POETIC LICENSES

     Get out your yellow handkerchief, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli,   John Malkovich may have you in his sights....and Gustav Klimt in his rear view mirror......

Don't Look Back .....just pounce on the next bubble, avoiding a nasty salt cut...if only to the backward's glance....Just draw a Caucasian Chalk Circle of containment around that City Of Mahagonny , before the discontent scorches the Earth beneath the Kafka Courthouse... The Trial is as Neverending as the futility of shopping for horses in Ranchipur during a torrential rainstorm or trying to play multi-level Chess, while a herd of elephants storm through a jungle in Ceylon, totally wrecking what could have been a lovely, pinkies-up, teatime....Sorry, Ruth....I knew that you had fantasized becoming a pagan priestess...but....resign yourself to a cushioned howdah atop a wild elephant. The Hindu servants of Hanuman will restore Order, shortly...if you're 'buying that', you're trying to catch a Bengal tiger by a toe..... Begin, yet again, with what is remembered or imagined to have been remembered 

   Sometimes, if rarely , there's Truth In The Noise ...More often, there's Deceit in the Quietude ...When Humans gather, in large raucous, leaping numbers... the machinations of Control are obfuscated by persistent flashing lights and blaring electronica......just the smallest percentage of humans view their millimeter-deepest, inward meditations....if any...and, even when they do,  usually seek the nodding company of others to 'join them' in the substantiation  of  their uncertainty, if only by the thick, hardened timbers of Religiosity and collusive, mutually-reinforcing Ideations.

Will Tom discover a Chocolate Jesus when he digs his fingers Way Down In The Hole while GOD's Away on Business ?

.........unedited.....though, tempted, I was, to write them 'better'.......reading the dozens of poems from my 'teen's' certainly reinforced my ideas about the transformativeness of the brain's abilities to express thinking constructs more accurately and clearly in later stages of 'maturity'....