Posted by kid_A on January 1, 2002, at 19:06:55
NEW YEARS
There is a fountain
inside the belly of God
it's insides filled
with golden
chocolate coins
each coin is a body
each chocolate a
spirit; they shine like
Maui's lasso
and some, truth
be told are as empty
as paper, as is true
of my coin.If you want to see
yourself you must look
into the eye of God,
when you gaze there, that
which is white as China,
unblinking, and without
bound, you will see
both past and future,
once, only, I had looked
upon it, and like a
candle lit at both ends
it mirrored itself--
and I knew what it was
to be a golden coin
the red herring, a
con man, void of
an honest living--
you see there wasn't
even air inside,
all sucked out
by the water, which
was like wine, if
you might taste it--
and it was nothing
as it was everything
which is to say
it was no thing at
all.Every year there are
new coins, each has
a beginning and an
end, it is all planned
in a book of empty
pages, wordless and
full of words
it was all without
meaning, which is
to say, it was
all meaning, which
is to say almost
nothing at all--
if I might whisper
to you, if I could,
you would touch
my shoulder, like a
hollow Easter bunny
and that moment
would disappear in
an instant
as all moments do
and it would be
as quiet as
flowers
and we would see
ourselves,
stretching
boundlessly, into
the past, and
headlong, into
what we might
call, some kind
of future.
poster:kid_A
thread:16119
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20011216/msgs/16119.html