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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

Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2022

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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 Login to Reply

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 Login to Reply 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? Login to Reply 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. Login to Reply Jeff Connelly Date: 7/4/2022 7:47:00 AM Thank you so much Jenna for your comment & concerns. Sage advice...