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href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14113540&amp;postID=114814724858134865' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14113540/posts/default/114814724858134865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14113540/posts/default/114814724858134865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://artofseraphim.ehewlett.net/blog/2006/05/paintings-and-pictures.html' title='Paintings and Pictures'/><author><name>Seraphim Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13960875672140860508</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14113540.post-114514465629698677</id><published>2006-04-15T16:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:34:25.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fragmentology</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Is to respect all&lt;br /&gt;Is the solution&lt;br /&gt;Is forgotten&lt;br /&gt;Is it&lt;br /&gt;Want to&lt;br /&gt;Have to&lt;br /&gt;And believe in&lt;br /&gt;Am intellectually forced to conclude that&lt;br /&gt;A tower of commitment&lt;br /&gt;Magic is what about surely&lt;br /&gt;Just me&lt;br /&gt;Never knowing or needing to&lt;br /&gt;Know why it&lt;br /&gt;Why if&lt;br /&gt;Shouldn’t worry since&lt;br /&gt;Or would you rather&lt;br /&gt;Do you like it better when&lt;br /&gt;I was only and you were very extremely&lt;br /&gt;There was no&lt;br /&gt;There needn’t be any of this&lt;br /&gt;Yet this&lt;br /&gt;Art and music and poetry&lt;br /&gt;Are&lt;br /&gt;Religion&lt;br /&gt;The way of acknowledging and acting in the cycles&lt;br /&gt;Since the birth of time&lt;br /&gt;The inner being aware that&lt;br /&gt;Is ever present&lt;br /&gt;Is filling all things&lt;br /&gt;WHO IS&lt;br /&gt;We offer&lt;br /&gt;To&lt;br /&gt;Then we are truly&lt;br /&gt;Is to unconditionally love&lt;br /&gt;Transcending the&lt;br /&gt;And the need to hurt&lt;br /&gt;Do you listen to&lt;br /&gt;And desire to know and forgive your neighbour&lt;br /&gt;And yourself&lt;br /&gt;By becoming love&lt;br /&gt;And take away the one thing&lt;br /&gt;There’s nothing for it but&lt;br /&gt;For the royal road of freedom&lt;br /&gt;Patiently enduring&lt;br /&gt;Though unless we are tested&lt;br /&gt;The Lord is&lt;br /&gt;I shall not&lt;br /&gt;He makes me lie down in&lt;br /&gt;Me beside still&lt;br /&gt;My soul&lt;br /&gt;In the paths of&lt;br /&gt;For His&lt;br /&gt;Even though I&lt;br /&gt;I fear no&lt;br /&gt;You are&lt;br /&gt;Thy rod and Thy staff&lt;br /&gt;They&lt;br /&gt;A table before me in the&lt;br /&gt;My head with oil my cup&lt;br /&gt;Surely goodness of my life&lt;br /&gt;Forever&lt;br /&gt;That’s always been one of my&lt;br /&gt;It’s getting quite&lt;br /&gt;Funny how&lt;br /&gt;These words&lt;br /&gt;To figure it&lt;br /&gt;To add to&lt;br /&gt;To take from&lt;br /&gt;To think about&lt;br /&gt;What kind of man is&lt;br /&gt;A man of many&lt;br /&gt;Take a&lt;br /&gt;Have the&lt;br /&gt;Explain to&lt;br /&gt;Reason with&lt;br /&gt;Every step we take toward&lt;br /&gt;Or else we pretend&lt;br /&gt;But we can’t be all the time&lt;br /&gt;We need some to relax and have&lt;br /&gt;Fun and forget&lt;br /&gt;And rejoice in the great gifts&lt;br /&gt;And especially in&lt;br /&gt;I want to get all day&lt;br /&gt;I want to my time&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I&lt;br /&gt;So enjoy your music&lt;br /&gt;Everything affects everything&lt;br /&gt;So I’m supposed to worry about that&lt;br /&gt;There was that part of the morning&lt;br /&gt;And now there’s this&lt;br /&gt;Intercom&lt;br /&gt;Playin the&lt;br /&gt;That coffee I&lt;br /&gt;Hello&lt;br /&gt;I am the&lt;br /&gt;My next life was Napoleon Bonaparte&lt;br /&gt;Gotta relax&lt;br /&gt;Free play&lt;br /&gt;Then again say&lt;br /&gt;Reincarnation is not possible&lt;br /&gt;For Mastery&lt;br /&gt;A person healing&lt;br /&gt;Machines unplugged&lt;br /&gt;Beside the gate leading&lt;br /&gt;Peace garden&lt;br /&gt;Language&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow is the day of healing and&lt;br /&gt;But you remembered&lt;br /&gt;Cockroach&lt;br /&gt;While standing by the moon an Indian&lt;br /&gt;If I play it just right&lt;br /&gt;Break break down&lt;br /&gt;Put your feet&lt;br /&gt;Regardless&lt;br /&gt;That doesn’t get any better&lt;br /&gt;But everywhere else does&lt;br /&gt;If I worry about despair again&lt;br /&gt;Astrology’s complete bunk right&lt;br /&gt;Ya know it’s not up for discussion&lt;br /&gt;She said I honestly don’t have anything to learn from you&lt;br /&gt;She learned it in 8 years okay&lt;br /&gt;Her voice is knives&lt;br /&gt;Okay maybe I am&lt;br /&gt;Make it shame&lt;br /&gt;Then suddenly out of the corner&lt;br /&gt;Extreme trauma&lt;br /&gt;Now I know the&lt;br /&gt;I’m afraid of something inside I hope it’s&lt;br /&gt;Just my imagination&lt;br /&gt;As for me my flute is in my backpack now&lt;br /&gt;When I gain their&lt;br /&gt;Have to know (anything)&lt;br /&gt;I was believing&lt;br /&gt;And now I’ll never find out&lt;br /&gt;If I have anything to eat or smoke&lt;br /&gt;This is like the thoughts&lt;br /&gt;Of children&lt;br /&gt;My dear son is&lt;br /&gt;No I realized it at the time&lt;br /&gt;No I wouldn’t actually let myself be&lt;br /&gt;Bogged down by what’s essential&lt;br /&gt;And return to your roots&lt;br /&gt;Devoid of pity&lt;br /&gt;That’s what I want&lt;br /&gt;So go do it&lt;br /&gt;Become addicted to&lt;br /&gt;We felt like we were the Vancouver Mintons’&lt;br /&gt;Except poets&lt;br /&gt;Legends of strutting&lt;br /&gt;Don’t regret it but don’t do it again&lt;br /&gt;Movement&lt;br /&gt;How long have you known you were&lt;br /&gt;I suppose I am or would be in a way&lt;br /&gt;Change your&lt;br /&gt;I was tempted to buy a&lt;br /&gt;Else will let you down&lt;br /&gt;I would regret it forever&lt;br /&gt;After it sickens me&lt;br /&gt;Express the thoughts&lt;br /&gt;Of a free people&lt;br /&gt;Passive yet could pull a knife&lt;br /&gt;Fire one musician called it&lt;br /&gt;Refused to face facts&lt;br /&gt;To tell you I exist&lt;br /&gt;I’ve had enough of it I think&lt;br /&gt;If we truly lived in God’s will&lt;br /&gt;Then half the famous people&lt;br /&gt;For the most part it is fair&lt;br /&gt;To say our pursuits and parents are&lt;br /&gt;How come I had it then&lt;br /&gt;How can I&lt;br /&gt;I know it in&lt;br /&gt;So I may as well get good at something&lt;br /&gt;Are you going to with me&lt;br /&gt;Alone with&lt;br /&gt;When I watch TV I feel like ha&lt;br /&gt;It’s a&lt;br /&gt;I fall down I get up I&lt;br /&gt;Will I ever get up I&lt;br /&gt;I can’t I go to Church&lt;br /&gt;Healthy enthusiasm&lt;br /&gt;Incredible energy&lt;br /&gt;Liturgy&lt;br /&gt;Is prayer sometimes like cleaning the toilet bowl&lt;br /&gt;But I don’t know the future that’s the problem&lt;br /&gt;If I exercise&lt;br /&gt;The sand man of time&lt;br /&gt;To pay&lt;br /&gt;Not good looking enough to acknowledge&lt;br /&gt;Could have been good&lt;br /&gt;At too many so it&lt;br /&gt;Choose one&lt;br /&gt;Imagine there’s more jobs there&lt;br /&gt;If two people are committed to&lt;br /&gt;Their religion&lt;br /&gt;Protect her from forever&lt;br /&gt;Even if one person&lt;br /&gt;There must be&lt;br /&gt;They had something greater in their midst&lt;br /&gt;Than we do today&lt;br /&gt;They see something else&lt;br /&gt;About it that I haven’t yet&lt;br /&gt;They actually discovered this&lt;br /&gt;They actually made it so it would work this way&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t have one now&lt;br /&gt;See the end from the beginning&lt;br /&gt;It’s funny how just a look can change&lt;br /&gt;So without further adieu&lt;br /&gt;Our ancient Names&lt;br /&gt;If you keep acting like that&lt;br /&gt;We have names&lt;br /&gt;I don’t suggest you close your eyes&lt;br /&gt;Mercy&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if they found out&lt;br /&gt;I was sinning&lt;br /&gt;Constantly having one&lt;br /&gt;But what is the meaning of a word&lt;br /&gt;We say know but&lt;br /&gt;The hills and far away&lt;br /&gt;This marriage&lt;br /&gt;At home with no music&lt;br /&gt;Proud to be African American&lt;br /&gt;I have conscience when it comes down&lt;br /&gt;Please wait&lt;br /&gt;Drawing out what’s already&lt;br /&gt;Nobody ever has so why&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn’t I&lt;br /&gt;No but if I can make art out of it&lt;br /&gt;We knew it had to go his way&lt;br /&gt;Mistakes are personal&lt;br /&gt;Answering a question with a question&lt;br /&gt;Instead of&lt;br /&gt;Just a half-step away&lt;br /&gt;Only been the answer&lt;br /&gt;The ball rolling man&lt;br /&gt;To stop&lt;br /&gt;What best describes what I’m&lt;br /&gt;No worries I’m&lt;br /&gt;I went right down and got&lt;br /&gt;Okay the guitar’s coming in now&lt;br /&gt;I can’t decide whether&lt;br /&gt;Learning to deal with change is&lt;br /&gt;Such as&lt;br /&gt;The shit man the shit&lt;br /&gt;And I’ll go do it&lt;br /&gt;Cause you know what you’re talking about&lt;br /&gt;God is an Artist&lt;br /&gt;To think God has sense&lt;br /&gt;When you’re in Vancouver well&lt;br /&gt;Polite and you shut up&lt;br /&gt;Now abouts and being able to&lt;br /&gt;In tune with nature&lt;br /&gt;Not enough instincts&lt;br /&gt;Says it’s the best he’s&lt;br /&gt;Drink beer and imagine&lt;br /&gt;It’s too bad that it’s&lt;br /&gt;Only in the summer&lt;br /&gt;No it’s a great thing to rejoice about&lt;br /&gt;Don’t know maybe a month maybe a year&lt;br /&gt;To God for all things&lt;br /&gt;What won’t you do for My love&lt;br /&gt;Taxi drivers are mainly&lt;br /&gt;During meditation&lt;br /&gt;Coming and everything&lt;br /&gt;Wandering&lt;br /&gt;A bridge about this&lt;br /&gt;On water&lt;br /&gt;There’s an ambulance&lt;br /&gt;Silence&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t that the coolest in your&lt;br /&gt;Then she and hesitated&lt;br /&gt;The bus driver said&lt;br /&gt;Playing chromatically&lt;br /&gt;Dazzled and then the electric lights&lt;br /&gt;On disarming the play of creation&lt;br /&gt;Free and deep bass&lt;br /&gt;Exactly backward&lt;br /&gt;Instruments are not the Bible&lt;br /&gt;Great idea&lt;br /&gt;Slowing down makes it sound&lt;br /&gt;Change in the list&lt;br /&gt;Final ruling anyway&lt;br /&gt;And it just comes across as childish&lt;br /&gt;Pause to know God&lt;br /&gt;All too human&lt;br /&gt;Be your own best friend&lt;br /&gt;I really tried and failed&lt;br /&gt;Good medication&lt;br /&gt;Wow what an amazing time&lt;br /&gt;To be creative&lt;br /&gt;Everything becomes a cliché&lt;br /&gt;Life is that important&lt;br /&gt;How to is familiar&lt;br /&gt;What he is talking about&lt;br /&gt;Everything will be&lt;br /&gt;Do you know my secret pin&lt;br /&gt;Our Father&lt;br /&gt;False vibrato&lt;br /&gt;A camera&lt;br /&gt;An awareness that the definition&lt;br /&gt;Unlike the movies and today&lt;br /&gt;What am I willing&lt;br /&gt;Can never fully&lt;br /&gt;Affects the whole of I like it to be&lt;br /&gt;Hunger&lt;br /&gt;That is part of out&lt;br /&gt;Harmonize all of our actions with&lt;br /&gt;The transcendent aspects of&lt;br /&gt;Absolutely good will toward us&lt;br /&gt;A continuous struggle yet&lt;br /&gt;Starbucks&lt;br /&gt;You&lt;br /&gt;Radiant as a righteous woman&lt;br /&gt;Never said I&lt;br /&gt;Temporary but in the long run it’ll start to&lt;br /&gt;Over a conversation&lt;br /&gt;Words long ago&lt;br /&gt;Feelings dad dig this&lt;br /&gt;Go to it&lt;br /&gt;Bebop&lt;br /&gt;Everything he knew&lt;br /&gt;Wide open&lt;br /&gt;On the scene&lt;br /&gt;Lonesome to the stories&lt;br /&gt;Perfecting your middle&lt;br /&gt;More in between&lt;br /&gt;Gave up born&lt;br /&gt;It just appeared&lt;br /&gt;Horse&lt;br /&gt;Playin it severe&lt;br /&gt;Risk tightrope&lt;br /&gt;Higher find&lt;br /&gt;Perfect frantic&lt;br /&gt;Worship sharing&lt;br /&gt;It genius fire&lt;br /&gt;Lord for a&lt;br /&gt;Returned almost negative&lt;br /&gt;Less love sucking&lt;br /&gt;She sits there millions&lt;br /&gt;Rhythm and blues&lt;br /&gt;How long will jazz&lt;br /&gt;His idol tender&lt;br /&gt;Not be afraid of&lt;br /&gt;Felt like Paris&lt;br /&gt;Like a god&lt;br /&gt;Like priests&lt;br /&gt;Who is she come from&lt;br /&gt;How does it feel to fall in love with&lt;br /&gt;This is wonderful uncertain&lt;br /&gt;Improvisation in &amp;amp; out of&lt;br /&gt;Self-creating&lt;br /&gt;A master key to&lt;br /&gt;The Journey&lt;br /&gt;Made up on musical witnesses&lt;br /&gt;Beauty and originality into laughter&lt;br /&gt;Musical thoughts and practice&lt;br /&gt;Pleasures of spontaneous&lt;br /&gt;Spiritual and transformations&lt;br /&gt;Degrees of a psychological story&lt;br /&gt;Than technique&lt;br /&gt;Love is us unblocking 7&lt;br /&gt;What do children of geniuses&lt;br /&gt;Third Eye&lt;br /&gt;3rd time I&lt;br /&gt;Each person is now&lt;br /&gt;So why not if it’s&lt;br /&gt;From your true then it’s new&lt;br /&gt;He knew I was coming&lt;br /&gt;He knew a very prideful person was coming&lt;br /&gt;But yeah&lt;br /&gt;I’d like to phone an old shit disturber&lt;br /&gt;The planet of the remake&lt;br /&gt;I’ll give you fifty cents&lt;br /&gt;It’s all good&lt;br /&gt;Rest&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been broke so long&lt;br /&gt;I don’t want anything&lt;br /&gt;A headache&lt;br /&gt;The pain must equal the pleasure&lt;br /&gt;When you can no longer see me at all&lt;br /&gt;Then I’ll begin to be His disciple&lt;br /&gt;Can I live up to potential that’s been ability&lt;br /&gt;O mother acceptance of rejection&lt;br /&gt;Archetypal power denial&lt;br /&gt;Change your reaction&lt;br /&gt;I can learn about anything in this context&lt;br /&gt;Continuously toward the true&lt;br /&gt;But to live the dark&lt;br /&gt;Not trying to mean anything&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes born again&lt;br /&gt;That you may win&lt;br /&gt;Though a thousand teachers&lt;br /&gt;Through Your Commandments I wash&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise have no part in&lt;br /&gt;Final Marriage&lt;br /&gt;Two meanings making love&lt;br /&gt;God is Blazing in all directions&lt;br /&gt;Everyone partakes of Grace&lt;br /&gt;Let the real poets&lt;br /&gt;Recording everything for I can’t stop&lt;br /&gt;And they all smoked&lt;br /&gt;And night-time prayers were put on hold&lt;br /&gt;And he wanted to go to sleep but&lt;br /&gt;He wanted to go to dream but&lt;br /&gt;Constant rejoice in it passing&lt;br /&gt;Always toward the beckoning&lt;br /&gt;I want you over here&lt;br /&gt;You’re too far away&lt;br /&gt;The candles and the incense&lt;br /&gt;As you will and as you know&lt;br /&gt;Forgive tomorrow strength for&lt;br /&gt;Thank you Lover coming&lt;br /&gt;I would be a thief&lt;br /&gt;With an empty stomach&lt;br /&gt;Is to be unpredictable&lt;br /&gt;Of someone coming up behind&lt;br /&gt;Is to acting what&lt;br /&gt;Is to ordinary life&lt;br /&gt;Is to saying anything&lt;br /&gt;Is to making mistakes&lt;br /&gt;What is to be mystigogical&lt;br /&gt;Names numbers and new knowledge&lt;br /&gt;Negative or not&lt;br /&gt;Thank You O Lord for this&lt;br /&gt;You could just&lt;br /&gt;When they taste a bit of happiness&lt;br /&gt;Hit them on their senses&lt;br /&gt;Eat you&lt;br /&gt;Is to share something with&lt;br /&gt;Is to dare to be different&lt;br /&gt;Is to dream out loud&lt;br /&gt;Is to read your poetry in front of people&lt;br /&gt;Is to give up television&lt;br /&gt;Is to raise your children with wisdom and understanding&lt;br /&gt;Is to maintain that sacred space reserved only for One&lt;br /&gt;Is to enjoy the many great gifts we all have&lt;br /&gt;Is to realize you’re just along for the ride&lt;br /&gt;Is to hear us singing with one voice&lt;br /&gt;Is listening to Duke Ellington&lt;br /&gt;Is dreaming of Europe&lt;br /&gt;Is anxious about the coming semester&lt;br /&gt;Is always cautious of the changes&lt;br /&gt;Is sometimes thinking in a melancholy way about&lt;br /&gt;What could have been&lt;br /&gt;(and it seems like in my opinion it should have been)&lt;br /&gt;Is tired&lt;br /&gt;Is not spontaneous enough&lt;br /&gt;Is impossible for one person&lt;br /&gt;Is sitting and waiting&lt;br /&gt;Is about time&lt;br /&gt;Is getting on with it&lt;br /&gt;Is a lifetime with&lt;br /&gt;Is the bond I share&lt;br /&gt;Is the way he’ll grow up&lt;br /&gt;Is the way he’ll learn&lt;br /&gt;So far from over all&lt;br /&gt;Never an excuse to be a jerk&lt;br /&gt;Patience is everything&lt;br /&gt;You need the best for the future&lt;br /&gt;Ever choosing between this &amp;amp; that&lt;br /&gt;Like a friend beside you&lt;br /&gt;A heart that is broken and humbled&lt;br /&gt;The God of gods&lt;br /&gt;The rising of the sun to the setting&lt;br /&gt;Shall come visibly&lt;br /&gt;I Am God thy God&lt;br /&gt;A sacrifice of praise&lt;br /&gt;There is the way I shall know Him&lt;br /&gt;We are gods&lt;br /&gt;It is enough&lt;br /&gt;Enter a second time&lt;br /&gt;Or the feeling of home&lt;br /&gt;Random thoughts can form a&lt;br /&gt;She’s still my star&lt;br /&gt;She thinks it’s too late&lt;br /&gt;How can women do that&lt;br /&gt;After it’s over&lt;br /&gt;Succession&lt;br /&gt;Out of the picture&lt;br /&gt;Because it’s free&lt;br /&gt;To accept that&lt;br /&gt;Reinventing the&lt;br /&gt;When it’s already been worked out&lt;br /&gt;Do you want to read into the Jewish understanding of God&lt;br /&gt;Get literal&lt;br /&gt;(only when it absolutely and most obviously calls for it)&lt;br /&gt;Are you willing to let our history be completely wrong&lt;br /&gt;I forgot I’m a dad&lt;br /&gt;Is voluntary suffering for&lt;br /&gt;Is to respect myself&lt;br /&gt;Is to love me&lt;br /&gt;Is the Divine Name&lt;br /&gt;Is Orthodox theology&lt;br /&gt;Is apophatic reasoning&lt;br /&gt;Is life as a sacrament&lt;br /&gt;Is to be at peace with myself&lt;br /&gt;Is to see others in a good light&lt;br /&gt;Is within the religion of any people&lt;br /&gt;Is unknowable&lt;br /&gt;Is unforeseen&lt;br /&gt;Is feeling forsaken&lt;br /&gt;Is this muse upon&lt;br /&gt;Is living in balance&lt;br /&gt;Is rethinking everything&lt;br /&gt;Under the weight of sin and mercy&lt;br /&gt;Is trusting in God’s care&lt;br /&gt;And joyfully mourning&lt;br /&gt;Is the essence of my being&lt;br /&gt;Is God working in me&lt;br /&gt;To respect yourself is&lt;br /&gt;Carrying a notepad&lt;br /&gt;The man at the liquor store asked me if&lt;br /&gt;I was The Scribe&lt;br /&gt;Like a passion the reading into is persistent&lt;br /&gt;God will judge you by your karma&lt;br /&gt;Stand up for their side of things&lt;br /&gt;The cops won’t stop you if&lt;br /&gt;We met at the gas station and unexpectedly went to a gig&lt;br /&gt;What life gives you&lt;br /&gt;Funk&lt;br /&gt;Like the self-knowledge that comes from sinning&lt;br /&gt;Like someone’s coming to summon me&lt;br /&gt;Begging for&lt;br /&gt;I want to give all my love to&lt;br /&gt;They know how lucky they&lt;br /&gt;I’ve known this girl for how&lt;br /&gt;I decide that&lt;br /&gt;O no not me I&lt;br /&gt;Is to reach adulthood and fully integrated&lt;br /&gt;Salvation is a process&lt;br /&gt;I had no idea I was doing exactly the right thing&lt;br /&gt;One hand&lt;br /&gt;The room for synergy&lt;br /&gt;I know exactly why&lt;br /&gt;Fitting in a pattern seems&lt;br /&gt;A theologian is one who prays&lt;br /&gt;Give God your blood and then He&lt;br /&gt;I guess I didn’t realize you were dancing&lt;br /&gt;Though we didn’t slow dance once in our whole marriage&lt;br /&gt;It’s too bad you’re not happy&lt;br /&gt;But this is how the world is&lt;br /&gt;The multitude who follow are not able&lt;br /&gt;Like a sheep before it’s shearers dumb with anger&lt;br /&gt;I thought that night who cares about my family&lt;br /&gt;Are we really all beautiful the preacher asked&lt;br /&gt;Two fronts&lt;br /&gt;Each lover with their armies&lt;br /&gt;And he cried&lt;br /&gt;Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father Son and Holy Spirit&lt;br /&gt;There am I in the midst&lt;br /&gt;Boiling stomach muscles&lt;br /&gt;A finger up my ass&lt;br /&gt;All I ever did was play the flute&lt;br /&gt;What it feels like to assume the position&lt;br /&gt;To improvise in&lt;br /&gt;In danger if you won’t see the differences&lt;br /&gt;The history of doodle&lt;br /&gt;The subtlety of Theology&lt;br /&gt;I said I’d never be happy cause&lt;br /&gt;Is nothing I’d rather do&lt;br /&gt;Than play my flute like Eric Dolphy&lt;br /&gt;Then it hit me and I began to like it&lt;br /&gt;With it came appreciation and understanding&lt;br /&gt;Wisdom is the first principle&lt;br /&gt;Intellectual honesty the peace I have&lt;br /&gt;The peace I don’t have is forgiven&lt;br /&gt;How can I have&lt;br /&gt;Am I brainwashed&lt;br /&gt;The fear of is the beginning&lt;br /&gt;He Who made the eye&lt;br /&gt;Does He not see&lt;br /&gt;And fashioned the ear&lt;br /&gt;Who’s talking about a white beard&lt;br /&gt;Infinitely Intimate and Connected to the natural world&lt;br /&gt;Is Completely Other&lt;br /&gt;Labels shmabels&lt;br /&gt;I’m talking about Agape Love&lt;br /&gt;Where the whole world got it from&lt;br /&gt;Not just beyond all we can ever learn or think&lt;br /&gt;The Holy Trinity One in essence and undivided&lt;br /&gt;A God who is alone is not Love&lt;br /&gt;I’m saying you’ve been lied to in all your&lt;br /&gt;Because they pretend they’re all the&lt;br /&gt;When that’s not what it says&lt;br /&gt;Deal&lt;br /&gt;A whole new way of&lt;br /&gt;The true meaning of the word repent&lt;br /&gt;No point without forcing it&lt;br /&gt;This is not advertising&lt;br /&gt;This is self-emptying Love&lt;br /&gt;I thought it was a wonder to behold&lt;br /&gt;How meekly and quietly we bow&lt;br /&gt;Blessed are you when men slander you&lt;br /&gt;Happy to be home and put ourselves last&lt;br /&gt;Later they’ll have no clothes on&lt;br /&gt;Always a beginner&lt;br /&gt;Yes but&lt;br /&gt;The critics once scorned&lt;br /&gt;It no longer mattered&lt;br /&gt;Why fear losing it&lt;br /&gt;Every time I understood&lt;br /&gt;It was always enough&lt;br /&gt;I feel close to it for a while&lt;br /&gt;Naively&lt;br /&gt;And then it’s a million miles away&lt;br /&gt;Would you rather I said&lt;br /&gt;I’m having problems with salvation&lt;br /&gt;So many spiritual fools&lt;br /&gt;Invent new instruments&lt;br /&gt;What makes a good musician&lt;br /&gt;What is art is&lt;br /&gt;Science is good for&lt;br /&gt;For transcendent Realities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We are&lt;/span&gt; the instruments of inquiry and discovery&lt;br /&gt;Do we have free will I think&lt;br /&gt;Path of transformation&lt;br /&gt;Green brown narrow&lt;br /&gt;A poet walking repetitive and calmly&lt;br /&gt;The feeling that comes out of a sax&lt;br /&gt;I guess it could all happen right here&lt;br /&gt;The next new music&lt;br /&gt;If not if it’s so good&lt;br /&gt;I’m proud of myself&lt;br /&gt;It can’t be bad&lt;br /&gt;It’s like a dream from a dreamer that cannot die&lt;br /&gt;Himself Being so Real&lt;br /&gt;And Realness Itself&lt;br /&gt;That He wakens us&lt;br /&gt;Amidst His own&lt;br /&gt;(divine/human)&lt;br /&gt;Life as we&lt;br /&gt;I usually think I am the epitome of&lt;br /&gt;Christ Is&lt;br /&gt;A cry from the heart&lt;br /&gt;From this seed&lt;br /&gt;God loves what I truly like&lt;br /&gt;Abraham&lt;br /&gt;You could do worse than Abraham&lt;br /&gt;I smoke this cigarette gently&lt;br /&gt;If that’s her that would mean&lt;br /&gt;Fine means finished&lt;br /&gt;Be patient for them&lt;br /&gt;This real one implied&lt;br /&gt;I’d like to be in my dream tonight finding money&lt;br /&gt;David’s in&lt;br /&gt;Danger&lt;br /&gt;Peace without You is&lt;br /&gt;Sabotage&lt;br /&gt;Do I look funny to you&lt;br /&gt;You’re funny to me&lt;br /&gt;Been there&lt;br /&gt;Atheists have only reason&lt;br /&gt;Yet share the same result&lt;br /&gt;And fall away because of sex&lt;br /&gt;Life is fun&lt;br /&gt;As long as it’s sunny&lt;br /&gt;A friendship would be&lt;br /&gt;Fate means something&lt;br /&gt;On God is in the meaning of closure&lt;br /&gt;People will abuse it&lt;br /&gt;And God always knew&lt;br /&gt;Was written minutes after&lt;br /&gt;No relation just so you know&lt;br /&gt;I am hurting&lt;br /&gt;God knows all he said at&lt;br /&gt;The number of man&lt;br /&gt;I must have wanted this to happen&lt;br /&gt;The need for things&lt;br /&gt;Girls are wonderful&lt;br /&gt;Every color is beautiful&lt;br /&gt;Heartache&lt;br /&gt;Angelic roots going deeper&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of cool and intelligent people&lt;br /&gt;You never know what you might believe&lt;br /&gt;Because I’ve been wanting to for years indefinite&lt;br /&gt;It can mean something&lt;br /&gt;Jesus is nothing like a guru if you&lt;br /&gt;He was too&lt;br /&gt;He was People&lt;br /&gt;Check out the original side of holiness&lt;br /&gt;The Eternal becoming a part of energy&lt;br /&gt;The Tao became flesh&lt;br /&gt;Obituary for our sakes&lt;br /&gt;Putting death to death by death&lt;br /&gt;The real enemy&lt;br /&gt;Say as little as possible&lt;br /&gt;And manipulate the feelings of consumers through peer pressure&lt;br /&gt;I think I see things I need&lt;br /&gt;Who are the writers&lt;br /&gt;We all know wisdom when we read it but&lt;br /&gt;Seek it now&lt;br /&gt;Buddha came close&lt;br /&gt;The Tao became flesh&lt;br /&gt;These computers can be just like what you never meant&lt;br /&gt;Building my collection on every man’s dream&lt;br /&gt;Rising above yet in&lt;br /&gt;Balance with modern life&lt;br /&gt;That’s what I needed at&lt;br /&gt;Then I’ll move on to&lt;br /&gt;This is what I’ll&lt;br /&gt;It’ll surely go when I have paid&lt;br /&gt;Have a misunderstanding about the place of matter&lt;br /&gt;Is to breathe poison&lt;br /&gt;Is nonsense&lt;br /&gt;Is briefly considered&lt;br /&gt;And then I’d be a laughing&lt;br /&gt;Now I know what it feels like to get played&lt;br /&gt;I’m being prayed for a lot&lt;br /&gt;Rescue me&lt;br /&gt;Went a different way thinking&lt;br /&gt;We can change suddenly&lt;br /&gt;They’re saying it’s art&lt;br /&gt;And I’m thinkin&lt;br /&gt;But then I haven’t touched it yet&lt;br /&gt;He wanted kids and he didn’t&lt;br /&gt;If I had a computer&lt;br /&gt;Now there’s a profound thought&lt;br /&gt;It’s just a possibility&lt;br /&gt;We don’t know if it’s true&lt;br /&gt;We’re here to use anything&lt;br /&gt;What it could mean&lt;br /&gt;Know I should yet don’t want to&lt;br /&gt;Shouldn’t preach&lt;br /&gt;Because we all deserve it&lt;br /&gt;I know it must be nice not to be afraid of demons&lt;br /&gt;Too many movies&lt;br /&gt;That’s where in the fall my brother exile&lt;br /&gt;A poem about white people didn’t do much&lt;br /&gt;Unlock the story teller&lt;br /&gt;We have witnesses think what you want&lt;br /&gt;Not Pagan or Papist or Protestant&lt;br /&gt;What am I data&lt;br /&gt;A mind silently adoring and upraising&lt;br /&gt;Don’t want what I’m not sure of&lt;br /&gt;Trust the wordless fountain&lt;br /&gt;Descending utterly deficient&lt;br /&gt;A man is his deification&lt;br /&gt;Not alone&lt;br /&gt;We asked life of You&lt;br /&gt;And got the best ending ever&lt;br /&gt;He who laughs last laughs benevolently&lt;br /&gt;Everyone present is suspect&lt;br /&gt;Don’t we look happy&lt;br /&gt;Deeds will be revealed&lt;br /&gt;Standing before the EYE&lt;br /&gt;Not being able to turn&lt;br /&gt;The laughter that a child looks at&lt;br /&gt;And remains forever in arms&lt;br /&gt;If you would have treated me the same&lt;br /&gt;Then struck on the face by His creation&lt;br /&gt;How would you like to be born in a cave&lt;br /&gt;More spacious than the heavens&lt;br /&gt;Whining is a good way to&lt;br /&gt;No possibility of&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the day&lt;br /&gt;We create the son of&lt;br /&gt;All that’s happened we pay&lt;br /&gt;The voices in our head at the circus&lt;br /&gt;Thank You this second will be planted by the river and prosper&lt;br /&gt;Other forms of communication&lt;br /&gt;My vexation weighed in the anguish of a sea monster&lt;br /&gt;If an angel won’t Cross itself&lt;br /&gt;Why was I born&lt;br /&gt;Jesus wasn’t making a suggestion&lt;br /&gt;They could have been angry&lt;br /&gt;Look at what African Americans created&lt;br /&gt;Sailing without a care except for living the best way&lt;br /&gt;With style and soul and pleasure&lt;br /&gt;You’ll have scars&lt;br /&gt;I think I must be interesting in all the galaxies&lt;br /&gt;But I set the standards of taste&lt;br /&gt;In my whole universe&lt;br /&gt;The young one&lt;br /&gt;The new comer&lt;br /&gt;Ego&lt;br /&gt;One screws up your life for years&lt;br /&gt;Keeping me separate from friends&lt;br /&gt;The secrets of men’s hearts&lt;br /&gt;According to the good idea&lt;br /&gt;Is Life Itself&lt;br /&gt;The essential link of Absolute Reality&lt;br /&gt;Simplifies everything deeper than anything&lt;br /&gt;And mistakes that immortalize&lt;br /&gt;The constant willing of good&lt;br /&gt;Selfhood made to love all&lt;br /&gt;The highest good for each&lt;br /&gt;A school of love&lt;br /&gt;To our God to one another&lt;br /&gt;Our path is the other&lt;br /&gt;The same&lt;br /&gt;This is the mountain&lt;br /&gt;Everything is a new possibility reworked&lt;br /&gt;The friendship with every saint who ever lived&lt;br /&gt;Recreating the natural world&lt;br /&gt;Our God will use me&lt;br /&gt;Not denying reason but surpassing it&lt;br /&gt;It may have meant that&lt;br /&gt;Though probably just was used for&lt;br /&gt;Like scissors being used as a knife&lt;br /&gt;I have never seen my life so clearly&lt;br /&gt;Accepting tragedy and defying it in the heart of things&lt;br /&gt;Since there are two ways you can go&lt;br /&gt;To think there being a blueprint of&lt;br /&gt;Marriage and the belief in God go&lt;br /&gt;The humour that is there&lt;br /&gt;To see that reality set in&lt;br /&gt;Wild imaginings against the fabric of creation&lt;br /&gt;Something never&lt;br /&gt;How do I feel about a full book of poetic delicacies&lt;br /&gt;And secret meanings unlocking lesson number one&lt;br /&gt;Being harder on myself and easier on others&lt;br /&gt;Not everybody is on the same level&lt;br /&gt;Some who are ahead appear to be behind&lt;br /&gt;A new name given known only by Jesus&lt;br /&gt;You can be mad at everything&lt;br /&gt;Esoteric but useful&lt;br /&gt;Would you please sign in&lt;br /&gt;There’s a hole in the wall&lt;br /&gt;Of course the villain is partly right&lt;br /&gt;If they wanted it done right&lt;br /&gt;What’s my crime&lt;br /&gt;Just thinking about a moment of pure musical joy&lt;br /&gt;Just let them come and dance in the morning&lt;br /&gt;Comes with a past&lt;br /&gt;People do all the time in the world&lt;br /&gt;When Christians say the world they mean a system that thrives on spiritual ignorance&lt;br /&gt;What will she call me&lt;br /&gt;By my truest Name&lt;br /&gt;Will I have to start at the bottom&lt;br /&gt;Or will she be carried by the Spirit&lt;br /&gt;To stand beside me and bring something to teach&lt;br /&gt;Is she still questioning&lt;br /&gt;Does she love the Scriptures&lt;br /&gt;What she’ll find out she should be&lt;br /&gt;And love more than anything a shared vision&lt;br /&gt;Do people think that nothing can be refuted&lt;br /&gt;Just because they aren’t smart enough to see the proof&lt;br /&gt;Talk to me when you’ve seen the whole thing&lt;br /&gt;People say God sends us to hell&lt;br /&gt;But I think we send Him there&lt;br /&gt;The Moment of All seeing all moments as one&lt;br /&gt;We need two perspectives like we need&lt;br /&gt;Religions are the spiritual foundations&lt;br /&gt;Fools in isolation die for want&lt;br /&gt;I can’t be it all but&lt;br /&gt;Proof for the existence of life wasn’t made to be&lt;br /&gt;We weren’t created so that He could be proven&lt;br /&gt;You don’t have to believe in our God to&lt;br /&gt;You don’t have to if whatever conclusion you come to God&lt;br /&gt;And lasting happiness sometimes without even trying&lt;br /&gt;He no longer felt deficient&lt;br /&gt;That’s what we’re all looking for harmony&lt;br /&gt;Ten thousand times contagious&lt;br /&gt;Inspiring you to be less happy&lt;br /&gt;Don’t be so judgmental&lt;br /&gt;I need other people to describe things for me&lt;br /&gt;Like my poetry for crying out&lt;br /&gt;You’ve been to school too long&lt;br /&gt;Tuning in is like the endless personal piracy&lt;br /&gt;The whole time joking&lt;br /&gt;The greatest collection in all the planet&lt;br /&gt;Of the apes&lt;br /&gt;The future&lt;br /&gt;You need clothes on&lt;br /&gt;Capitalism&lt;br /&gt;A man who said he could forgive sins is ridiculous yet&lt;br /&gt;Your body is meant to live forever&lt;br /&gt;That finally makes sense&lt;br /&gt;If you had been here&lt;br /&gt;There’s so much room&lt;br /&gt;All too human killing our God&lt;br /&gt;Betraying a good Man&lt;br /&gt;Murdering the most innocent&lt;br /&gt;Aborting the Plan&lt;br /&gt;The world proved itself a failure&lt;br /&gt;The Life that was in His Body&lt;br /&gt;They were willing to die for&lt;br /&gt;He lived and died and lives forever&lt;br /&gt;We are nourished on His Flesh&lt;br /&gt;Because food is the primal way toward Unity&lt;br /&gt;Just to say you’re in control of your own destiny&lt;br /&gt;You don’t understand my generation&lt;br /&gt;That’s the age that they’re always hurting themselves&lt;br /&gt;Don’t give in&lt;br /&gt;And you thought there was no answer&lt;br /&gt;Disciples of being weird&lt;br /&gt;Only the outsiders say it’s all the same&lt;br /&gt;When you are around people who are free&lt;br /&gt;you might get your toes stepped on&lt;br /&gt;It will always get more amazing&lt;br /&gt;If we choose it&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t know where a person is&lt;br /&gt;Now is the time for mercy&lt;br /&gt;Jesus did not preach Hinduism to the Jews&lt;br /&gt;Rather the Word inspired every religion&lt;br /&gt;Seeking to express beauty&lt;br /&gt;They see you but it’s not all beautiful&lt;br /&gt;It needs to be transfigured and transformed through Communion&lt;br /&gt;And all of those ways&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to be you and you wanted to be me&lt;br /&gt;Humble love infiltrating the world&lt;br /&gt;Nobody’s an atheist in the foxholes&lt;br /&gt;If you’re thinking about it there’s already a problem&lt;br /&gt;Going to church dressed for a business meeting&lt;br /&gt;It doesn’t work because you don’t know what you’re doing&lt;br /&gt;If I see one more billboard of a satisfied smiling consumer I’ll frickin destroy it&lt;br /&gt;I had the time of my life and don’t feel guilty at all&lt;br /&gt;I’m so soft I deserve death&lt;br /&gt;We were meant for this but not the way it is&lt;br /&gt;You find out about the damage later&lt;br /&gt;Just because I did&lt;br /&gt;Doesn’t mean everybody can&lt;br /&gt;Don’t believe that bullshit about yourself&lt;br /&gt;She can’t but she thinks she can&lt;br /&gt;Later on you realize&lt;br /&gt;When you get together with a bad upbringing&lt;br /&gt;It’s about time I do it&lt;br /&gt;If I don’t do it now&lt;br /&gt;Inadequate actions dictate who you meet&lt;br /&gt;Now’s the time&lt;br /&gt;A bizarre attraction conjures up images of&lt;br /&gt;Who your mate is for me&lt;br /&gt;Inventing a new vocabulary&lt;br /&gt;The nature is in the person&lt;br /&gt;I know you’re cautious about secret meanings I am too&lt;br /&gt;Don’t vote on the Truth&lt;br /&gt;It’s just another form of pleasure&lt;br /&gt;Being happy for my time&lt;br /&gt;Above the Cornerstone of all&lt;br /&gt;Open to life&lt;br /&gt;Love is actually like you place great value in someone&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly the Judge shall come&lt;br /&gt;Probably at night&lt;br /&gt;Like the peace that comes when&lt;br /&gt;Suffering finally catches up to you&lt;br /&gt;I take certain liberties as an artist&lt;br /&gt;You’ve changed&lt;br /&gt;You’re not the cutie I once knew&lt;br /&gt;I’d take it back in a second if&lt;br /&gt;Back to basics&lt;br /&gt;I don’t want to die young&lt;br /&gt;Lord bless the child&lt;br /&gt;Free freedom from itself&lt;br /&gt;Internally steeped in the blues&lt;br /&gt;A new way of look&lt;br /&gt;Good looking people doing bad things&lt;br /&gt;Her and her hosts of anger&lt;br /&gt;How many abortions and murders in the secrecy of clinics&lt;br /&gt;Run by the man&lt;br /&gt;You can literally go to hell&lt;br /&gt;I guess to hide behind sunglasses&lt;br /&gt;It’s coming together&lt;br /&gt;Make fun of me if you want&lt;br /&gt;I don’t bite&lt;br /&gt;Make fun of me if you want&lt;br /&gt;I don’t bite&lt;br /&gt;It’s the coming together&lt;br /&gt;Older guys understand&lt;br /&gt;I’ve got to learn to walk again&lt;br /&gt;That’s the way we want to appreciate it&lt;br /&gt;Like a movie&lt;br /&gt;Focused on the one thing&lt;br /&gt;Subliminally&lt;br /&gt;Anybody could go either way&lt;br /&gt;The standard is so high&lt;br /&gt;We keep repeating&lt;br /&gt;America will be taken away because of what we have done&lt;br /&gt;Was I there&lt;br /&gt;Was I asking you&lt;br /&gt;Every human and every saint suffering&lt;br /&gt;The joy of a man and his hobby&lt;br /&gt;An old man in a jean jacket&lt;br /&gt;We are the world of American television&lt;br /&gt;When I think about it so do I&lt;br /&gt;I’m here to open the door&lt;br /&gt;Every bulge in the universe&lt;br /&gt;We are a bunch of jokers&lt;br /&gt;You are you are and I am&lt;br /&gt;Going to go back&lt;br /&gt;In the long run&lt;br /&gt;We get to experience every single life&lt;br /&gt;Infused with omniscience&lt;br /&gt;In the end when we are One&lt;br /&gt;We’ll see everything&lt;br /&gt;When our God gives His attributes to us&lt;br /&gt;Underneath it all&lt;br /&gt;There rages a heart&lt;br /&gt;Who can say that life is good and never bad&lt;br /&gt;I know but it’s going to be okay&lt;br /&gt;Hold me&lt;br /&gt;We’re all going somewhere&lt;br /&gt;We all had to learn to&lt;br /&gt;The unreliability of desire&lt;br /&gt;Although there is one desire that is essential&lt;br /&gt;Who I am is because of the mistakes of many&lt;br /&gt;Everybody going through different doors at different times&lt;br /&gt;And different rooms&lt;br /&gt;Thinking&lt;br /&gt;Is it still actually true&lt;br /&gt;What I used to believe&lt;br /&gt;Demons hate but act like our friends so we love what they love&lt;br /&gt;(It’s fucked)&lt;br /&gt;Why am I telling you about what I don’t want you to ruin&lt;br /&gt;Through the help of evil spirits called aliens&lt;br /&gt;The pharoahs built the pyramids to confuse us&lt;br /&gt;They have lots of money so they don’t care&lt;br /&gt;Science is the new sorcery&lt;br /&gt;That’s the way it got me last time&lt;br /&gt;That’s the way it’ll get me again&lt;br /&gt;A good beginning is nothing like a good ending&lt;br /&gt;You do it and understand&lt;br /&gt;It’s not as bad as I thought it would be&lt;br /&gt;When it starts again there will be new colors&lt;br /&gt;You see what I got free from right in broad daylight&lt;br /&gt;Somebody owns me&lt;br /&gt;Serious and humorous about opposite things&lt;br /&gt;Going too fast and hiding our mistakes&lt;br /&gt;You know a yes I do&lt;br /&gt;Anybody could be watching&lt;br /&gt;Some things you don’t write&lt;br /&gt;The best part is it’s almost over&lt;br /&gt;Anywhere where nobody gonna be&lt;br /&gt;I’m no different&lt;br /&gt;I want Hollywood&lt;br /&gt;You know there’s something wrong when you see me&lt;br /&gt;Everyone excited about becoming a manager&lt;br /&gt;I get bored with myself so quickly&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn’t mind doubting&lt;br /&gt;The capacity for contradictions to exist in one heart&lt;br /&gt;I don’t know anymore&lt;br /&gt;What’s the deal with non-reality&lt;br /&gt;What about the was&lt;br /&gt;Everybody’s got Orthodoxy backwards&lt;br /&gt;Destroying language they have given things wrong names&lt;br /&gt;I have abused myself&lt;br /&gt;I have forgiven my enemy&lt;br /&gt;This thing we hate and decided to do together&lt;br /&gt;Putting off paying the bills&lt;br /&gt;It is a truth I can be slightly irritating&lt;br /&gt;There’s something about this presuming&lt;br /&gt;It’s all I have&lt;br /&gt;It all comes from Jesus Christ&lt;br /&gt;But hardly anybody knows the first thing about Him except they think they do&lt;br /&gt;If this were math class they’d be in kindergarten&lt;br /&gt;This Child has created the heaven and earth&lt;br /&gt;I’m getting real&lt;br /&gt;Showing up early&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if you realize what we’re doing in private&lt;br /&gt;I have no shame or too much&lt;br /&gt;Purpose is not a good teacher&lt;br /&gt;What car should I buy in my imagination&lt;br /&gt;Some people hate me but do they really&lt;br /&gt;Give me just a moment&lt;br /&gt;One man rises to power but we all have our share in him because he is one of us&lt;br /&gt;I made her angry with the truth&lt;br /&gt;I can make a lot of people mad with it&lt;br /&gt;They know it’s not magic&lt;br /&gt;And in asserting their knowledge they drain it of any magic it has&lt;br /&gt;You don’t have to do it best just first&lt;br /&gt;It’s pretty sad when a fool like me is embarrassed by his Lord&lt;br /&gt;I haven’t been the most popular lately&lt;br /&gt;I would love something to make me grow up&lt;br /&gt;I want to do my best thing&lt;br /&gt;I give in like a hooker around self-destructive people&lt;br /&gt;You can’t just say things without appealing to something else&lt;br /&gt;I hate how the books don’t last&lt;br /&gt;Running out of everything&lt;br /&gt;Going to meet someone&lt;br /&gt;I don’t know the details&lt;br /&gt;I don’t know what he said for a very long time&lt;br /&gt;I don’t remember the last time&lt;br /&gt;Yeah that’s true&lt;br /&gt;Somebody asked me the other day&lt;br /&gt;Will somebody I know please step in&lt;br /&gt;She would know my failings so fast&lt;br /&gt;I understand it now&lt;br /&gt;Why didn’t I see it before&lt;br /&gt;I’m attracted to nerds&lt;br /&gt;Do you know this longing look in my eyes&lt;br /&gt;With no biological imperative 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