#142 - karma pyjamas

23.5.20

142

karma pyjamas

all this suffering nonsense

life’s joy to that extent

why guess when stream and leaf?

day shines the clouds one way another

that’s for all to see

look up

say consciousness – curse, gift

our duty to perspective

we’re the ones untree the Earth

give it the capital letter

so many reasons to party

say touch and feel, get a whiff, taste this

yes, one hears the skies creak

and may dissolve in rain

nothing’s forever – that’s revelation

time doesn’t end – we do

build the fire up – warm hands

I lose count

two million years let’s give or take

a hundred billion bones or ash or so far

trim sails and find my sea

it’s sorry for the self

salvation mocks the planet, all stripes

let me so devour – it’s just what I do

who tortures kills eats the seventy billion

four legged each year?  and I forgot the fish

reap what you sow? bite bum?

fruit fallen so far no one will know

there’s the vanity of wishlessness as well

every day’s one more from and towards

luck is a thing in itself

tribe of which superstition would you tie me to?

flimsy thinking or none at all?

here’s the humming choir within spit

when we say silence

who will hear?

sit very still, unthink it

notice how the creatures won’t care?

close eyes so as to not be there

in karma pyjamas – reality stave offs

imagine what’s coming to me

it’s so for up above I am and so far down

being a body I can say this

and follow rules nature must obey

cosmic justice?  you’re kidding me

might as well fall for creation

and build a poem like this

from the muck up – a little turd temple

the garbage excuses to make confession

or get you in the end

no one’s watching, no one cares

take your dose of cold hard fact

have you got your rewards card

scan it

thing that comes around’s this world

the compost and the spiral arm

we don’t go round again