prattle immemorial

So a manifesto
Drawing up
The rights of man
And the host’s
Liabilities but who
Is serving whom

Payment for
Food and shelter
Brought food
And shelter and
a good night’s sleep
and then off we go
again from
the morning on
but who
is serving whom

let’s talk about it
let’s do
the needful
like these days
they do things
making our flowers
bloom through
the fruits of science
and we also think
and feel so why shy
away from an exercise
to commit in clear prose
the rules of thumb and
formulas for the soul

thus even if science
is confused
you know me
when the final
experiment has gone
wrong from the fire
we’ll save
the small booklet
on the art of love
and what have you



I won’t sleep
Tonight unless
Ive kissed
Every harbour
In your body
Where my heart
Beats and I
Think I live in
My body my
Body is a ghost
On a starship
On land I’m
A boat at
Full steam and
In the engine room
You are shoveling
Coals by the spadefuls



all over the place it seems there are people willing to die for and ready to kill for a cause. earlier i would have thought it is a dangerous kind of dualism to want to live and murder for the same thing. earlier though i would have been interested in the details. but the question has always been how does one bring it all together most of all me. it transpires it is a manual i am looking at. a ready reckoner. a compendium of aphorisms and adages furnished and borrowed like to be or not to be that is the question, a bird in hands better than two in the bush etc. the idea then is to have a guide to living. but here there is a problem in that a guide to living to be such a good book has to go down to the last minute of the subject matter and have impeccable advice for the occasion. in the event it does not seem like a book that can ever live up to its potential to become a model document because my experience of a future date cannot be sampled at a prior time. so im on the fence on the life's philosophy thing. on both sides is the grass green. there is immense potential all around from where im looking down on things. everything can be been and there is more waiting. only care must be taken to see that we have not congealed in some flowerbed to wind up being obsessed with the nettles to the tune of the grass is greener yonder, what if etc.