Strange Journey Knowhard

"author's" note: Don't take these scribblings all that seriously.

Vast Vast mystery!
(so to speak)
it seems that our every rambling turn
each wise or benevolent action
(say giving an apricot to a tiny black girl)
every nasty vanity
(the authoritarian lecture,
the excess tequilla shot):
oft comes like an exotic flock of birds
to a remote chain of islands,
devouring and growing,
dropping new seeds in fertile mud
(to transform the jungle:
to bring nourishing fruits
or devastating famine)

Vast Mystery!!

What wisdom can a man attain?
Alone, no more than a sparrow,
(say, a deference to providence.)

But breaking bread at a round table of scholarship,
strolling, wondering, and talking amid clean woodlands,
listening to myriad birds singing cheerily,
taking a lesson from the careful, careless honeybees,
to be belittled and accepted by towering trees!
(here or there or there on the Globe)

vast, vast mystery!

to look up at the starry dome,
unable to really See!
over there: winged, beaked men
share peace, land, and seeds;
and there is Zome, imposing order
on zeltic Britain;
there!, a herder of grazing beasts tells literature
(not Blake or "Paradise Lost")
to a happy, fascinated fireside.

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REM's "losing my religion,"
a so fresh spinach salad with diced carrot
and blood red radishes plus sweet ranch dressing completed
with a hearty grind of pepper,
spiraling! the pig-skin with a trustworthy cat:
These are a few of my favorite things.

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Think of those innocent, straggly 49ers!:
lean struggle being personal,
before Auschwitz,
before Kaiser and yawning trench graves,
before hellish, seedless oranges,
and dragon-scales concealed in computer bits,
yea, before cookie-cutter bacon pigs.

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There I was,
listening to Billy Joel's "River of Dreams,"
contemplating a tear or a smirk,
a chubbily nubile Thai damsel sleeping on the bed,
two large fans teleporting the north to us...
whatever

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Say, what do you think
what do you think, bedigged reader?

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"uncertainty, danger, merriless frivolity, insipid learning, Mountain Dew commercials:"
this is a very raw appromiximation of the true cancer,
the new black plague that looms

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Me recommends you try juggling,
particularly if you struggle with theological issues
or for wholesome activity on weekends;
to learn, try try two balls in one hand