Dear Neighbors
Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the River,
but primarily because I could not run away fast enough.
Regardless,
I want to invite you over
for kind of a potluck neighborhood open house party.
Just come as you happen to be
gay or not
at the moment,
bring something to drink
and, oh yes,
something to eat that you would consider politically
and economically
and nutritionally correct.
We will not have political correctness exams
at the front door,
prior to gaining admission,
unless you would like that of course,
in which case
perhaps I should mention,
so as not to become justly accused of hidden agendas,
I would prefer to disclose
a politically correct completely open agenda,
and that probably goes for your porky political
and/or porkless religious beliefs too.
If you want to talk about how I really should get myself Born Again,
if only for the long-term eternal life insurance values,
I will almost certainly agree
that I hope to dream deep rich baptisms of fire
and rain
and oceanic windstorms every night
to be reborn gratefully again each morning,
except on those too-rare occasions
when I could have baptized myself
in more robust erotic dreams
to awake feeling less uncompleted,
vulnerably speaking,
feelings off public discourse,
of course.
Nor would I drop a jaw
were you to explain to me
how you inspire transcendent mysticism
The rather imprecise feedback
I get from my defiant kids
right after they rob me blind
or lie to me as if I were senseless
and preferably more other worldly
preoccupied with larger mythic issues
of climatic change
in Great Poli-Economic EcoSalvation Revivals,
and not so much
our pedestrian political and economic kleptocracies,
most uncooperative and unmindful
resulting in unseemly
and dare I say cash-poor?
piracy
and plunder.
Lest you fear I may have some hidden political,
or, MAGA-pope forbid,
some cultish irreligious-missionary agenda,
rather than an inter-religioning
sacramental communion smorgasbord
born of healthy entertaining wealth management
recipe books
with good faith and humor ingredients
relentlessly singing along
some more Traditionally Orthodox Party Line
Scriptured lessons
on how to invest bicameral heart beats
and wise inhale-exhale breaths of bipartisan
liberating Mind and conserving Body
recirculating 0-soul Fullness
allowing me to expose
my own polypathic proclivities
as a Taoist-Christian.
My T-C is a hybrid wavy midway double-lane,
somewhat like UniversalMind/UnitarianBody,
more bilateral position and apposition
co-binary like +1/-(-0)
which behaves, for some regenetic reason,
and seldom misbehaves, for Othering
degenerative treasons
of opposition
unlike +/+-relational dipolarity
Yin/Yang co-arising nurturing resonance,
going indigenously wise
back to both Eastern EarthMother polytheistic
and Western FatherSun monotheistic
0/1 binding relations.
Nothing under 1 searing sun
and over 0-womb living Earth
could sacredly surprise me
except absence of bad news,
and even then
I would carry on
pretending that I alone
have been predicting this
This continuing sensory peace
of good Tao-Christian news
permaculturally all along
but usually,
and preferably,
only to those who would be most certain
not to take me too seriously
Deep trauma,
too uninformed,
too rabidly dogmatic
When you treat your host as if a well-seasoned sage
and not more totally insane
over intensely non-Othering polypaths,
traumatized by strident voices of climatic anger
and silos of echoing foggy fears
about ego's future emptiness,
ebbing life's unbecoming.
So, not to worry,
Taoist lies before the hyphenatic Christian,
meaning Radical Change Christian.
We are so radically revolutionary
that we believe Christianity should declare its mission statement
as 100% self-perpetuatingly regeneratively replete,
And now move on to more Kingdom optimizing multicultural issues,
like investing in more cooperatively nutritious political parties
proactively investing cooperative choices,
More teleologically ecologically bicamerally informed
by sacred-humane nondual TaoBalance
YangLeftHealthyNature-YinRightWealthySpirit
of bilateral CoMessiah Light.
EarthLoving TaoChristians are so radically revolutionary
we believe good nature is always nutritionally kind
and we don't believe we could
more (0)-sum ego-exist.
So, not to worry,
no evangelical intentions are allowed by Yin,
much as Yang would love to love you to death
with Matriarchal LeftBrain Wisdom
of multicultural truths
as harmonic fractal-crystal beauty
of home economics
in fertile-octave light
Bipedaling cross-messianic frequencies
rather like Eulerian prime relationship.
Just come as you are
in your own light
with whomever you happen to have
hanging around at the moment
you finish reading this.
Feel free to bring your pets
and any tools you might have to share,
or just a list would be fine,
and I'm wondering if we want to exchange email addresses,
so there will be a sign-in sheet for those who want to include that,
and those who don't,
and please check off if you might be interested in collaborative gardening
this next spring coming up.
And if you or any of your accompanying tribe
have any skills or talents,
songs, dances, readings,
stories, drums,
other musical instruments,
except maybe not a tuba
because I'm just not that musically evolved
and I realize you could not laugh with me
while playing your foghorn of a tuba,
Bring anyone or anything except a monopolistic tuba,
which really isn't a party instrument anyway,
for our co-invested skills
and talent show.
Stay as long as we all like,
and can afford to live together
better than apart.
I'm sure we have much to reconnect and celebrate about.
OK, you can bring that damned tuba, if you must.
Maybe I am being invited to thrive in some foghorn kind of way.
With gratitude.
Your Newest Neighbor
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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