STILL NO REASON

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SYD BARRETT AVENUE

 

 

All memory tuning

              localized vibe

 

CNS (Central Nervous System)

          feeling tattered;

                   uncomfortable

 

          in its fleet

                   pathway towards

                         variable dimension

 

    Focus on a meditation

                    of prophets

              and grasshoppers

        subtle, sweet dreams

                   reflected

 

              in one second;

         forgotten the next

 

              It’s unfair!

         so what to do?

                  we scream

“Give us the answers!!!”

 

             but the Holy Ghost

                 in unmoved

 

unaffected by our mute scream

     our self made quasi suffering

 

Fear Hell?  What for?

We created it here

and it’s our mission

            to regain paradise

 

but the evil doers just scoff

      enjoying gaining sinister pleasure

            in our agonized plight

 

             Politicians flicker in broad

                       daylight

            while homeless stragglers

                curl on the street

 

unsympathetic passers=by

               stepping over human garbage

          on their way to the office

 

as civilization decays at the core:

                   we are left

            facing ugly consequences

 

Raindrops keep falling on my head—

                 I get wet—

soaked by Mother Nature’s fury

                 there’s no escape

                        but I run

 

helpless, wet, cold

                            all I can do

                                     is run away

                keep on my toes

                       and move—

                             and move

 

The fleet path of modern life

              the disarray

          of faith and hope and dreams

                         all pass on

                 like a peace pipe

                          but no answers;

                                    no solutions

 

                      to the violence, racism

            hatred, bitter decay

 

Kill homosexuals and blacks

                to please some pope

    or murder Palestinians or Jews

                in the name of peace

 

It’ll help make sense

                   one day

            when the rapture

                 of the new day

            dawns on the horizon

 

the ecstatic rays

             of the morning sun

                 shamelessly cast

           their light on us

 

I cover my eyes; moist flesh;

             clammy feeling-

      the nights and days go racing by

 

there’s no aim

        no control

            chaos reigns supreme

 

                is that what

             we wanted all along?

 

            I’m finding that

                   I can’t answer

                        that question

 

       and I feel embarrassed

               and ashamed

        at my incapacity

 

Impotence raging

                  in my soul

          quelling the passion

               repressing the flame

 

the twin forces

           of love and lust

               and stymied

           by misconception

 

Dwelling on meditated thought,           

             the blood of the poet

                is poured on the page

                    for any willing witness

 

     but still we ponder

                   the complex mysteries

                             of this human life

                   on this glorious planet

 

and still no answers

               for the questions

                    of why we gone

               and fucked it all up

 

and still no reason

                 for us to go

                      and fuck it all up

 

still no reason, , ,

 

8-30-92

 

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