1. mayday

    There’s a heap of new writing on here, I’ve lost my handle on it to an extent. Editing and formatting is something I will get around to,  I hope You enjoy it nonetheless.

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    16/04/2012

     

    ”Wineiskhey”=(Wine+Whiskey),
    …the ingredient beginning with W the old lady on the train offers up to add to the elixir in the glass bauble. She’s been drinking it for years she informs me. The glass is offered around for the passengers to take a sip, one passenger doesn’t want to give up the elixir, she says she is going to ‘turn it in’. The elixir is tasting sweeter than the sweetest honey, its taste unleashing an orgasm you simply cannot hold back. Pretty soon the train is grinding on the tracks and sliding sideways. All the passengers begin to grow wings as the train doors slide open. I exit the train through the open doors and float skywards.

     

     

     

    ………………………………….. for R.W., untitled 12/04/2012…………..

    Your desires for here are painted in different colours,
    I paint mine in black, with white and shades of grey.
    Your dedication to other matters is a story written in your Heart,
    the only copy unfinished, unpublished, and not for release.

    As your Lover, my Love is your Love, but we are not lovers,
    Are you a brother, a kindred Spirit, a teacher?
    or just another intense and beautiful creature…

    I still haven’t learned to stop asking these questions,
    to not even wonder, to just let it unfold,
    the mystery that it is.

    And if the definition came,
    then would come the question: …but Why?
    And if I heard the answer,
    then would come the question: …but for what purpose?
    And if I understood it,
    then would come this longing: …but I’ve got to know more,
    I’ve got to …understand.

    And I still haven’t learned to stop asking these questions,
    to not even wonder, to just let it be,
    the mystery that it is.

    Connection to the One is a blessing and a curse,
    for as light blinds or darkness falls,
    I lament the loss to connection due to attachment I’ve formed.

    They say attachment is unhealthy, they teach it in the East,
    but when faced with a banquet, the hungry want to feast,
    …and so there is still so much, that I haven’t learned.

    Perhaps I am dark, afflicted, hungry, greedy, a thief,
    I’m unsure of what darkness lurks in my own shadow.
    I don’t think I’d ever steal from You,
    and you’d never let me into those rooms anyway,
    and if You did, I hope You wouldn’t call it stealing….
    nonetheless that book is yours,
    incomplete, unpublished, and not up for general release.

    Nobody likes to lose sight of Love,
    You are my Lover, although I am not yours.
    As I am your Lover, your happiness is yours, your happiness is your entitlement,
    And in your happiness I must be content,
    and forget about selfishness, for then it wouldn’t be Love.

    I’m not sure why our paths have crossed,
    it’s another human relationship, You know I’m a believer,
    I like to see these things as Divine and Spiritual,
    but then I remember, that I’m asking those questions once again.

    I’m not sure what You want from me,
    I know it’s not broken trust,
    troubles, emotional baggage, cuddles or lust,
    and I know You don’t want to see me self destruct.

    I’m not sure what You want from me,
    company, laughter, connection, sharing writing,
    common interests, iced coffee and poetry,
    and then I remember, I’m asking all those questions again.

    If I could give You just the best of me,
    If I could give You health and healing,
    If I could relieve You from your suffering,
    or order You a hot wife from Thailand, or an android girlfriend
    …that’s just what I’d do,
    but then I remember, I’m only human.

    If our friendship could last a lifetime,
    I’d make it so.
    If I knew you’d be around,
    I’d make it so,
    If I could give You my whole Heart,
    I’d make it so,
    but I’m only human, and that would be silly,
    and I can’t control destiny,
    other people, or anything.

    The Love that shines through You,
    it radiates, it’s wild.
    Your sparkling eyes,
    they glisten and smile.
    The wisdom You hold,
    it fascinates me.
    You’re rare and unique,
    as though you don’t belong here,
    as though you’re not from here.

    And then there’s the fact,
    that You paint your dreams in different colours,
    and I paint mine in black, with white and shades of grey.

    As they say, attachment is unhealthy.
    Nothing is permanent, things are only temporary.
    the universe is built and understood,
    mathematically. Like fractals patterns repeat,
    Perhaps that’s why I’m here again,
    asking all these bloody questions.

     

    12/04/2012

     

     

    Actions show up words. Unspoken words can be greater than words. Teach me the Arts of communication and its forms.

     

     

    10/04/2012

    I had Kevin’s abortion, Kevin looked a bit like Gary Numan, Kevin passed on wisdom. Kevin shouted me scotch from the fridge hahahahahahaha. Kevin, we had a good time, I’m sorry Kevin for this poorly written reflection, I ought to have done you more justice, I’m sorry I had your abortion, but that’s just how it goes at 11 in the morning..

     

     

    10/04/2012

     

    I swing from the shadow to the sunlight, back and forth, is this the way it’s meant to be? Opposites and duality? They say one cannot exist without the other. They say they give rise to each other. I’ve known great isolation and great connection, great pain and pure Love, great confusion and great clarity, I’ve held onto great beauty and harboured great ugliness, great peace and great suffering, my tears have become my smiles as my smiles have become my tears, my hope are intertwined with my fears. I swing from the shadow to the sunlight, back and forth. The shadow, it’s not as warm as the sunlight, but it’s a part of me. I embrace You. My Shadow.

     

    10/04/2012

     

    The man you don’t have, the money you don’t have, the youth you don’t have, the sleep you didn’t get, the aspirations not yet fulfilled, the things you once had… Let the thoughts of these things fade from our minds. Allow the flame of our dreaming to keep us warm all of our days with the Spirit of wholeness.

     

    10/04/2012

     

    How burnt we feel by what it is that we want and we don’t have. Let us focus on what we do have, and let it be enough for the time being, let this make us feel whole, just as we are.

     

    10/04/2012

    Weird 5.30am musings….. I call it ”I hope You know this goes down on your permanent record”.

     

    Forms are altered and pop in and out of thin air. It gets harder to breathe in thin air. We expect them to be more transparent than thin air, but when the shoe is on the other foot, and they want to poke into our private lives, thin air resounds with deafening outcry to the opposition of the growth of big brother. Transparency, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. The age of transparency is upon us. Go naked. Go free. Prepare, for it, to all be seen. They cannot hide, for we know they lie, we can shout it loud and make it known, but by then our covers blown, in larger numbers we are alright, when it’s on camera in broad daylight, the independent media, the internet, the whole world watching, the stage is set. We cannot hide, for we are online, neither side, is all that blind .. and when we’re out, they can see, what it is we’re about, in larger numbers, we are alright, transparency in broad daylight.

    I once had sex on the front lawn at 9am on a Monday morning. I had just gotten home from work and my boyfriend at the time was passed out on the front lawn so I woke him up and we went for it, people were walking by on the way to work, I thought their stunned expressions were funny. I’m unashamedely open about what I post on facebook, and I don’t give a fuck as fucks are for having not for giving. It’s my private life and I choose to make it public, that’s my choice, I’m not at all ashamed. I’m pro drug law reform, an activist, and an extremist leftie. I contribute to anti police brutality groups, all the stuff the authorities wouldn’t really dig, and they’ve got open access to all the thoughts and information I upload, express and make public. So fucking what. I haven’t murdered anyone. So I’m in the ASIO database, so big brother is watching me? Perhaps they are. Let them knock on my door and I’ll shake their hand and say “G’day I’m Josh”, and I’ll be arrested for what? The crime of speaking one’s mind? The crime of believing what I believe in? Maybe so, that will be a
    hell of a trip, the whole of life has been. Stranger things have happened. So our info is stored on a server somewhere and is accessible to those other than ourselves. No shit. And yeh, if someone murdered my little bro and they had to use his FB
    account or someone else’s to get to the bottom of it, or if I went missing off the face of the planet due to an ASIO attempt to silence me, and they had to use my post history to figure out what went down, I’m sure me and my family wouldn’t
    mind. One day we’ll all be laced with an RFID chip. Telepathy, all frequencies are under moderation, so please refrain from profanity. All messages indecipherable can be found laying on a broken telephone wire. Big brother is watching on cctv as
    we walk down the street. Do I think it’s great? Not as such. Do I wish they’d fuck off? Perhaps so. Do I think it’s a good thing if they use such means to track down a serial killer? It probably is.

    Given laws are subject to creation and alteration and records are indeed kept online indefinitely it does render one vulnerable to the possibility of prosecution or imprisonment indefinitely at any given time, depending on the whacked out
    law they come up with and the ‘nature of the offence’. We ought to be worried, and to take loss of privacies and civil liberties seriously. These types of new legislation are always justified by the notion of if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear, and then are used against the innocent and the brave regardless. We know the authorities are corrupt, and that “power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

    I speak openly about heroin, mental health, and prison on facebook. Mind You I haven’t told anyone about the upcoming importation from Asia (jks lol)… - oops … - …. - nah seriously I hope I don’t get interrogated for that, I know nussing, nussing! May our backyard abortion business flourish and fly under the radar of those who seek to prosecute us for what? For poking at a fetus with a coathanger? We’re doing someone a favour here, get out of our face(book)…

     

    09/04/2012

     

    When I was a small child, my grandma and me collected heaps of fallen maple leaves from her garden and put them in garbage bags, and we took them to my kindy and made a big pile, and all the kids and me played in the big pile of leaves - and it was fun!

     

     

    09/04/2012

     

    romanticism, reveries, dreams, and fantasies … are known as these …. for a reason ….. we walk towards them …. we want to realise them, we see them in our eyes … they’re our ideas, they’re our reveries, they’re our dreams, and they’re our fantasies, we walk towards them….. and they fade like a mirage …. reveries, dreams, they’re known as these …. for a reason …..

     

    09/04/2012

     

    I’m going tomorrow, to visit a friend, who is in hospital, after throwing herself in front of a train. She’s 18 years old. She’s an absolutely beautiful girl. Why do we go through such hell. My Mum, she was an absolutely beautiful lady, and she gave up, and she took pills and drank alcohol until her heart stopped beating. We’re beautiful people. People ask the meaning of life, and call it a big question. A big question to me is Why do such beautiful people suffer like they do. Answer that one.

     

     

    09/04/2012

    My life has been:
    85% Self destruction
    15% Self Love and Self care

    I have an incredible drive towards engaging in self destruction and self destructive behaviours, activities and actions. One part of me wants to pill myself to sleep for days, wake up, and then shoot up drugs. Another part of me wants to live. To get well and to stay well. I’m in a battle, I’m in a battle with myself, and I don’t know how to win. I’m just waiting, I’m waiting to get into rehab for six months. I’ve been waiting for six months. I an only hope the all comes sooner rather than later. I don’t want to turn into the sort off mess of a person who nobody wants to know. I don’t want to lose my friends and upset my family. I don’t want to die, but I do want to take a handful of pills. It’s a battle within the Self. I don’t know how to win. I’ve been doing this for a long, long time, the amount of times I’ve walked out of hell, only to do well, and then one again fall. I don’t want to give up. Sometimes I do.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    31/03/2012

     

    I am not an addiction, I am not an affliction, I am not a mental illness. I am a person, deserving of the same Love and rights as all others. I am a whole person, Heart, mind and Spirit. I am not my past, I am not my baggage, I am ME, I am STRONG.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    And then I realised I was 5 days off the heroin, and that was 5 months ago, and I had a bandage wrapped around my arm, and I was at a train station, and I was trying to swap a bottle of wine for a knife. And then I realised I was suicidal. And then I realised that I’d been in that state before, and that having slashed up and been suicidal is not a state i’d been in recently for the first time in years, and then I wondered what in the bloody hell had gone on for six months, and I couldn’t peice much of it together, and then I realised it would leave a lot of scars, and then I wondered what I’d done..

     

    tuesday - 03rd april

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I’m inhabiting this space. It’s a tempory space. It has to be tempory. A space where everything is feeling futile. Welcome to the space where everything feels futile and you may as well just fuck it all. Goddamn.

     

    Wednesday 04th april

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    a place of futility
    an obsession
    confusion, depression
    gets on your brain like a cancer
    makes you think of things
    like self destruction
    taking heaps of pills
    or shooting heroin
    seeking oblivion
    kindly lifting the weight off your shoulders
    off your tired worried and wired mind
    carrying you off on a warm cloud
    making you smile
    like a kiss from an angel
    until it returns again
    the pain
    the obsession
    and you forget
    so forgetful
    such a short,…
    memory
    that you were once?
    that you are
    indeed strong? something reminds you
    something comes along
    maybe it’s a friend who’s in
    a similar struggle
    internal war
    with bullets and bombs
    explosions and all

    filling the mind
    with all that and more
    eating inside
    like your empty stomach
    eats itself
    as you don’t eat
    to punish yourself
    as the parasite feast
    on the banquet
    of your heart and soul
    consumes your all
    and makes you feel
    you have nothing left
    as you forget
    your emptiness
    as your friends
    or something sparks
    within
    like the engine starts
    again
    and you think, shit,
    i’ve been in this car before
    i know how to drive it
    in fact i’m a pretty good driver
    so i guess i should drive carefully?
    or a tree might jump out at me,
    I might not swerve to avoid at the last minute
    I might be lucky?
    I think myself so.. Time and time again..
    Thankyou to You, thanks to you my friend

     

    (wednesday 04th april 2012

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Get Ready. Everyone get ready motherfuckers. It’s 2012. This shit is going to go down. We’re all gonna grow wings. And board the fukkin mothership for the plannet plue tohe, where there’ll be plenty of toFu and shady ferns, but only if You’ve been a good hippy. You cccccccomin on the mothership motherfukkers, boarding passes ready please, please remain seated, the mothership should be here shortly?

     

    (wednesday 04th, April, 2012

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Noah. Noah’s fukkin ark. Noah was a black man. He built a canoe. How can an elephant float on a canoe? You row the canoe, I’ll catch the fish…

     

    (wednesday 04th April 2012

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Everybody is uneducated. About something? Everybody is educated. About something? Nobody knows anything, about everything? Knowitalls knowitall about everything? Some people know everything about something? Nobody knows nothing, about anything? Even knowing is innate, to the pure?

    (wednesday 04th April 2012

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    May sleep find You .. may She take Your hand .. and take You to a land, where You haven’t been, for a while, or perhaps not at all ..
    a land .. filled with Beauty and wide open spaces .. where Your Smiles punctuate the darkness in the room .. as your dreams .. are lit .. with crystal Light from Hearts of beings .. and surrounding chalices .. May Sleep waltz in, with a candelabra in one hand, and take Your hand in the other .. and lead You to a land, where she will lay down beside You, and You need not abide, by the noise inside your head .. Only by the gentle Heartbeat .. by the Pulse .. of this land to which She knows the way .. may sleep find You .. may She take You there, and guide You back gently in the morning.

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    don’t kill yourself just persist
    keep trekking
    as we all do
    as we were put here to do
    see the beauty where you find it
    where it finds you
    open your eyes
    and be grateful for it
    and for the rest
    it’s just a test
    and you’re strong enough
    to walk long enough
    until the end
    until the end
    You don’t stop walking until You reach the end of the track
    You don’t go Home
    until your Work is done
    and then you’re born
    You begin another one
    we walk and walk
    we’re here on Earth
    like a weird school
    a training ground
    for ourselves and for all
    on training wheels
    until we’re jettisoned out
    as small particles
    of Spirit
    into space
    into the Stars
    and the Hearts
    and eyes
    and minds
    of many
    who remember

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Thoughts just led me back to the pride march, where you can be yourself and still be accepted, where you can be yourself and you don’t have to be anyone or be like anyone else - and still be accepted, where we all come together and find solidarity and unity in celebrating our diversity and our pride, well this is what struck me on the day, how at home I felt .. it’s strange that it doesn’t feel like that all the time or even some of the time but it does just for the one day … so weird, peculiar, fucking queer that I am but don’t seem to fit in whatsoever with the poofters in the clubs, it’s difficult to collect my thoughts on this (difficult to collect them in general lately), but where are my people, it’s hard to explain…

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ..and I blew my head off, and it came back twice as strong, and it wasn’t long, before I’d remembered I’d forgotten again (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Have You ever noticed, that when You think too much You go bloody spare?
    And that while You were distracted, You really weren’t there?
    Is that what You’d hoped for, when You disappeared for a while?
    To be alone, unseen, unknown? To reappear, as if from thin air?
    To tap your Self on the shoulder, turn around, and be back where you were?
    Like God grabbed a giant cosmic wooden spoon, and gave it all a stir…

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (04/04/2012)

    ..I felt a bit sick as I walked back into the room, having returned from Oblivion..

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I was born 2 months early. I’ll have to live 2 months longer to make up for it..

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Will I die before I get to see, the end of the show?
    Will I depart before the close, because that’s what I chose?
    Will I live to see. Eternity?
    Will I at all face. Mortality? …Will You miss me when I am gone?
    When I am gone I will join You.
    When I am gone You won’t see me.

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    When You feel so strongly about something, and time painstakingly goes by, and You see more of the picture, as the pain envelopes You, wraps around You, weighs You down like a concrete blanket … and makes You blind to everything You see… On the other side. It won’t be long. Just hold on. Just hold on. XX

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We dance around each other like shadows, like clouds move across the sky, I am in Your eyes.

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ..we’re the intelligent, the sensitive, the brilliant and the beautiful, …and we only just scrape through..

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ..and they never told us, pain is a part of the journey, just come back, just come back.. don’t go near that waters edge, just come back.. your heart’s in the dark, your head’s in your hands … they never told you, this was written into the plan .. just come back, just come back..

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I am the Love that surrounds You, that alludes You, that shines through You, that blinds You, you’re the confusion I’m tied to, I lied to, I lived with, I gave to, I stole from, you’re the illusion that asked me, to come with you, and I fed you, I bled for you.

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    i want to read. about Federico García Lorca, and i haven’t read about him. and i want to do that research project. and i haven’t made the time to do it, and I want to be consumed by the sea, and I’ve got your thoughts in me

     

    (04/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I’ve been living with kind. of a. disjointed. mind. A fractured Reality. deep in the Heart of me. You stand. and speak. your wwords. i type. like a dictator. but you don’t tell me what to do. i do it willingly.

     

    (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    thank you for the rape. and the eviction.. thank you for the homelessness.. and the addiction … thank you for the arrest .. and the injury .. i caused to me .. and you caused to me .. thank you to the world .. who holds me in it’s arms .. and doesn’t let me go .. thank you to the ones, who are above and who are below .. thank you to the dust and the paychecks i’ve spent .. thank you to the gubment .. thanks for the rest..

    It is but a passing moment, whispered through the leaves on a tree in motion, passing by moving swiftly on the winds of time, eternal like we are, tempory like humankind.

     

    It will burn like a fire, as hungry as I feed it, and will stay alight for only as long, it’s embers the glowing the aftermath will fade slowly through the night, and all that will be left in the morning will be a smoky resin, and a sphere of ash on the carpet of my soul.

     

     

     

    (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    thank you to the man who bashed and robbed me for five dollars, my medication and a packet of cigarettes. thank you to the man who wrapped plastic around my head and pulled a knife on me. thank you to my doctor and my ptsd and my anxiety. thanks to you i’ve got this inside of me. something’s changed inside. i’m not the same. but i’ll be alright. (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    i used to fear. for back then i was an empty shell. i used to quiver. in the cold like a leaf. for back then i lived in hell. i was once told. of an empty road. a man walked upon. his body sold. a lack of food. a story told. (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    .. the sleeper has woken .. the broker has spoken .. the seal is open .. the wind is picking up outside .. the package fell open .. it’s exchange found floating .. on a broken telephone wire .. the message indecipherable .. the time is upon us now .. the door swung open .. a man standing .. dripping wet .. walks in .. takes the rug .. from under your feet .. wraps it around himself … walks back out into the night .. your door swung open .. your system broken .. the sleeper woken .. the broker spoken .. the deal done .. it’s time to sign .. another one .. i’m ready now .. with my gun .. pat me down .. clear the checks .. pass my umbrella .. it’s raining outside .. feel free to use the facilities .. i may be gone a little while .. (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I won’t be bought, I won’t be sold, I won’t be lied to, I won’t be told, to go quietly, or to go at all, blood will be shed. I’ve got my gun. I’ve got my gun. (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Physical construct. Built. Owned. Controlled. Imposed and Secure. Mental Construct. Can be torn from the mind of the Self. Bulldozed, paved over. Like a forest. (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Anarchy. War. A Peaceful Revolution. S’cuse me while I duck into Coles. I’m out of Nuttlex. S’cuse me while I duck into Gloria’s. I need a caffeine fix. S’cuse me while I ride the train, into town. Please sit up sir, please stand down. You position is null and void. We have You on GPS at the following coordinates. Deploying military drones now. The empire is in our hands. We play this game like a family sitting around a jigsaw at their holiday home on the coast. We cast this web over you like a spell, and you fell. Easily, like a colony, of little ants, busily, hungrily, surviving, telepathically, all frequencies are under moderation, please refrain from profanity.

     

    (05/04/2012)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    march 07th When I stand at the top of a cliff, looking out at the ocean … I’ll close my eyes … and ….my body will dissolve as I become ten million fragments of colour which will explode in all directions and light up the night sky. You won’t hear me say goodbye. But You will see me fly. I may leave You this way. A hell of a way to go, out with a bang.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    …bit of depression kicking back in …. not like I want to sit in a hot bath and pop open a few veins, just that I feel like losing myself in some endless ocean or floating above the world in the rain at night time, I want be a rock in a river with the water washing over me, just for a while… just for a while …. let me be, let me feel the soft breeze, hold me gently, just for a while…  - march 07th

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The lane you’re in becomes the lane you’re in, it’s all the same fucking lane. The left lane never ends.  (march 07th)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Was just thinking…
    The future exists only in your mind. We are only ever in the present. The time is always Now. The past exists only in your mind. We exist only in the present. We all share the moment, all living organisms, all at once, simultaneously, right here Now in the present moment, All of existence is here Now, across the whole of the Earth and beyond. The future does not exist. The past does not exist. The only Reality is the present moment. Time is such an illusion. Minutes ticking past on a clock, disguised as time, that which we refer to as time. “I’ve got to be somewhere at 3pm”. 3pm exists only in the mind. The time is only, always, forever Now.  (march 07th)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    If I were prime minister, ….I’d have a big army but they won’t have guns, just big boots and sledgehammers and stuff…. and i’d order them …. to smash up all the shops …. like myer and other retail giants … and to tear up the concrete ….. to reveal the earth below…… and smash up that giant fucking cactus that doesn’t even look like a cactus …… and plant a real cactus there, that will turn into a giant cactus tree ….. and my big army will plant plants and food and psychoactive plants and even weeds like milk thistles everywhere, and no one will be hungry …. and all the people can come and help if they want ….. and everyone can chillax in the gardens …. and as all the city will be smashed … and all the big retail giants and corporations will be smashed …. then people can set up little market places to trade little wears and interesting and fun stuff …. and they won’t need to have permits … coz my cabinet will smash all the stupid laws … and then i’ll order the army to smash parliment house .. and then i’ll retire and come and build a tree house in the great big garden that was once a city …. and the army will take off their army clothes, and there army boots, and they’ll come and smoke some joints under a big weeping willow tree, and everyone will laugh and be more relaxed than they’ve ever been, …..if I were prime minister….  (march 06th)

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    //mayday/feb.26th/ untitled//
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    If we let the terrorists win, surely we will die. Surely our great society will be overrun by Islam.
    If we let the socialists win, surely we will die. Surely our great society would destroy itself.
    If we let the greens win, surely we will die. Surely our great economy would collapse.
    If we let the gays win, surely we will die. Surely our traditional family unit would break down.
    If we let the anarchists win, surely we will die. Surely violence and civil disobedience would run rampant in our great society.
    If we let the conspiracy theorists win, surely we will die. Surely the great Illuminati would fall, surely the conspiracy theorists would feed on our souls.
    If Rudd wins the leadership battle, surely we will die. Surely we could not survive.
    If we make room for fearlessness surely we will die. Surely we would lose our way…
    …I’m scared of the future/I’m scared of the now/ I’m scared to leave the house/I’m scared of my own shadow/I’m scared of others/..Surely I’m not in the ASIO database/…for I am a good citizen of this great nation/I’ve paid my taxes/I don’t go to work on the disability pension / I’m Honest / It’s worth a mention / ….surely I have nothing to Fear? .. Surely I will die….
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    GONE (The Raw Unbandaged Wound) - A Love Story - 18.02.2012 @ 2.45pm
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    You’re a.
    Baby mind,
    curled up inside
    a silent,
    scream.
    To crawl around
    an empty,
    room
    around, around
    without a,
    clue.
    Around, around
    without a,
    sound.
    lost within a,
    dream.
    Where everything,
    fails,
    to connect with,
    anything,
    and you aren’t found,
    anywhere,
    and your tears in
    the moment,
    ask who are you,
    anyway,
    and there really is,
    no reply
    for a babies mind.
    A hidden world,
    where no one,
    can reach,
    you,
    and you cannot,
    make a,
    sound,
    only crawl around
    the empty,
    room,
    on your
    hands and knees
    is quite a,
    state,
    to feel and see.
    Left to the,
    unfamiliar
    cut from the belly of,
    the mother.
    Alone to feel,
    the meaningless,
    left to see the
    black the
    white the
    colour is,
    it?
    you really can’t tell,
    anybody….
     
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    untitled -  17.02.2012

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    The Lethargy Monster came around today,
    I politely requested he go away,
    he pushed past me,
    rather rudely
    and said…
    “looks hell comfy
    I think I may stay a while”.

    I wondered how long he may stay,
    as he’s the most burdensome company…
    especially during daylight hours.

    As I lay there,
    too lethargic to move,

    and craving craving craving
    and craving craving craving,
    with my thoughts on alcohol and speed,
    and ways to make the monster go away,
    I was hoping that maybe…
    Sleep would find me,
    just for an hour or two,
    - and she did.

    Sleep found me laying there,
    Sleep in all her warmth and darkness,
    void and devoid of desire,
    and projections of hedonism,
    self medication,
    or prayer and meditation.

    Sleep found me laying there,
    just Sleep,
    with all her dreams and projections,
    void and devoid of Reality and straight lines.

    Some hours later I woke,
    Sleep having left a sleepy trail in her wake,
    Sleep decked out in all her attire and evening wear,
    inappropriate for daylight hours,
    however stylish and fittingly becoming for the Goddess of void and dreams,
    devoid of Reality and straight lines.

    Some hours later I woke,
    as per usual slightly askew,
    however refreshed and somewhat anew.

    With a visit from Sleep and the Lethargy Monster
    The void and the lingering,
    devoid of loneliness, and somewhat weightless,
    dreaming and waking,
    pottering and waiting,
    and just having a bit of a look around,
    I put on the kettle,
    and thought of You.
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    untitled - 15.02.2012
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    Josh,
    smokes a pipe but not a bong,
    lays bricks, works hard, and is quite strong.
    Josh and Josh, well, we get along.
    He likes his Carona and gets a boner,
    for babes with nice cans, and especially black ones,
    coz that’s his pleasure and his fun,
    he’s tanned from workin’ in the sun,
    his limestone blocks weigh a ton!
    His dogs Rocky and the beautiful Molly,
    he takes them walking when he’s off his trolly!
    His mate Elaine, she’s pretty cool,
    but the bitch, goddamn, she’s too good at pool!
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    untitled - 07/02/2012
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    Fear is the ego saying ‘You can’t do it’, brave is the Heart that defiantly says ‘yes, I can, fuckin’ watch me!’, wise is the Self that is deaf to the ego altogether…

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    The challenge was to incorporate ten words into a poem … The ten words were: fate, game, curmudgeon, fart, confidence, unity, venomous, jelly, flamboyant, resonant…
    …This is what I came up with:

    Untitled - 04/02/2012

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    I played a game of Russian Roulette,
    with a curmudgeon of a poofter, I remember as Brett
    He raised the gun to his head,
    and said this is called ‘fate’,
    dropped a stinker of a cum fart, and then fell on the slate

    I walked out of the loo with flamboyant confidence,
    Thinking this is called fate, as a soundwave became resonant
    I tuned my ears to the venomous transerberance
    and heard a voice tell me
    that unity is imminent…

    I went to a church and then I went home
    I inhaled rump steak and then had a cone
    But there was still something missing,
    a void in my belly
    so thinking of Brett
    I ate Aeroplane Jelly.

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    untitled - (03/02/2012)
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    Drug dependent drug peddling pricks of Perth stay well away, I do not want to buy what You have to sell today, I must keep mySelf well as there is work to be done, there are things to create, as I embrace my fate and walk my path without dealing with the aftermath of a nosedive bender spiraling down, I’ve been down, I’ve been down and down and down and out and that’s now not what my life’s about, so drug peddling pricks of Perth don’t cross my path, I’m asking this from the universe. Don’t tempt me with your moggadon, your jumped all over ‘mdma’ and your filthy scag, Fuck Right Off.

    Help me to get stronger as I am helping myself and getting stronger, so my life here is longer/ I don’t want to linger in your world and lift only a finger to pull out some cash and fill up a spoon when you trigger my trigger, stay out of my world and good luck with yours as you spiral down and lose yourSelf or make it out and find yourSelf.

    As the plane of Reality awaits me, is calling me, has been calling me gently towards Love and sustainability for a long time now, as the angels of the Earth and the stars have been calling me to the Heart, I say my final goodbye to your diluted perception of Reality as I leave that world which I once inhabited. Twenty two days and a beginning moment awaits.

    Motion sickness and Self care take it easy out there, if You get it easy then fuck it off it’s not worth the effort You didn’t put in and warrants not a payoff but a pay out of your pocket to the piper, a real side swiper or a head on collision fraught with confusion, perhaps fatality or delusion as You get what You pay for, a fallacy, an empty illusion.

    Lift me higher mother Gaia as I was dreamed into creation allow me to Wake for it’s twenty two days, a new moment awaits.
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    untitled - 01/02/2012 @midday
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    There are some things that I Love about You.
    I Love your green eyes that sometimes turn blue
    I could look into them for hours,
    and your smiling eyes make me smile too
    I Love your voice, it’s husky and you’re mellow and things are chilled and relaxed.
    You say I’ve soft skin but I Love your soft touch and your tender kisses and caress very much.
    I could lay in your arms and kiss you for hours.
    I Love the way You turn me on, you’re versatile, you’re sixteen, but not a child.
    I know a bit about You and I’d like to know more,
    ‘coz mate you’re stunning, and You intrigue me.
    untitled - (24/01/2012 @ 8.15pm)
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    Punishment and tenderness
    I can’t decide what I’m in the mood for
    have cuffs / rope, will You travel?
    do You like to give it rough?
    would You cuddle me and kiss me tenderly if I changed my mind?
    will You come and collect me and Love me for a night?
    or tie me up and get kinky
    I guess it’s up to You..
    I just need some therapy
    will you come and share soft kisses?
    I think that would be nice
    don’t know if you’re in the same mood
    the same frame of mind
    thinking of punishment and tenderness
    and just can’t decide
    in seeking something at the moment
    that I can’t seem to find
    so I’m looking for a quick fix
    but it may not be right
    so just to scratch an itch
    come and get me
    I’ll be your bitch
    if your Heart wants to share
    sensuality and desire
    come and get me
    we’ll explore our inner fire
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    untitled - 25/01/2012
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    Impure snow and jumped on scag
    running on the smell of an oily rag

    All the things the piper collects
    human lives to repay debts

    I payed the piper for reveries
    with rotten teeth and kidneys
    burnt out brain cells
    and endured a stay
    at Royal Perth, in ward 2k

    Enough I guess to suffice
    I could have paid a higher price

    I’m sitting here on a single bed
    Sweating it out in a hot tin shed

    But I have my angels and my friends
    For whom I feel and to whom I send
    My deepest gratitude and all my Love

    For throughout the darkness You’ve been by my side
    and in You I’ve been able to confide
    my sins, secrets, my hopes, my fears

    You haven’t judged, or thought any less of me
    And that means the world to me

    You know who You are, and You’re beautiful
    Never hesitate to get in touch and I want You to know
    That throughout your highs and your lows
    I’ll be there for You too

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    untitled - 24/01/2012
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    punishment and tenderness
    I can’t decide what I’m in the mood for
    have cuffs / rope, will You travel?
    do You like to give it rough?
    would You cuddle me and kiss me tenderly if I changed my mind?
    will You come and collect me and Love me for a night?
    or tie me up and get kinky,
    I guess it’s up to You..
    i just need some therapy
    will you come and share soft kisses,
    I think that would be nice,
    don’t know if you’re in the same mood
    the same frame of mind
    thinking of punishment and tenderness
    and just can’t decide
    in seeking something at the moment
    I can’t seem to find
    so I’m looking for a quick fix
    but it may not be right
    so just to scratch an itch
    come and get me
    I’ll be your bitch
    if your Heart wants to share
    sensuality and desire
    come and get me
    we’ll explore our inner fire

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    untitled - 10/12/2011
    ………………………………….
    Mate, fair weather friends are as common as acquaintances, boyfriends who Love You conditionally, and everyone else who comes and goes.

    Our real good mates, the one’s who will be there no matter what mistakes You make, the one’s who You know will never feed You bullshit, and the one’s who know You in some cases better than You know yourSelf, it’s not uncommon that in the end, these friends, You can count on one hand.

    Also, shit, if You can find a boyfriend, who is down to earth, deep and beautiful, on your wavelength AND fucking cute to boot who qualifies as one of these people, then, then You have really hit the fucking jackpot.

    Try your hardest all of your days to keep your Heart open. You WILL get burned, so don’t be surprised at these situations, just keep your Heart open. It is in doing so that will serve You, your True friends and other kindred Spirits well.

    Cynicism can serve well as a component of humour, and questioning things is for the most part also useful. Just keep the Heart open.

    Much Love brother <3 x X      (That is all).
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    untitled - 10/12/2011
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    It’s not a test it’s a scope, a sphere, or a scale, encompassing pain, beauty and everything in between. We are here to experience, and yes, to grow, in growing we may be able to return home as opposed to coming back, this is a potential outcome in some instances, in addition to this there are other outcomes for various people for various reasons. You can switch seats, or go and sit at a different table; go and stand in a different doorway and look out. Seat yourself in the intellect, feel the analysis and grey matter tickin’, go stand in the doorway of the Heart and look out from there, it’s quite a view, or seat yourself down somewhere in the mind, get swept away in the movement which is the favourite activity of mind, see where the movement takes You, or take a few steps back from that seat, look over at where You were sitting and watch the mind become still again. Seat Yourself in the body, bear witness to the layering of sensory information alone and watch time warp, move beyond the body as You wake to the dream, see the Beauty of the timeless everything as You travel, perhaps to the ocean, or perhaps across worlds on the winds of time, this is also an option of tables, seats, doorways and windsurfing (or whatever it is that is your bag) available to various people for various reasons. Where You choose to sit is up to You, just keep the Heart open. There are no right or wrong answers. Much Love. X
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    untitled - 25/11/2011
    ……………………………………………
    //maverick/yo-yo/boy.of.extremes/
    alchemist/poet/waking.in.dreams/
    kooky/taurean/naked.bike.rider/
    attempting.to.train.my.health.care.provider/
    coffee.drinker/eyes.open.wider/
    come.together/reach.out.to.yer.brother/
    uncelebrated.differences.become.a.divider/
    recognise.she.guides.us/
    we.all.have.the.same.mother/
    strong/brave/phoenix.and.turtle/
    may.your.garden.grow.high/
    may.the.soil.be.fertile/
    trek.on.through.the.daze/
    each.moment.grow.older/
    may.the.light/of.home/shine.stronger.and.brighter/
    as.you.walk/on.the.path/
    may.your.pack.become.lighter/
    you’ve.always.been.a.lover/and.also.a.fighter/
    keep.on/keeping.on/there’s.much/
    to.discover/
    a.maverick/a.yo-yo/a.boy.of.extremes/
    warm.kisses/skin.on.skin/kinky/a.biter/
    kooky/taurean/naked.bike.rider//
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    untitled - 18/11/2011 @12.30am

    ……………………………………………………..

    melatonin don’t like bright light
    melatonin enjoys the night
    melatonin take my hand
    lead me to an abstract land
    drop me off, i’ll find my way
    through the dreams, into today

    …………………………………

    11.11.11 @1.44am ..quickly penned in response to a fb status update about finding love/breaking up..

    …………………………………………………………………..
    in Love you’re so high you’re on top of the world
    you hold nothing back you’ve given it all
    a few hands of cards and he wants to fold
    the happier you are the harder you fall

    love the disease that gives till it hurts
    it taketh away what you gave it and more
    it’s filled your desires, hungers and thirsts
    in the end you grow strong but you closeth the door

    to play another hand, vulnerable and raw
    in Love and in Lust You open the door
    You step into the room, filled with Heartbeats and dust
    Look around You, it’s dark… Why did You trust?

    A few hands of cards and he wants to fold
    the happier You are, the harder You fall
    A few hands of cards and he wants to fold
    the happier You are, the harder You fall

    into this world, and you walk and you walk
    you grow old, you feel tired, the fire goes out
    just what sort of lessons were you s’posed to learn
    you look up to the sky, you shiver and shout

    You experienced the Love to experience the burn
    It’s Inherant in Love is Pain without doubt
    His voice, smell, and memories, within you they churn
    You were luckier than some to see what Love is about.
    ……………………………………………………………………..

    /- untitled - /@9.50am/15.11.11/ ..on mining (uranium etc.)

    ……………………………………….

    rapists and thieves
    assuming they’re right
    to take, to sell
    to boost their wealth
    assuming it’s theirs
    under the construct
    which is a lie
    which they made up
    which man created
    on paper they signed
    it ‘legally binds’
    it’s about time
    we woke up
    to their sin
    they steel and rape
    in the name of progress
    and prosperity
    serving the interests of a few
    It don’t belong to us
    It don’t belong to You
    We’re supposed to care for
    Our Earth.
    …………………………………………………………………..

    (for c.j./m.s.s./c.s.j.) -15.11.2011

    ……………………………………………………..
    give it out till it’s boring to ya
    and ya think yer all that
    pretty boring to me too
    yer just somethin that i had
    where ya gonna end up
    when ya hit the clubs
    all destroyed and used up
    and even less real than ya are now
    more 2D than a newspaper clipping
    less interesting to read
    ……………………………………………………………………….

    “stranger” - 15/08/2011

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    poem for adk - written 23/01/2011

    ………………………………………………………
    i can feel you’re not around
    and i can still hear the sound
    of that door closing
    of that door closing

    you and me until the end
    but  it seems to be my friend
    the end came early
    oh way too early

    inside my head it’s frightening
    inside my heart the fires gone out
    and i’m tired now
    oh yes i’m tired now

    looking ahead and down the road
    there’s open doors for me i’m told
    a new beginning
    a new beginning

    i know you’ve got to go and find
    your happiness and peace of mind
    that’s what i want for you
    that’s what i want for you

    boy to travel without You
    it makes me feel so very blue
    and i won’t forget you
    no i won’t forget you
    no i won’t forget you.
    …………………………………………………………………….

    Calling Counterparts Convalescence

    ………………………………………………………….
    The smokey frankincense has saturated our space creating the most heavenly timeless atmosphere. My smiles punctuate the darkness and everything feels perfect. I have three or four heart shaped rocks that You picked out of the riverbed for me in East Gippsland. I have a long held depth of perception which takes me deeper and deeper to the fundamentals of the Heart, of Truth, of the Sacred of Everything which lies underneath the Human Distortion Effect. We were both there. Naked. Vulnerable, brave, in Love and Trust. If I knew it was just for a short while, I would still have said Yes.
    ………………………………………………………………………..

    Untitled - 17.12.2010

    …………………………………………………
    Longing for the single pill to make me sleep forever
    Wondering how many more days they will keep me here
    Longing to return home, apparently.. they don’t want me home
    Not just yet - keep trekking, keep trekking
    “Your Friends Need You”
    “Your Cat Needs You”
    Your Lover. He No Longer Needs You.
    So I’m drowning again. I’m drowning again.
    Struggling to cope, Yes I’m feeling the Pain
    Getting strong today One foot in front of the other foot.
    I’m laying in bed, I’m looking at the walls
    When I’m not feeling hurt I’m feeling dead
    I’m dead inside, but I’m still alive!
    This wretched human condition! – Is a Joke!!
    Full and fed up and Hungry
    How much longer will they keep me here, and Why.
    There’s drugs to take, to get stoned, and sleepers,
    To sleep a day, and then another
    To get up and mow the lawn, Just to Feel Better
    I feel accomplished and manly now with my mown lawn
    And then I’m drowning again, drowning again
    Lost Hurt Lonely and Longing
    Love lost and friends remain
    And I’m drowning in a sea of Pain
    The phone rings
    It’s my mate.
    She’s not doing too well.
    She’s reaching out for a Friend
    Because she’s drowning again
    Her Rat Pig Slunt of A Husband is Playing His Games
    He has tried to have her locked away.
    He’s hit her and told her family she whores for a living.
    She needs me Today.
    I’m strong again. Strong in the mind. Strong to Keep Trekking.
    It’s whatever it takes. I tell her. Look .. I feel the same
    But we’ve got to get through today.
    Looking to the future.
    Fake it even. Mow the lawn just to feel alright.
    This wretched human condition – Is a Joke!!
    I’ll see You guys upon arrival. Home.
    I’ll let You know how it is here.
    Like You don’t know!!
    Too beautiful. Too Painful. Too many Players. Too many Cooks. Too many Hearts. Too many Minds. Too many fractures inside. Too many beautiful memories, to make me feel sad. Too many people in hard times. This wretched human condition. This is what it is like to be a Human. I recommend it to You…
    …………………………………………………………………………

    untitled poetry - written 19th December 2010 - /mayday/

    …………………………………………………………….
    his face is worn the faux guru
    who knows no other way
    the boys and girls they sit around
    and keep his fate at bay
    he drives divide inside your soul
    visible only in traces
    of residual imprints in the dark
    left there by the angels

    skin soaked and flesh so tender
    as to fall right from the bone
    body gone and heart exposed
    he’s not that far from home
    looking You in the eye
    and standing in the rain
    he wants for You to see him now
    as naked as the flame

    cold and wild is the child
    who’s asking for his name
    and in reading You for answers
    there’s comfort for his pain

    the little one you’ll find he’s gone
    good thing that he’s clever
    by standing strong in the storm
    with the peices that you gather
    for just a time you’ll see him there
    you’re looking in a mirror

    the little one you left behind
    the little one you seek
    extends his arm for your hand
    to have, to hold, to keep.
    ………………………………………………………………………

    Untitled

    ……………………

    My Mum, Joy, died in September of 1988 when I was four years old. I struggled with not having Mum around for many years. I’m not sure if it was so much the sorrow of losing Mum or not having Mum around to wrap me in her hug during times of sorrow. I have survived this through understanding, of her life and situation. Through having walked a similar path to my Mum I have come to understand her pain, and nowadays I can accept without too much difficulty, why she went the way she did. I think it’s a better thing that she’s in a place of renewal and looking beautiful than here on Earth suffering the pain that oftentimes is part and parcel of being human.

    My greatest joy.
    Life itself. Being part of and bearing witness to this life. Both the pain and the beauty have been so intense, although I sometimes feel otherwise, I wouldn’t be dead for quids. How do I ‘survive this great joy’ :) ? With a little help from my friends, too much self medicating. When I am in need of help I am never too afraid to be open with the people around me. To me, I am an open book and Pride must always replace shame. This means I am not ashamed to talk about where I’ve been, or what I’m going through. On the lighter side, well it isn’t hard to survive when things are beautiful and are rockin and rollin. I take plenty of photographs, write, laugh, dance, enjoy good times with a few close mates, make friends with strangers, try to share joy with others and express myself freely…
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    untitled - 25/09/2010
    1am or thereabouts
    …………………………………………..
    Life is ultimately empty. Live for what, other humans?
    The journey. There is the journey. Here? This place?
    You’ve got to be kidding…
    There isn’t even any proof, bar that which I have seen…
    and that may not be enough to convince me.
    I can’t find that piece of myself that I reserved for this occasion.
    I think I may have forgotten to set it aside. I think this time I’ve fucked up…
    I think I’ve given it away. So come little one within. I think we should go now, you better go and play.
    I’ll lie in bed and waste away.
    10 days no food. 10 days no water. A little something to tip me over.

    I’m no longer afraid of the darkness. I am the darkness. I invite you in hungry ones.
    Find what you can
    to feast upon.

    Take me home should you find me first
    I’ll dissipate in the universe
    I’ll dissipate Here on Earth
    Motherfuckers let me go
    A true seeker FUCK it is a curse.
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    24/09 @ 2.30am
    This last one especially speaks of spring time. A good way to celebrate tonight’s full moon.
    Although I crave the company of others
    I feel a bit lonely & very much like dancing, I feel as though I will be alright.
    I’ll stay in with the kids and my cuppa will keep me warm until sleep finds me…

    24/09 @ 3.30am
    My eyes are sparkling again. This time last year I was fried fish. This time, this year I am a month clean. I must keep trekking. I am glad to be awake to witness the sunrise and to welcome the new day.

    @4am
    That which I seek. Connection. I am directed to the bedroom rather than outdoors.
    Peace and Blessed Be
    —-Mayday


    5.20am
    It seems as though the natural order is well and truly in place. Human kind is but temporary, although I do wish we would stop cutting down the trees.

    (prior to 5am)
    In bed momentarily. He produces an intoxicating smell, of sex? Of something…
    The smell makes me lusty. I pull myself until I am hard. I think about jerking off thinking of other boys, but his smell continues to intoxicate me.
    I fantasise about love making.
    Eating his arse and then…
    I blow. My stomach is sticky and my fantasies subside, as he sleeps restlessly beside me.
    To thy own Self be True, I whisper in his ear.

    I get into some warm clothes, cuppa, smoke, and journal. Camera in hand I step outside. A possum scares the shit out of me. I laugh and take a photo. I see the full moon setting, setting? Does the moon set? Maybe not… Wow I’m friggin’ uneducated. At least I know it’s spring :)
    …and I watch the sun bring light to the new day. The magpies call to one another, and sing praise to the morning from the surrounding trees.

    Sex. Sex. Sex. Ggggrrrr!

    I’ll stay out here for a moment or several and listen to the birds’ song and to watch the light -, the sky. + So it seems once again, the day is replacing night and the stage is set for today’s antics.
    Bring Us Peace,
    Laughter,
    Happiness,
    Health.
    Fill our cups with your Divine Blessings. I am One unto You.
    (5.40am)
    ……………………………………………………………………

    Untitled - 24/09/2010

    ……………………………………………..
    My head, it hurts.
    My fists, they hurt.
    My body, hurts,

    From being angry.

    This anger, hurts
    and I feel angry.

    My Heart, it hurts
    and I feel angry.

    My Heart, it hurts
    and I feel angry.
    ……………………………………………………………………….

    24th September 2010

    …………………………………….

    Communication, Love, Trust, Patience, Understanding, Optimism.

    Of these traits I know I possess within all six. The ability to evolve in, express, give. One cannot give that which they don’t possess.
    I must make sure these six cups are full within, so that the overflow may then pour into the Hearts of others. Who am I. Am I my Mind? Am I my mental or emotional health which appears on the slide. Am I the spark to which ’ I am subjected’.
    As I sit, passive, ‘subjected’ and in reflection, do I have the ability to change? To grow in these areas? To dispel and diffuse the negative opposites of the above mentioned traits, being…

    Communication Breakdown, Hatred, Impatience, Misunderstanding, Pessimism, Distrust.

    …within myself? Of course within myself. Surely I can ‘breed out’ these emotions. Within another? Only by ‘ceasing production of’ or choosing to perpetuate or project only their positive counterparts…

    Communication, Love, Trust, Patience, Understanding, Optimism.
    ………………………………………………………………………..


    Poem… by mayday - 24/09/2010 - untitled
    ………………………………………………………..
    Where are we going? Are we dying? Where are we taking one another? Where are we headed?
    Which roads shall we take? Is there a route that will use less fuel?
    Would we still land up in the same place? Would we get distracted along the way? Anyway,
    Must we go at all today?
    If we made it go away…
    We could just stay —
    Hug, laugh, kiss and play.
    Or drive somewhere the sun is out
    Lay a rug and talk about
    What it is we’re going through…
    Where we’re going —
    Me and You
    ……………………………………………………..

    written on the 22/08/2010 
    IN MY IDEAL LIFE
    …………………………….

    …In My Ideal Life…

    …I am a transvestite warrior…
    …I am a drunk…
    …I am a loner…
    …I am alone…
    …I know no love but that of the moon and the stars…
    …I have no one to love, not even me,
    …as I am gone…

    …I wouldn’t be a fool at the end of the day…
    …and I wouldn’t be finding out the hard way…

    …In My Ideal Life…
    …My head isn’t this wrecked…
    …My Mum is my best friend…
    …and I ain’t quite this blind…
    …I am fitter and faster than the beach road cyclists…
    …I take care of myself…
    …I take care of my man…
    …I know who I am…
    …I am who I am…
    …I don’t lie to myself…
    …I don’t tell lies…
    …and I wouldn’t even dream of giving up…

    …In My Ideal Life…
    …Would I sleep in the sunshine and dance in the darkness??…
    …Would I cry in the darkness and dance in the rain??…
    …There is more beauty than pain…There IS more beauty than pain…

    …In My Ideal Life…
    …I wouldn’t be a fool at the end of the day…
    …and I wouldn’t be finding out the hard way…

    ……………………………………………………

    04.07.2009 - Sam 2

    SAM… II
    …………………………………………………….
    Sam sat in wait, sporting the horrendous upside-down smile of a drag queen possessed, and flesh covered in goose bumps from the winter cold which mercilessly lashed at the sleepless St. Kilda streets. In five minutes time the chemist staff would lift open the roller door and he could buy his fits.

    Two holes in the arm better than one in the ground, Sam thought to himself.
    “Two please.”
    The lady looked him up and down.
    “One dollar.” She spat the words at him.

    The acid was kicking in. It was eight degrees, Sam suddenly felt like he was stranded in the Sahara desert, and it was three whole blocks back to Benji’s place.

    Twelve hours ago Sam looked like a different person. The blood red lipstick and eyeliner as fantastic as Siouxsie Sioux had done a good job in complimenting his masculine jaw line and high cheek bones. Uninhibited and bright eyed, he had let go the week behind him, and had handed himself over to the DJ who was pumping out classic tracks by Iggy Pop, Duran Duran and INXS. “Yeah baby, I got a lust for life”. This was his therapy, and it was a long time coming.

    Sam sat quietly on the couch wearing a mask of vacancy. He studied Benji with a reserved hunger and a smile crept onto Sam’s face like a thousand years of unregistered expression. Benji was everything a boy should be, except his.

    “I’ve got to be at the airport in two hours” Benji piped up.
    “Then You had best get in the shower…”, Sam smirked, “…would You like some help?”
    As the walls around him crumbled Sam realised it was time to hit the road. He shot the last of his powder and drove home…
    ………………………………………………………………………..

    untitled

    ………………………………….
    Like the deconstructed set of yesterdays dream
    Like the melting clocks of a Dali painting

    Like pushing a button and exploding into a million colours
    Like an old tripper who makes no sense and never quite made it back

    Like the burnt out used up good heart of a woman who gave it to someone she thought was worth it and the charismatic wild eyed young boy lost inside the wasted old sod of a bloke who hungrily destroyed her.

    Like flowing and floating and flying through time and like struggling to move at all.
    Like the boy who remembers he’s an aspiring alchemist after forgetting because he can’t help but ingest the chemicals involved in his work and like the boy who never gets to pull the chocolate cake out of the oven because the mix alone smelled ever so sweet and good enough to eat.
    …………………………………………………………………………

    Untitled

    …………………

    I set the effects dial to ‘full spectrum’ and began to undress.
    The water came out slow at first, the colours as soft and faded as the memories of last nite’s dreams.
    Sliding down the porcelain and into the tub below, the colours seemed to breathe, and, with each breath they drew, I noticed, livelier and stronger tones began to replace the old pastel.
    Each colour would begin to merge into another, but would just as quickly retract.
    Flirting and curious, they happily played together, and I watched on, smiling at the theatre in my bathroom.
    Standing there naked, it seemed almost enough to bathe in the dense field of translucent energy beads to which the warm colour seemed to have given birth.
    With an elbow in each hand, I stepped into the bath.
    …………………………………………………………………………

    Sam

    …………

    The salt sank into the cuts on his body as Sam struggled against the waves. He knew that the ocean would take him if he dared to relax, and he would become a part of everything again. To Sam, this seemed like the perfect picture of heaven, but he was too afraid to let go.

    The stars offered no help, and the moon began to grow sleepy. Sam continued to struggle, alone in the water, anesthetised by the cold and unforgiving ocean.
    …………………………………………………………………………
    Untitled - 27.05.2009
    ……………………………….
    i talk in my sleep, shiver n sweat
    i wake to a gunshot inside my head

    my face is pale, i’m barely there
    i sink to the floor in my underwear

    crawl into the shower,
    and run it on hot
    all that i was and all that i’m not

    i paint the walls with the blood of my man
    i don’t do enough but i do what i can

    it seemed to be how it was written
    horror scenes and indecision

    can’t avoid the rule or notion
    our lives run on perpetual motion.
    ………………………………………………………………………..
    Mayday - 29/04/2009
    [[I SAW GOD ON BOURKE STREET]]
    ……………………………………………..
    The World:
    - A construct created by mankind, close your eyes and join the blind.
    Share portfolios pay dividends, an investment property, a mercedes benz.
    Economic stimulus packs, interest rates and income tax,
    ten news, first at five, tune in for all the facts.

    Disguised as time, hours pass,
    Cognac, Merlot, fill your glass.

    It’s 9am at King and Bourke,
    law school grads. are off to work.

    Latte, Mocha, fill your cup,
    a caffeine hit to wake you up.

    Light filters through like a rising tide,
    the eyes of my Heart are open wide.
    In this moment God, Truth, Beauty and Art,
    like an undercurrent, as the world falls apart.
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    20/03/2009
    Mayday
    THE RESIDUAL MEMORY
    ………………………………………….
    Egodeath like nuclear war
    wiping out the cities of the world

    Visionary intensity is dripping through my mind
    one couldn’t re-create, and the words I can’t find
    The imagery playing out on the screen
    was direct from the blood of this organic machine

    Fear flooding in
    as a billion tears fall
    - and all familiarity is lost
    like dust.
    I woke from the dream on a blanket of stars.
    …………………………………………………………………………
    untitled (2009)
    ……………………
    i want to hold you till we sleep
    i want to softly kiss your cheek
    should the illusion remain intact
    i’ve got to want what i can’t have
    ……………………………………………………………………..
    21/12/2008 - Untitled
    ……………………………….
    oh no my dear! what have you done?
    i’m hooked again ..Will it be that You reel me in?
    This is no fun
    I’m drawn to You like a moth to flame ..
    it’s torturous and i writhe in pain .
    i wonder where you learnt
    this game i know i oughta learn to play…
    keep my head as you toy with me
    then go right in for the kill
    .. suffice to say he’s done me in
    he’s quite a tease the boy named bill.
    ……………………………………………………………………….
    17/07/2008
    “(learning to be a) master of control”
    …………………………………………………………
    a tangle of indestingushable emotion and desire
    drives me to the edge with worry and fear
    it makes me feel sick, uncertain and queer

    hijacked some time in the unsettled ocean
    of my heart soul and mind
    elevates and illuminates like a full moonlit night
    and dissipates so quickly - i just can’t unwind

    As I seek to execute any consciouss objective,
    or to simply feel comfortable in expressing myself,
    I am constantly betrayed by my own neurochemistry and physiology.
    - It can feel so unkind.

    If I could stay in the drivers seat for some length of time
    I could show You who I am … and I would like that.
    ………………………………………………………………………..


    Where you are.. Mayday 04/10/2007

    ………………………………………………….

    Everything’s all-right, where you are

    all things provided,

    and needs are few

    you take your wisdom with you,

    you’ve left some here too

    ________

    no need for answers

    or hope or hopelessness

    no worries or struggles

    no misery, no hurting

    no old age, in mortal terms

    ________

    everything’s all-right, where you are

    family and soul mates

    unity and community,

    pure beauty,

    and you are renewed

    ________

    everything’s all-right, where you are

    communication is easy

    and we can hear you easily.

    ________

    and at the end of the show,

    we too will go,

    Where you are

    ………………………………………………………………………..

    BARRICADE July 2005

    You put up that barricade
    and seem to hold yourself,
    under lock, no key
    When the locksmiths come around
    You turn them all away

    It seems to those,
    who poke in their nose,
    that you’ve almost lost the plot.
    But if you use that barricade,
    You stand to lose the lot.

    ……………………………………………………………………….

    untitled - March 2004

    …………………………………………..

    Mellow is the mystery,
    Chrystalline forms surround you.
    Follow his lead you know,
    This demon runs circles around you.
    Anytime that you might seek,
    Just never know whose mind will tweak,
    To softer frequencies that drip,
    Finding their way through the network.

    Throwing stones, and stepping stones,
    With a dark grey hue to the air,
    When you finally recognise yourself,
    Child, please do not dispair.

    Hollow is your destiny,
    These days, these days the astound you.
    Seeing eyes through every pore,
    Take a picture of that moment.
    All that is through every door,
    Was within, around you to start with.

    Holding your hand throughout the dance,
    Always a choice to thrive or not,
    And though you may not know this now,
    You’ll do quite well with the time you’ve got.

    What will be in the scheme of things?,
    We do not know, we never will.
    The next step to take in any case?,
    Only you will know, I’ll never tell.

    _______________________________________________

    _______________________________________________

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