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Ssx Trippy
The application to be a psychonaut
had been filled out and submitted
in my childhood.
My thoughts meandered
around the brain that paid host to them.
Sleeping had been interrupted by
discourses exchanged telepathically
with the universe.
My imagination teemed with exciting
possibilities & revelations.
Visions replaced the sensory-rich
environment I had become accustomed to.
Distorted forms, in ethereal planes
of existence, populated
these dreamscapes.
As I got older,
I educated myself
on a myriad of subjects,
with special interest in
manipulating these ecstatic and transcendent
states I had come to know.
Control came through
fasting, creating,
lucid dreaming, yoga, breathing,
meditating.
But my aim to replicate the conditions
didn't stop there...
Medicine...tools...chemicals
that proposed there was more to be
enlightened about;
more to consider.
Whether it was
a piece of paper, my passport to infinity;
an appetizer of magical mycelium before
I dined on the spectacle of life,
a bitter communion.
An array of pleasant and acrid smoke that
made my lungs balloon, inflated until I
took flight off into the cosmos.
The yellow dust, reminiscent of the Egyptians,
imparted wisdom of the ancients...
All vehicles for self-improvement,
tantalizing and life-affirming.
With me, on the ready, to give into suggestion.
To improve
my future
by connecting me with
remnants of
my past.
Copyright ©
Joseph Szalinski
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