California Chrome

People and Horses
are like people and people
You can bemoan the fate of kept horses
  racing horses
  as our own
We are the same

Try this
  Look
   but don't see a horse
   see a person there instead
 Now look elsewhere
   and see the same thing
    worse even
     unimaginably worse

You can bemoan the fate of racing horses
 It would be like  bemoaning the rain cloud
   or the snatched bird
     fish
      cat
       rat

The horse
  like the dog and cat
    bugs, birds and others
       plants, microbes (do think I'm mad)
          speaks to the human heart
The connection between horses and humans
   creatures with heart
   is  wondrous
     wonderful
     mysterious
     heartfelt

Horses race
  People race
    People race horses
 for me there is heart
  the feeling heart
   the listening heart
    the seeing heart
      the speaking heart
       the writing heart
         the connected heart

I have learned many things
  discovered even more mysteries
   wonderings about eloquent truths hiding in plain sight
    
I cry for all kinds of reasons
   a dead bird
    a horse in a stable
       life lost to circumstance
        dreams coming true
          the heart that runs like California Chrome

I called the devil's name

he came

i changed my mind

i cried Lord just one time more please save me

has that ever happened to you?

Circuitry of soul

Every little thing  is  a circuitry of soul

The Nagual

6-29-2013

Ordinary men
   can morph
     they can see
       if they knew how


The nagual
   interprets for his time
    this knowledge
       of the spirit
           of the abstract
             power
               call it what you will
                it is the nagual
                 that has shown this to you

You can say the nagual is a fantasy
  a story
   a myth
     legend
      it doesn't matter
        an ordinary man can see
           that is what matters













 

Love

I found love another time
    did that smile thing
     as there we sat
       waiting for a plane
         on the second smile
           I must have said hello

We talked the while we flew and
      of course I read that book she likes
         and when we said goodbye
             she told me her first name

A lieutenant in the Air Force
 even higher maybe
   a doctor of some kind
     across the river
       one could even find her
       that doesn't cross my mind

She's a love story
  I sip her with my sole
   I squeeze her in my toes
    I pump her up my legs into my spine

I brace my shoulders and
 she flows into my arms
  and when she's in my fingers
    all my body disappears

What happens next
  I'll tell you
   if and when I hear
    she moves me
     then I move

She moves me
Then I move

Chinese

90's

again to the tune of miss you

again incomplete

why don't we assume

that all my stuff is incomplete

cloudy day like

unless otherwise noted

I'm into Chinese
Give me two scoops please
I start each day down on my knees
 and I'm trying to eat fat free

No politician's got nothing on me
 I'm living in the land of the brave and the home of the free
  and I can't read or write or speak Chinese
  but I like it
  I know I like it

We are Lucky to

unfinished '90s

tune of miss you

We
 are lucky to
  be living in America
Good for me and you
 this living in America
Nobody care about you
 living in America

[musical interlude]

No politician got nothing on me
 I'm living in the land of the brave and home of the free
  I can be
   I can be be
    I can be let be
     living in America
     this living in America

[unfinished]
[some ideas that came in 2013]

We
  will get there first
 We
   we aren't waiting for anyone
We
    are working on something
something unbelievable
  just wait and see
    see
      see