Man must go back to nature for Information.
-Tom Paine
1
Give it time the fellow says, and pats me on the back.
...................I am not one for confessional lines.
Everything is outside the mind and of it
...................Everything
And everyone
...................So where does worry come from?
I have heard nothing of what comes after sublimation.
...................There are things in my mind
Massive things
...................And I would be hard pressed to name them.
Great items push themselves in and are
...................As of yet
Unopened.
...................And of love? And of envy?
They must be there too. And of
...................That silver thread that binds the whole?
Never underestimate the power of dyspepsia
...................To center the mind.
I am for the end of squabbling
...................Don't get me wrong
But life is long and
...................Boredom enforces variety.
I am for the backslashing of extraneousness, of
...................What has been called "overshooting the mark"
but where in this lies satisfaction?
...................The stupid are lucky
They don't even need to go so far.
................... The stupider, coarser, fastidious
(and I among them)
...................Suffer from our own good will.
Answers do not come from authors
...................Nor their intentions.
I read men despite their ends
...................And find my rewards in their unconscious import.
Onward towards the end.
...................Broken up over multiple thinking men
The hours of this the present
...................Stuffing all the weakness in the center
While outside great men
...................Push and filter the cowardly.
We are schooled in the same institution
...................As fish we are
Underwater in disposition
...................As well as genetic history.......................................
Where do abstract nouns come from?
No doubt
...................They emerge from questions of origin and oratory
And the undignified scribblings of pencils.
...................Push them harder at a younger age
And perhaps they shall overcome you.
...................Mythology knew this.
I am hardly the type to obsess over character and meaning
...................But some words are bothersome.
I am not too far gone tomorrow
...................And hope that today can be salvaged.
I am not writing anything here
...................That I would not present at my funeral.
This is the meaning of confession
...................An oration at the tomb head.
Where is the President
...................Why is he not my Prime Minister?
Where is the Queen?
...................Why is she no longer my monarch?
Who doubts the seriousness of parliament
...................And English Law?
I am for the re-discovery of the principles of things
...................In the law courts
In the house of commons
...................In the media
In the street
...................In my home
Among my siblings
...................By my bedstand
In my heart
...................Rectification through confessional be damned.
2
What emerges from evening is that
...................Weary attention to the strength
Of phrase and form.
...................With this anything is arguable.
With this all purposes valid.
...................I speak of correct weights and balances,
Of historians balanced on the scale
...................With multiple poets.
I am unashamed of journalism
...................But the facts are not so stubborn.
Countries around the world are getting angrier,
...................My countries,
And I have several countries.
...................A general phrase concerning the lot:
By self-regulation, all of this our unconscious
................... Treats the thing direct of itself.
Historical record follows development
...................In painting, and music, and poetry
Beyond any imaginable accuracy to
...................The state of law.
Bind not the limbs of the family
...................They work in your favour.
Style and act of voice are prompt,
...................Wherein can improvements be made?
Man always has room for improvements
...................To his own detriment.
Existential as ever
...................But the best of it comes before the
Plan,
...................And the rest of it comes after.
Blueprints are spoilage.
...................In the deep sea
Profit is spillage.
...................By the roadside just outside
Of the village,
...................The men are hard at thievery.
Do not judge them too harshly
...................They are your children
They are your electorate.
...................What Duke or Magistrate keeps them in order
With the proprieties?
...................I am unconvinced I have not seen this all before
In a dream
...................Of a dreamer
Who was for Chou.
...................The thoughts run and the
Limbs never tire on their walk so
...................Long as the distance is uncounted
And the path is new.
...................Discovery is the whiff
That keeps the rambler hungry.
...................Discovery pushes the author to his
Birth pains, so why judge him.
...................Each of you
Each of you men
...................Had hunter ancestors
Who would as the latest scientific anthropology
...................Attests
Run down animals over long distances
...................Harrying
Them
...................Doing whatever it took to break them with our
Upright gait
...................Thumbs
And foresight.
...................What a tempest of pre-history
Comes about
...................And this through
Regular motion of imagination
...................And clockwork typing.
The sense-works arbitrate
...................Faster than the lightning eye
Can conceive
...................And the Painters of the South
Who struck poets and sages
...................To the rice paper
With distinct black line
...................In a manner of seconds
Well how did they get good at that?
...................t's through practice that encourages
Vitality not forethought.
...................Ever hunted down a skill
Like an aurochs?
3
Temper
...................My lovely scourge, changes
On awakening.
...................Afternoons are eternally long
In this city are
...................Great and vast and alone
And long.
...................Tens of thousands of the creatures
Green
...................And beyond what
That trail of the Sun?
...................I am one for structuring my thoughts.
Debates about the sensible novel
...................Useless
For the dominance of the one mind.
...................I have to be very sad
When the afternoon comes along.
...................I have to be as stark
And cheerful
...................As the evening on the hill
The long trail of a plane in the sky
...................The red orange
Organ of Heaven
...................The local baseball game
The TV camera
...................And before all
The dominance of the one mind.
...................Shaded by the clouds
Of composers
...................Reformers
Guarantors and hardly anyone
...................Not in love
Where is the passionless origin
...................And harmonious stirring
As perscribed in doctrine?
...................Parks are wonderful
By nature.
...................Animals are not
Wonderful
...................In the world of nature.
What are you now
...................Distracted by music or chance or something
Of the sort?
...................I love and suffer in turn
And this is not unusual.
...................What is normal
Tell me that
...................To love or hate myself alone
And to do both is that
...................Normal?
Wrote it all down and sent it off
...................Therapy to the detriment of art
But whatever needs making up needs it.
...................It is not a bad feeling when
One analyzes it.
...................How long 18 months
Pretty long and
...................That tiny thing tiniest
Gentlemen of leisure and a metaphysical turn of mind have named
...................A grain.
Each line is its own banner.
...................An advertisement needs no encouragement.
Men need encouragement.
...................Flirting is the terrible joy.
Other people are not terrible
...................Just their shadows are.
Love the world
...................Disdain it
Be fastidious
...................And open hearted with pre
Conceived notions
...................Of the way.
Chop sentences up into fragments
...................In lieu of love.
Failure cannot recognize itself
...................So well done there.
A loss is not something knowable;
...................Just because it is in the mind
Does not mean it cannot
...................Hurt.
Felicitations, affendi.
4
Seeking for value
...................In the singular
A non-embittering exercise.
...................Where are the heights of the age?
Don't bother with them outside
...................Or if you must
Make a list of it all
...................To carry in your front breast pocket
To remind you of
...................Ethics and the vanity of Earth.
Anxiety is not the way to wake up;
...................Hold your repression responsible
Do not be deceived by others.
...................Watch your punctuation, sir.
Put your trust in the Lord
...................and keep your powder dry.
We can swim through time
...................We can herd it along
If only we had the courage.
...................Simplicity cannot be if it is in doubt
About its own methods.
...................Use others as a measuring stick?
Make sure you can reckon
...................Otherwise you may embarrass yourself
In competition.
...................Where do you seek the cause?
The vanity of anxiety
...................Uncontrollable
But reprehensible.
...................Latinate prose suffocates intermittently
With glorious sunshine.
...................Consider that The Enlightenment.
We use the same word to translate Buddhistic
...................Transcendence
As we do European and American and English
...................Coming of mind.
Progress?
...................Progress is an idea of Ghandara and Paris.
Who can be anything but weary?
...................Never tire of it.
Cities are found in all places,
...................In valleys,
In forests,
...................In rivers,
On the tops of burning mountains.
...................Did The Emperor besiege it?
Then we are content with our roles.
...................Hurling burning bales of hay to keep out
Ridiculous invasion.
...................And they call that a project!
We are hindered in the progress of virtue
...................We are become shallow in impatience.
Crude catch-phrases
...................Are the implements of oratory.
Who appeals to my reason?
...................Few men appeal to my reason.
Award me a book award
...................You thousands
Millions
...................Who do not read my book.
They put me beside you
...................So you read your own
And glance a page back
...................With a smirk
And a good lot of comparison.
...................The gentleman seeks the cause within himself.
He shoots his arrow
...................And if it don't hit the mark
He takes a minute
...................A wholesome one.
I am weary of the age
...................As are you.
We have outgrown are pronouns.
...................This anxiety is what we hope is growth
And we endure it because it is difficult
...................And that we love.
All men are created equal
...................We hold these truths to be
Sacred and undeniable.
...................Where is my heart then?
We must love it in another
...................When drowsy neighbours
Neighbours meet
...................And folk begin to take the gate.
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