thoughts on today, 6-06-09

Hurry up. Slow down. Wait- I want this to last. But I also want to taste it, to taste more of it. Now. But you can only taste it for so long, until it's gone. You can replay your favorite song again and again. Calorie-free. Go on a music diet, and you'll be dead in a week. But you'll die happy. Die listening to music. But this isn't time to talk about death. You will accomplish that without much effort. Ah, but living...

the magnet

is very, very useful.
and very, very beautiful
in it's smoothness
and the sound that it makes
clink (it sounds hollow, but it's so heavy)
when you set it
on the table.
Such a satisfying sound.
energy
that you can't see
but if you hold your tongue
out over it
for long enough
your taste buds
will start to dance
a wild party dance
a wilderness dance
a wild blackberry dance
and you won't be able
to get enough.

the magnet has a name.
it is hard to pronounce
and takes many years of mindful deliberation
to begin to understand.

so i choose not to wonder
how it works
or puzzle over why
but to take joy
(joy!)
in the magic
that it creates.

Basements I have been in #5.

If I were to tell you about this basement, you would say to me, "surely, that place does not exist." Behind every door, is a different world. And there are many, many doors. Shrieks, howls, laughter, crashing and banging of anything that can be thrown against a wall. Madness in the great ones and greatness in the mad ones. An underworld of imagination, where we've cut our shins in the dark and been blinded by all those lights. There is safety beneath the earth, safety in our numbers, and we ought to hang a sign for the outsiders: "Enter without your clothes (as you know them) and let us sew you something new. " Because only by being naked can we ever be clothed. A basement where we were all lovers, in every way and only occasionally involving sex. More sub, make the seats shake, if we stomp loud enough the earth will quake and shake some sense into anyone who has never been to the basement.

Galbraith Hall, 2009.