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This Is Not the Title- It Seems Question Marks Arent Permitted-

"write, right?" it was wrote it is written: it will be alright as i look down down at my feet but have to think as if i'm Wittgenstein those really are my feet, right? but even if they are or aren't i can at least say not just to please Hericlitis i'm not stepping in the same stream as i had the day before and looking down downstream i don't see any of the same streams i might be standing in any time soon thank god there're so many things i never want to repeat but let the water flow over me cleanse me and wash my soul while with one earbud in i'm listening to Pete Townshend strumming & singing "Drowned" but when i look up i see you and you are to die for both figuratively and literally so if this be the end then so it shall be but it will be the beginning of that end and if my right hand ever offends thee cut the damned thing off rathering to lose part of me than to ever completely lose you ... it was 5:29 a.m. then 5:30 but TIME being relative in relations to me IT is a long forgotten 3rd cousin on my 1st step sister's side because it's the here & now NOW the present not a gift given gift for in German i'd then be receiving poison and how many times have i told you i don't like poison with my breakfast tea so please in the meantime (which is neither here nor there) you can pluck out my eyes and cut off my hands but be careful because i need at least one ear i'll try to do my best impressionist impersonation of van Gogh and cut off an earlobe instead but with that being said the ear that's left NO the right one i'll be listening to what i'm sure would've been quite frankly a great Frank Zappa version of the music of the spheres on an earbud the ones you bought me in Bogotá while i'm now watching your cows eat my garden correct me if i'm wrong

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Alkas Poetry

Date: 7/28/2022 9:48:00 PM

We could not, however, know whether or not a sentence is true if it did not correspond to the structure of the world, that is, the order of things in the world. But how can language represent the structure of the world? ... - What do we think, and our way of seeing, our language is contaminated by what others who catechize us...one foot, a multiple instrument with many facets, but first of all it before any movement... Revolutionary yes, always... what we repeat is never the same as yesterday not even to the now... the language modifies everything without changing... Our machine goes crazy when trying to understand everything... Poetry with your daydreams, it's a good *poison*... write, write and write more, more and more, Zape with Zappa or listening to snakes hissing, or roosters crow... river running, river passing, life flying... lose an ear, but have the hearing to hear your interior... salute my friend! alkas

David Kavanagh

Date: 7/4/2022 11:46:00 AM

This one is certainly out there grazing with the cows Jeff, but with some great references to philosophers, artists, and musicians, yep we only stand in the same river once, I enjoyed your abstract approach to time, especially the present which by now is in the past, and hopefully all body parts are still intact-ish, cheers David, PS I will definitely need to reread this one, a few more times to align frequencies

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/5/2022 4:50:00 AM

Sounds like bliss Jeff, or would you say De puta madra in the excellent sense, ah now I see the allusion to Bogotá, I thought you were somewhere in the US reliving a trip down there, cheers David

Jeff Connelly
Date: 7/5/2022 1:07:00 AM

Thanks for the comment David. As for the "abstract approach to time": I've been living in Colombia, South America since mid April of this year, and this & that is how time "really" flows here. It's kind of wonderful actually... happy sigh...

Jeff Kyser

Date: 7/4/2022 8:36:00 AM

Are there any non-great Zappa versions?

Jeff Connelly
Date: 7/4/2022 8:57:00 AM

So true Jeff...

Jenna Logan

Date: 7/4/2022 6:35:00 AM

I fear I should be concerned... not about you, but about me for thinking I followed most of your train of thought. If standing in a new stream cleansed you in a baptismal sense, you were wise to step into its shallows. No need to cut off any of your extremities, no matter whose heart you desire. Keep both of your ears; one for the ear bud and the other to hear what or who may call out to you.

Jeff Connelly
Date: 7/4/2022 7:47:00 AM

Thank you so much Jenna for your comment & concerns. Sage advice...