John Cage Engaged and Uncaged (a poem by Jesus Crisis)
Sunken funkin' telepumpkin
Tell a country bumpkin who
I am
And then let him tell you.
Both will tell it true
Though their perspectives
Seem contradictory
I'm born of hickory
And rectory
Blind Bartimaeus and
Insightful inspectory
True tale and muddled myth
On an identical trajectory.
John Cage
Or someone like him
(is anyone like anyone
more than anyone is unlike?)
Said disharmony
Does not exist
And the peaceniks are pissed.
Corn isn't hominy
But hominy is corn
And care isn't clothing
Though care can be worn
And all can be born
And all can be torn
And loved and forlorn
And warned and scorned
And according to some bother
Or brother or other
Reborn.
Sunken funkin' telepumpkin
Born of a couch potato
And a pureed tomato
An almost dead and
Buried berater
Blind hate hater
Lover
Elater
Thin ice skater
War abhorrer
Saint and horror
Mental (and governmental)
Master baiter
And sooner or later
Repeat reincarnator.
I am a living death
An awakened dream
Ash unconsumed
And a silent scream
Reconcilable
So-called contradiction
And factual fiction
John Cage
Uncaged
Inadequately aged and yet
Timeless
A sublime mess
Subconsciously clothed and
Consciously undressed
Said worse and better are no
Less than best
Corn is hominy
And there is no disharmony
Only harmonies
To which our ears
(my dears) and our fears
Are unaccustomed.
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Influences through the course of my life (for better or worse, usually for better, and in no particular order) include:
You, Mom(s), Dad(s), John Lennon, Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, the Grateful Dead, Harry Eisel, Benjamin Hoff, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Clash, Jesus, Geri Lynne, Gary Numan, Buddha, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Dalí, Sylvia Plath, Lao Tzu, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, Martin Petersime, Tim Shaffer, Helen Shepard, George Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Albert Einstein, John Cage, the XIV Dalai Lama, the Dead Kennedys, Ron Todd, Thomas Merton, Fritjof Capra, Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jim Morrison, Pablo Neruda, Bill Clinton, Bill Hamann, bills to pay, Aunt Marlene, Uncle Bob, Jeff Hunsaker, Madeleine Trichel, Antonin Artaud, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Burroughs, Brian Eno, the Lorain County Sheriff's office, Arthur Rimbaud, the Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, John Barth, William Blake, Jimi Hendrix, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, William Carlos Williams, Van Gogh, d.a. levy. Steven B. Smith, Beethoven, Bertolt Brecht, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bertrand Russell, Debabrata Basu, Shakespeare, Richard Pryor, the great outdoors, Schindler's List, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, the State of Ohio, age, Jung, Starhawk, Purple Rain, my grandparents, the rest of my family, the Internet, the New York Times, public radio, MySpace, Miles Davis, Phil O'Malley, Bambi Perry, Walt Whitman, David Crosby, Neil Young, Socrates, Portishead, R.E.M., David Bowie, the Electric Light Orchestra, Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono, Elton John, N.W.A., H.D. Thoreau, the Bible, The Satanic Bible, Hesse's Siddhartha, The Great Gatsby, Osho, Howard Ellis, Nick Zentos, Gurumayi, Greg Corso, Bo Lozoff, rain, shine, West Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Jo Davis, Ayn Rand, Jean Paul Sartre, the Cure, Johnny Cash, the Smiths, Joy Division, prison, Ohio University, Elroy Holt, the Clintons, Prince, the Beatles, Billy Idol, Lou Reed, John Cale, Patti Smith, Dennis Kucinich, Abraham Lincoln, Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq, the USMC, gas prices, dozens of holy and not-so-holy books, a zillion other people I've known to varying degrees, my hatred of hatred, and especially my love of love.
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
Friedrich Nietzsche tried to warn us (in "The Wanderer and His Shadow") about George W. Bush and his ilk:
"Don't touch!-- There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit it at all."
All we are saying is "Give Peace a Chance!"
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Dearest Jesus Crisis, Fill your moments with action, and there will be little time left for worry. Fill your moments with meaning, and there will be little time left for despair.
Fill your days with discovery, and you will fill your life with valuable knowledge. Fill your hours with caring, compassion and respect, and you will fill your world with love and friendship.
Fill your thoughts with positive possibilities, and the best things in life will surely be within your reach. Fill your words with encouragement and enthusiasm, and you'll often find people and circumstances lining up in your favor.
Fill your efforts with purpose, persistence, diligence and integrity. And your life will be filled with valuable achievements.
Fill your heart with a love of truth and goodness. And your soul will be filled with the treasure of wisdom.
Your life is a most precious gift. Fill every corner of it with the best that you can
Thanks for the add! May you be blessed with peace and happiness new friend~ Namaste~Melissa (Buddhist Inspirations)
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