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snapudi: Ambition,
I have none save the pursuit of insanity, lived in a life of unwound
experience, open faced and honest recognition: this, the crumbling
foundation of our own ambitions to let go: the conscious body
of man swarming buzzing a fever of enlightenment holding ever
less, holding ever more -- even the stars burn through my eyes
-- holding the table down at the feast, what if gravity should
let it go? the heavy safe sacrifice holds it down even when a
laughing flock crowds the sky. I let my friend, one love one brother,
kick me in the thigh until I limp and his shinbone records shadowy
its kinetic history in my flesh; the flesh I admit to carry and
admit nothing more, except that when I gave up the drugs then
I really
freaked out, stopped hiding even when I'm hiding, when all my
life is hiding, slipped, stopped, spun, eyes glazed with tears
of recognition, this is what God whispered and I started to believe,
belief now richened with the sun-shining-through-colored-water
of experience which explains, what you thought you thought was
this tender
expression of life's secret poetry. This, like a marble, like
an organ pulsing with fluid, this moment expanding and contracting
gone, gone, gone forever in the digestion . .
Each pie I deliver to the blighted and the striving
comes embossed with an X, a prayer for Malcom, the blessed wicked
lie of a ex-deadhead correctional-officer convict landscaper current
friend tangent teacher. The lies he tells mirror the truths I
tell until both cancel both and we silently feed God's hungry
mouths, one cheesesteak, one stromboli, one medium with roni,
one slice with mayonaisse, thank you very much ma'am have a good
night enjoy your food sure glad it stopped raining later on boss
good lookin out dawg careful its hot you know
you gonna get fed.
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