Saturday, July 21, 2007

True Insanity

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The forces that put a plug in John Lennon are so evil


It’s like examining poop or filthy war cadavers or true insanity

Sometimes it’s healthiest to leave radiating Owl medicine beakers mostly untouched


As I spoke these unexpected dirt words in a bold voice

At our writing club forum, within the church a shadow

Like form that had been eavesdropping on our group from an adjacent quarter

Quickly rose and whooshed over to the furthest corner of the tiny chapel

Actually knocking over a floral vase with a revealing crash in its hasty retreat


From within the vase spilled out a wet copy of that rare edition comic book

Which held the puzzle key to all Mercury Rising matters

This was the same one that Science fiction writer Phillip Dick always yearned for in his reoccurring poverty dreams


An unfunny back page of the colored comic unfolded to reveal a paradigm

Shift so intense that our assemblage felt as though we were

Under a weird and wonderful magnetic force


We could feel it in our cheeks, our frontal lobes churned like soft liquidey whirling gears

We started remarking to each other that our facial colours were intensifying

In sprays and swirls of dark pinkish signatures

Icy hot faces rapidly reddened


This was definitely a new experience


Two of our group were driven to hold mirrors a league apart

And a member with spirited vision

Glimpsed into the next dimension for a nanohour

As Pluto anchored forward, like a skittering gnat -progressing one inch

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The shadow returned to its bottle as we adjourned


I jumped in the truck and

Dialed the radio in on some crystal blue persuasion

And listened for hours until Paul Simon cried

One more time about December 8, 1980


Then I drove home and scribbled out on the hidden side of a tiny fortune cookie paper:

Did Hinckley think he was somehow paying back society in some sick way for the ill deed cast upon John Lennon? Then for the rest of evening I picked through meaningless anagrams for “Mark David Chapman.”

http://nwfolk.com/songlists/john_lennon.html

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