BLUE PERIOD
PROLONGED BLUE PERIOD
People emerging from the theatre giving each other
bear hugs rubbing of backs ad nauseam One guy
being pecked on the cheek repeatedly Who the hell
is he? (diminutive androgyne)
Last night he showed up in a dream The door had to be
locked + chained only to open again + again An unusually
small womanlike painter with a gravely voice said:
We must free ourselves from the titillating stew of schadenfreude
Write like no one is reading you Easy-breezy advice from someone
who wields the brush to she who slaves with the pen It seems that
people everywhere are unloading words of wisdom
Today a U of T scientist accosted me as I dredged words from the
nether-regions He had the quintessential wild hair & skinny head
He gesticulated & spat The gist of his message:
Try to have relations with Tibetan monks A friend of a friend told him
that every time she made love with a monk the hillside would burst into
flowers He spoke too of time travel & 21st century political tyranny and
suggested that I not linearalize too much
And since it is near impossible to make shit like this up you will simply
have to trust that it is not the blues or the psilocybin hijacking the Muse
Just a lot of people out there who should be saying something saying nothing
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(The poet Allen Ginsberg and other Beats used Psilocybin to their advantage
writing numerous poems which would shape the direction of 21st century
literature, under the influence. While this post-beat poet gets her prose seeds
from careful observation of normal everyday speech at U of T. To date it is
unknown whether psychotropics are widely used by this captive audience.
One may only assume.)
POST SCRIPT: Allen Ginsberg (snippets of The Lion For Real Paris 1958)
I came home and found a Lion in my living room
Rushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion!
Called my Reichian analyst I’m afraid any discussion
would have no value He hung up I ended up masturbating
in his Jeep parked in the street moaning Lion!
Summer 2014
songanddancegirl 