tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34401479855793023212023-11-16T03:11:58.476-08:00THE BELLASTRANGE EVIDENCEGUERILLA ART WRITINGc.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-82363842113014831702010-05-05T10:35:00.000-07:002010-05-05T10:51:42.065-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwQbgti_Y122m_KXlThxDhjbTMCrfCLMYVy6IDYZqRzA3m8b5W5AkHr99y7hbVPlcshkRzF0mDVNNYr57QiPGYtB_o9zHv_Rq7GiIjCO9w10CHgjRjucvVLl7vuAvKPjdaPZaYL6t0-g/s1600/scan0001.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 222px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467842000247864770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwQbgti_Y122m_KXlThxDhjbTMCrfCLMYVy6IDYZqRzA3m8b5W5AkHr99y7hbVPlcshkRzF0mDVNNYr57QiPGYtB_o9zHv_Rq7GiIjCO9w10CHgjRjucvVLl7vuAvKPjdaPZaYL6t0-g/s320/scan0001.jpg" /></a> THE ENORMOUS JOKE OF EXISTENCE has been revised!!!!!! 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Go to <a href="http://www.blurb.com/">http://www.blurb.com/</a> and type in the enormous joke of existence<br />thanks!!!!!!!!c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-14974676598745993242010-02-23T12:00:00.000-08:002010-02-23T12:11:47.353-08:00<span style="font-size:180%;"> if you happend to receive </span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> this book, and want to comment</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> then comment here......</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> (even if you are an illusion!)</span><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGyU-BaYuZDPAKKtBTxgBZkinRUykm9-tkURX9bZQQkAGkl-eIfTvoRClnIDhbYcYI08KJJmByJZHs16JOdQkGPHUBTngIlnmsOcApB3OKeLx1xPViSzsJQzp80k5-n-f_eVSXU3iVR8/s1600-h/scan0003.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 282px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441531914376377506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGyU-BaYuZDPAKKtBTxgBZkinRUykm9-tkURX9bZQQkAGkl-eIfTvoRClnIDhbYcYI08KJJmByJZHs16JOdQkGPHUBTngIlnmsOcApB3OKeLx1xPViSzsJQzp80k5-n-f_eVSXU3iVR8/s320/scan0003.jpg" /></a>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-10883070241960984282009-12-14T12:00:00.001-08:002009-12-14T12:21:08.634-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3QeCvestDuqyZNznFdCOppncMzFhvDV3CvYIKY50_TNo-rYyCXsU7uA9fttRqvlJm6SFXwpPTWws6dSrpsZVdMQI5JQDTBPu8afQLCKoLRXus3zfYXBfnlvLCCzw5t0WbBFSyWxDS74/s1600-h/scan0002.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 263px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415188531833993730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3QeCvestDuqyZNznFdCOppncMzFhvDV3CvYIKY50_TNo-rYyCXsU7uA9fttRqvlJm6SFXwpPTWws6dSrpsZVdMQI5JQDTBPu8afQLCKoLRXus3zfYXBfnlvLCCzw5t0WbBFSyWxDS74/s320/scan0002.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>make comments for<br /></strong></span><div><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"><strong> THE ORANGE BIRD here!!!!!!!!!</strong></span></div>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-79559777149802300722009-10-28T09:41:00.000-07:002009-10-28T09:43:59.949-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;">WE ARE ALL IMAGINARY</span>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-13899515294949326592008-11-06T06:36:00.000-08:002008-11-06T06:48:55.480-08:00<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEfvb4ncdRQsZpfBk2AmnOjxv3yUkyu1Q5NE756lnjW_JhG7-6Clt9gRECQ-96TUpwgKHXlnSECVHImwDRHjVk75BoW0ORnTy-EIP1_DG1KfJ0AeplsmA-Ft1pY6UJl5hsUw4U_MO3PI/s1600-h/100_2132.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265554404303169746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEfvb4ncdRQsZpfBk2AmnOjxv3yUkyu1Q5NE756lnjW_JhG7-6Clt9gRECQ-96TUpwgKHXlnSECVHImwDRHjVk75BoW0ORnTy-EIP1_DG1KfJ0AeplsmA-Ft1pY6UJl5hsUw4U_MO3PI/s320/100_2132.jpg" border="0" /></a> all the mistakes i've made, brought me to this day.<br />and look, what a beautiful day.....<br />i think i'll go out and make some more mistakes!<br /><br />c.morning 2008<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-77440627547970402532008-10-14T12:39:00.000-07:002008-11-06T06:51:33.413-08:00OVERHEARD CONVERSATIONS (a story of signs)He stood in line at the bank, his own private reality running spitting and sputtering through his head. He could see the people around him going about their own day, with their own shadows, mouths moving, but he heard only his own thoughts:<br /><br />store that<br /><br />sort this out<br /><br />save more<br /><br />eat less<br /><br />no more yelling<br /><br />take more vitamins<br /><br />make better decisions<br /><br />feel sorrow, but not regret<br /><br />find wonder<br /><br />get a fucking hobby<br /><br />become a "real boy"<br /><br /><br /><br />When he suddenly overheard the tailend of the conversation going on between two women in front of him,<br /><br />"Stop at 11:11" She said to the other.<br /><br />He did not wait for her response and went back into the crevises of his own perception, drowning out the words going on around him.<br /><br /><br /><br />All would have seemed normal, except for the strange, reacurring paradox of everytime he came to, from his thoughts, he overheard the same constant phrase,<br /><br />Stop at 11:11<br /><br />and what an odd thing to hear. Each public place he was, first the bank, the laundry mat, the grocers--like little ghosts inside his head and he was beginning to wonder, not only why but what exactly it meant.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />stop at 11:11<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />He drifted back into his random thoughts;<br /><br />breathe oxygen<br /><br />another day another dolllar<br /><br />rat race<br /><br />lost and alone<br /><br />urgent<br /><br />stop at 11:11 (he overheard)<br /><br />pay up<br /><br />karma<br /><br />immense and immersed<br /><br />panicked<br /><br />pointless<br /><br />the eye of god<br /><br />the hum of the earth<br /><br />very very dizzy<br /><br />spiders in the closet<br /><br />stop at 11:11 (there it was again)<br /><br />snakes and ladders<br /><br />devil at the door<br /><br />watch for signs<br /><br />meaningful living<br /><br />the sigh of angels<br /><br />floating feathers<br /><br /><br /><br />The day sped by and the future was now the present. The mystery of the night surrounded him. Moths looked for light. He was paying attention to the smells of the dark, the sounds of humming street lamps.<br />He walked past a stranger.<br />"Got the time?" Stranger asked.<br />He looked at his watch,<br />"11:10." He replied and his heart sank with an eerie electrical feeling. He stopped. The minute passed, it was now 11:11. He stood very still at the curb of the intersection, motionless, wondering what strange events would unfold around him. There are no coincidenses, he realized and the overheard conversations were a sign, he could now feel it.<br />He waited.<br />11:12.<br />11:13.<br />11:14.<br />cars passed in their normal way.<br />11:15.<br />no sirens or freak flashes of lightening.<br />11:16.<br />nothing.<br />11:17.<br />nothing had happend.<br />He laughed out loud at himself, waited for the light to change, then crossed the street. He walked the rest of the uneventful way back home.<br /><br />(he walked the rest of the way home, <em>without the knowledge</em> that he had course corrected the universe. He will never know exactly what <em>would have happend</em> if he would not have stopped, if he would have ignored the signs and taken just a few more steps into the future.<br />He is completley unaware.<br />He will never know.<br />and neither will we.)<br /><br />What signs will you pay attention to today?<br />(maybe this is one of them)<br /><br />c.morning 2008c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-65769194177368467482008-10-01T10:19:00.000-07:002008-11-06T06:57:48.718-08:00THE SPIN OF THE EARTH (or the twin paradox theory) by c.morning 2008<div align="center"></div><br /><div align="left">this world rotates at a speed of approx. 1,100 miles per hour.</div><br /><div align="left">a constant, precise and endless spin. </div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left">for the most part people don't even think or remember that they are spinning.</div><br /><div align="left">when we walk</div><div align="left">run</div><div align="left">ride</div><br /><br /><div align="left">we are spinning</div><br /><br /><div align="left">while einstein dreamed of particle accellurators</div><div align="left">while kurt screamed</div><div align="left">while mary gave birth</div><br /><div align="left">they were spinning </div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left">while shadows creep </div><div align="left">while love is lost</div><div align="left">and people die</div><div align="left">while butterflies endure , delicate strong </div><div align="left">and everyone teeters to and fro</div><div align="left">here and there </div><div align="left">round and round </div><br /><br /><div align="left">we spin.</div><br /><p></p><br /><p><br /></p><div align="left">along with the spinning plates</div><div align="left">and water spinning clockwise down the drain</div><div align="left">while our minds spin out of control with all the bittersweet distractions</div><div align="left">and cars tailspin</div><div align="left">and your voice ,</div><div align="left">spins all around me </div><br /><br /><div align="left">we rush and spin </div><div align="left">around</div><div align="left">making things </div><div align="left">to simplify and clutter our lives.</div><div align="left">while blackholes spin</div><div align="left">and we try to make sense of all the things we don't understand,</div><br /><br /><div align="left">we are spinning</div><br /><br /><div align="left">we spin through all we do</div><div align="left">even in the silence of this room</div><div align="left">when all appears still</div><div align="left">and you and i sit here</div><div align="left">still and silent,</div><br /><div align="left">we are spinning</div><br /><div align="left">always and forever</div><div align="left">moving and spinning</div><br /><div align="left">and trying to balance.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="center"></div>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-21373788356916501972008-09-24T07:24:00.000-07:002008-11-06T06:58:45.027-08:00<div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sometimes i have a theory </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">that our universe resides</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">in the very mind of god</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">OTHER times</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">i wonder if god</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">may just have been</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">a geeky kid with a petri dish</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">either way i whisper prayers</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">out into </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">the dark</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;">c.morning 2008</span></div>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-46563386377710085052008-09-13T12:24:00.000-07:002008-09-13T12:38:43.650-07:00<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbqiQa9a1v9Vi1dFP44R1drwk-ZyVXWnD0C8j-sU_MjNQORN_lqlEg89BH50Hhb9rb5D8VAuGvaeIm_cwLhvMPAi2D1oNdE1Qgu6-Y3JEFJfT6bw_a50bNp_7iACYljUG6L8R6G1aQGo/s1600-h/100_1930.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245589588742167202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbqiQa9a1v9Vi1dFP44R1drwk-ZyVXWnD0C8j-sU_MjNQORN_lqlEg89BH50Hhb9rb5D8VAuGvaeIm_cwLhvMPAi2D1oNdE1Qgu6-Y3JEFJfT6bw_a50bNp_7iACYljUG6L8R6G1aQGo/s320/100_1930.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:courier new;">reincarnation</span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier New;">by</span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier New;">c.morning 2008</span><br /></div>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440147985579302321.post-57588451554980116682008-09-06T23:21:00.000-07:002008-09-07T02:36:19.993-07:00Floating Feathers<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">How to begin?</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">From the beginning,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(perhaps not the very beginning,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">can't say as I remember.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">she said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Beyond the floating bubbles</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of childhood</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and into the realms of teenage unsettled spirits</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I felt myself turning</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">into a puzzle piece</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wondering year after year</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wondering where I fit in, do I fit in</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(within the world)?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where do I BELONG?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where am I GOING?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who am I? She asked</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This shadow on the wall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this voice,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this strange little strong little voice</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">coming out of me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">coming from somewhere,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">speaking these strange little strong little thoughts,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that only I think?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A teeny creature living someplace</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">deep inside this body,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">trying to break free?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This puzzled soul.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well sometimes I can't breathe</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I get myself all worked-up</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and then</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm pretty much pointless.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HYSTERICAL.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I lose myself altogether.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have been many many different beings</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so far.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Like a cruel irony.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Did you ever have one of those moments</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or days</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">when you think,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WHAT THE HELL'S HAPPENING</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to me?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I learned</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or tried to learn</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">from experience and overcome,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but I have to admit</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm a little slow</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(so I'll blame it on</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the little monsters lurking</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in my head,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">under the bed,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in the closets,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">behind the curtains</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you know the ones....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">don't you?).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Changing every other day,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">who am I today,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'll write it down in </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sanskrit</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Perhaps if I believed in REINCARNATION,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the metaphysical belief that </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">an essential part of a being survives death and is reborn</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in a new body</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">only to keep dying and coming back again and again</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">until they get it right.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but then again,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a new body would be nice</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and a new personality too---</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">almost worth believing in. She said</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'd like to come back as a bird</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">maybe.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Or a starfish</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or Sid </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Viscious</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">well maybe I already was.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I used to be SADNESS</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">happy to be sad.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It meant that I felt the world, more than you</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with its winged spirits - good and bad</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that I'd seen more than you</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you haven't seen enough</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(poor naive little you)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and I'd pull my porcupine blanket</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">over top of me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to shut out and threaten.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was a puzzle piece that didn't want to fit in.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But that's high school for ya.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She laughed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NOW,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">welcome to the absolutely completely truly</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">really really real world.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They said,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">those with their bird's eye view.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IT'S ABOUT TIME. SHE SAID.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They laughed,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and she wondered</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">what</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that meant.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WAIT...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">did they say real world</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or wormhole?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Portal?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Did you ever notice</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">how you can run sometimes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and get nowhere. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is that another one of</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Einstein's big ideas?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is my perception of space and time and distance</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in one dimension</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and I'm watching it from another?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Like the RED QUEEN. She said,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">she needed to run as quickly as she could</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in order to stay in one place.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So should I run now</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">just stay very very still?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RUN...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">run until your arms and legs are sore,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">run until you float away</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'til you can't feel anything anymore</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">run until you can not breathe</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'til it's impossible to even speak.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So that's what I did next,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">because I usually always listen to myself,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">whether it's the right side of me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or the wrong side of me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'll never know</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">because they both sound like me.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And I ran around for awhile</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">trying to find my place</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in the world</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and getting nowhere</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">very</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">very</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fast.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I don't want to become enlightened.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WHY? BUDDHA asked.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It seems so dull ---- no past, no future, no thoughts.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">TRUE. HE replied.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And I like emotions. She said,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">maybe not hysterical anger or confusion</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or sadness,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but laughter is so beautiful</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and love, connections, sweet memories, amazement</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and feathers on your skin.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I couldn't live without those.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND BUDDHA LAUGHED A BIG BELLY LAUGH.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Most times we shift</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and we change</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the more we grow</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the more we realize</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the more we become </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">more or less.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was once a ghost. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but only once,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">then I realized</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I wasn't really </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">alive</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">because someone showed me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">how little time we actually have</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to be alive</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so I decided to live,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">despite the struggle</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">because even though it's much easier</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">being a ghost</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it's not much fun</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">not really.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And I STUFFED my pockets with LIFE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(and chocolates!)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and GULPED life from the wild thin air</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">got my suitcase and packed my bags with LIFE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Loaded up my life car</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and I was ready to go</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to wherever life</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wanted to go --</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">she was in the driver's seat</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cause I was along for the ride...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(and because I still hadn't a notion</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of where I should actually be going)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it wasn't long before I realized </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I better stop,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ask for some directions</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">before we ran out of gas....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Most grandmothers are better </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">than ZEN</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">because they've lived</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">life</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">they've been through it all</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and then some, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">their wisdom is</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">inevitable</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(oh and they don't act like they know</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">what's best for you,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that's a mother's job)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where do I fit? Where am I going?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is my destiny, gramma? She asked.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE PAST IS NOW</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE NOW IS NOW</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE FUTURE IS NOW</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IT USED TO MAKE ME WONDER</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NOW IT DOESN'T.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">GRAMMA SAID.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hmmm. Can I have some ice cream to go with that koan?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I decided to ask GOD</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">God, where do I fit in,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">what is my destiny?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She prayed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And God answered,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">parting through the clouds in the sky</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">coming face to face</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">eye to eye</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and said:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">STANDING IN THE SUNLIGHT</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOU CANNOT SEE THE SUN</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">STANDING IN A SNOWSTORM</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOU CANNOT SEE THE CLOUDS</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">STANDING IN YOUR MIND</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOU CANNOT SEE YOUR SOUL</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BUT THEY ARE THERE.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Okay, great. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">how 'bout a sign instead,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that might be easier to follow.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now I know that there's no one smarter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">than God. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but for some reason humans can't</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">take his word for it,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we always want a second opinion</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so I thought of someone else to ask,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">someone with a bunch of brains</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the smarts to use 'em</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Einstein....of course</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Einstein's ghost soul, that is</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Albert, where do I fit in this world?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where should I be going?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is my destiny?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Albert smiled and simply answered;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IT IS THE DESTINY AND AN ACTUAL NECESSITY</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OF ALL MATERIAL THINGS TO CHANGE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">INTO SOMETHING OTHER THAN THAT WHICH THEY WERE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SPACE EXPRESS CHANGE ----MOVEMENT</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">INFINITE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">UP DOWN BACKWARD FORWARD</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">REVERSIBLE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">TIME IS IRREVERSIBLE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BUT YOUR PERCEPTION OF TIME</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CAN BE A PROCESS OF SELF-CREATION</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">TIME AND SPACE ARE INSEPARABLE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOU ARE INSEPARABLE FROM YOUR DESTINY</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HAPPENING AT ONCE.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I can only hypothesize. She said</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">about what Stephen Hawking</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">would say:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">TO KNOW DESTINY IS TO HAVE THE MIND OF GOD.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ARE YOU READY TO HAVE THE MIND OF GOD.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Or something like that.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And I can only babble </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fragmented word combinations</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that I don't understand. She said</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to guess what Jack Sarfatti would say:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE MIND CONSISTING OF QUANTUM WAVE FUNCTIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND THE ACTION OF SUFFICIENTLY</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ORGANIZED MATTER,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ALLOWING TO DEVELOP SELF-AWARENESS AND FREE WILL</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOUR DESTINY IS RETRO-CASUAL,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FASTER THAN LIGHT,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FUTURE TO PAST.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I think that I better simplify,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm getting way too in, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">far too over my head. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so I asked a little birdie</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">instead.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He looked at me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with reflecting eyes,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">picked up a string</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and soared away</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">leaving me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with a floating feather</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as my answer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are angels all around us.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I believe it is true</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">because how else can you explain</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the amazing amount of coincidences in a day</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(and the overly easy accessibility of chocolate!)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I opened up my closet</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to see if there happened to be</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">an angel of mine in there.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And there was,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so I asked her what she thought</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">about my destiny and puzzle piece soul,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">she handed me a bouquet of feathers</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and fluttered away.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you creep really really slowly,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so as not to frighten them,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and ask really really nicely,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you can get the ghosts in the attic to talk....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but they mostly just like to talk about</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">themselves. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I asked the hovering transparents</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">what they thought</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and they said,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DID WE EVER TELL YOU</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HOW MUCH WE LIKE FEATHERS?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And they blew dust and feathers</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in my face and laughed,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but ghosts are funny like that --</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I guess by now they can see</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the humor in life.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I decided to ask someone</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with a little less experience</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and a lot of intuition ---</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a child,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">my life Monet</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">do you know what destiny is? I asked.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NO. SHE SAID.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's where you're meant to end up in life.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What do you think my destiny is?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She made a bunch of strange hand movements,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">then sat very still</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">staring at me,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'M TALKING IN SIGN LANGUAGE. SHE SAID.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What did you say in sign language?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE DESTINY SHOULD BE.....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IN THE CLOUDS.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I also asked my Bella Star,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">beautiful butterfly chaser,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">whose only real words are</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ah-oh</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WHOSHEE GALA MEEKA BOO, AH-OH.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SHE SAID</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">when I asked.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I wish that I could remember</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">what that meant in baby language.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Probably something profound,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">about DESTINY AND LOLLIPOPS.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It feels like I'm speaking </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in the dark. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">alone and waiting</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and unable to see</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">step out into the sun</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I am blinded</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">unable to see</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">everything that surrounds me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it's the same situation</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">right</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">back where I started.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I dream in questions. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and in the middle of this nightmare</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this life in slow motion, fast forwarding</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the middle of this mind dream</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where the wolf speaks to the tiger,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and I am supposed to figure out</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">which one represents me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in the middle of this place</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that I've yet to be,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a feather floats past</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and I ask it my destiny.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It lands for a moment</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">then lifted by some cosmic breeze,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">spins</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">away</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with some hidden meaning.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ever wish that you could record and replay your dreams,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so that you could figure out</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">just what the hell you're talking about.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And awake, I still ask questions.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where is this going?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">How will it end?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What's the answer?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Somebody please just tell me.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DON'T YOU JUST LOVE PUZZLES?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A little someone somewhere said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No, they are frustrating. She said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">PERCEPTIONS PERCEPTIONS.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SOME PIECES FIT, SOME PIECES DON'T</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SO MANY POSSIBILITIES</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IT'S FUN.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The little someone somewhere said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A LOT LIKE LIFE.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And a feather floated past.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and a feather floated past </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">at the same moment</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the clock sounded 11 o'clock</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(but my watch said 11:11)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the bird soared</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the RED QUEEN ran</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and BUDDHA laughed</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and a ghost who wasn't really a ghost rose from the dead</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and grandmother just was (very zen)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and God spoke (misunderstood)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and Einstein smiled</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and more birds soared in dance</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and angels fluttered</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and ghosts joked about life</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and children babbled in their own secret language</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the dark was dark</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the wolf spoke</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the tiger spoke</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the dreams translated hidden meaning</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and some puzzle pieces fit, some didn't</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and a feather floated past </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">all at the same moment,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">all happening simultaneously,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">all in this one perception of time</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">until the next minute passes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and everything changes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">again.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(C) C. Morning 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div>c.morninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013248905771858970noreply@blogger.com0