xxxxx - take care

xxxxx

it sings because the middle is an end and end beginning new

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take care and

don’t take something unless you know the place for it

the world speaks in degrees of appropriateness

such that, a thing in its place

isn’t proper unless it’s true

attention reveals itself in the shape of thoughts

and thoughts formed in subjects discerned

in this, to each person the world speaks in worlds

calling through promises in the thoughts and things about us

the world speaks in degrees of appropriateness

we hope you will know by the whispers within you

take care

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the products of reason belong to no one.

possessing, through the illusion of their possession,

the possessed become consumed with their consumptions.

and injustice is freed where mercy risks the surety of giving

in the form of credit that give the world its shape,

and shape it to its reasons.

xxxxviii - a prison of simplicity

xxxxviii

composites composed

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This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We shall bring you further information as soon as possible. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes.

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BBC TRANSCRIPT TO BE USED IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK 

xxxxvii - the stranger

xxxxvi

prime trekker

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stranger

is the the

when we are

when we are not

not not

it

a thing repeated

is a thing the same

renewed

once again itself

first though

it didn’t know - it was like - it wasn’t so

and there was no one there

so new anew surprise turned tears beware

when no one first became

strange shape no name

the stranger is an anything

can any thing be stranger?

we fear to tread

our path was true

we have our normal things to do

the stranger though is always new

the stranger though is always new

and reared its shape and one becomes now two

what dream is this?

surreal strange the stranger’s ask

made heart-mad made

made shimmers in the body of our air

the stranger stood both here and there

where else nowhere the stranger was there everywhere

where any-when is anywhere

though anywhere was not the stranger

as anywhere might be

as anywhere might be a place

and placed we’d place

should something move or do

the thing again would no more surely show

forgotten where our mirrored shadow

the stranger is never itself

and plays no game

the stranger is never itself

so wish it never was speaks surety survival

collapsed our hearts and eyes on points of curious flew

there’s no escape save know to know

the stranger prods us go

so go we go

and go we go

our going goes

us going both

both different and the same

a thing repeated

is a thing

renewed the same

again once itself

first though

it didn’t know

it wasn’t like it wasn’t so

and there was no one there to show

a paper rips to scare

so new anew surprise turned tears beware

when no one first was named

strange shape it then became

the stranger is an anything

can any thing be stranger?

we tread to fear

our true was path’d

we have our normal things to pass

the stranger though is always rare

the stranger though is always rare

and reared its shape and one becomes now two

what dream is this?

surreal asks strange in stranger’s ask

mad heart-made mad

made shimmers in the body of our air

the stranger stood both here and there

the stranger stood both here and there

where else nowhere the stranger there was everywhere

where any where is anywhere

though anywhere was not the stranger

as anywhere might be

as anywhere might be a place

and placed we’d place

should something move or do

the thing again would no more surely show

forgotten like our mirror’s low

the stranger is never

and plays no game

the stranger is never

so wish never it was speaks surety survival

collapsed our hearts and eyes on points curious flew

there’s no escape save know to know

the stranger prods us go

so go we go

and go we go

our going goes

us going both

both different and the same

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“SECRETS ON THE WAY”

Daylight struck the face of one who wept.

He received a livelier dream

but did not wake.

Darkness struck the face of one who walked

among the others in the sun’s strong

impatient rays.

Suddenly it turned dark as in a downpour.

I stood in a room that held every moment -

a butterfly museum.

And still the sun is as strong as before.

Its impatient brushes painted the world.

Tomas Tranströmer

xxxxvi - conversations with the sphinx

xxxxvi

an evasivly esoteric number

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there is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to become a butterfly.

Buckminster Fuller

xxxxiii - drips tall skies

xxxxiii

Shri Yantra

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good poetry begins with
the lightest touch,
a breeze arriving from nowhere,
a whispered healing arrival,
a word in your ear,
a settling into things,
then, like a hand in the dark,
it arrests the whole body,
steeling you for revelation.

in the silence that follows
a great line,
you can feel Lazarus,
deep inside
even the laziest, most deathly afraid
part of you,
lift up his hands and walk toward the light.

David Whyte

xxxxi - about the cosmic cliche' or

xxxxi

the angel number so they say

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about the cosmic cliché

or

the suffering of success

or

there is no such except

they say

you should say the thing you’re scared to say

because that is the sharing that speaks in the voice of courage

hurray!

unsaid

is the kinder you are

the more you’re afraid to say

as if you’re bad inside

because fear and courage are not the whole of it

they are just nice things

galloping on their success

whatever that means

is a way

or way off

because there is a way to say

it

and then for the sayer

hooray

we will listen for us

left unsaying

for what is said



what they mean is to speak in a way we cannot say

what they mean is to speak

in a way we cannot say

impotent (whispers the magic of words makes our sadness a fecund mind)

when we need the words to speak for us

neither knew no words were eithers

or everyone’s

or else our ego’s follow

indicating inauthentic

or worse

the authentic indicator

or both



are you keeping up with this?

(what it says in you,

you are saying)



and here you’ll assume

you know you’re right

to judge the either

with your own authentic you

and maybe you’ll start to say

what you see everyone else isn’t saying

or can’t say

or maybe like us

they don’t have anything

until there’s something

such is our desperation

that desperation is the condition to flourish cherishing



like blood on the wall

or an unwanted love

or a stunning sense of beauty

or an embarrassed hatred

or an empty stomach

or a barren womb

or a work done well

or a washing revelation

or a union of divisions

or a grey sunny day

or a steak for a dog

or the extinction of species

or the death of a wonderful thought

or the felling of ancient trees

or the birth of dread in a child

or the love that keeps us waking

or the habit of our said



creation comes in the shape of before we can say

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even putting down these first few words makes me aware of an emerging rhythm, a pattern of repetition, and consequently of an attention to what has been written that will tell me what to write, as if the first few words were seeds already intending the plant they would become, as if they were anticipating the earth they would occupy and own, if not adorn, the nettles they would form, the allergies they would eventually exacerbate. that is: the sentence seeks its fulfilling form.

William Gass

xxxx - red maple

xxxx

transformations more numerous than becomings

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in front the back window which beyond

the older the house the more certain

you’d be standing in

a kitchen looking towards out

a yard and garden

is a maple named red which captures

nothing of its essence

erupting phantom crimson soul

would be insufficient if

you were one who ever watched a maple red

dance among the chore clean bubbles cutting by a kitchen window

past where floating soul unbridled

we marched yard out to turn our dripping hands

from knives to saws

pruning puckers hands

makes turds from fruits

and is the word we use to cut away the parts that we dislike

like the wild hair of faces

or the wild youth in streets

or folk living solely in the wilds of our city

we prove we are civilized by the way we shape our sights

marched i and jon and uncle rick

to open up the yard

so the sun could bleed in

my maple red had done

its reaching much too low

do not fly too low says daedalus to his son

or the earth will pull you down

to the water, trees and stones

who taught us our invention

do not abide our own

so marched we out to lop a limb

which is as simple as a thought

and incredible as a task

novice and ambitious is a recipe for

failure, destruction, learning, creativity

and the laughter of our mortal nerves when our souls realize we’re near to die

so i can’t recall laughing harder than when maple red precipitated ricky from its bough

and his body scrambled with wild frantic

caught a rope to fuck oh my god down

i discovered then an inside war in the jumble of our oh fuck fumble

of our lungs that move as if through an inside understanding of the outside air

minds move only when they are struck

so such a mix of blows cascaded on the anvil of my skull

reluctance to severe red’s swaying elegant bough

fear to witness my uncle become a crippled mass

and the hidden complexity of simple stupidity

there are butterflies in the up of trees i’ve never seen in the down

as shocking small as autumn colors in the height of summer

when a leaf gives in to drought and gives itself to fall for others

if it wasn’t for what needed be we’d be

a bother if we were brilliant before it’s time

save we glow to pause a drifting moment in the warmth upon the day

who could we say is ready

to be reminded of the cold

so much easier the thought when lifted with exuberance

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paint is a cast made of the painter’s movements, a portrait of the painter’s body and thoughts. … painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue… paint is water and stone, and it is also liquid thought.

James Elkins

xxxix - supposition more accurte than reality

xxxix

3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13

we are floating in a dangled space washed ashore and wrought to fit.  where are we is what we are.  how to know where shapes our search.   identity shifts along experience towed memory.  that it is said, “WE ARE THIS,” gives comfort, with belief, and otherwise offends.  “we are this”, even when we’re nothing is enough to give us ends.  shadows haunt the density of light circling air within our lungs.  what we are, is our condition, hanging in the nothing like a vision.

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

xxxvii - would you notice?

xxxvii

irregular star

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have you noticed how

the thoughts of others become your thoughts

though you don’t know

how your thoughts

became your own?

and now

you have to navigate a crowd

inside your individual head

just to get to yourself 

you might not even be surprised to find

that you didn’t know where you were

or if there was a you to find

and wouldn’t be able to say the things you think

to say 

should your sayings be spoken 

by another voice in the crowd

everyone would be in quite a huff then

because they know who said what

and said what when

you were just wandering around

trying to keep your feet on the ground

it might really make you wonder then

what makes for what each person can defend

and whether there is a right to thoughts

when everything is mixed and tossed

if it wasn’t for your recipe

would you notice who was in you?

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the art of being a slave is to rule ones master.

Diogenes