God lead us NOT into a flawed ontology But deliver us from that nonexistent epistemological righteousness that was formed inEurope and fermented on TVIs this broken glass or diamonds?The vandal wonders at the plunder.The world we inhabit has no deathA bullet to the chestYields instant resurrection On the video consoleWhy are the shop keepers cowering ?This is…
Author: Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Dog Sleeping
When the dog sleepsWhere is she running?Soft muffled barks held innot to disturb the others in the packShe runs through the mistProtecting the rest from unknown dangersPure of heartFull of purposeSleeping DeeplyGently twitching 10/1/2023
Hypnosis
Experiments in Distant Influence Click ( without shadows flick ( life would be 2 dimensional Lick ( soft, without definition Ticket ( no way in or outStick it ( trapped in a ThicketCricket ( never silentStruck ( match that starts the fireClay ( hardened in the kilnPi ( radius squared E ( logarithmically natural Transcendent…
Fantasy/Reality – Different
Erotic thoughts that aren’t criminal very unusual I won’t tell, piously Begging, don’t tell meI imagine you pleading not to sayNot to revealThe dark hidden truthOf your inner lifeThe suffering and painThe look of sudden ecstasy On the virgin’s beatific faceFilled with the alien, unknowable Holy SpiritChrist’s furrowed backAs he struggles toward CalvaryTo meet his…
To Eat My Own Head
My head was baked for 3 hours at 400 degreesFeeling my skull with my fingertips My brain tasted saltylike seawater Those little knobs at the inside edge of the eye socket Gristle, hard to scrape out with my teethAs a child, I used to push real hard with my index fingers on the soft edges…
Fragments
When a light wave is not a light waveLikewise the divine hospice workers and nursesThank you in advance, in ways that words do not expressDonny, we will have to tell your Dad that men from Mars are planning to destroy Earth!d“That would require telling the truth and I hate telling the truth”THEY are making us…
Lightening Rod
Shadows of SentienceThat same flyBuzzing around the kitchen for days nowFoucault, tripping his brains outat Zabriskie point with Sisyphus He just wants to be punishedby that handsome Daddy In a pastel sweaterMetal rods on religious towersCreating an 18th century furor of origin stories Zeus Elohim Allah and God OMKa BlamOne hand thunder clappingThe coyote is smoking peyote400 year old 7 ft….
No Shaman Slips Away
Requiem for Sam “niemand bleibt hier” – Maria Osic Digital haze, the realm,One drunken night, where fates did overwhelm.He found herWaiting in his phoneFrom the trailer,A ’48 Spartan Manor’s in our old backyard,Impatient A tale, its essence unbound.A sadness, reallyA message arrived, a magical connection,Heidi, implausible Mexican name, she took him around the bend.A piece…
Momentum of Faith
(A year after the first sonic boom) Alpha, Son of Eve, Isis, GaiaAt the table of a powerful publisher in Westchester,beyond the spires of Gotham,The honored guestruefully identifies the swirling cognitive layer of existence, He, a banished paleontologist – FranciscanIn full frock, pining for ParisTo his left The beautiful Hollywood starlet in a risqué negligée…
White Light Sliding
Illumination Transcendence is time, senseUnderstanding, nonYou knowMaybeWe’re both really deadYou sayMaybeI’m out of my headFeverRisingOut of controlYou thinkDo theyStill have a soulMountains risingInto the skyYou thinkMaybeThey’re not really so highTemperature RisingOut of our brainYou know MaybeWe both are insaneorYou knowMaybeWe’re both just in painSamsara bingoAttached to all suffering Surfing the wavesSay “Goodbye Self”Hello great clouded…