Stop. All you've ever thought about are thoughts. What's it worth?
Come, relax, and let me show you how to see a new kind of Earth.
-Well, what's that like?
Remember: words are just fingers pointing at the moon -
People obsessed with symbols will always become loons.
See that Faerie emerge from the glade,
Watch it whirl, leap, fickle, and fade,
Now your body is part of its dance,
Now you too are in a delightful trance!
Do you hear the music of a watery chant?
SSSShhhhHSHSHHSHHHhhSSSssshhhSSh
You find its source in a solitary stream,
home to an incorporeal girl who gleams.
She offers you a fruit with a funny fluid
Take one bite, and suddenly you're lucid.
Everything is alive - sky, earth, all in-between.
This great web of being is all theres ever been.
Tree & Rock were just waiting for you to say hello!
But now, alas, the vision is vanishing away - oh no!
The further in time the vision gets,
more and more of it will you forget.
Doubt causes the fruit of knowing to decay,
this is what all people who believe must pay.
-Did it happen? Was all of it real?
You experienced it, what's the big deal?
-What can I do? I must tell everyone, one and all!
No, they are trapped behind common sense's walls.
Just be happy that for you dreams and reality have coalesced,
nothing to do now but consider yourself one of the blessed.
-Will it happen again?
.... We'll see.
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I recently performed this piece at Ed's Used Books & More. Here is a video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=197305783785220&set=vb.133992196768331&type=2&theater
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