Monkeys
see original
edit 1: 11.19.2004; edit 2:12.14.2004
You are a kite
above the ground
high
in the sky
you like to
philosophize
while watching Cheers.
Eating late night fast food
with forties of beer.
Understanding the Dude
and 4 am cartoons.
Each toke you choke
and pretty soon
you start
to unpeel
like an onion
you feel,
layers of skin
slide off
like a candle,
melty soft
wax
glides
down
to your toes
tingling
it shows
through the haze
on your face
in your eyes
and you smile
“Life is wild.”
The feeling never lasts forever baby.
It is a glimpse of the unknown.
A taste of heaven maybe,
a bite of hell more likely.
The first and only time
is what we say,
"Experience is life!"
We don’t see the strife
of our pain baneful pleasure.
There’s no way
to measure
the mirrors and hours
spent edgy and cowered
Lips numb and dumb
from too many words…
We are so alert
and razor ready
heartbeat unsteady
flutter; then-wait-only-
I AM AWAKE.
watching intently as
snow candy
falls
from
the air in
fluffy balls
we taste
each
flake
rubbing noses in the cold
I can't begin to imagine
how to fake
such a feeling.
hair stands
my neck sparks
in ecstasy
each touch a kiss of air
wet, warm
expectation
set to music
a sexual, enticing beat
and the heat
sweat
stop.
Temperature freezes, squeezes
my insides
Opposite outside
vapor rub suckers,
glowstick brothers
pounce around with gleeful tears
"I feel as if I've never known fear-"
dance and breathe
momentarily seethe
with another energy
everyone sees truth-
beauty abounds…
What have we found?
We all love each other.
My goal is to learn, discern truth from the lies,
I’ll take off my cap and wave several goodbyes
to leave on a trip with my friends all around me
surrounding and downing, lots of nice hot tea
a steep of fine fungi, a concoction with honey
A mindless contortion of uncommon proportion
Maybe I find that, “The ceiling is moving…”
Or that each second I’m choosing
different ways to say
I am an adventure,
a rapture looming
I WILL NOT
be censored
but I find
I am
losing
my footing
and memories
are blurring,
sober is over
me see
we are bending
time spinning
you try to
hold on stay still
please don’t
breathe
my epiphany
this moment
pleads
with the
zoo of
reality
passes
by as
space
unfolds
to a
knife
point
in
you.
Affectionate monkeys
paw through cousins’ hair
Looking for food as we
humans prey on fear.
Instead of insects we
search for connection
through external bonding
we hope to end rejection.
Contemplating and hiding
behind our elevated escapes.
Substance socialization.
Constant rationalization.
Chimps don't chop their ants
and sell them on the streets.
Free at first next you must pay
to glance at heaven’s gate.
No detox, chills-
fights or crime.
Exotic thrills or
prison time.
Garbage babies
crackdopeheads
Dropout maybes
certain deads.
Not bright enough
they smoke on campus-
pawn their gold,
start pimpin hussies…
But science says
the smaller brained
simplistic monkeys
came before us?
Monkeys play
monkeys groom
there is no blood
in their bedroom
So I’d like to say
without a doubt
“We are elite
it is no feat
to be a wonder-
opposable mortal
we have God’s gift
and will live eternal.”
More like a world
torn asunder.
We’ve become the waste
of violent blunders.
So though I’d like
by side to stand
with fellow man
I find I can’t.
I decide in life
I’ll only fight
for what I see
as personal rights.
But though experience
can be a mother
of invention creation
or any other
artistic endeavor,
remember danger and risk
always come with your trip
to the land of snort drag biscuit.
There comes a time
to put aside and join the kind
who listen to music
very fine tuned
to a station of health
vibration welled up
in mind body locations:
inner chi- SANS drugs.
edit 1: 11.19.2004; edit 2:12.14.2004
You are a kite
above the ground
high
in the sky
you like to
philosophize
while watching Cheers.
Eating late night fast food
with forties of beer.
Understanding the Dude
and 4 am cartoons.
Each toke you choke
and pretty soon
you start
to unpeel
like an onion
you feel,
layers of skin
slide off
like a candle,
melty soft
wax
glides
down
to your toes
tingling
it shows
through the haze
on your face
in your eyes
and you smile
“Life is wild.”
The feeling never lasts forever baby.
It is a glimpse of the unknown.
A taste of heaven maybe,
a bite of hell more likely.
The first and only time
is what we say,
"Experience is life!"
We don’t see the strife
of our pain baneful pleasure.
There’s no way
to measure
the mirrors and hours
spent edgy and cowered
Lips numb and dumb
from too many words…
We are so alert
and razor ready
heartbeat unsteady
flutter; then-wait-only-
I AM AWAKE.
watching intently as
snow candy
falls
from
the air in
fluffy balls
we taste
each
flake
rubbing noses in the cold
I can't begin to imagine
how to fake
such a feeling.
hair stands
my neck sparks
in ecstasy
each touch a kiss of air
wet, warm
expectation
set to music
a sexual, enticing beat
and the heat
sweat
stop.
Temperature freezes, squeezes
my insides
Opposite outside
vapor rub suckers,
glowstick brothers
pounce around with gleeful tears
"I feel as if I've never known fear-"
dance and breathe
momentarily seethe
with another energy
everyone sees truth-
beauty abounds…
What have we found?
We all love each other.
My goal is to learn, discern truth from the lies,
I’ll take off my cap and wave several goodbyes
to leave on a trip with my friends all around me
surrounding and downing, lots of nice hot tea
a steep of fine fungi, a concoction with honey
A mindless contortion of uncommon proportion
Maybe I find that, “The ceiling is moving…”
Or that each second I’m choosing
different ways to say
I am an adventure,
a rapture looming
I WILL NOT
be censored
but I find
I am
losing
my footing
and memories
are blurring,
sober is over
me see
we are bending
time spinning
you try to
hold on stay still
please don’t
breathe
my epiphany
this moment
pleads
with the
zoo of
reality
passes
by as
space
unfolds
to a
knife
point
in
you.
Affectionate monkeys
paw through cousins’ hair
Looking for food as we
humans prey on fear.
Instead of insects we
search for connection
through external bonding
we hope to end rejection.
Contemplating and hiding
behind our elevated escapes.
Substance socialization.
Constant rationalization.
Chimps don't chop their ants
and sell them on the streets.
Free at first next you must pay
to glance at heaven’s gate.
No detox, chills-
fights or crime.
Exotic thrills or
prison time.
Garbage babies
crackdopeheads
Dropout maybes
certain deads.
Not bright enough
they smoke on campus-
pawn their gold,
start pimpin hussies…
But science says
the smaller brained
simplistic monkeys
came before us?
Monkeys play
monkeys groom
there is no blood
in their bedroom
So I’d like to say
without a doubt
“We are elite
it is no feat
to be a wonder-
opposable mortal
we have God’s gift
and will live eternal.”
More like a world
torn asunder.
We’ve become the waste
of violent blunders.
So though I’d like
by side to stand
with fellow man
I find I can’t.
I decide in life
I’ll only fight
for what I see
as personal rights.
But though experience
can be a mother
of invention creation
or any other
artistic endeavor,
remember danger and risk
always come with your trip
to the land of snort drag biscuit.
There comes a time
to put aside and join the kind
who listen to music
very fine tuned
to a station of health
vibration welled up
in mind body locations:
inner chi- SANS drugs.