A Very Ad Hoc Self Portrait of Someone (in 10 minutes or less on a Friday night)

There is nothing

endless belly gazing

why do you keep doing that?

really

left out

nothing left

makes it right

get back to work

all that's left

makes it right

get back to work

keep going

keep going

keep going

(this part fades away, by the way)

keep going

left out

all that's left 

makes it right

why do you keep doing that?

really

keep going

nothing left

makes it right

endless belly gazing

there was nothing

why do you keep doing that?

(now for the bridge that is in no way original)

Don't let the tears linger on inside now

Let me show you the nearest signpost

to get your heart back and on the road

if I can help you

if I can help you

if I can help you

please let me know

All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so tight

What do you need a second hand movie start to tend you?

I as a boy, I believed the saying the cure for pain was love

How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes

I want to know you

Well let me know you

I want to feel you

I want to touch you

Please let me near you

Poetry Fight Club, Submission for June 30, 2017 ("What Have I Learned?")

YOU MUST COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TEST TO ADVANCE:

You have five minutes to answer the following questions.   Please make sure you fill in ovals completely with a number 2 pencil.

Question 1:  What Have You Learned?

Here are your choices for answers:

a.  We create the concept of space to put distance between ourselves and everything around us.  If there is no space, there is no separation.  

b.  We create the concept of time to prevent everything from happening at once.  If there is no time, everything happens simultaneously without any separation.

c.  We create the concept of a self, because we don't really pay attention.  If we did pay attention, there is nothing but the constant evaporation and condensation of thoughts, sounds, images and sensations. If there is no self, there is no separation.                                                                                                                                                
d.  all the above.  If there is no space, time, or self, we have nothing and everything simultaneously.  And of course, we have always had them all anyway, whether we wanted them or not.  

Question #2:  You are in a lucid dream and are confronted by a  women appears who claims the ability to smell consciousness.  She first tells you that you smell good, which will be comforting.   But then you will begin to suspect that she is more interested in you as a rhetorical question.   As soon as she has her answer, you will be able to tell that her attention begins to wander. 

She will remark to you as she fades away that she thought you were easy, but not like a Sunday morning.  What do you do?  

Question 3:  If Social media increases episodic cognition, does it also increase abstract thought?

Question 4:  No amount of self-improvement will compensate for a radical lack of self-acceptance.   This is not a question, by the way.  Should I repeat it again?  No amount of self-improvement will compensate for a radical lack of self-acceptance. 

Question 5:  if Trump turns out to have dementia, how would we know?