careful

so careful

that withdrawing

from the world

isn't another

evasion

of what I must face

in this life


it's far too big

and much too wide

to consider what

you think you have to do

even what the knowing

will ever exceed your mind





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I thought better

of confronting you


your view of reality

different than mine


in every aspect except

the fact that we share


some external material plane

where all hope is encased


in the stone of its consequence

and we are also just objects


joustling across a landscape

littered with broken illusions


from confrontations wherein each party

fought to each's detriment




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better to leave

well enough alone


any amends or repair

you attempt


will botch things further

and make you regret


trying to figure what right

action is when nothing is right





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I am too serious

to get the joke


and so am my own jest

ponderous to a fool's point


you knew I must be delirious

when you heard the words I spoke


so we both think it for the best

to leave the unresolvable out of joint






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you know you meant

to talk and talk


and talk and talk

and talk and talk


and talk and talk

as if mere words


could fix any wrong

or increase it by driving


everyone in earshot away....





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AN URGENT MESSAGE

messages float in from everywhere


I hear one coming through now


it says shut up!

Sincerely, Meher Baba






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ANOTHER STRANGE DREAM

weird


a dream (a drama?) begins with

a muscle-bound jerk

slapping me

I punch him in the face

and we tangle


...which dissolves to being kept

out of a party going on

in my family's house (not the actual old home)

but gifts are pushed out to me

through a huge hole

in the window screen


then inside this house

upstairs

you and I talking

smoking cigarettes

lying fully clothed

on the bed

stroking each other

as music and chatter

and cooking smells wafe up to us

as if we were children in our room

while the grown-ups partied downstairs


the as if watching a movie

one man confronts another

pulling a large machete from his pants


then a shot of a body

lying face down in the blood

from where his arm was cut off


the a shot of a dead baby

sliced neatly in two


and my voice saying as if in a theater

commenting on the action in the movie

"looks like murdering babies

is the latest atrocity to gain favor

with the psychopaths..."


 this dream coming a few days after

a report from East New York

about some maniac who butcher two little children

in an elevator


as for you and I conflated into this horrific dream

who knows...thoughts of yearnings

for you I may never realize

or realize poorly?


even if I had the slightest inkling

of an understanding

of what dreams are saying to us

(not even sure now if they were separate

or part of one long sequence)


I'd still find myself saying upon awakening

what the hell was THAT?






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