After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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The world gov’t should just go ahead and declare everybody a hero and get it over with.
What’s that old saying?, “When everybody’s a hero nobody’s a hero.”
I think the last hero on this planet was back about 1954 and everyone else since has been a flatdik poser.
–yawn–
I need either a nap or a mud on this cold assed rainy day.
Haha hahaah haha.
fukncelebrities. Less relevant every day.
To hell with these sanctimonious satraps who have become ‘famous for being famous’.
Oh, man, how am I going to clean all of the sarcasm that is splattered all over the inside of my monitor?
Thanks for the smiles.
The Germans have a word for it.
Backfeifengesicht: A face searching for a fist.
we get the “hero” thing here in nyc pretty heavy. it was worn out before this virus thing- it’s like porn, it’s just not special anymore…
Get back to work, you f*cking c*nt!! — hehehe.
Why I often think fondly of some celebrities, when I toss a faggot in the wood stove.
You had me at “dogshit, broke ass hearts”