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The streets of London are ablaze with life and crimes of all kinds committed at all times of day
But mostly under the gaze of the moon not the sun rays
Young bre’s stray from the main roads to the narrow lanes of the concrete maze
No delays despite the delays; life is too swift to find respite in this neon haze
The skirts are too short, too far out from the heart
a matter for that organ this is not
for the faint
nor for the sort whose thoughts are stayed upon the precious or the lost:
those who count the cost - penny for penny, pound for pound, breath for breath
We shall hire them a hearse.
The curse of the streets of London is visited upon those who shun its devices
And suppress their vices
But turn over your gold coin and let her royal highness show you the jewel in her crown
in all its splendor
Hey big spender! Render to the Queen what belongs to the Queen and withold not a thing.
Make a copious offering until your pockets are lean
The City will reward you with a pocket full of dreams
19 April 2011
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
Morning dew emanates from the earth and my world comes alive from rest and the earth rests on my mind and gives me something to think about I roam about the earth’s canvas ‘n’ all till I reach its core and soar in its soul and my world is made whole. Behold the earth is singing and tugging and scratching the surface is melting due to the hole in its ozone and my world is frozen no longer but grows stronger and stronger the longer it longs and shortens the earth’s gasp the grass on its crust stands and my world is brushed over with strokes of green and red and blue and blends of highs and lows and caves enclosed with hills exposed and meadows and stores is there anything the earth cannot provide me Ode to thee blithe spirit on this morning I perform my sacred rituals and we cease to be individuals I dig through your mind for your minerals and salts with my fingers I twist your lubricated bolts I find in you no faults so I tour your resorts with your hands as escorts and resort to violence as I grab your neck and then finally the earth responds with liquids of all sorts gushing forth - oil and water lava floods and floods and strong quick winds in quick succession as the storm rages the earth trembles with tremors and makes sounds euphoric a revolution is before it and I stand for it and welcome it and reverence it and welcome it and reverence it and stand for it and reverence it and welcome it and stand for it!
And my world is made whole.
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He would take me to Harare Gardens
Pick me flaming lilies
From the edge of the pond.
We would sit on the grass
Watching newly married couples
Offer their souls to cameras
Through their newly married smiles.
Wedding parties flirting with each other,
The spirit of marriage in the…
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
‘London’ - William Blake
It almost doesn’t need to go on from there.
We have reached the point in the life of my milk where the date says something contrary to the taste.
The reciprocal affection between us grows now stronger
for my milk is mindful of the fact that I must proceed with caution, and it does its best itself not to waste.
It preserves itself with admirable tenacity, going beyond the call of used-by date.
It defies the tag imprinted on its skin like a slave tattoo
My milk, like me, does not believe in clairvoyance and divinations.
My milk, like me, is a Nietzschean and strong -
its cold refrigerated world provides conditions by which it may impose its own will
and it does not just will to live until tomorrow in its optimum state
my milk wills to be the best milk my bowl and mug will ever know!
And when it’s gone - should it ever decide it is time to do so -
my bowl and mug will say “that milk was the greatest milk we ever knew. It was for us an example -
a stalwart of positive consciousness, a supermilk, a free milk that divined that the truth lay under its blue cap.
Its contents were its own to rule and it did so with aplomb!”
But even now as we enter into a time in the life of my milk where I as a human being, base and full of negativity,
take measures to ensure that my milk is still alive and well - morning by morning, daily sipping and sniffing at it with fear and doubt
insulting it with my science and “experience” -
my milk confronts me with a smug wink of the eye and wry little smile:
“I have not given up the wraith” it says “how could i? And you, oh crown of all creation, knower and calculator of all things, how could you not know me? Master, learn mastery over your life, as I have over mine.”
So with hearty confidence I thrust my milk down my throat!
With eyes closed and without inhibition I pour copious amounts into my bowl and into my mug, and with that, my day I start.
Tomorrow’s coming
Though we will it not to.
It is moments away and pregnant with moments anew
Hours aplenty
Acts askew.
Tomorrow descends heavily upon us like the Divine Will.
The Divine will have it so and so
Gird up your loins and guard your torso.
Tomorrow’s coming and with her, Life also.
