mayday: poetry from March of this year

21.6.09

poetry from March of this year

20/03/2009
Joshua

THE RESIDUAL MEMORY

Egodeath like nuclear war
wiping out the cities of the world

Visionary intensity is dripping through my mind
one couldn't re-create, and the words I can't find
The imagery playing out on the screen
was direct from the blood of this organic machine

Fear flooding in
as a billion tears fall
- and all familiarity is lost
like dust.
I woke from the dream on a blanket of stars.

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"A functioning police state needs no police" (William S. Burroughs)
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all" (Oscar Wilde)
"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them" (Abbie Hoffman)
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape" (William S. Burroughs)
"Don't hate the media, become the media" (Jello Biafra)
"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk" (Tom Waits)
"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage" (William S. Burroughs)
"For every prohibition you create you also create an underground" (Jello Biafra)
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it" (Salvador Dali)
"Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours" (Syd Barrett)
"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all" (William S. Burroughs)
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him" (Galileo Galilei)
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves" (Jerry Garcia)
"I'm disappearing, avoiding most things" (Syd Barrett)
"If it doesn't kill you, it will shape you, if it doesn't break you it will make you" (Siouxsie Sioux)
"If you don't fight, you lose" (Redgum)
"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove" (Timothy Leary)
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless" (Aleister Crowley)
"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole" (William S. Burroughs)
"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind" (Ramana Maharshi)
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales" (Aleister Crowley)
"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself" (Chuck Palahniuk)
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted" (William S. Burroughs)
"Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror" (William S. Burroughs)
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life" (Aleister Crowley)
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash" (Leonard Cohen)
"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered" (Leonard Cohen)
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit" (Abbie Hoffman)
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness" (Aleister Crowley)
"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic" (Salvador Dali)
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell" (Aleister Crowley)
"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape" (Leonard Cohen)
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" (Leonard Cohen)
"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse" (Sitting Bull)
"Think for yourself and question authority" (Timothy Leary)
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself" (Leonard Cohen)
"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat" (Terence McKenna)
"When ice turns to water you learn to swim" (Anon.)
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition" (Timothy Leary)
"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time" (Chuck Palahniuk)
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists" (Abbie Hoffman)
"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind" (Timothy Leary)
"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" (William S. Burroughs)

...music i get into

Bauhaus, Bob Dylan, Bobby Flynn, Buzzcocks, Bryan Ferry (and Roxy Music), Chain, The Church, Collard Greens and Gravy, Culture Club, The Cure, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Divinyls, The Doors, Edith Piaf, Eurythmics, The Glove, Hunters and Collectors, Icehouse, INXS, Janis Joplin, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed -(and the Velvet Underground), Machine Gun Fellatio, Midnight Oil, Nina Hagen, Pink Floyd -(and Syd Barretts stuff), The Pixies, The Pretenders, Psycraft, Psychedelic Furs, RL Burnside, Red Gum, REM, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, Slade, Split Enz, Steppenwolf, Tears for Fears, Tom Waits ....... psychedelic trance, darkpsy, blues, punk, post punk, new wave (or whatever the fuck they call it), and pop crap or poofy dance music (but that's my secret shame)

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poetry from March of this year

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