Category: Altered States

Turns out the fireworks
Were down by the river

Thinking I’d be just a stranger
Another emerges beside me

Talking about D.C. lights and fires
Roof-popping head level smoking

Suddenly added mortars
Are boom-firing behind us

He warns so we hunch-cover ears
And my kidneys ache from blasts

Exploding overhead so close that
Flaming-char chunks are evident

Pummeling between me and others
Could’ve set fire to a child’s blanket

A low-set car contributes atmosphere
Playing gang-bangin’ music – hilarious

Got the full emersive 3–D experience
Others regroup and we exit delirious

It is difficult to relax
When one phrase

Could spin us into
Entirely new realities

To be other than we are
To hide that we’re human

I can’t do anything else
But finish today’s work

A point of coming here
Is to reclaim myself
As I lose myself
Repeatedly

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(Play alternative re “means to an end”)

I ran errands today
Hopefully worthy
Certainly many

“Looks like another bill got reactivated without my authorization to autowithdraw as the bill has exponentially increased while removing services and is attemoting to hit the wrong bank.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!”

“You’re not a model, you’re a warrior.”

(Mirror love)

“Have I accomplished anything?”

(Title ref to air sign, content ignoring many achievements)

“I could hear him coming from down the street, looking to inflame anyone he’d meet.

Seeking eye contact, he’d shout louder if at all noticed, spouting obscenities – claiming he had a reason by his subject matter for abusing everyone on the street.

I couldn’t help it.

He ignited my alrrady simmering fuel – and I turned to go after him, striding big and boldly with a purpose – watching as he hastily began pedfaling away.

‘Yeah – you run away!’ I shouted after him.

‘You wanna have a real conversation – or are you just yelling?!”

As he kept going with tail now between his legs, he attempted to yell louder after me as I turned away in disgust, shaking and gentiley apologixing to clustered bystanders watching in baffled amazement at my undertaking as I brushed him off and tossed my head to push off the crazy.

And when I turned and walked down the adjoining street away from everybody, he tried one more time at distance to throw his b.s. at me.

Throwing a sideways blocking palm hand in his direction, I yelled back at him – ‘ Yeah, you’ve got nothin‘!'”

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Is a flare of gumption
Despite dysfunction

Within eyes on a target
Invariably having lost it

Nonetheless pragmatic
Within crackling static

For why else are we here
But to laugh and jeer at

Interferences which
Disregard harmony?

At last able to assess
Noting inability to rise

Above the mess in my life
Pressed underneath duress

Another quarter completes
Without accomplished feat

Yet I foolishly or bravely
Que up to go for it again

Sometimes I’m set off course
But then I back up and search

Hardened rocks for scuff marks
Sifting sands for dropped gems

“I am plumb out of auto-sustain.”

Standing on a peak, planning in a pause.

She had to get over this tendency.

“The ones that I have give double vision – even when I clean them – but, I still need them.”