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but there are plenty of opportunities
to shave off indolence
there are too many surprises
to meet-off heedlessness, and stay;
no use wailing and whimpering
enfeebled by narcissism,
when being unremittingly tortured
of body and mind
it’ll be way too late,
I shall have nothing left but bad fate;
the thing is, they don’t plot, they don’t
manoeuvre and they
hardly ever show
themselves, so how is it I walk eyes-
wide-open into each of their snare and
realm; there, monsters
slavering astride horizon cower me to
craven identity, fires
hot to match all my defences, afflicting
me without notice
or even much effort
fires of the sun, fires of the atom, I’ll be
engulfed but not
consumed to blessed oblivion … oh, give me
a break! – I’m
ongoingly consumed even now, as long as I
continue endlessly playing
this solitaire, hitting the ‘new game’ button
again and again
until I … stop; but the cleverer I get
with them the cleverer they already are,
like shadow-boxing –
these ancient enemies
of mine; … to arms, then; not super-
heroically, trying all the more better
than I only am and
then finding myself (on acrid fields –
the smoke of fallen
ideals and bombed aims) wanting, but
inwardly, with
attention and focus, the Way of the
Steely Warrior; I shall
be `ard with suffering, I can take it,
I shall wear my
oozed bowels and fallen head like medals
in this, the War
to End All Wars, not Mr Redfordman
who is or isn’t
good enough, but the wish and drive to fight,
as long-suffering as mothers …
… nothing to do with Mark Redford;
‘Je ne garde qu’une
passion: celle de détruire les passions!’,
these phantoms
that stir the entire world; ‘dépouille-toi donc’
the best translation prescribed
Bodhisattvacaryavatara IV, 43, French translation by Louis de la Vallee Poussin, Introduction à la Pratique des Futurs Bouddhas, 1907
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attention wormhole: travelling // arrival
eyes wormhole: animus rises – powieview #37
identity wormhole: stuck in lower realm
mind wormhole: circuitry
practice & talking to myself wormhole: the turtle and the yoke
superhero wormhole: the quiet whale
war wormhole: looking ahead
mlewisredford 