Loud and True

If Thou Dislik'st What Thou First Light'st On -Dean Young fr First Course in Turbulence I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, I had dreamed of the perfect gray pants, I have a life that did not become, a young sister made of glass. I have done it again. I like a church, I like a cowl, I like the look of agony. I love the old melodious lays, I love it when they demonstrate the oxygen masks, never messing up their hair. I met the Bishop on the road, In a coign of the cliff between high and low, In a dark time, Among wolves and periwinkles, In a station of the metro, In Breughel's great painting, The Kermess. Indeed I must confess, Indigo, magenta, color of ghee, what the hell is the color of ghee? In June amid the golden fields, In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay, In spite of all the learned say, In the depths of the Greyhound station, In this world, this isle of dreams, Intimations of mortality, In unexpected infancy, In vain, in vain—the all composing hours. Yadda yadda yadda. I saw the best minds of my generation et cetera, I saw spiders marching through the air but let's skip this part, okay? The usual taste of liquor never brewed, the usual It is June, it is June, it is ten years since we rowed, it is 12:20 in New York a Friday but seems it out of battle I escaped and now I wander lonely as a cloud. I was angry with a friend, I went into the public ‘ouse for a pint o’ beer, I went to the Garden of Love but I wonder, do you feel today as I do caught in an index's apparatus of a thousand versions of myself but not sure I even exist? Dawns and hangovers and phone calls, nothing but silence on the other end. All this fog, a jar in Tennessee, torches going out. Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea. Jen Kropinak's : Site Insta Mentions: Jam Roll Studios Robot Chicken Southern Tier Brewry Dethlehem Bottlecap Press Lamp Lit The Motherhood Center of NY Sarah Kendzior: The Last American Road Trip Salmon of Wisdom Women Who Run with the Wolves Remote Viewing The Green Ribbon The Wild Unknown Tarot Lindsay Mack : Tarot of the Wild Soul Jezmina Von Thiele : Romanistan J. Allen Cross Britton Boyd : Invoking Witchcraft The Mabonogi Supernatural George A Romero Lucille Clifton Mary Oliver Richard Brautigan Lawrence Ferlinghetti Diane di Prima Jack Kerouac William S Burroughs Allen Ginsberg Diane Seuss Lindsay Hunter : I'm a Writer But Brittany Hailor : Animal You'll Surely Become Ashley C Ford Lacy Crawford : Notes on Silencing Julia Fine : The Upstairs House MC Schmidt : How to Steal a Train Charlie Claire Burgess : Queer Devotion Washer at the Ford The Wicker Man Althaea Sebastiani : Rust of the Nail Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally Food Not Bombs, INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund Legacy of War Foundation UNHCR, *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol). **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat. ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.