Monday, July 27, 2015

what has been seen cannot be unseen


“Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have, let me prove it to you.”

- Jimi Hendrix

 

walking in the shadows of an all night cinema

ghost whiskey haunts my mind

 

tonight has followed today

a day when i got a rejection email

 

my publisher is printing a collection

of love poems in a volume titled

Droplets in the Sea of Poetry (seriously?)

and solicited me for a poem

i sent them the one i wrote

on my last acid trip

 

“once i had a 1,000 heads

and they all said let’s go to bed

let’s close our eyes let’s get some sleep

and here we’ll lay no more to weep

 

can we please rest our weary minds

forget that the world is so unkind

forget how they teach us to be blind

 

did you hear about president ronald

he had a friend who owned a mcdonalds

who sold some burgers made lots of money

so he in turn endorsed some honey

 

have you seen the cat scan of his brain

doctors say it looks like a russian terrain

said it must have caused him lots of pain

 

do you know what happened to lennon

is he in hell or is he in heaven

and if in hell is he doing well

does he have old nick underneath his spell

 

can you please tell me where the truth lies

here on earth or way up in the sky

oh won’t you tell me before i die”

 

hence the rejection email

 

i know, i’m an ass

but if you don’t know that by now…

 

anyway, i ran away

from the dark streets of decay

but now i’m back

 

packing half a pack

and a flask

hope sandoval and the warm inventions

in my ear

like a willow

3 a.m. is meant for pillows

but you know me

 

and meaning

 

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