Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Zen Guy (8)

"Clouds vanish and the sun appears-
the endless spring is revealed.
This is not a time of yin and yang.
Thus, no communication whatsoever is possible.
The truth is not like something."


This is  not a time of dualism, the separation into yin and yang. 

This is just you and you fill the universe

If there is no separation between you and the universe, there is no communication.

Simply acknowledging yourself.

How can there be words for the eternal spring?

or this?



Friday, October 28, 2011

Things that don't go together(7)

Ok, so these things really, really don't go together:

Walt Whitman's transcendentalism and the human microbiome.

Walt used to sing to himself

claiming to be at once individual and universal:

"I am large I contain multitudes."

Oh really, Walt?

The microbiologists tell me you are mostly bacteria.

Could it be you really are full of shit?  :-)
Supposedly, you have ten times the number of bacteria cells in your body than other cells


and over a hundred times the amount of bacteria genes than so called "Whitman" genes :-).

So while you sing of a self infinitely extending

You are literally a sac filled with bacteria.

What a downer.

If only you had eaten your yogurt

You would have been truly craptacular.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Scenes inside a Gold mine (4)

If I had to do it all over again

I would live in parks every Saturday.

There would always be sun.

and there would always be grass and friends.

Noone would work.

Noone would care.

We would just live and pick fruit off the trees.


And Scott and I would wrestle in front of Stonehedge to impress Anne and Stephanie.


And we would know in our heart of hearts that it will never be like this again.


If I had to do it all over again.


Duck  and Kroeter would buy me burritos at Naugles on a bet


and 6 would be nine


And the Uge could convince them after the green chili

that there was always the sun

and grass and friends.

and we would know in our heart of hearts that it will never be like this again.


And if I had to do it all over again


I would tell my love


to cherish those homestead moments


while we still can.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Sillster Willster(1)

Oh where is my cell phone?

I cannot find it.

There is so much crap around.

Is it cleverly concealed underneath my fake tattoo?

If it gone, no one can find me and I cannot reach out

the devastation would be overwhelmingly overwhelming.

Oh where is my cell phone?

I cannot find it.

There is so much crap around.

If I reach under my seat, something may bite me.

And I would bleed zombie blood.  

I can almost taste it now.

Oh where is my cell phone?

I cannot find it.

There is so much crap around.


Have you seen my keys?

Friday, October 21, 2011

Mrlawyerman(1)

Mrlawyerman learned to scale himself back

which was probably a good idea

at the time.

He hit law school 87 degrees out of phase with the rest of his class.

To wit:

Organizing a tennis tournament named the "Franz Kafka Open."

Those who got it, thought it was odd

Those that didn't, thought he was odd.


While his classmates wore Ralph Lauren

and attended prep schools from the city

he hailed from some rural area out west, lived in a moldy basement,


and stretched his tube socks well past the point of maximum elasticity.

He even ate like an outsider and his organic bean mixture

stunk up the lunch room.

and socially?   Do we really have to go there?  he might as well have  been a virgin


for all he know about women

and he was too socially inept to ask any of them on a date.

Nevertheless, he was able to organize a guild for left leaning law students

motivated not so much by any ideology,

but as a way to assuage his own isolation with contact

the only way he knew how to express it.

As time marched on, however, the ineluctable blender of adding 150 students together

in the same class for three years began to modulate and homogenize the group.

Mrlawyerman included.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Hippie Chick (5)

"Everything gets better with time and time is forever"

Really, Brook? ....Really?   Snort.

How are you going to cover up that shit?

How about this...




and how about you and your father and that bitch can kiss my white ass.

There will be consequences for your bad decision.

Tough love for the little people.

Forgive them lord

for the dumbasses

do not know what they do

because they are dumbasses.

I am so out of this place in 7 months...

And on the other side

Another lash

Visceral

Granulated

Thorn in the crown

follicle

drifting 

down.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

The Music Lover (7)

"Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
and think of you
caught up in circles confusion--
is nothing new
Flashback--warm nights--
almost left behind
suitcases of memories,
time after--

sometimes you picture me--
I'm walking too far ahead
you're calling to me, I can't hear
what you've said--
Then you say--go slow--
I fall behind--
the second hand unwinds

chorus:
if you're lost you can look--and you will find me
time after time
if you fall I will catch you--I'll be waiting
time after time

after my picture fades and darkness has
turned to gray
watching through windows--you're wondering
if I'm OK
secrets stolen from deep inside
the drum beats out of time--

chorus:
if you're lost...

you said go slow--
I fall behind
the second hand unwinds--

chorus:
if you're lost...
...time after time
time after time
time after time
time after time "

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Scenes inside a Gold mine (3)

A six year old sits in a church pew.

Musing.

"What if there is no God, nothing, absolutely nothing"

The naked immensity of the utter vastness of space. 

And his place it in, alone.

Visceral.

Years later, emasculated memory.

Consensus trance, through the reality tunnel

confusing map with terrain

Kantian filter.

Anhedonia.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Things that don't go together (6)

Its all about chemicals.

Really.

Epigenetics.

Each nutrient put in the body, each interaction that the body has with the external environment

each experience

can manifest itself through biochemical changes

that ultimately dictate gene expression.

It shouldn't be that surprising.

Why would we not think we are products of our environment?

We are what we eat.

Be careful who you love.

Stress kills.

Don't sniff that glue, fly boy.

Each exposure triggers a chemical change in the body or brain

that mobilizes a methyl group of molecules.

This group attaches to the control segment of your gene sequence

either activating or silencing the gene.

Either way changing the course of your genetic activity.

We are malleable.

Ask the protester now in front of Wall Street.

He was in a dead end job six months ago.

With panic attacks.

Overweight.

High blood pressure.

Lost his job.

Joined the protest.

Found a woman.

Shared a sleeping bag.

Started exercising. :-).

New chemicals.

Free organic food.

For the first time in his life, felt that he was accomplishing something.

Where he ought to be.

Do you think gene sequences have been altered for him?

Want to check his blood pressure to find out?

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Zen Guy, Ch. 7

"Where did you come from?"

Why out west, of course.

"How did you practice out west?"

I stretched out in space and time

continuously discrete.

Two score and a half dozen years ago

maybe less on a good day.

What was changing in all that time?

Look at the video shot yesterday.

Blue collage shirt, black Om hat dancing

turning to The Wheel.

The link is on You Tube.

But that would be cheating.

Here's another cheat:

"Its all now"

But that was me on the video

by the way :-).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UjFKiM6dA

(Mt Pleasant, Jakes Leg.  With arms around.   And bellies getting warm).