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The Night Before The Winter Solstice

So, it's raining
and dark
now, on the night
before the winter solstice,
and tomorrow morning
at five
I have to drive
my neighbor and his wife
to the airport,
and I am doing it
as a good thing to do
because my neighbor needs help
and I thought
that I would help out,
but it could
get cold tonight
and the water on the roads
could freeze
and I could be driving
on the freeway,
which I don't normally do,
on ice,
so since tomorrow
is the day of the so-called
end of the world,
I'm a little nervous,
but, I don't know,
we'll see

what happens.

Peace Pipe

So, this morning
I was thinking
about Native Americans
because I practice
some sort of
Native American spiritual practice,
and so I thought
about the peace pipe
and since I have a pipe,
I thought I needed to know
what goes in it,
so I looked up Peace Pipe
on the internet
and found out
about all kinds
of herbs
that went into the mix,
so I thought
that I would go out
and buy them,
but later I thought,
why don't I just put
what I have
in my peace pipe,
then it would be
my own special blend,
so I did that,

and I'm smoking tonight.

What A Homosexual Is

When I was
a really young kid,
my family
went out
to see a movie,
and it was
a more adult movie
than a little kid
like me
should have seen,
so I was sitting there
not understanding it
and eating my popcorn,
when the word
"homosexual"
popped up
in the dialogue
in the movie,
so I turned
to my Dad
and asked him,
"Dad...What does
homosexual mean?",
and he replied,
"Men who like men"
so I said,

"Oh."

The News From My House

My sleep
is usually broken
into two or three parts,
and I can't sleep
for very long periods of time,
so this morning
I woke up tired
with that awful feeling
of morning tiredness,
and this time
it didn't pass,
so I tried to exercise a little,
but that didn't help,
so I just waited
and waited
and waited,
and then at about two
in the afternoon,
the feeling was gone,
so I proceeded
to do my spiritual thing
and my exercise thing
and my art thing,
and to my amazement,
I finished everything,
even though
half of the day

was a complete waste.

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Black Friday

Metamorphosis Of Practice

So, I was meditating
and I thought
that I would let
my practice metamorphose,
so I thought
of an old musical offering
where I sang
Oh and Ah
so that is what
I meditated on,
so I thought
that I would let it
metamorphose,
and it came up with
Aloha,
so, later
I changed it
by metamorphosis to
I love you,
and then it went
to I love it,
and finally now
it is at,
Love Life,
so that is how
Zen practice
can change

if you let it.

Granola And Vanilla Soy Milk

So, a Zen man said
that granola
was too sweet,
and I thought
that he meant me,
but after a long time
with dabbling
in health food,
I have just eaten
granola and vanilla soy milk,
and it tasted
like Zen candy,
so delicious,
so the thing is
that we don't accept things
as they are
all the time,
so we have
to adapt
to the changing life,
which we don't accept
all the time,
but the joke is
that we have
been doing that

all along.

The Uncertainty Principle

The mind
tells me
that I don't know
anything,
and probably
I don't even know
that,
so I'm not certain
about any knowledge
and I'm not sure
if anyone is,
or has ever been,
and I even have doubts
about Buddha,
even if I am
a Buddhist,
because the eyes
are probably not
to be believed
necessarily,
and the mind
is probably not
to be believed
necessarily,
so I know
that I don't know,

but I don't know...

Me And My Telephone

I'm not the kind of guy
who you see in the car
talking on the cell phone,
or walking with a phone
on his ear,
or answering the ringing
in the post office,
my cell phone
is only for emergencies,
and I don't even know
the number,
so I think it's written down
some place,
and as for my land line,
it hardly ever rings,
except before
the election,
when guys like
Bill Clinton called up,
but he was on
a recording,
so the only call
that I usually get
is my daily phone call
from my friendly stalker,
who calls every day
and doesn't say

anything.

Questions

Why do we think
that Mary
wore a blue dress?
Why do we think
that flies
are some kind
of devils?
Why do we think
that darkness
is somehow
bad?
Why do we think
that light
is somehow
good?
When the preacher
or the songwriter
tells us
that it's going to rain
why do we think
that something bad
is going to happen?
Who am us?
If we are
what we think,

what do you think?

What I Learned From Television

When I was growing up,
I watched a lot
of television,
and I learned
how to spell "Kellogg's"
and that cigarette smoke
smelled like springtime
and I learned
that life
was like "Leave It To Beaver"
or maybe
"The Dick Van Dyke Show",
so later
the television
turned on me
and became some kind
of a monster,
like psychic TV
which was really
disturbing,
and then cable
gave us hundreds of channels
of next to nothing,
so, a little while ago,
I unplugged the cable,

and the television is off now,
and so,
I feel much better.

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What I Learned Tonight

OK, so maybe
we think
that life sucks
and then you die,
but if we don't think that,
if we think
that life is good
and that we love it,
it will probably seem better
to us
and maybe we
will even believe it,
because what do we have
to go on
for our views
of everything
except thoughts,
so I am of the opinion
that no matter
how bad it gets,
I still think
that life is good
and that I love it,
because everything depends
on how we look at it,
so maybe life

will love us.

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Supersonic Thoughts

So here's how
the thoughts just went -
I noticed
that a guy
was blowing the leaves
off of the patio,
so I wondered
about that,
and then
I noticed
that the guy
was smoking a cigarette
so I wondered
about that,
so I thought
I would have
a dish of ice cream,
so it occured to me
that there was no logic
to these thoughts,
and no cause and effect
kind of chain
to them,
so I remembered
that thoughts
are going so fast
that there are about a thousand
in a blink of an eye,
so I wondered
if Buddha wasn't right
when he said
that this becomes that
in a string of cause and effect,
it's just that
our conscious mind
is too slow
to witness
the logic

of supersonic thoughts.

Three Dog Sex

So there is
this woman
inside of my mind
who is having
a fantasy
about her
and her three dogs
having sex,
so of course,
you just think
that it's me
and that
I've got
a perverted mind
especially for some Zen guy,
but getting into
this peculiar fantasy
is like hopping into
the Super Orgasmatron,
and with my Kundalini Blaster
I go off
to sexual ecstasy,
so don't knock it
but I wouldn't suggest

that you try it.

I've Got The Little Life

As we know
things are always
bigger in Texas
and as Texas goes,
so goes the United States,
so the media sells
The Big Life,
The Large Life,
The Mega this
and the Monster that
and the Super Stuff,
but I think
that maybe
a better way
is the little life,
where we have less,
and live in smaller circles,
like going from chair
to chair,
instead of country
to country,
so I have
such a life,
and it's really
no different
from the big life,
it's just a matter

of quantity.

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The Zen Hippie Song

Forever And Ever, A Men's Room

If you look at it
one way
like I am looking
at it
right now,
every journey,
every walking around,
every adventure,
every doing,
every sleep time,
winds up
in the bathroom,
and I noticed this
one night
when I was in
my little home town
at a coffee house,
and I had to go,
so there I was
at the toilet,
and I laughed
about about winding up
there,
so amen
to the bathroom
where all our travels

seem to wind up.

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Lay Dee Sa Tu

Modeling

So I was in town
sitting on a black metal bench
which encircled a tree
and I was
drinking a cup
of coffee,
when I spied
two beautiful young
sexy model-type girls
wearing tight dresses
and high heels
walking toward me,
so I thought, "Yow!"
and when they got close
to where I was sitting,
I noticed why they looked
like model-type girls
and it was because
they were models
out on a photoshoot,
so a man
with an amazing camera
had them pose
alongside of a wall
right near me
and I watched
as sexy beautiful
commercial art

was being made.

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Achoo

Zen Adventure

I have been wanting
to buy a native american flute
because I have been hearing
what sounds like
native american's voices
in my head,
so I drove
to a little town
around here
and listened to
my head,
and some voice
was telling me
about the impending doom
for the american white man,
for what he has done
to the native americans,
the african americans,
the hispanics, the japanese
and so on,
and when I got
to the shop,
I asked about
flutes
and found
the perfect one,
so that I could play it
so that nobody gets hurt,
since I also
am an american white man,
so when I got home
I played
and the voice kept talking,
so I thought,
"You know... I smell a delusion.
Maybe this voice
is some drunk neighbor...
or maybe I'm thinking
to myself... or maybe
I'm daydreaming"

so I felt much better.

Bad Advice

I've gotten bad advice
from everywhere
for my whole life,
because the world
sells the idea
that if you want
to find
the good feeling
you've got to go
to somebody
out there
who can tell you
how to get the good feeling,
so I went
to music school
and to religion
and to exercise gurus
and you wouldn't belive
how many people
I have listened to
for their answer
and advice,
and I found out
that everybody
is and was wrong
because the only person
who knows what is right
for me

is me.

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Rix Start

Circumvent

I found out
that I was circumsized
when I was forty,
so that knowledge
took a long time
like the way
that the child
who I was
went indoors
to the mind field
and talked
to himself
that was not
like he was
in the world
that people think
like buttons
being pushed
by Zen guys
who he sat by
in the industrial job
that girls sweat at
in their pants
like us men are

after dinner.

Tonight's Mindtrip

So I was sitting
on the couch
figuring out
the mysteries
of the universe,
and I smoked
a last cigarette
which didn't kill me
and went upstairs
to roll some more
and bowed to Kuan Yin.
So I decided
that maybe
the mysteries
of the universe
were a bit much
to stay with
and so
I took a pill
quite awhile ago
and walked down
the stairs
but later
I came up here
and turned on
the computer.

Playing The Poetry Game

This is a perfect expression
of nothing,
just as the blank screen
before it appeared
is a perfect expression
of nothing,
and just as I am
a perfect expression
of nothing,
so the game goes
like this -
that the creative exercise
gets me up
and high
like a sense pleasure,
but then I get busted
by its lack of response
and the fact
that this poetry
is nothing,
and the world's view
is that poetry is
Really Something,
and the response
is a drag,
but the spirtual view
is that the poetry
is something like mischief
and the response

is just what I deserve.

Be Cool

The generation
before me
said cool,
my generation
said cool,
and I found out
that the younger generation
says cool,
also Buddha
suggested cool,
so I say
be cool,
because cool heads
prevail,
and we all know
that we don't particularly like
uncool people,
but we should
be cool with them,
because cool heads
prevail,
so you don't even have
to be cool
because you probably

already are.

The Apocalypse Probably Has Been Called Off

So I was sitting
on the sofa
in the family room,
and I had a breakthrough
about a severe delusion
that I had
about what is known
as the Antichrist,
and this delusion
I shared
with the lady
in Texas
who was insane
with it,
so she did in
her kids
in order
to save them
from her,
and this delusion
is that we thought
that we were
the Antichrist,
because of strange shit
like the number 666
appearing on our heads
and stuff like that
in our minds,
so I had been suffering
with this thing
since college days
and I'm now sixty
and thank God
I didn't kill anybody,
but I realized
that this delusion
about the Apocalypse
is easy to get,
because I have been
frightened of it,
no, terrified of it,
since I was a kid
growing up
with the bomb,
so the thing is
that in my subconscious mind,
I thought,
"Well, if the Apocalypse
is going to happen,
almost all of us
are going to be murdered
by God,
so, since I don't want
that to happen,
I better become
a devil
like the Antichrist
in order to stop it
from happening"
but, I was a good spiritual person
like the lady in Texas,
so what I got
was this awful delusion
about being the Antichrist,
which I obviously
was not
and neither was she,
so after that revelation,
it was off to court
for Judgement Morning,
in the mind,
which is usually
done by G. Mennen Williams,
otherwise known
as "Soapy"
but this time
it was presided over
by "God"
so as court began
I was a bit upset,
so "God" said
"Don't worry.
I'm not going to blow
everybody up.
I love everybody."
so I realized
that God was actually
a nice guy,
and wasn't the awful thing
which my subconscious mind
had dreamed up,
so all is well
and the apocalypse

has been called off.

You Can't Know It Because You Already Do

I can't know it
because I already
know it
and I can't be
here now
because I already
am
and I can't be
peace
because I already
am
and there is no such thing
as sin
in life
only stuff happening
and religion
has a law
which they made up
in order
to civilize us
so cheer up

if you want to!

Ordinary Buddha

So, Buddha was just
an ordinary Joe Shmoe
who was omniscient
and I say that he
was ordinary
because he thought
that he was no better
or worse
than anybody else
and he just had
a way
which he thought
was the best way
to deal with discomfort
so we all have ways
of dealing with it
and everybody
has a way
that they live
like Buddha
had a way
so we don't have to
sit under a tree
all day and night
and beg for food
we can just

do our thing.

After A Schizy Day

So, yesterday
was a schizy day,
with the brain
going bonkers
and funny noises
and odd little voices,
so I got all anxious
and naturally
took a pill,
like I should
in such circumstances,
but I woke up
today
with a much better brain,
and meditated,
and felt better,
and listened
to music,
and felt better,
so I went out
and did my errands,
like yesterday
never happened,
and all is well

here on the happy farm.

Sitting On The Patio In A Cool, Dark Morning

So it is
a cool morning,
this morning
in August
here in Michigan,
and I went out
before dawn
to sit
on the patio,
and the darkness
woke me up
and so did
the coolness,
and I did
many practices,
like my chi kung
and my reflexology,
and the air
was light,
and there was
a mechanical sound
in the distance
to the north,
and so,
when the day arrived
as the sky lightened,
naturally,

a bird sang.

Letting Go Of My Dreams

Well, I gave up
tonight
on my dreams
of a cure for myself
and of success,
because these
have been weighing
me down
for years,
and the world tells us
to hold on to our dreams,
but I suggest
letting them go,
or flushing them
down the toilet,
and these dreams
were the goals
that I set out
to accomplish
at some early stage
in my life,
but after forty or so years
of trying and struggling,
I see now
that I'm better off without
some stupid dream

that just bugs me.

Syndrome

If you have
a severe problem
that affects
your whole life
like me,
or if you have
two severe problems
that affect
your whole life
like me,
we have to change
our whole lives,
and that's
not easy,
and since
my problems
are hard-wired
in my body/mind,
they can't be cured
but only
lived with,
so I have done
the things that need to be done
to change my whole life,
and I'm living with
my syndromes,
but you know

it ain't easy.

How To Save The World

So, I guess,
that God and the gods
are aliens
on other planets
who can't help us
because it will interfere
with our evolution,
and Buddha
showed us the way
but I've tried
for forty five years
and can't get far
with that,
and Christ
died for our sins
so that we could feel better
in church,
but as we all know
the world is all screwed up
with wars and murder
and crimes and injustice
and poverty and suffering,
so, I guess,
if we're going to save
the world
we have to do it
ourselves.

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Jail Vapor

Surgery

I have only had
one surgical procedure
done to me,
and my doctor
said
that it doesn't count,
because it was
my right, lower
wisdom tooth
that was
removed,
and they put me
under
with some great drug
which got me
really high,
and then
the doctor
or dentist
or whatever
just pulled it out,
and I said
to my dad
as we were driving home,
"Well,
that wasn't exactly

like pulling teeth".

Hair

I have a hang-up
on women's hair
like most men
seem to,
and I have
a new idea
for an old hair style
for me,
which is to get
a haircut
that leaves it long,
instead of
cutting it short
like I used to,
and then I want to
grow it out
even longer
like the old hippie days,
and I got this idea
in my head
for no special idea
except that I thought

I might like it.

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Mixed State

The Teeth On The Board Grow Hair

Some old Zen guy,
who had a deep Zen understanding,
once said
that the teeth on the board
grow hair,
so I had read this
many years ago
and this morning
decided to figure it out,
so I went to my dead mother's bathroom
where her false teeth were,
and poured out the water,
then I wondered where a board was,
so I turned and saw the wooden cabinet
with a board for a top
and put the teeth on the board,
then I stood there
waiting for the teeth to grow hair,
when I glanced back
and saw that next to them
was a brush
with hair in it.

So I laughed.

Finding My Girl Within

All us men
seem to think
that the woman
we are looking for
is another
being in a body,
but I found
that for me,
my girl
is found inside
where I am
and I married her
and the thing about it
is that my woman
is a perfect match
for me
who is such a mess
and she is
my dream of a reality
and she never leaves me,
and that is how
I have become

whole.

The World Needs More Loving-Kindness

When I got to the Zen temple,
I heard that Zen was about
loving-kindness,
and so I was sold on it,
but I didn't seem to receive
much loving-kindness,
but I tried to give it,
even though I wasn't very good
at it,
and so I think that loving-kindness
is what the world needs,
but it's hard to give,
because if I give loving-kindness
to men,
they think I'm gay,
and if I give loving-kindness
to women,
they think I'm hitting on them,
so I try
to be loving-kind,
but it's difficult
in this world
with all the stupidity

that we all seem to have.

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Pez Pit

Naughty And Nice

So as I was walking out
of the parking garage
in my little suburban town,
I was smoking
and just as I dropped
my cigarette on the pavement
and was getting out
my cigarette butt picker upper bag,
a lady who looked older than me
got out of her car
and gave me
a dirty look
and said,
"That's not nice..."
in a grumpy tone of voice,
and I said,
"What's not nice?"
in my best nice voice,
and she grumbled something
in a grumpy mumble,
as I picked up
my cigarette butt,
so as I was walking away
I thought,
"Which isn't nice?
My smoking?...

or her?"

Underlined Words

Somebody
is underlining words
in my poetry
in some sort of secret attempt
to send me
little messages
in a sort of code,
and I don't know
who it is
that is doing it,
so naturally
I get a bit
suspicious
and think
that it's the government
or somebody
like that,
and it just
kind of makes
this poor crazy poet
a little bit crazier,
in this era
of internet lunacy,
so I wish
that it would stop
but I can't do anything
about it,

except write this.

Plan

So this morning
I was sitting
outside
and I thought
up a plan
to drive downtown
and sit in the park,
but then
one thing came up
to delay it
and then
another thing came up
to delay it
and then
my hanging plant
fell down
so I had to go get
a new hanger
so after I got home
it was too hot
to go downtown
and I was exhausted
so my plan fizzled
like many of them

seem to do.

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Sod Zop

The Doomsaying Experts

When I was in junior high school,
some teachers told me
and the others in my class
that over-population
was such a problem
that by the time
of the year 2000
we would be packed in
like sardines
with about a foot
of space
for all of us,
and this scared me
and the others in my class,
so then when the year 2000
rolled around,
I remembered the expert teachers
and decided then
that the doom-saying experts
are full of shit
most of the time,
because in life
most of the time

nothing really happens.

Taking Drugs

I don't take
any of
what you would call
street drugs,
but I bought
a bottle
of vitality pills
from the store
that sells vitamins,
so I thought
that I would do drugs
this morning,
and I took one,
and nothing seemed
to happen,
but now I'm awake
and alive,
so I guess

that's vitality.