June 19th, 2024 Half Dome Diaries
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Praise those who sit and wait for nothing. Who sit still and know they are owed nothing. On the mat each inhalation
Formulate an agenda Make friends. Label enemies. Identify beliefs. Re-examine.
Mowing with the sickle I stop abruptly and remember crawling out the window to smoke on the roof
Curling black from crematorium sta… tell me again the hoax of the soul… The cowl paces, pretends to be faceless, swinging silver and wafting saccha…
In Thirty-Four years I can count on two hands how many times I’ve been in my right mind. It is a small percentage.
I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.
I hear now a raucous party in the… Recognizable party tracks fun and… Laughter, joviality, intoxication… An early advent of unseasonal heat and the moment of festival and mat…
That one more, chasing the dragon, carrot dangling,
(1) Under an open window I gaze out until the wonder is gon… Having run out of questions I fal… but perk up when a stray cat appea…
As far as the eye can see— Limitless blue nowhere to be found.
Finally alone, I lie with a volum… I venture again to hear the injunc… normally I savor their sensitivity… but tonight all I can think about
Pretend like your hell is the new normal. Now the space is calm, and poignant, and telling.
There is a most worthy woman, the upper steward of the manor, Obermeyer of Holy Terra, house cute, smokestack simmering,
Tears tears do a walk-by unload the clip don’t know why now
Walking lakeside, I try to discern what the frogs a… but their drone is one collective… Diving again and again after the secret,