good decent *********, or ******, or ****** folk

rise up in the name of your Idea of God and slaughter...

makes you feel so easy so sanctified so holy

like cops breaking the Law to catch criminals--

"Oh yes we have da Lawd--the king of the disclaimer--

on our side"--and so the last "last goodbye" in your hate--

*

if you can't name it

you can't define it

if you can't define it

you can't know it

if you don't know it

you can't understand it

if you can't understand it

you're free to hate it--kill it--be done with it--

*

none of this will ever work--

the earth is a temporary stop

on the soul's journey--

it is not the ground for the final outcome

of all things--it is not the place

where there'll ever be peace forever--

but it is the place where you'll find this all out--

it is the place where no unreality will ever work--

Content (c) 2008-2010 Philip Milito.

my thoughts are calm and happy

the world is going to hell

in yet another shift of another age

but my thoughts are calm and happy

my heart is satisfied and contained

this generation of maniacs wreck life

in their asshole passions

but my heart is satisfied and contained

my body is old but contented

desire flows through the veins

not raging lust but spark lighting a winter night's fire

but my body is old but contented

my soul is free and patient

it chafes under the sadness of our Oneness

and is resigned to this feeling it has always felt

but my soul is free and patient

I am where I always am and always can be

blessings on the ones who bless

blessings on the ones who don't

I am the dark and the light

I am the dark and the light

but I am always where I am and always can be

Content (c) 2008-2010 Philip Milito.

I'm not fooled

I know this body is finally wearing out

it served its time

it had its pleasures and pains

I'm not fooled

I know I'll look down

from the ceiling corners of whatever room

the silver cord is severed

and all the sadness I gouged on while I lived

will leave itself in the remaining meat

the flesh envelope containing my purposes

my reasons for being in this former skin

at this time in eternity

and that illusive time passing with the body

that engendered its clock its ticking in the heart

I'm not fooled

I've said my prayers

I've pet the cat and left it extra food

may who finds my lifeless costume

do right by the cat

(I will tend to who does not!)

I'm not fooled

it is time to go

time not to stay

time to be unable to stay

the force that sustains all pulling me along

to my next ordeal

on the way of my slow return

and to what I have to remember next as

the old sweetness of being

feeling new

at last

for once

finally

I'm not fooled

Content (c) 2008-20010 Philip Milito.

boy I'm on fire today

and why?

it's a done deal a complete venture

nothing more to say

nothing more to do

I faced my vanity that I could change reality

and now I face my shame

Rimbaud knew

even Leonard learned

now I just them in my contrition

my empty yearning

my peace of completion

Content (c) 2008-2010 Philip Milito.

nothing to convince you

the earth is round

and rolling off its axis

the sky floods with pictures

of fornication angels and celibate demons

oh it's nothing like you thought it would be

yes you've been cheated

but only by yourself

you wanted Lilith

you settled for Eve

and now blame creation for your hunger

thou oaf!

your egoism led you to believe you called the shots

now you duck the shots

whizzing past your ear as you sit in a topless bar

back room bargaining for a blow job

nice work mr. erotic mystic

you went for the mistress than the wife

and devalued yourself and them

Cpontent (c) 2008-2010 Philip Milito.

you fool!!!

oh yes it doesn't sting like it used to--

my hide is thick

my heart still soft in its case of granite

this is the way we all exit

the lives we've lived

and that is why this will be disdained

no one copping to this fact of reality

until it is the time of their reckoning

well it won't kill you as you thought it would

it will just disperse you

into an All you couldn't help but uncomprehend

being all you are in this skin

the sting of losing that skin

dull and as nothing

Content (c) 2008-2010 Philip Milito.

so I tell you

you can't cheat yourself

unless you set your mind

to that end

then you will know

the heartache of blaming everyone

but yourself for your losses

you expected to be served

you thought everyone would jump for you

you thought it would be done for you

and to that end

you will succeed

cheating yourself because you thought

you could dictate your reward

your loss and a loss

for the rest of us

Content (c) 2008-2010 Philip Milito.