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Beautiful Litter - Part One

I.


The Bad Spirit rises behind my eyes in an attempt to overthrow the Good Spirit.

This is the free-based essence of the god-narcotic -
the earliest shamanistic theologians were actually shamanistic psycho-analysts,
and ever since, too many huemans have been searching 
                                                                                               
                                                                            without instead of within

pounding the pavement two-by-two,
selling Armageddon from the outside,
when the Apocalypse happens on the inside.               Anyone can have visions.
                                                                                      Anyone can be prophetic -

but a vision isn't one for all. Yeah, welcome to the fall, welcome to the fall.
Wot's good for the goose, may not be good for the gandly pandeR bear.

Try as I may, I am still not able to purge myself of the Bad Spirit.
If I could snap the umbilical cord attached to the serpentine cortex, codex-stem,
releasing the Bad Spirit out of my eyes,
it could probably fell a million men with its lies,
with a soft, ghostly whisper.      A twister 

of insidious incantations covering my sight in filtered glasses made of everything
that slithers along the fringe of subconsciousness and psychic television.

Blue light flickers, empty eyes attempting to fill a void
by vicariously watching people die from a cold-shouldered distance
on the eleven o' clock news -
rabid cameras frothing at the lens,
capturing the worst possible moment in a stranger's life.
The worst __________ moment in a stranger's life.

-We-

We should all be as one.
If one person out of 7 billion is starving,
the world is still in famine.
Swords to plowshares,
                        plowshares back to swords again.

We are born with the Good Spirit.
The Bad Spirit enters after birth
in a collage of experiences:
the brain is washed with price tags,
the inconsistency of jealousy,
landfills growing beside Christmas trees,
the violation of incestuous rape clinging as rotten fruit

        falling

amongst deeds performed on bent knees.

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  1. Date: 6/22/2012 11:20:00 AM

    ...part sustained the interest of the readers who checked it out (not saying this is the same for you!! I can see from the comments below that those who did read it definitely want to get to the 2nd part)...I know, it is not conclusive (since some most likely head on to the 2nd part right away anyway and just click on the latest post) and anyway I am just rambling here. Don't mind me...ok lemme go read the 2nd part ^_^

  1. Date: 6/22/2012 11:18:00 AM

    Sorry deviating here...Also, I find it fascinating (and kind of frustrating in a way) This is just me though-- of how putting up 2 part poems can be sort of revealing in a bit? I mean I noticed how your part 1 had roughly half of the views as your 2nd part? This has happened to me as well-- wherein the 2nd part has more views than the first half-- hehe like I said, this is just me (talking about my writes posted in 2 parts), but the sensitive part of me sort of makes me wonder whether my... cont

  1. Date: 6/22/2012 11:14:00 AM

    I think that this can very well stand by itself Chris-- but yup let me head on to the 2nd part in a bit-- you leave much to chew on with this one, I'll most likely come back here to chew on it some more-- one of the thoughts that stood out for me here was that one about even if 1 person starved, we'd still be in famine...btw read your comments on my poem, thank you again for the surprising placement :D! sending you some hellos in a while, haha uh-oh.

  1. Date: 6/21/2012 8:29:00 PM

    Hey, Chris, you should enter that big bash contest between web sites. I just know they will dig this kind of writing. For me, I especially liked the last stanza . It really captures the essence of how ruined we can be. SOUPMAIL

  1. Date: 6/20/2012 6:03:00 PM

    As I promised...Im back! : ) "as rotten fruit/falling/amongst deeds performed on bent knees."!! A closing sharp blow! I think that "my" problem was my unconscious association between the bad-good spirit and the Native American...(forgetting that the Shamans from Asia are also involved in forms of spiritualism). Ok...although this part can stand by itself...Im going to the 2nd part again...

    O. Avatar Ruben O. Date: 6/20/2012 6:04:00 PM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    "gandly pandeR bear"?????
  1. Date: 6/16/2012 3:17:00 PM

    Ooooohwee, on my way to 2!

  1. Date: 6/15/2012 3:09:00 PM

    This will take several reading to get all of it, there is so much.

  1. Date: 6/14/2012 12:18:00 PM

    This is so real, it makes me shiver... >>

  1. Date: 6/14/2012 1:30:00 AM

    Me like it............................to 2nd part...................>

  1. Date: 6/13/2012 9:05:00 PM

    ...................................... WOW! On to part II <3