INTRODUCTION + POETRY + MUSIC + ESSAYS + TRAVEL + FICTION + TEXTILE ART + HAAG'S BIO
Slowing down, creeping befuddlement --
is it Nisargadatta's
world?
Siva? Age? Allergies? Orneriness?
Time to let go?
No place
else to
go? Divine intervention? Idiocy?
Is it six months
in
paradise? Flu? Carpal-tunnel?
Stiffness, just the way
things
are? Will be? --
from now on, eternally.
No pep, no vitality.
no
sight of futures,
tunnel vision on pasts,
blocked mind, unclear
thought.
Even anxiety is slowing
down, creeping out of
my
life in these
unbelievably corrupt, terrifying times.
Thus it always
was?
Ask Savonarola, Genghis and
his Khans, Pol Pot,
the
bleeding Lincoln dying
at the hands of
corruption equal to
now.
Is this why old
people die? -- unable to
adjust anymore to
abuse
of the human spirit?
But death is kind
and grasping,
readily greeting
even me, even you.
What better present
than
oblivion? -- The Goddess who
wants what even life's
tenacity
can't hold -- forever.
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INTRODUCTION + POETRY + MUSIC + ESSAYS + TRAVEL + FICTION + TEXTILE ART