Impassioned Prose Poetry/10-poems
1)
Leaves , and the Alcoholic
Part One
The leaves on the path of the alcoholic must be
blown away!
Lest s/he sets his
face in the opposite direction towards the past—
Not the future.
He is left with
really the, be all, — the End, Nothing!
He needs to think of
today—now—the immediate moment!
Take no account of
anything else but sobriety.
And you, I ask: “Are
your desires strong enough—that is what matters!”
I’m afraid, you know,
that you’re talking to a recovered drunk,
One who’s faced the
opposite direction, towards the past.
One who’s shrugged
his shoulders at the future! Once upon a time!
Things of that kind!
I shook my head
doubtfully, but now I got 31-years sobriety!
Remember we know, or
are beginning to know something about
The animal in
alcohol—
Brain-washing, in
that direction: in both body and mind, which responds
To certain stimuli—
All life is
dangerous, so don’t give me that crap that you can drink
Without disability!
You are a drinking
machine that can supply all the answers to questions in seconds, I know that,
–I used to carry them in my hip pocket too, just in case I needed to argue for
my deity.
No drunk can love
God, more than alcohol, it is one or the other:
Alcohol is an idol
that puts God in second place: you love one more than the other, that’s how it
works!
As Christ inferred:
not even Satan can live in a house divided.
You have an
electronic brain, that claims you have beaten the jungle, but
That victory is only
temporary.
Part Two
A man who lives
alone, develops a need to talk—
So he talks to
anyone, and perhaps not wisely…
There is nothing new
about this; the formula for sobriety is not
To be alone, relapse
has been built on this, seek out AA-Members
If need be!
Don’t let the man who
sits in the bar pull the strings.
One needs something
to compensate for loneliness…
I won’t offer you my
sympathy, I went through it!
But if you are sober
now you have turned unforeseen disaster into triumph.
This is a proof.
You have blown the
leaves out of your pathway!...
The secret of success
is something quite simple—
You are staring at
it.
Something
simple—something as simple as the removal of unwanted
Leaves, fulfilling a
need.
An action
performed—before you become the victim.
Executed by—whom?
You!
No:
4694/Part One: 2-8-2015/Part two:
2-9-2015
For
the Alcoholic
2)
A Sad Day
I don’t want to
shrink, nor shirk the issue—
It won’t do anyone
any good.
A death is a death,
and can be horrific!
He dies as a result
of unknown complications at forty-one!
And you got to go on…
By gosh, that’s
young, and to go on is hard to do!
You begin to think,
‘I could be next, or him or her?’
And how will I die?
That comes into question.
What you have never imagined
before has happened!
Now you realize,
death is real, and can be horrific!
You don’t need to
imagine it any longer
It’s realism thrown
in your face!
You may be right, too
many questions flood’s the mind
During such times! (Best to see the doctor,
Get some medication
if need be.)
After this, this
business of a funeral and so on, once it
Is over, you keep in
close touch with those most close to you:
Those you can trust,
intimately!
“I shall do this, go
there, and see her, him…?” These are
Really
statement-questions, you are asking yourself…
As if asking God for
permission, time, more time, because
You just learned,
time is not a commodity.
No sense in getting mad
at God, He has made it clear: we all
Have a short day
coming: it’s written in stone!
Your comings and
goings have been so rapid you’ve
Paid no attention to
the inevitable (naturally);
You need to slow down,
smell the roses as they say
(Obviously)—
No use looking too
far ahead: today and tonight will do for
Now! (Any more than that, you may sink deep into
depression
And that will not do….)
Best to pray for all
those things you’ve asked of yourself;
—
Angels and
God’s grace protects us, but you got to
Still rake the
leaves, cut the hedges, and pick the barriers.
No: 4691/for: MH & ZH (2-6-2015)
3)
The Death Spell
(Obamaism)
What causes
mass hysteria?
It’s a phenomenon
that really does exist—
Just look at Obama’s
first presidential election.
It’s not mumbo jumbo!
Could it be a ritual,
—linked to a pattern of words?
And phrases,
sanctified by time and the media?
All this having an
effect on the human spirit?
I don’t know, I’m
guessing.
But I know Obama
knows!
His worldwide mass
hysteria was incomprehensible to me.
People sure worked
themselves up to some pitch
Of obscene ecstasy.
I called it then, and
I still call it now: “The Death Spell.”
No: 4693/2-7-2015
For Obama
4)
I Look at Him
I don’t mind what a
man thinks, although it alters the odds a bit—
I get a sort of
feeling about a person
But when he knows
more than I know about myself, it’s a delicate hint
That later I will
feel the loss, or the pinch, or be put to the test!
No: 4687/ 2-7-2015
Dedicated to the World Governments
5)
A Blameless
Life
I shouldn’t
advise you
Don’t ask me why, I
haven’t the least idea—
I don’t know, and I
don’t want to know!
Let’s leave it at
that! —
But my advice is as
follows:
The blameless life
that is what we aim at
But you can only find
that on top of Cap Horn
Where only one family
is allowed to live.
(I’ve been there, I
know…)
That’s all I can tell
you!
No: 4688/2-7-2015
6)
Boredom
Out of
boredom, or perhaps out of stress and strain, one can swallow the earth in one
great stretch, break one’s spleen while doing it, and may very well escape the
abyss that s/he has fallen into by creating tentative illusions, or long lived
delusions, ideal for one’s mind.
Seeking out the naked truth, or leaving
it alone: best to leave it alone if you’re an atheist.
Good besides Evil, Good against Evil,
Good or else Evil: to each his own: to one it is painful, whereas to another, it is indifference,
and still to some, either one penetrates right into the bone, and to some they
are numb to either one.
What was once universal horror and
disgust, is today contemporary or posthumous jargon.
We have abandoned original sin, and now
call it existential psychobabble.
No: 4683/2-6-2615
7)
Old Fool!
When
a young fool comes to realize he’s a young fool, he has time to correct it—
But
when an old fool comes to realize he’s an old fool, that’s a picture of
disillusionment.
No: 4684/2-7-2015
For Old Poets
8)
Urgency
Be careful of the man
that plays the fool—
Ask: “Why does he
behave like this?”
If it appears quite
unnatural, then it is!
The odds are not on
your side,
I would wager on it.
The sooner the
better, get out of there.
No: 4685/2-7-2015
9)
Idle Curiosity
I have acquired a
sixth sense where danger is concerned!
And tamed my
curiosity throughout the years, somewhat—
Lest I be burnt at
the stake!
And that has made a
big difference in my life.
Believe me, there is
something genuine in it,
There probably is—but
not for those who still stick their
Nose where it doesn’t
belong—:
It doesn’t have a
good effect on those people.
No: 4689/ 2-7-2015
Dedicated to ‘Greenpeace’
10)
Sick Sheep
Let me be blunt about
the matter—
One thing I do ask
the reader:
Keep an open mind.
Being in love can
have a very bad effect on men!
It shatters their
good sense.
Funny, if you think
of it—
That it should suit women
to make a man look like
A sick ewe! Catty,
but more true than false.
No: 4690/ 2-7-2015
For Catty Women
