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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: dark matter, Dream time, poetry, Words
This is
the shadow drop
hollow eyed cats
shed thick folds of fur
in zigzag moonlight
barefoot steps
scan the silt
below the bridge
that passes overhead
the driverless cars
automatic, turbohydramatic
cruise controlled static
attached by rust
held in place
by luck
Filed under: Words | Tags: attention shoppers, consumerism, lost in the supermarket, Uncategorized, Words
Also of note: this coffee is traded by fairies.
Filed under: Mind, Poems, Robert Fripp, Words, sounds | Tags: consumerism, dark matter, death, gravity, King Crimson, memory, Mental Health, night, Pain, portrait, Solar System, trophallaxis, Uncategorized, Words
Filed under: Phenomena, Words, trophallaxis | Tags: consumerism, huh?, Lies, rant, third mind, Troglodytes, trophallaxis, Uncategorized, Wild Thing, Words
And now, ahem…, a formal exposition behind the title assigned to this glob, er blog. (Ah, who the hell cares?)
First, a definition. Quothing the infamous Wikipedia Galactica…
“Trophallaxis: is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding. It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees. The word was introduced by the entomologist William Morton Wheeler in 1918.”
This is what bloggers seem to do. They feed on the information in their environment. Then they spit it out, perhaps partially chewed, for some other blogger to snarf up on, and so on, or not. Or maybe they chew it up good all by themselves, then crap out whats left after they’d had their way with it – the beasts, and the bloggers that like to schnarf up crap will do so, hereby beginning a new cycle of trophallaxis.
As for troglodytes, well, I can tell you, at best, my ancestors probably didn’t start walking upright until they were damn well ready. They saw other folks doing it, but it just seemed like a kind of fad at the time. They wanted to tell them this. Explain to them that they were being tools of trendiness. But trendiness was so new at the time, there were no words for it. This is when the Trogs, as I like to call them, came up with a special chant, and it goes a little bit like this…
Wild Thing
You Make My Heart Sing
You Make Everything Groovy
Wild Thing
a branch that falls lightly
dislodged by a brush of April
pine needles
broken limbs
the treasure of health
and acute disorientation
a wildflower
held in the hand
determined
from the ground up
this day
that has ever passed
receding into
it’s own shadow
Filed under: Poems, Words, jon hassell, sounds, trophallaxis | Tags: death, Dream time, earth, fish, flamingo, night, photo, poetry, taste, trophallaxis, Words
outside
there is a stone
the color of the evening sky
it disappears into the night
as the sound of rain
stretches into the future
a bird
a heron is fishing for his dinner
seeing through reflections
brighter than he is
for that sustaining pulse
the heartbeat
that feeds the stomach
the surgeon of the night sky
restores dead things
with the power of sound
Filed under: Images, Mind, Words | Tags: home, monkey mind, poetry, trophallaxis, Words
Like a marble rolling down a hill
I found the place I’ve settled in
I’m here, but easily dislodged
by vibration
the temporary home I see
walls at times folding in
as good a place as any
but not what conjures rest
or reflection, or comfort
flavor bud living
as Captain. B once said
but then again,
if this roll was too cozy
I might fall asleep, again
I brought you unstructured ornaments
that could not be repeated
no matter how much I wanted to
rendered insubstantial
by their irreproducability
where was my follow-up?
where was the framework?
I had never been here before
a monkey at my typewriter
this is what my new home will look like
something I’ve never seen
but familiar
diamond?
don’t mind me.
what lasts?
the rectory?
the foundary?
the rubble of cities?
change is it.
the living.
the thing that moves.
the thing that gets out of the way.
the thing that is in the way.
the thing in time.
a many faced thing.
an echo in the dark.
aura of an ancient tree.
roots long gone.
thus I waited by the bus depot
in another country
hoping to catch a glimpse
of your smile
-this I told her
the customs were similar
although I was toasted at the stake
for committing a faux pas
I thought I had been dancing
-I had taken lessons and everything
there’s no point standing on ceremony
yet that’s where I had been standing
in the middle of the Oslo Day Parade
the cold wind was pushing in from the river
-and I was developing a taste for funnel cakes
meanwhile, back on earth
burried deep in the ground
the thing that lasts
moves very slowly
You, over there, Aquabib and Foppotee.
You have heard the Tortiloquy of the repelicans
(Snollygosters so laden with fish they no longer fly)
Though Senticous from our Veprecose times,
Having endured the Scaevety of the last eight years of Cynicocratical rule.
Be assured the Essomenic Plegnic of time and truth will expose the Maleolent.
But rest not, practice your Antipelargy, and eschew Quibbleism.
Vainglorious.
No, this is not abo
ut the Greek electronic music composer.
I am not a morning person . I’m not a night person either. I’d say I’m a 5 minutes somewhere between breakfast and lunch person. Though I know not everybody eats breakfast or lunch. I should have said morning and noon. Anyhow, if I can get in my 5 minutes of personhood, then I have accomplished what I am capable of. It has been awhile since I have done that. Yet I continue on, only mildly daunted, knowing that somewhere sometime along the way I will receive that reminder of why I am.
The world is turning constantly. Hurtling through space. An oasis of possibility. Blink, and then it is gone.
Words lie. People lie. People use words to lie. Words cannot really describe the truth. When I try to describe the truth with words, I end up lying. No way around that. The best we can do is perhaps just a lie of omission. Leaving something out. Because it doesn’t fit our version of the truth. Maybe its just something that we conveniently don’t remember. Or maybe we do, but we are so good at reshaping the truth to fit our lies that we can effectively ignore some things, almost as if they don’t exist. It is in this half-way realm between truth and lies that words carry us.
