Month: February 2013

Is this real life or a Movie?

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Is this Real or a Movie?At Oakland’s Art Murmur, Steve and I were watching the plentiful people walk by The Wall, and he asked me if I thought this was all real or if it was maya, an illusion.

Without hesitation I replied that I thought most certainly it was all made up somehow and not the truth.

He agreed and then asked if I thought other people felt “all this” was a facade of sorts, as well.

I responded firmly that I thought most people were very invested in what was going on here as all and everything.

He smiled and said that almost all the people he has asked have responded the same way; to both questions

He says he has asked lots of different types of people.

The Teacher

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For close to three decades
I sat in his class
Once a week, off and on,
Mostly on
And
Even when I wasn’t there
I was there

Even though I knew
It was never about him

This teaching where I sat for years being told I didn’t exist
And that it is
all
Interconnected with no separate such

Even having seen the box lowered into the ground and I throwing my dirt on that box

Him having passed and
I knowing the teaching was never about him

Still
It’s so comforting
now more than
ever to hear his voice

Flowers at Walgreens

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3 feb 2013

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I’ve gone to Walgreens a lot lately.
Because the tiny rose bushes are just $2.50

And they come in white, light pink, bright pink and red.

Those living eternal symbols were less than a cup of coffee
The kind I drink anyway.

I bought one of each in different neighborhoods
Because I kept coming back for more, and I was getting around.

In the stores I noticed things
So,
I’m just saying.

In the white neighborhood store, as you approach the checkout stand,
An impulse item you can buy is blond hair dye
Like, hey! I think I’ll dye my hair blond!

In the Latino neighborhood you can chose from 3 aisles
of valentine candy, flowers and what-not
That’s an aisle more than other stores

 

You can probably get these anywhere
I noticed them in the black neighborhood store
Black Marlboros. Black, like acknowledging what is
The package, your lungs, the smoke
Calling a spade a spade.