I for you and you for me and we for all of us


if we be united who can stand against us?


the rest of the world unfortunately

but then we were deluded to think there'd be heaven on earth one day


how vain and childish

earth is just a stopping place on our journey


and was never meant to be


anything else



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all the high-minded ideas

for surviving the collapse of Civilization

(a misnomer if ever there was one)

are as high-minded and gas-blown

as the Civilization taking its dive


I have a still reliable method


submerge yourself in the cold water by the rushes

and breathe through a reed....



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some of us know better than to push the river


the river always pushes back

and we have no strength to prevail


not a leg to stand on as they say


do a float

but face up


a Dead Man's float won't do it...




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transparent in the Light


all is revealed

what shame or what comfort


we know is on each of us alone....



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I would be the one who saves you

but what good when I am also failing?


good intention alone cannot deliver

the paradise we seek


I'm trembling in the instant

and so are you


and all of us who thought we knew

the actual Plan and its intractable Reality



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we live in the present

to create our futures


pity those (including our hidden selves)

who will not relinquish what has come before...



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the gift of life is free

they say


without mentioning it costs

everything you've got


the wondrous paradox

that seems gross contradiction to those of us


who will not let go

of pour imaginary heavens...




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