nationalism – Harm's End

A poem by Donny Lee Duke

Tear the whole thing apart.
I’ve been writing all of my life,
over a lifetime’s hole,
the orange and white.
I shake my hips and sing.
Some call me indecent.

Do penises shame?
Do they dance and sing?
It's so down to earth your control program:
nice and cool
leave the boy alone.
We can get over matter.
The most gorgeous boy in the world’s layin’ beside me,
and I’m writing a poem.

Now where do we do business?
That goes there. [vision of a TV screen in snow static]
Walkin’ to Sri Aurobindo’s birth anniversary.
I live it down.
All this interest he’s generated is not sincere.
I don’t know how to tell you this:
he’s clickbait.

Grab his pants will yah?
I’m awfully strong.
I feature in lit fests,
in everybody’s alter ego.
I liberated India
and will the superman bring.
I am bigger than the world,
but I’m only in Indian subcultures:
tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.
We put the energy abounds,
the mesmerizing of a name.

Okay take him apart.
Where would we put him?
I don’t think we can find him
in his early quotations.
Do you know the fullness of his thought?
He wasn’t a barnstormer.
He wasn’t even a nationalist in the end,
where so many put him.
He got bigger than stars.
Would we say Supermind is an Indian thing?
He’s callin’ the shots
for the whole damn race to change.

So pigeonhole him
the nationalistic spirit.
Be a lie unto yourself
because you vote for Trump.
I’m sorry, I’m crossin’ lines.
Can we say Trump’s Modi?
They’re not identical twins.
It’s a time spirit phenomenon
all wrapped up nice and pretty.
Nations are heaving with nationalism.
Hear India?

I don’t know which one there is victory or defeat.
I’m not a time spirit reckoning.
I just came to say Sri Aurobindo
is not a nationalistic voice.
He saw Supermind on earth,
and that was his evolutionary aim,
and that’s what he showed us
much better than we think we saw.
You’re all wrapped up in particulars.
Let’s look at the Sun, shall we?

I think he built a bridge
from here to there,
there beyond this field of stars.
It’s bigger than the universe,
even if you don’t understand it.
I’ve studied there
in one great big moment of my life,
the only way you can see there:
be there.
I’ve offended everybody I know.
It’s not that you believe me;
read me
and tell me I only know here.

Now can we get past a name?
They trip us up every time.
Okay put a pedophile in Supermind¹
for one sudden moment in life,
and we’ve found a way out of name.
You got it.

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For a description of the experience click here.

The seated with identified and hate confuse multiple speakers. We think we got a land problem. They just don’t know the story from inside. We let it in all these ill wills not ours, a big bad packaged hate. It has moved us from afar. I know what to do. Let’s kill all these people. And we do. There it is the ugly truth of the matter fired upon the scene. You think it’s American. How little countries move among you, as if our consciousness is organized by political boundaries. That’s the joke: you are a nationalistic speaker. You are so much more than that. Humanity is everyone. Now I think that’s got a ride, the joy of being human. Our consciousness is all over the place. You see it in your smile. We are so much more than hate. We are bigger than the stars. You ever seen this in your living room? We’ve got every welfare at heart. We genuinely do care about one another. That’s that process of soul. It’s what we’re here to study. That’s what brings us to God, but don’t forget it’s a cruise ship, and every human being’s on board, and that’s just the human side. We care about animals. Oh the soul they watch too you see.