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Some great imagery, and some heartfelt thoughts, from
John G. Hall:
The Orange Snake of Burma
I swim to soaking wet
the sun sets me on fire
shoes walk to my step
the machinery of a cornfield
leaps into my breakfast bowl
and the deep ocean drinks
down the skies deep breath
the bounce holds onto the ball
while rivers pierce mountain sides
holy waters cup my profane hands
and the monks of Burma are one
big orange skinned snake hissing
peace through the olive green streets
and though batons make broken bones
and bullets follow one finger's orders
the orange snake of Buddha covers
the young soldiers in pink love bites
and though they purge the road of prayers
the red venom of revolt slips its pulse
into them until one day soon their hard hats
quake open, burst with rivers of orange silk
and pink kisses, holy tongues shaking down
skull apples from the prison walls of their souls
love spitting on their ammunitions,peace pissing
on their hand grenades, revolt fellatio's their electric
batons, until the whole of Burma becomes one
gigantic orange and pink dragon, its breath
a hurricane of apple blossom,
until then the young Burmese monks coil
in their prison cells, holding pink love bites
in their mouths of Om, a thirty thousand
headed orange snake burning in the forests
of labour camps, no tourist snaps this way,
by the road side young girls sell glowing orange
snake eggs for tourists to take with them, for all
peoples revolutions everywhere begin at home.
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The Gathering of Moss.
They told me to be safe that I should stay still like a stone
so I slept on through the first dawn of every days creation,
slept through the war,slept through the peace,slept through
the murder and the mayhem,slept through the deceptions,
slept through the truths,slept through the graveyard shifts,
slept through the easy births,slept through the learning
of my ignorance,slept through the softly stolen lives,slept
through the treasure finds,slept through the kisses, slept
through the daggers,slept through the approaching comet,
slept through the torturing, slept through the heart beats,
slept through the bird song,slept through the gun shots,
slept through the souls dark place,slept through the smoke
and mirrors of living loveless,slept through the government
sponsored heroin pushers, slept through the secret states
secret arms trade flooding council estates with deadly weapons,
slept through the blind eye turned to the cull of our young poor,
rather than education and employment,slept through the street war,
slept through the grave,slept through the end of time,slept through
the lightning of your nervous touch,slept through your thunder storms,
slept through my own lonely death,slept through my own goodbyes,
O to sleep so sound in the barbed wire of the mad laid mind
but they told me to be safe that I should stay still like a stone.
and so here I sit the gathering of moss my guilt.
Last update : 24-03-2008 08:29
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