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"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity 
from heart to lung to brain

you’re a free bird
flying high two crimes
now swallows two minds

You converse smoothly
while you walk arm-in-arm
the Heckle and Jekyll line

Never now not lonely 
there are new friends
the voices inside

Opiate creeps furious and fast
dancing with the shadows
of all your yesterdays' Fausts

The body’s a prison 
you try to escape
surrounded by an ignoble past 

You are now a ghost hell-sold 
that day you made 
a pact at the Cross Road for Fool's Gold

You now cling to the 
sign post waiting for 
9 Inch Nails to be driven 

Passing other ghosts 
for silent acquaintance
on their forehead is written 

"The Unforgotten Unforgiven"

You’ve grown quiet
in your loudness 
invisible and comically bold 

warm in the cold
with all your 
burning indiscretions

No one now 
ever 
really listens

You are looking for sleep
the final journey 
towards Home

ten-pin 
bowls you 
for meaning

In The Fall of your life
you are tap dancing
soft shoe

barefoot
with all of your 
Angels & Demons

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)







Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There
https://youtu.be/hWSt_q7M3zI







"Life's pulses now with fresher force awaken
To greet the mild ethereal twilight o'er me;
This night, thou, Earth! hast also stood unshaken
And now thou breathest new-refreshed before me,
And now beginnest, all thy gladness granting,
A vigorous resolution to restore me,
To seek that highest life for which I'm panting.
The world unfolded lies in twilight glimmer,
A thousand voices in the grove are chanting;
Vale in, vale out, the misty streaks grow dimmer;
The deeps with heavenly light are penetrated;
The boughs, refreshed, lift up their leafy shimmer
From gulfs of air where sleepily they waited;
Color on color from the background cleareth,
Where flower and leaf with trembling pearls are freighted:
And all around a Paradise appeareth.”

(Faust: II /Goethe, excerpt)
















1. Faust
1(a)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust 
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures 

1(b)
https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v02n09p264_the-theosophical-meaning-of-goethes-faust.htm 





2. Heckle & Jeckle
https://terrytoons.fandom.com/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle 





3. Jekyll & Hyde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde 





4. The Big Smoke
https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2019/06/17/247-million-for-chaplains-in-schools-2-8-for-mental-health-whats-wrong-with-this-picture/?fbclid=IwAR39RAjdbjhvrRLPpY_pInRgWN0bQqwvaGAcZI78g52ZgjSVwPxk7D9lPQQ




5. https://dualdiagnosis.org/mental-health-and-addiction/the-connection/





6. https://dualdiagnosis.org/unfortunate-connection-childhood-trauma-addiction-adulthood/




7. "Take You There" - Massive Attack, Tricky, 3D / Lyrics:
https://genius.com/Massive-attack-take-it-there-lyrics






DEPRESSION/SUICIDE/ADDICTION/CRISIS 

Hotlines:

1. AUSTRALIA

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/suicide_help



2. USA
http://suicidehotlines.com/national.html



3. U.K.


http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/international/united-kingdom-suicide-hotlines.html

https://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/suicide/


4. Global

http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
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