POWER I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am ----------------------------------------------------------- People need Connectors Writers, heroes, stars, leaders To give life form. A child's sand boat facing the sun. Plastic soldiers in the miniature dirt war. Forts. Garage Rocket Ships Ceremonies, theatre, dances To reassert Tribal needs & memories a call to worship, uniting above all, a reversion, a longing for family & the safety magic of childhood ----------------------------------------------------------- The grand highway is crowded w/ lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness ----------------------------------------------------------- Now is blessed The rest remembered ----------------------------------------------------------- A man rakes leaves into a heap in his pard, a plie, & leans on his rake & burns them utterly. The fragrance fills the forest children pause & heed the smell, which will become nostalgia in several years ----------------------------------------------------------- Sirens Water Rain & Thunder Jet from the base Hot searing insect cry The frogs & crickets Doors open & close The smash of glass The Soft Parade An accident Rustle of silk, nylon Watering the dry grass Fire Bells Rattlesnake, whistles, castanets Lawn mower Good Humor man Skates & wagons Bikes ----------------------------------------------------------- Where'd you learn about Satan-out of a book Love?-out of a box ----------------------------------------------------------- night of sin (The Fall) -1st sex, a feeling of having done this same act in time before O No, not again ----------------------------------------------------------- Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests, deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements ----------------------------------------------------------- Men who go out on ships To escape sin & the mire of cities watch the placenta of evening stars from the deck, on their backs & cross the equator & perform rituals to exhume the dead dangerous initiation To mark passage to new levels To feel on the verge of an exorcism a rite of passage To wait, or seek manhood enlightenment in a gun To kill childhood, innocence in an instant