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<body bgcolor="#00FF00"> <font FACE="Palatino"> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> </font><font FACE="Palatino" SIZE="5"> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Buddha Babies</p> </font><font FACE="Palatino" SIZE="4"> <p ALIGN="CENTER">seeking reflections along the way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">By Hugh M. Lewis</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">To a billion and one baby buddhas</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">1.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a small bird alighted</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon a thick branch</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just outside my window</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it jumped a little way up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cocked its head to one side</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then suddenly vanished</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beyond the frame of the window sill</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ephemeral little entity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bringing a momentary bit of joy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just through the window pane</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">different realities</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">briefly colliding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in meeting together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">common understanding imparted</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">through the window</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of my mind's eye</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">through the pane</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of fragile, transparent glass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unity in nature</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">momentarily beheld</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">vanished</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> </font><font FACE="Palatino"> <p ALIGN="CENTER">2.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">building</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sand castles</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from wet, compacted sand</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">children</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">playing upon the beach</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whiling away the hours</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon the edge of the rolling waves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unheeding of the passing sun</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unmindful of the changing tides</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sandy bulwarks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">built against the salty water</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ramparts standing against</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the ravages of time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">until the waves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">come slowly, gently rolling in</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">melting away the dream</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">leveling the sand of the castle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">once again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">3.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my joys</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my sadness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">coming and going</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ebbing and flowing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with the passing days</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and countless nights</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my moods</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and my many memories</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">secret tear drops</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">silent sorrows</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so many mixed up moments</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so many forgotten dreams</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">vanishing forever</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">through my fingers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hopeful dream child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hapless dream wanderer</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a new life for old</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a new birth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for an old death</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">yet another round</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">4.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we've become</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">two lost and lonely children</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in one another's arms</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">kindred spirits</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with misbegotten pasts</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">playing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the privacy of our souls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no longer separate entities</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tied together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as if we were one</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hiding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in our long lived</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">infancy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the cruelnes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the cold</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">seeking refuge</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in our mutual</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">warmth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">5</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just a humble poet</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no longer with any grand design</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">modest visions and a common voice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">simple verse without rhyme</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hoping to paint with words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a simple picture</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with only silent eloquence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the tranquility</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of an untouched</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nature</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a stream,</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beside a shady tree</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a dusty pathway through</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a field of green</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a broken cup</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of common clay</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">baking beneath</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the same bright sun</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as yesterday</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">floats further and further away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and a dark forest of tall trees stand</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at the edge of the distant horizon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the deep ocean waves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just beyond</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">encompassing the entire earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just beyond</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the blueness of the still skies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a cloud</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a sound</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but the feint washing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and clapping of the waves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">6.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">immense sea</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of flowing green grass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">blowing waves in the breeze</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">benath a bright blue sky</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with brilliant billowy white clouds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">floating, drifting in a boundless expanse</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">wind waves rippling infinitely</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">spreading forever away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">toward the horizon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there in the middle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a lonely island</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of a sturdy old tree</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">knarled limbs twisint</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">heavenward</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">reaching upward</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">against the winds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">casting a long shadow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">here is a small</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">barren spot of earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a furrow of brown mud</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">across a field of flowers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a huge soft bed</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to lay down upon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to sleep in the lap</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the mighty earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">7.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no longer expecting too much</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from someone without a lot to give</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you do not support me</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">morally</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you do not facilitate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">anything in my life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at least do not hinder me</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nor resist my modest</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">meager destiny</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">laugh at all these silly things I do</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">wasting away so much of my time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mock me</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">call me a fool</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">never take me seriously</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nothing I say can be true</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but then just leave me alone</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">go your own way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">go away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and never</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">return</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">8.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dream child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">haunting my waking moments</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">skin so soft and smoth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">yet unblemished</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">by the scars of time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">or the wrinkles of age</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hovering upon the edge of my world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">taunting me with childish uncertainty</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dream child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">too good to be true</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">possessing my simple soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tormenting my sleeping spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">always beckoning from beyond</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tomorrow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">9.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I walk along the edge</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the shadow of existence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I stalk the twilight</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the skyline of living</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I hurry through the day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and wait through the night</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">too frightened to look back</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">too anxious to look forward</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">10.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">barriers and barricades</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">high walls and locked doors</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">routines and regimens</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">forms and rationalizations</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">designed and determined</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to block out the truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to creat the deception</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of Reality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the Name of the Truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Rules, schedules and deadlines</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Stern glances, serious grimaces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Masks of authority</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Games of conformity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">The editor's red line</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">The marginal remark</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the final bottom line</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Gateways and passages</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Strategic silences and</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Screens of opportunity and systematic neglect</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">polite gestures of benevolent will</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">empty smiles, empty words, empty hands</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tests, examinations, quotas and curves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">proofs and performances</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">perfection and failure</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the Name of Truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the disguise of reality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the veil of Maya</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">11.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so many colorful big fish</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in such a tiny round fish bowl</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it's a wonder how on earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">they all manage together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to continue surviving</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at such close quarters</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it's amazing to watch them swimming around</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">jostling one another for position</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with nowhere real to go</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">struggling with one another</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for a little more space</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how happy to be outside</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that little glass bowl</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to be able to breath</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fresh air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">How content to be</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">On the outside looking in</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">instead of on the inside</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">looking out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">12.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">big king of the mountain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">defending his keep</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">keeping his castle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from all his cousins</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from all his brethern</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from all his children</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from all his peasants</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sitting all alone</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">up in his solitary tower</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">looking down upon all</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the little people below</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">taking council with his advisors</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">maintaining a tight-fisted order</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in his small kingdom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">doning royal raiment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">putting on pretentious airs</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fooling all his apparent heirs</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">13.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It's a white world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a comfortable, clean, wealthy place</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">warm inside, cold without</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">everything has its appointed place</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">everything is supposed to happen</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in its rational order</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nothing exists without its reason</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nothing alien is allowed to enter</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without its preliminary sterilization</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">only waste is allowed to leave</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">after its proper treatment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it's a scientific reality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a mechanical time-piece</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a classic constrution</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">operating with perfect precision</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">well sealed containers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">preserve the dead forever</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a laboratory with the strictest controls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">an experiment with the highest of standards</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a measurement with the finest increments</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">leaving nothing to chance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">containing nothing unnecessary</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a reality without</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">imagination</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">or fantasy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">14.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a duck</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swimming in the rain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">content to navigate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it's little pond</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">water just flowing off</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">its curved back</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">until the sun shines</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">15.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">small games</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of give and take</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of life and death</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">trivial little games</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">played with such serious emotion</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">life's only a game</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with a small part to play</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it's not so important</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to win or lose</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but only to remember</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how important it is</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just to be able</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to play the game</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">16.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your turn</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">then mine</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">give a little</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">take a little</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">small talk</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">about little things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">trying to make</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">something happen</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">constructing truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">17.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">middle ground of meaning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">making the critical difference</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">between imagination and rationality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">between fantasy and substantiality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dwelling upon the edge of reality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">living in the extremes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of light and darkness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of sleep and wakefulness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">losing the sense of balance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">leaping over the edge</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of one side or the other</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">falling into the abyss</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of surreal uncertainty</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">18.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">word games</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">people player</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tongue twister</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">brain teaser</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mental manipulator</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mind marionetteer</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">psycho talker</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">head tripper</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">drug taker</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so suave a style</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so subtle a syllogism</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so sophisticated a parlance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so tactful</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so practiced</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so precocious</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so precious</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so spell-binding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so convincing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dear lecturer and rhetorician</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dear professor and priest</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">lecturing fool</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so dear a person</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so untouchable</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a character</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">19.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Brave New Science</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enabling us to see</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">into the future</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">remaking tomorrow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the image of today</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">allowing all our wishes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to eventually come true</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the most modern of senses</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cutting the chains</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that have imprisoned us</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to the treacherous past</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">liberating us from</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the limitations of nature</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">rebellion against</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the tyranny of all the Gods</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">futuristics and futurology</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like some soothesayer's</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">formula for fate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">systems and analysis</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">meta-physical and meta-magical</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">super technological</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">creating new worlds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon the frontiers of time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">destroying old worlds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in its cold wake</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">20.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">please pay</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">homage to our new religion</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the almighty dollar</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the religion of money</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the altar of gold and silver</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">making the meaningful difference</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the only alternative</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">course of action</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">destroy nature utterly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">break down the spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of human resistance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">subjugate the soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to the dictates</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the system</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Money, O' Money</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the only guarantor of security</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the only promise of power</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the only chains</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of freedom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">21.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I now need to reorganize my life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to let go of some of those things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that've been bothering me interminably</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to unload a few meaningless memories</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that still plague so many waking moments</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I need to rethink the unthinkable</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and to reevaluate my point and purpose</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I need to come to terms with what I've become</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">To forgive myself my many past mistakes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to try to make up for all I've now lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I need to make peace with my tormented past</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and to liberte my spirit from the fallacies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of a false and empty ego</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to forge ahead again with renewed vigor</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I need to reset my compass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and change my direction</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to set a new tack</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">separating the mirage from the mountain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that looms so ominously upon my horizon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">22.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p>it is too late</p> <p>the flowers of the garden</p> <p>have all been trampled down</p> <p>by the angry child</p> <p>who rages with such wanton malice</p> <p>not even a frustrated dog</p> <p>that paws and digs the earth</p> <p>is so deliberately destructive</p> <p>now the only thing to do</p> <p>is to wait until next season</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">23.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we walk down the dusty path</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hand-in-hand</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we pick and smell the flowers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">all along the way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and we find respite together</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the hot sun</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">benath this big shady tree</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">down the road</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we come to a parting of our ways</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and though some hurt is involved</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is also mutual understanding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is no turning back</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">24.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p>there are a thousand and one Buddhas</p> <p>of the flames of imagining</p> <p>and a thousand and one disguises</p> <p>of the ghosts of remembering</p> <p> </p> <p>the Buddha present is an eternal being</p> <p>the Buddha past is a never-ending beginning</p> <p>the Buddha future is an every-emerging ending</p> <p> </p> <p>and a thousand and one Buddha ghosts</p> <p>forever before and always behind</p> <p>the momentary self forgotten</p> <p> </p> <p>to suffer a thousand and one small deaths before being born</p> <p>to experience a thousand and one little births before dying</p> <p>and, dying, to relive a thousand and one lives</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">25.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sleeping Buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dreaming of Nirvana</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">by the time you awaken</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it will be too late</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">26.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">big little Buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">playing and laughing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a baby</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">refusing to grow up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to become a little big Buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">playing serious games</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like an adult</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">27.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you lick this hand</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">this hand pets your back</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Malaysian mut</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ticks in your ears</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sores festering upon your belly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">black dog so young and beautiful</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">this hand releases you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from off that cruel short chain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your entire life spent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in sun and rain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I gave an Ang Pao</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of a pound of surgar</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to the indifferent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bemused old patriarch</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the Lee Kong Si</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I let you run in freedom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you've never known before</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">only to run wildly in madness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">now this hand constrains you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">by a short rope</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as I carry you to the dog-shooter</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">this hand softly strokes the soft fur</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the rigid flank</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">head wrapped in bloody newspapers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your eyes saw through my soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and it rained real hard that day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a final gesture of good-bye</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the Gods were watching</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nobody wanted you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but silly me</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">28.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">old gray haired Indian man dancing wildly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the crowded street</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to a rock and roll song</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">only he can hear</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">barefoot, bare backed black skin</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in shrunken, tattered blue jeans</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">passers by look on and joke and point and alugh</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at the oblivious old fool</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the young whie male anthropologist</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cam corder slung on one shoulder</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and lap-computer hanging from the other</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hedges in for a closer observation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the process impolitely bumping</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the bystanding gawkers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the would-be hawkers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">"I'm sorry....please excuse me."</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">he utters with serious sincerity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">too polite to answer</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the lookers on just nod</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">thinking to themselves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whispering among themselves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">"isn't he a selfish fool..."</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">"yes, but he can't help it,</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">he's an American...</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and he must be rich!"</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">29.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">looking for the buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in little, out of the way corners</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">looking for peace</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in dark, unseen places</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">looking for solitude</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in lonely, forgotten spaces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">shutting out the everyday hubbub</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">behind closed eyes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">behind closed doors</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">finding the little buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the thousand and one small buddhas</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the privacy of one's own thoughts</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the tranquility of one's own private spaces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">30.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">casting stones</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">down into the well of darkness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">listening to the sounds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bouncing against the walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fathoming its depths</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">searching for a bottom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a final splash</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and ultimate silence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">echoes diminishing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the distance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">31.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the way is silent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is soft and subtle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it moves strangely unseen</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">always indirect</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it speaks humbly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and walks meekly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it sleeps deeply</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and rises slowly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the way does not have a way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a door</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a window</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">leading through the darkest</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tallest forest</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">across the widest, driest desert</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">over the highest, steepest mountains</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">its route is difficult</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">yet so easy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it knows no boundaries</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">skirts all fences</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">surmounts all barriers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the way is ever sincere</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">always honest</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it always leads home</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">always back to bed</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">32.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buffalo boy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">languishing away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the endless day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">above the earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">riding above the mud</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">on the back of buddha's</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beast of burden</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">carefree life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">free from responsibility</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">full of fun and play</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a land of boredom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha boy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when will you grow up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and learn to behave</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a true working man</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">33.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nothing but words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">only, merely, simply just words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">plain and simple</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fancy and sophisticated</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">meaning lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the recesses of silence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fading into the echoes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of consciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">vanishing forever into the finity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the horizon of the past</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">words that carry so much weight</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">spoken with the appropriate voice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">uttered in the proper presence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hanging in the air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with the status of authority</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">word wizardry</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a sophists delight</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a critics cup of tea</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">twisting the truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">around the tongue</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and turning reality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">into a mad delusion</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">words that confuse the mind</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that mock the spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and torment the soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">striking so deep into the heart</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">word magic</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">waving an imaginary wand</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">making the would-be marionette</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">into a ventriloquist's dummy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a talking piece of wood</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">34.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sounding, resounding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">resonance, dissonance, consonance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">rhythming and rhyming</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hooting and howling</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but not in the world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">35.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tired of being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just a thorn in your sock</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">time to let go of me</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to put me into the box</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and get on with business</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no matter how difficult</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the road may become</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is just not worth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">walking it with thorns</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">36.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">trained to jump through hoops</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to jump faster and faster</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">higher and higher</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the hoops keep getting smaller</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and smaller</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">jumping through hoops</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">becomes old and monotonous</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when the game never ends</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">jumping through hoops</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with high hopes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of making it the next time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">around and around</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a successful hoop jumper</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is the best possible thing to be</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">rounder and rounder</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hoops big and small</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">oval and circular</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">even square ones</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and triangular</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">37.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha boy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ephemeral entity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">vanishing presence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">diminishing existence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hungry beast</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unsated lust</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">quenching its thirst</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the well of life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">suffering soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the shadow of the corpse</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">shackled spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a new suit of clothes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no amount of starch</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">can unwrinkle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">38.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the ground gives way beneath one's feet</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and suddenly one is falling</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">endlessly through emptiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">falling through silence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">through a void without feeling</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a bottom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and suddenly one is floating</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">floating through an ethereal medium</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a direction and without resistance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then one is suddenly flying</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">flying higher and higher</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">magically lifting by one's feet</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">spreading one's arms out across the vast spaces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">soaring above all clouds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the heavens</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then one is suddenly falling again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">faster and faster</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without any footing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">until suddenly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the bottom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the end</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">39.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a train whistle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">off in the distance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">rising strongly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">above the den of the traffic</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon the street down below</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the train blowing its horn</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">coming from somehwere far off</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">going somewhere</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">straight away winding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bending</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">between traffic signals</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">deafening</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">shaking</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the sound of the tracks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">rolling along the earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">40.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sun beaming through the glass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">refracting through the wire mesh</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">filtering through the curtain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">falling in spots and splashes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon my sunken shoulder</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">soothing and warming my sad spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">slumbering in this comfortable chair</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">outside the shadows of the tree limbs</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the rustling leaves and twigs</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beyond the blue sky</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the bright, blinding sun</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">41.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">seeing clearly again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the clouds are slowly dissipating away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my vision unencombered by the illusions</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of a false and petty ego</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of dreams of power and quests for money</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the yoke has been broken open</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the words flow forth freely again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you say I have failed you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but not you who have failed me</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is a subtle difference</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that makes the critical distinction</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I suddenly have so many problems</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and so many difficulties</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">How have I suddenly become so wrong</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and why are you always so right?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my vision is coming back again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no longer obstructed by others opinions</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the bonds that bound my consciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to the conformity of the system</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">are broken free</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and you are no longer a part of the picture</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">42.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ship of love</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">floating upon a troubled sea</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hull made up of human bonds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">caulked with spiritual essence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">making it watertight</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sea-worthy ark</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">keeping us from drowning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">saving our souls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from a watery fate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">43.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">murder the spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so the body can be reborn</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and continue to live on</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">destroy the body</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so the spirit may be free</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to survive even death</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the wheel of samsara</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is all encompassing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">existence is a divine tragedy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a real ending</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">everyday is a cycle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of many rebirths</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">every night</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">an unbroken chain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of recurring deaths</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the only salvation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the suffering soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is to create false hopes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and blind faith</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in emptiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">44.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">living the modern lie</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the grand circle of deceit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from which there is no escape</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">truth is a relative fiction</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enacted in the moment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">honesty is a veil of self-illusion</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and trust an adulturated affair</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to live the modern myth of meaning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is to attach oneself to material things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and to make a religion of money</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whose honest in what situation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whose voice in whichever position</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to live in the modern world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is to enliven the lie</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a half-truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a mixed metaphore</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a self contradiction</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sincerity is a bastard</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">trust is a bitch</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and love</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">only a minor</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">inconvenience</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">45.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the poetic act</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of giving birth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like taking a shit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with verbose verbiage</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and loquacious garbage</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the words come out one after the other</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then flow like diarrhea</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the consciousness of the poet</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is an esctatic state of release</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">into a word world of fanciful freedom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and bitter sweetness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the sky's the limit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in its deepest blue</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the moon's big orb</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">smiles in the mid-morning dew</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">seagulls flying in-land</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just beneath grey clouds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">46.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I build a wall of silence around you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to protect you from my anger</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">inside this fortress you can rebuild</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your broken and tattered ego</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in there you can safely redefine</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my identity to suit your needs</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for security and reassurance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">this wall of silence will prevent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unnecessary harm from befalling you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">47.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">everyday shoes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and everyday clothes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">everyday people</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in everyday roles</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">once in a while</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">an unusual sort</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">comes along</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in an odd sort of way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mixing things up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">making them a little more interesting</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">then putting them back in order</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for the next person to come along</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">48.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">theories that won't fill a thimble full</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">egos that fill an entire classroom to overload</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and spill out resoundingly in the halllways</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">notes that fill reams of wasted notebook paper</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">copies that fill file folders</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">filling full file-holders and then</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">filling steel cabinets and entire walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">desks that fill the breath of a single room</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with but a single little scrawny body</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a sordid sort of petty emptiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">filling everybodies' lives</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">49.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mouths gaping wide open</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">lips and tongues twisting round about</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">brilliance articulated in long</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">measured passages of air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">authority voiced with well-chosen words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">coordinated by a well paid brain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hidden within a fat head</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and a false face</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">50.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Buddha does not dwell here</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">where consciousness has forgotten itself</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Buddha has taken flight</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the day-to-day battles</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">seeking refuge and sanctuary</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from a public ceremonial sacrifice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">paradise dwelling in the eye of the storm</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swirling round about in relentless fury</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">paradise is a secret hideaway</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a journey over the mountains</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">far away through the thickets of the woods</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha dwells there in darkness and in light</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It dwells there in harmony and concord</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">When the winds blow whereever they will</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the water will flow slowly and silently</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the depths of the pools of reflection</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">51.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a new world begins</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just beyond the a life merely existent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">an old world ends</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at twelve o'clock midnight</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we keep going forward</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whatever the total cost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we can't afford to look backward</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at all the things lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">people still change</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and so do their words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">take my hand once again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how to define our world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cling tightly to my side</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">over the edge we step again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bound for another ride</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">into the shadow of the unknown</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there to find our fate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there to seek our fortune</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">52.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">minute by minute</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hour by hour</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">day by day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">week by week</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">month by month</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">year by year</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we ar e born</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we breath</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we eat</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and procreate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then we die</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the clock keeps ticking on</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the sun always returns on schedule</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">followed by the moon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the seasons pass by slowly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in endless succession</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">53.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">too busy to be bothered</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">high pressure life-style</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">high status image control</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">high stakes impression management</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your time is so precioius</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to be preoccupied with petty problems</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to be perturbed by humble people</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">impatiently glancing askance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sorry so to disturb you so</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">did not want to bother you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">can you please, please spaire me a brief moment or two</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">can you proffer yur important guidance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your superior enlightenment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and help me to sort out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">this entangled mess</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">54.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the sun shines so brightly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cracking the dried clay</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">searing the desert sands</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">its shines through the tropical haze</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and glints and glares</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from off the ocean waves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it shines throughout our lives</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and throughout human history</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it shines beyond time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mercifully giving life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mercilessly taking life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">relentlessly it shines</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from day to day to day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon our backs, upon our necks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and upon our hands</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it burns upon our faces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and upon our minds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and upon our brains</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unerasable brands</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unforgettable</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">longings</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">55.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">corridor congresses</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">secret meetings in empty rooms</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whispered conversations in vacant lecture halls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">messages flash through the atmosphere</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">striking like lightening</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">rolling through the hallways</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like distant thunder</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cutting like a razor</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the dense, kinetic air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">56.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I played with fire</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and got burned a little</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I toyed with power</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and became defeated</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I lost the game</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">knowing better how to play</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">at the end of yet another day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the process relearning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">some lessons long forgotten</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how to carry oneself with grace</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how to talk and act with dignity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and still be humble</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how to laugh at jokes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and how to let silence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">be one's final voice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but in getting singed a littled</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I have discovered a little more</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and once discovered</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there can be no taking it back</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to how things used to be</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">57.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">redefining the problem out of existence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is a common concern of criminals and academicians</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it requires certain skills of body control</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and absolute mastery over one's terminology</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">else a single slip of the tongue would soon destroy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the entire edifice of organizational expertise</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">years in the planning and developing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">exposing the nakedness of the ugly truth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">disguised just beneath the covered surface</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is hard work to confect the image of reality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and to construct the semblance of rationality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is no place for play in the process</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">except to poke fun and destroy the entire bubble</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">58.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is difficult to be a child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in an adult-like world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is difficult to grow up uncomfortably</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for always being reprimanded</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for not behaving like an adult</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">being a child means its alright</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to make mistakes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is difficult to learn</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the rules and lessons of life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">while remaining a child inside</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when making mistakes has more serious consequences</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when breaking rules becomes unforgiveable</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how can we teach children to become adults</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and adults to remain like children</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whitout confusing the two roles?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how can we learn to be one</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">while being also the other?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what looks easy proves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the most difficult of all</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what seems difficult</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is the easiest of all</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">growing up is never easy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">being a child is never difficult</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">don't be afraid to make mistakes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">never fail to forgive transgressions</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and always keep the patience and persistence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to perservere in one's ways</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">59.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">saying good-bye once again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to a new found friend</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">moving on again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to some place better</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the endof the rainbow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is always over the next hill</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and around the next bend</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the long road</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">our directions now separate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">knowing well they will eventually end</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but never cross each other again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">saying good-bye</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with tears</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but without regret</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">60.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">billions of buddha beginnings</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">new tiny little buddha beings</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">each in need of nurturance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">each in quest of enlightenment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">an infinitude of seeds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of buddha possibilities</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sprouting upon the shores of nature</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">all seeking salvation and atonment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">all needing enough food</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to feed and breed</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to grow and multiply</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">61.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bouncing buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon my knee</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a little ball</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of happiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swinging buddha in the air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">careful not to let go</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">laughing with glee</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">silly little buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">drooling all over</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the whole world is new</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and innocent and interesting</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">once again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">62.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">things have suddenly changed</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">throwing life helter-skelter</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the ground has given way again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the light shinning upon the horizon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">has suddenly blinked out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">new found silence and enmity surrounds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">our private little world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">taking spiritual refuge fro the viciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">licking our mortal wounds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the shadows of our existence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no longer making much sense</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">standing out upon the edge</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the cold winds striking agiainst our faces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the waves rising and through seas in turmoil</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">this storm shall pass soon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and calmer seas soon return</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the comfortable world as we knew it</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">shall be all destroyed</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and a new world shall be built</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from all the splintered pieces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">63.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Spending the day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">measuring the ground swells</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of mother earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the little dragon inside</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">slumblers and roots</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">moving around and around</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">making a mountain out of a mole hill</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">geomancers we've both become</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">waiting and watching for signs of life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just beneath the surface</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">expectantly waiting the magic stream of life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to come flowing forth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the bowels of the magic mountain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">64.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Snowing silences</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">drifting upon the breezes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">white whispering winds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">quiet cold</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">peaceful white</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">winter tranquility</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a sleepy world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">covered by a blanket</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of pure white snow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">snowflakes whirling and twirling about</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">drifting in flurries</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like ghosts blowing across the land</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ice crystals forming</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">uon the cold window panes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Indian Summer has suddenly flown</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Old man Winter has come again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">65.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">futon fantasy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">pillow potato</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bedside magic</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dreamtime</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">alife, awake</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">soft comfort</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">worries of the day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dispelled</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">66.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">country kid, city child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">growing up in nature</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">raised without culture</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">coming up wild</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">maturing in an uncivilized manner</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swimming, running, climbing, fishing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">television, toys, preschool and playgrounds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fenced in like animals</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the outside world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">locked out like animals</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the comfortable inside world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">67.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">jelly fish</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you lack a spine</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but are full of venom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">soft to the touch</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so painful to feel</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your tentacles stretch far</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">unseen beneath the gray cold surface</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">waiting for the unwary victim</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to swim across your path</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">68.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">The whole day passing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">through my Venetian blinds</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the shadows creep across the room</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the twisting branches of the tree outside</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like whithered hands stretchings out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">across the countryside</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the whole day spent in darkness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and in quietude</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the twilight grey forming the permanent ground</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">consciousness lurking silently within</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another day gone by</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a reason</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without a rhyme</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">one more day lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">between the lines</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">missing from the calendar</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fallen off the end</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">69.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fog bound</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">clear vision</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">obscured by the mists</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">light of the day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">all blocked out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fuzzy forms drifting slowly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sounds silently muffled</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the heavy spaces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">empty echoes hanging</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the still, thick air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the air so thick</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">one swims to keep from drowning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sucking up higher and higher</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with one's nose to the air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swept up by a flood of frenzied consciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">so thick one see's one's echoes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like shadows</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bouncing from off</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the corridor walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">70.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">zombie</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">stalking the corridors</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to latch on to any victim</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the eat any bit of human flesh</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">zombies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">walking in blindness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bumping off one another's sides</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hands reaching out in unsated desire</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">zombies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">one and all</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your cadaverous bodies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">all lack the soulful substance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that would make you a genuine human being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">zombies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">instead of people</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">muttering sounds of half-consciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">drowning out noises of pain and pleasure</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">zombies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hiding from the light</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dwelling only in the darkest places</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the late moonless night of the world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">71.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">walking faster and faster</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to keep from falling further behind</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">running ahead harder and harder</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just to remain in one's alotted place</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hours of busy'ness and busy body hours</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">counting aways the minutes hurriedly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with the only vital pay some smug satisfaction</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and more credits for heaven</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">paying heed to the dictum</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of criticize or become criticized</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upaid labor units</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">lost pouring through reams of books</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">pounding upon broken down typewriters</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">trying to learn how to be so perfect</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">forgetting in the process</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how just to be human</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">72.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hard and soft</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">yin and yang</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">working in tandem</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">together as one</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">soften them up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">then work them over</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like the sun and the moon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">once, twice, thrice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">back and forth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">weaving the tapestry</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enwrapping all</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a web of meaning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of birth and death</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">living and dying</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">73.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Dao dwells in this vase</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of plain design and common clay</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">inside its empty form</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">filling it like water</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">yet without any essence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">There is the center of the universe</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">within that hollow vessel</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the gateweay to the other world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">containing the omnipotence of being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like a jinnie in a jar</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">protecting its master's desire</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">possessing its owner's spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there within that fragile</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">turned lump of fired clay</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">When words occupy space</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">displacing the air</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and ideas have great mass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">thoughts precipitate,</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">striking the ground like hail-stones</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and ideas gain great mass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the weight of their momentum</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dead concepts fall with great force</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">drawn by the gravity of the earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to shatter against the ground</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when deep thoughs become spoken utterances</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and theories like broken concretions</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just so much rubble on the ground</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">flakes spinning off the grinding wheel</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">crushed beneath the great turning stone</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sounds fill the air like a cloud of dust</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">meaning hovers in the atmosphere</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with grand momentousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sounds echoiing through the halls of consciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">awakened and elevated to possible new realities</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when mental images assume the shape of material things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when confusion becomes crystal clear vision</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and imagination a flight of wanton fantasy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when reality becomes rationalization</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of formal systems</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">then people no longer count but as bodies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">existing to be counted</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">then souls become imprisoned by the flesh</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and spirits locked up in black boxes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buried beneath the layers of false consciousness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and dirty guilt</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fear is the master</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cowardice is the common characteristic</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">courage the ultimate traitor</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">75.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Do you know the way?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">If you do or don't</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Then it is not the right way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Nor is it the wrong way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It is the way that is unknown</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">One must keep asking along the way</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">And never stop to figure out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">The direction of the sun's shadows</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Or the correct time of the day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">The way is only learned</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">By traveling along its course</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It is never ending</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">And has no beginning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It is a labyrinth of crossing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It is a forest of confusion</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Without entrance</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">And without any exit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">The way is always in a circle</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">And this circle gets larger and smaller</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">With the creeping of the shadows of the trees</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It turns into a cycle of time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">That has no clock</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">And there is no place in the universe</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">No spot on the earth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">That the way does not pass through</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It leads everywhere</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">But goes nowhere</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Eldorado at its end</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is but the emptiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of its existence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nothing more</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">76.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">spritely stepping</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">across a flat field</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon a smooth sea of green</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">violet and blue wild flowers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dotting the carpet of grass</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cars and people</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the adjacent parking lot</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">pay no heed</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as they tramp across</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the morning cold</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">77.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Lotus lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a sea of dandelions</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I've set you adrift</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon a foreign element</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the winds blow this way and that</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">without care or concern</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whether it rans or shines</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tomorrow will come</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another lonely day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">lotus blossoming</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">its beauty lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in loneliness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">78.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the window to the netherworld</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sits silently in my attic</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the gateway to hell</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">cold and dusty</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">motionless and silent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a corner of my attic</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">waiting to be opened up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">just go on upstairs</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">put in the plug</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">turn the knob</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and watch the screen light up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enter through the gate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">look through the window</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">79.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">maps and mazes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">games and rules</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mental midgets and intellectual mediocrity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mind-games and mind management</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">mental marionettes and military mentalities</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">maintaining complete control</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">manipulating the words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">masterful magicians</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">creating worlds of illusion</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">floating upon emptiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">suffocating the imagination</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">snatching the sould away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">strangling the spirit to death</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no room to breath freely</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no space to move one's muscles</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the primal scream resounds off barren walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">echoing down empty, frozen halls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">fading off into the silence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of the maddening</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">impersonal system</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">maps and mazes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">games and rules</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">80.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Dictators</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a paper world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">playing make-believe roles</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">murdering straw enemies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">symbolically persecuting fake criminals</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">persecuting the imagination</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">destroying freedom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">81.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">exchanging freedom for wisdom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">exchanging potential for power</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">exchanging innocence for responsibility</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is no returning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is no going back</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is no reversing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">each step one further down the road</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another distance gained</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another moment of freedom lost</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">one more opportunity diminished</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">move onward we must</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">not ever knowing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">What awaits us ahead</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">never really knowing for certai</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">whether we have taken the right direction</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">every new intersection</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another big risk</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another possible gain</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another possible loss</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">82.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">faded flower</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ephemeral freshness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">lingering beauty</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nature does not feel</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the fleeting innocence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nature does not see</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the scars remaining</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the lengthening lines</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nature does not love</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and cannot care</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the surface wearing away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">eroded by forces</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it cannot understand</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the dignity and humility</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of growing older</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">gracefully</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">83.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">when I was a kid</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I had a dog</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and I had cats</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I had birds and fish</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I collected insects</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and hunted frogs, lizards and snakes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I had trees to climb</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and forests to explore</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">caves to hide in</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nature was in my back yard</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I swam in ditches, canals, reservoirs, sloughs, pools</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">oceans, lakes, streams and rivers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I had gardens to hoe and wood piles to climb</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I built mud huts and dug underground forts</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I had shoe boxes full of broken clocks and radios</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">now my little child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we cannot have pets in our apartment</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bows and arrows or slingshots would break the many windows</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we have no yard to make a garden in</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we live upon main street</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it would be hard to find many creepy crawly things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is no water to swim in</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no more mude to make huts and mounds and pies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">no fresh ploughed dirt clods to crumble and throw</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">there is only concrete, plastic, and asphalt</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the rubber tires of screeching cars</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I'm afraid I cannot give you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">all those many little things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that I took so for granted when I was young</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you will never learn how to love a dog or cat</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how to feed a bird or hold a snake</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you will never watch radishes sprout or see tomatoes ripen</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">you will never learn how not to scrap your knees on rocks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">or how to paly in open fields of mustard</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">or how to avoid the barnacles on the breakwater</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">or how to stalk through groves of eucalyptus or pine</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">still, your world is much better than mine</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">84.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">be patient</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">my little one</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">don't be in too big a hurry</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to grow up too soon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as I had done</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">wasting a few precious years</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of play</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enjoy your childhood</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">while you can</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">don't allow the adult world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to overshadow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your joys and fears and fantasy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to cloud out your morning sunshine</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">do not grow up too soon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to try to take upon your little shoulders</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">too many adult-like responsibilities</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is a tragedy to lose one's youth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">before its time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to lose those years of childish play</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and then to spend the rest of one's life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">trying to learn how to be a child again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">how to play again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">be patient</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and happy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as you are</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and will become</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">85.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Another calendar to put away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a new calendar to be bought</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another stack of books to shelve away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another set of courses to be forgot</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another school year to look forward to</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another summertime to wait through</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">where do all the moments fly to</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">where have all my friends gone</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">where are all those things</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that once seemed so important</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another day upon another day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in endless repetition</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what on earth can be so important</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that will not soon become buried</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with the sands of time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what can be so permanent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">as to outlast time itself</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">86.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beware of those who have no poetry</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">be cautious of their vile words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who neither read nor write a simple poem</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">these are the dangerous ones</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the one's whose souls are imprisoned</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">within the confines of their vulgar bodies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">these are the one's who cannot appreciate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">genuine beauty in passing</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who do not know how to see</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">or how to feel another human being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">87.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I'm tired of entertaining fair weather friends</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and smiling at plastic masks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">disguising human emptiness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I've grown weary of worrying about their smooth</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and fast words</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and figuring out the subtle indirections</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of their poisonous indiscretions</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I'm disillusioned with humanity</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">straight and simply put</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I'm disgusted with human authority</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and false idolatry</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I'm sickened with human weakness and suffering</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">by the many at the hands of the few</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">88.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">building walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of golden bricks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">building walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to keep people out</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and to lock up the soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to protect it from harm</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">building walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of golden bricks</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">molded with the precious clay</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of golden time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">staying busy to make business</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">building more walls</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">needing to protect</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a guilty conscience</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">89.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the whole world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">according to Marx</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">history rewritten</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">revised</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">according to Engels</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a materialist presupposition</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">witnessing Marx in everyday life</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">don't question Marx's maxims</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the soothsayer speaks her pointed tongue</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Marx's magical medium</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">materializing his spirit</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">idolizing his name</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Marx on the tip of every pseudo-intelllectual tongue</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">Marx on the margin of every weak marionette mind</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the answer to all the world's problems</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the new religion of science</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">90.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another baby</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">yet another buddha being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">among a billion and one new buddha babies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what will be your kharma?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and waht will be your dharma?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and who shall save you</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from the wheel of suffering</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that afflicts most of the world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what shall become your fate</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what is the position of your stars?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">91.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I wish this crazy world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I'll be leaving you in</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">were a little bit better</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">than the one I was left with</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I wish justice and equality</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">would finally carry the day</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">like I was told when I was young</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a less I have found difficult to unlearn</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a cruel and cold world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">life begins and ends</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with the beating of the human heart</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that gives and receives</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">compassion and understanding</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">that eschews hate and avarice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">bigotry, envy and hypocrisy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">92.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">finding peace of mind</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">upon my corner of the futon</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">finding spiritual consolation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in a morning cup of coffeee</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">seeking tranquility of being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in the corridors of conscioiusness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">searching for spiritual freedom</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">between the lines of literary bondage</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">finding hard meaning</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beneath a soft pillow</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">finding big reasons</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">in small things saved</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and shared</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">93.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a thousand and one buddha babies</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">baby buddhas laughing and crying</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">burping and messing up their diapers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">embodying future hopes and past purposes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">embibing the milk of human kindness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">through nipples and bottles</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">94.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">baby beluga</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swimming about your little world</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we hear you with our eyes</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">we see you with our ears</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">baby beluga</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the beginning of a new being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swimming around in a small</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enclosed sea</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">95.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">IBM time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">your time, my time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hung on every wall</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">motionless hands of mastery</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">secret symbols of mystery</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">company time, borrowed time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who owns the time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who controls the clock</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">computing time, computer time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">IBM town, IBM time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">96.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">little tiny one</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">little fingers</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">little hands</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">tiny toes and feet</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">where did you come from?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and how did you happen?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">where are you in a hurry to?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and what will you become?</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">97.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">feeling like</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">I've been beaten up</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">one more time</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">the door of darkness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">swings open</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">with nothing else</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to do</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but to go forward</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">into nothingness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">once again</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">now I'm afraid</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and more reluctant</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">than ever before</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">knowing a little better</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">what's on the other side</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and what isn't</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">98.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">suicide</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">is an act</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">of courage</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and cowardice</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is a last escape</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from responsibility</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and a release from suffering</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">It is a final declaration of independence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and the ultimate expression of dependent regression</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is a long walk off a short pier and a small step off a high edge</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and a dark doorway one cannot wait to open at the end</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">by itself so selfishly and yet so selflessly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is a bitter act of final desperation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">and dark, defiant consolation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a unasked question mark</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">an abbreviation</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">it is all this</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">not more</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">nor less</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">but</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">99.</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddah body</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">beast of burden</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">toiling in the mud</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha baby</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">burping and belching</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">slobbering and balling</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">over the shoulder</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha boy</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">playing with sticks and stones</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">falling and hurting oneself</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">crawling and bawling</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha beast</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">dumb and silent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">ever obdient</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">under the master's yoke</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">big buddha</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">always sleeping</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">always silent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">sitting and smiling</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha beings</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">embodied essences</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">enlivened spirits</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">reincarnated</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha ghosts</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">wandering aimlessly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">searching endlessly</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for nothingness</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">buddha essence</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">waiting patiently</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">to be realeased</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">from earth-bound graves</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">100</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a soul for sale</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a simple soul for sale</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will buy this soul for servitude</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a single, solitary soul</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a life for lease</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another average life for lease</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will sign a contract</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will place a bid</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a will for rent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">one more will to rent</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who would want this plain old will to work</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who needs another worn out old will to work</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a spirit to give away</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a broken spirit for free</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for anyone who would figure out a reason</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">for anyone who cares to fix it</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">hands for hire</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">two empty hands to hire</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who needs an extra pair of hands around</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will find a use for these hardened hands</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a child for sale</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another abandoned child for sale</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will buy my little lost child</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will take away my newborn being</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">a secret to steal</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">another secret to share</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who would possess the power of this secret</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER">who will steal another small secret</p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </font> <p> </p> </body>