note to self

[wytchcroft]

lead by instinct, lead by the nose
lead to the cliff or lead to the rose
lead to nowhere's holy cup
doing the de ja vu dance
the insect jitterbug

blow on thistles
make a wish
close your eyes
compile a list
of everything you really should give up

give up skin and tooth and bone
give up paper, scissors, stone
give up the scales from your back
give up cobwebs, cataracts

refuse the muse
and willful acts

the words in ribbons
the words in sacks

the words in rivers
the words sunk deep

the words that laugh
the words that weep

the words that through the woodland creep
the words in traps

give up wings and whiskers too
hair of brown and eyes of blue
give up the known and give up thought
give up the baggage that you've brought

give up the strange, the wilderness
give up on here and there and this

give up terror, give back the night
give up the dark, forget the light
give up secrets, give up song
quit dividing right from wrong

give up insomnia
give up sleep
give up the ritually counted sheep
give up dreams

give up anger, give up hate
give up bewailing your outcast state

give up hope and give up love
give up calling to the Lord above
give up the past, the future, now
give up mispronouncing Tao

give up reason, give up delusion
give up every

pat conclusion

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