality,
and we can even see what’s ahead,
and if there’s disaster ahead,
well this is the crux of the matter ain’t it?
We don’t want the suffering to kill us.
We have to find a solution,
or chaos reigns.

And what of prolonged disaster?
I have been rejected by society
like men on death row,
and there is no way to climb out of this hole.
It’s pleasant enough.
I live in a bright home,
and no one will see me there.
I’m not value to anyone
except whom I can count on one hand.
This is deliberate and mean.
It’s not the normal social isolation.
So shoot me for it and let’s move on.

I’ve measured humanity in my bare hands.
I have been to the top and the bottom of this old world.
I commune with spirits
and the impossible.
I have seen things you don’t want to see,
and I’m not talkin’ murder and mayhem.
I’m talking about the fresh expression of the universe
ploughin’ us down to make its see,
how the Gods sit in their homes
and use us as dice in their gambles on the world,
and we get crushed,
and how God watches too big to help.
We are at a certain level of universe
that pay the price.
We sit on Heaven’s back
the sustenance it needs to survive.

I have found a way out of this.
I have found the truth of who we are,
and it’s a slow movement’s crawl
to the goal,
when this is time on earth.
I’m not filling you with hope I’m filling you with seeing.
We are bigger than all that.
We are outfielders from another universe
that encompasses this one.
We abide there now
on our tops.

I’m speaking from there
in the knowledge I give.
It’s clear and certain knowledge,
and it will open up the whole world to you
one step at a time.
It will mitigate disaster,
break in on it and help you rise above it.
It will sit with you at night
and hold your hand.
We are a dream weaver’s store
lost in our dream,
and it’s a collective dream
that we share together,
and we will wake up together
when the time comes.
That’s the certainty of dream.

Now can I honest myself here?
I’m a pauper when it comes to Earth’s stuff,
but I’m rich in meaning’s worth.
I’m a brink in the wall that is us,
but you can take me out and see time,
remove me and see beyond the universe.
I crumble in my own hands,
and even in my tears,
if I cannot feel the joy on my tops,
I know it’s there.

I have given formulas for world change,
and they go by unnoticed.
I have laid practicality at philosophy’s door,
given psychology wings,
and taken the big questions
and answered them right in front of your nose,
and the mind meets understanding,
and I’m just this existence worth
that has no place among you.
You think so?

I’m gonna dictate
mission impossible.
With all due respects,
can we land society here,
I’m conducting a sense of sacrifice where I meet the world?
I’m writing this with a déjà vu.
Even if you have not had your lives torn asunder,
do not find yourself in hell on earth,
or smell that awful stench near,
can you make ends meet,
support yourself and your family
and not have to struggle all the time?

I’m talking to the great majority of mankind.
Oh my God,
poor people gonna rise up,
get their share. [sing this and above line, tune “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution”]
Can I sing to you another song?
It’s the only way to be human on this planet,
whatever your religion or creed
or nationality.
We temper our hearts with a sense of sacrifice.
I’m talkin’ to the captains of business
and all who make a profit sting.

You can tax the rich all day,
and you haven’t met them in their homes,
where they need to see their lives
are propped up on so much suffering.
Cynical people don’t need me I know,
and people that run over other people
to make them pay
are not interested in changin’,
but do we have to back them up in society
and pretend it’s not happening,
the great rape of mankind?

Yep there is.
It’s everywhere apparent,
and politicians take off our shoes
and show us other stuff.
Can any responsible journalist hear me,
concerned teacher in school,
professor?
Preacher from your pulpit look at this,
temple master.
Can we talk about sacrifice in business as a way to heal humanity, /
discuss this every day where politicians get our vote,
where the rich see TV
and governments listen?

Why is world fail?
No matter who you blame it on it always comes down to this:
somebody’s getting rich at the expense of others,
at the expense of the environment,
at the expense of us.
It’s not a hole in one each time,
and there are other factors,
but tell me this one has no bearing on today’s world.
Tell me it’s a trivial matter.
Why aren’t we talking about it
where we rise up
and make social change?

I’ve put this in your hands
right alongside the transcendent,
how we get by in this place.
I’ve put it right alongside social justice,
without mentioning punishment or the price of beer,
I mean sex roles and how you spend them.
I’m givin’ yah things to talk about
in a voice that matters.
I’m showin’ you what’s up.
Thank God I’m lost on social media.
Just think if word got out.
Mainstream do you hear me?
I’m lettin’ the cows out.
I’m lettin’ the rich hear me.
I’m taking social justice by the wings.

What is the formula for world change?
C-o-m-e t-o t-h-e t-y-p-e r-o-o-m.
Your typewriter
to write it.
Eternity is a crossing reference
for the that’s how the book of love. [sing line from the word that’s]
So much more beyond our horizons.
I’ve been up there you know,
on our tops,
and I’ve failed you.
I just kept goin’
in an old movie
and racked up my isolation today,
again and again.
Bless you I’m sorry.

Sacrifice is the only way to meet these things:
you have to have it,
and it hurts other people.
Nothin’ you could do but give that up:
boy I hurt you.
This lasts a long time,
where you find others lookin’ at yah funny
and suspicious of your every move.
You will not be rewarded for sacrifice.

Get that through your thick head
if you’re making a profit on people’s pain.
Turn philanthropist I’m sorry,
and you’re givin’ till it hurts
because you love them so,
well that’s tough idn’t it,
no one believes you.
You’re still around money.

But you’ve come a long ways,
and you’re not doin’ this for the praise of the crowd.
That’s hypocrisy.
You sacrifice your Wall Street for love.
I can’t tell you how to do that,
fall in love with everybody,
and with some people it will never work,
but you at least learn to identify with them.
It does start with empathy,
and then it goes through spiritual change.
You see the oneness
danglin’ everywhere,
and you want to make it right with all there is.
I guess that’s the stoppin’ point
for this poem:
let’s begin that shall we?

For Your Blind Date and Harrowing Experience

It’s all a fantasy program.
How are we localized here?
This stays.
It comes and goes
in the realms of sleep.
We are in a huge tin can,
and escape is impossible
if you follow the seams.

We don’t even know we’re in here.
A big accident gluttons our text
eating up forever.
This is existence proper,
with hot sauce.
This is existence on earth,
and we suffer here.

How is it done?
How are we fooled so early?
Not as sick as existence proper.
We last a long time
in our menageries.
The fairy roads to existence
startle all of us.
It’s all a sparks’ weaving fairy dance
putting circumstance in place
the settled fact.

It’s a picture show to tell you the truth.
Now where is that projector,
and is it being filmed as we speak?
Something’s funny goin’ on.
Can you find existence in there?
Can you even get at it?

It’s a big story-house in space
that we can’t find the light of,
and we are trapped in our rooms
of single seeing.
Better men then me have pulled these cords,
but this is my poet’s worth,
but these are my poet wings.

Where does it all lead to and why?
Do we even find out at the end of the movie?
I can take you farther than Earth
in the rounds of Earth,
and I can show you time in a bottle.
You would not believe who we are outside
where we imagine the universe.
It’s the secret of the ages,
and we carry its wind in our sails
comin’ back to itself.

What prolongs the long game,
and what makes us suffer so?
Can I tell yah?
I just did.
The tell-tales of existence,
I’m there.
I’m in the picture show with you.
Can you guys see that?

The Center of Closeness

All since childhood
I went busy with it,
the message I’m supposed to give of another.
It makes for short poetry.
Where are my feelings for me?
It’s been the subject of my lifetime.
Self-centered rides there,
but so does a vantage point to study life,
the name of existence on my lips.
I can only see me
as the protagonist of this drama,
only imagining what it’s like to be another.
That’s not self-centered fact.

I live here:
watching the world go by the center of myself.
You do too,
and I’ve found this out myself:
our integers are the same.
What makes a person a person
fills both our bottles
and crashes them at the same time.

The social hierarchy will not let me poet to you
the discovery we are the One.
I cannot wear a poet label
because I have not yet been given it by the crowd,
and I bleed to tell you things.

I’ve been all over this place,
climbed the mountaintop,
sojourned in hell.
I have been on broad rivers of mankind,
and I have suffocated in stinking swamps.
I have entered duality
to wear them both till kingdom come,
and then I get saved by the bell.
Reach inside me and see
I’m writing the papers of existence,
and I help existence be.

I’m fighting for my room.
You cannot harbor the truth,
the truth of anything
in its bare-bones reality.
They will get you for it,
the powers that be.
Reality is being fed to us on a silver platter
with cyanide,
and we all believe the lies.

I’m easy to take down.
I’m the most hated scapegoat of the day,
but that opens up truth in a man,
having to face himself to society’s mirror,
and you are sincere to the test.
It can open up worlds of seeing.
It can make you love humanity
when your self-love has joined the same.

We stand on great big tests today
that eat our lunch.
Never a lie’s been told,
the dinjins will tell you
and mothers and fathers all over this land
and governments and snake pit operators.
Oh my little child you are safe
in how we rule things.
You must dog eat dog
and get out there and compete
for bread.
It’s greatness of your kind.
The devil dance on a great mankind,
and we will go to war to prove it.

Now let me tell you somethin’.
It’s all subterfuge.
We are avoidin’ what makes Tommy safe,
Wendy grand.
We have to flower in our room to humanity my dear,
find the Self in everyone,
and let that be our guiding light
to discovering God
lookin’ at the world through our eyes
in the fullness of his vision
here on earth.
I just told you the truth,
what’s happenin’
in the evolution of time on earth,
in the world play
we’re all a part of.
That’s the secret that all existence hides.
Can’t you see it yet?

So You’re Headin’ Out?

photo by the author
80’s little horror war,
what threw away?
The administration of Auroville.
It was surrendered to the government without even a care,
and we lost our autonomy that way,
at the toss of a dice,
and the government rolled in.

Are you countin’ India
to allow human unity to take over?
What was the village thinkin’
in removin’ The Sri Aurobindo Society from the scene?
Can we grasp Sri Aurobindo?
The Society doesn’t,
and it will block you to this day
if you disagree with them.
What was the Mother thinkin’
givin’ the township to this obviously irreverent crowd
to love and compassion on earth
and human unity.

Stupid me, stupid you,
we excuse her for it,
but this is the mistake that baked the day
and ruined Auroville.
Can anybody look at this?
If ever a mistake was made here was one,
and now we’re supposed to take her every word as gospel,
as if she made no mistakes?

Where has she been all these years
watchin’ it fall apart?
Is she comin’?
Yoga
relies on inner seeing,
if it’s got the content of its worth.
I’m not talking about intuition,
your intuition says this,
your intuition says that,
in a gut feeling,
no matter how you describe it
as the opening of the day.

Inner seeing’s a gut worth’s no.
It’s concrete formulas laid out in time,
spoken word, revealing vision,
or the dream maker
putting together the house for you
so you can see it.
That tells you where it’s at.
When I entered the yoga
I picked up the Mother right away
in dream and vision,
her signal loud and clear.
That was in Auroville the first time.

She was not proclaimin’ to me her gospel,
her avatarhood.
She was puttin’ sadhana together for me
it’s a sunny day.
What made it so difficult,
I just knew hell had entered my birth
and would not let me go.
What difference
she made when she came on board.
You couldn’t tell it from the outside
for so long I’m ashamed to say.
Look at that to Auroville.
Can you gauge her time?

I’ll tell yah the Indian government can’t.
Nor can it see spiritual vision
or uses it to make decisions,
spiritual vision as in seership,
not a quote you pull out to prove your point.
We are left with the Indian government in charge of Auroville,
refueling the Mother’s words with their agenda,
purposefully pulling her out of the picture
by putting her in it
the mouthpiece they wore.

You can see it happening.
You just think the Mother’s responsible for it,
but she did not ordain this,
nor the government taking over
when the Auroville Act was signed.
How do I know this?
I’m an inner seer,
and we always live on the outcasts of time.
Way out there,
we question everything
is this the divine?

I sit on your bench, okay?
I’m a hologram holocaust survivor,
and I can say my own name.
I love the Mother because she saved my life
and protected me all these years.
I know the strength of her word,
her teachings.
They have held my hand for so long,
but what she taught me you can’t find in a book,
not even hers.
Deities make mistakes,
and avatars ruin,
and in order to change ourselves we must see that
to understand what we’re up against.

The whole paradox of creation comes down upon our head
when the actual change comes about,
to keep it from coming about,
and you can hightail it and run back to Houston,
or you can bear the impossible.
A stallion of waves stampede,
and you’re just everybody,
and no wave can block your tide.
My deep thought Auroville,
can yah folla me here?

The Loss in the Garden

photo by author
I got soul,
a flare,
when the authorities are so big.
We have dark roots.
We’re not gonna terrorize anybody.
This is the poem that tell you where it’s at,
the soul we find in the machine.
Can you stomach this long road?
Reach for middle ground,
and no soul will show for you.
Life isn’t easy on my mark, get set,
and my personal arraignment will show you the hallway
and the entrance room.
Exploding tigers, eh?
Exploding entranceways.
Exploding tests.

Your soul returns in a blissful way. [sing line]
I can’t find my wife.
I can’t help it.
I’m just get lost in things.
What’s the status on my boy?
He tries to finish.
One second,
make me some time.
I will operate on my parents.
I will come right straight to you.

This is Dylan.
You look like Jesus.
What are you reading?
I will be right there growin’ up.
I will give you forms and things,
all your books.
No one pets me.
I would love to guard against that.

The evolution of a single day,
we minimize it,
blocked by life’s stuff.
We can’t see the carton in the room
we hold evolutionary purpose.
We split in two,
just bang our heads against the wall,
grab society by the horns
and be pulled apart by it.

We are pulled apart by society,
so many tin cans in the room.
How do we detach from all this stuff?
Bring society into the room
keepin’ your knees in it,
and you’re just gonna get lost in it.
I have an opera beyond society,
behind every little thing in the world.
It’s where I eat lunch.
You hear it in these stanzas.

Okay I’ve got a grow room,
and the entanglements abide.
You hear it every day.
I’ve got a little boy named Nithish
taken from me,
and I complain about my poetry:
reader get me more.
And I’m worried about my dogs dyin’,
the lack of respect I get from my landlord,
and the soup I had lunch with yesterday.
These are entanglements.

Auroville doesn’t need me, does it?
And no one in Auroville
will give me a sticker
and put my name on their greeting card,
at all.
I remain isolated,
and they publish my poem every week
in their newspaper.
I write poems there too.
The yoga will not even give me the time of day,
the yoga of human unity
and life on earth
growin’ oneness wings.

Okay what is soul purpose?
Can an entanglement say that?
I’m watchin’ evolution here.
It’s sees me,
but I think it’s turned the other way.
I’m bummed out about my entanglement.

These are vital moods
the life force carries
all day long.
I can’t get rid of ‘em.
It’s a spell from places deep.

Alright there’s a chester drawer,
also from places deep.
It’s the soul in the room,
behind and apart from everything.
Yes, yes sing to Auroville today
a guiding light,
write poems to the yoga,
and hold that boy when I tell yah to,
and let go of your status among men.
I’m the soul detach worth,
and I’ve got mountains of soul change ahead.
You hear that music now.

It’s a blister on Easter.
It’s hard to come about.
It’s the soul detach on things,
and you hear it now,
and it feels good, doesn’t it?
How do you cultivate this nigger?
By puttin’ soul change ahead,
recognizin’ your time of sleep
guides towards that
when you wake up from dream.

Don’t just stay in your room.
Have you ever put your thoughts in another
as they walk by?
What thoughts are they havin’?
And you’re tryin’ to wear their skin.
You feel them there.
And pick out some sore spot upon the Earth,
and put your consciousness there
like you can’t get bread too,
and your children are dyin’,
and you feel this with your tears.
Can you get there?

You’re openin’ up soul in the room,
and you keep doin’ it with everyone you meet,
especially those close to you,
and this is an inner job.
They just know you’re sweet and kind
and tryin’ to figure them out.
You keep your hand on that lever,
everybody
won’t even know you’re doin’ it.
You know how selfish people are.
I don’t know if there are any returns on this.
I haven’t gotten any yet.
People don’t see it.
They see themselves,
and you’re givin’ them what they’re worth.
That’s hard.
Entanglement number four,
fuck you.

Are we all here a hero’s worth?
I think not.
We’re just involved with ourselves,
and we sum it up for loved ones,
satellite I’s
of our solar star.
The soul change
gets us to see our room
differently.
It’s a battleground in there
to separate the wheat from the chaff,
and you don’t let no one down.

You learn what’s expensive in your room
and costs you your evolution,
what’s expensive in there
to hold you up every time.
Can you see this notion?
It’s a soul room,
where peace on earth comes from
in the larger sphere.
Can you gauge this?

I’ve just given yah a formula for world change,
and all you that know how,
will you dance with me?
It’s a formula you give your room

that opens up the world to us.
It doesn’t come in a tin can.
Is that so hard to believe?
You try to wear their skin
thought today.

Open the door.
You try to wear their thought today.
Takin’ a bath
belly up
while we ride that tone,
we really reach in our heads and get it done,
findin’ the light in everybody
and brinin’ evolution to the forefront
detachin’ ourselves from all these cares
gettin’ to the soul need of each one
and bein’ big there.
¿Comprende?

Making’ the soul of sacrifice,
can you pull a soul play in that room?
It’s a shame you brought your brush,
charmin’ hair Nithish.
He’s not a pumpkin no more
cause he’s got the credit card
to bring you in lean with him,
and he can’t say your name right.
A child forgets his toys
if they get lost,
and should he perchance see you,
they kid cashes in
taking advantage,
and you’re left swingin’
on a short rope.
It’s okay he loves you.
Just get away from him in thought
and wrappin’ around him all the time.
Let the soul take over.
No problem connecting him to you

there’s a soul range ahead.
Capisce?

To the soul on earth need help,
and you see the need,
and you parachute in.
I’m not tellin’ you to leave him alone.
All's worth on him and he needs to see yours,
before you run out of windows for him.
A moment in my futile pen
all's say.
No one holds the true purpose of mankind.
One major
soul note I have given you
at my own expense,
and now I have to live with this.
They had a nice chair there buddy.
Learn to look though.
Take pictures of him again
it’s bright and shiny future
says Earth must do.

I did yet the big big pen to help me find him.
It’s just my name’s not on his notebook anymore,
and what can you do with that?
What’s that music?
He really felt it,
and he really
wanted our hope back.

I’ve got a lot of folding chairs here,
and they’re supposed to sit in ‘em,
like in 24 hours,
on a moment’s notice.
I grab my dick and double click,
and no one comes along
(I’m murderin’ my pen),
except a thoughtful read
of you my good friend
right now.
Oh gosh gee I’m sorry,
I can’t pull it out,
the poem that says it all,
and you do see me tryin’.
You are the world to me.
Oh, sing with me, sing for the year.
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear.
[sing two above lines turn of “Dream On”]

The slightest word crowd,
you can really show the writing on the wall.
A few minutes ago you had us to the tune of “Dream On”.
If it doesn’t work out for you,
dream on,
but we don't doubt that boy
woke up.