and the flame is slanted......

weighed down on one side.....

favoring the 'left', it seems.....

and battlefields are paved with sinew and guts and diamonds and apple pie.....

and forewarned is forearmed.......or so they think......

and fantastic vodka girls are sweeping through the village at record speed....

only to be stopped and frisked by sniffing dogs with Louis Vuiton collars.....

it IS , decidedly, what it IS.....

the good news is that mercury has gone direct!!

not soon enough to stop all the casualties.......

and so it goes.....

FULL FRONTAL ATONEMENT.....

THERE'S NOTHING QUITE AS 'CLEANSING' ......

AS 'CATHARTIC'......

AS 'FIST CLENCHING'....

AS THE DIRECT 'HIT' OF POUNDING ON ONE'S HEART,

BEGGING FOR FORGIVENESS,

WHILST THE BLESSED 'MAKER' CHOOSES

WHO SHALL 'LIVE' AND WHO SHALL 'DIE'.....

PAINFUL.......FRIGHTENING.....

YET SET SOMEHOW......'LIFE ALTERING'.....

JARRING.....

AND SO RELIGION SPINS A METAPHOR OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND OUTLINE AND KARMIC BACKWASH......

FOUNTAINS OF BACKWASH!!!!

side saddle with a twist of aggression!!!

she rode into town......

charged....

coquettish.....

willful.....

riding, in true bravado, 'side saddle'.....

as if....

as if she were, in fact, the MAY QUEEN....

with her pomegranate lipstick and her utterly transparent, white camisole.....

blowing bubbles from a TRADER VIC'S container.....

as it were.....

nonplussed.....

unscathed.....

a vision!!

a visionary!!!

she poured the wine into the 'broth of incantation'.....

as if....

as if she were extracting blood from a soldier, torn in battle....

WAR TORN........

actually, it was as if she were TRANSFUSING THE BLOOD back into the poor sap......

oh my!!!

the scene was beyond imagination!!!

beyond comprehension!!!

and yet........and yet....

COMPLETELY BELIEVABLE!!!

so from where i sit.......

from this very particular vantage point......

atop this somewhat 'precarious', albeit exciting, 'roost'.....

i can see for miles and miles......

i can see INFINITY ACTUALLY!!

atop this layer cake of life's ironies and cataclysmic sensations.....

YES!!!

I CAN SEE INFINITY!!!

layers and layers of endless possibility......

veritable 'horns of plenty'......

from this viewpoint.....

candied apples and rainbow prisms and drunken ponies......

i can see every little, old bit of ALL OF IT!!!

LUCKY!!!!

LUCKY ME!!!!

fortune smiles upon girls, sitting cross legged, atop mountains,

iced with spun sugar!!!!

if you don't understand the nuance of my message, all you need do is to........

OPEN YOUR EYES AND HEARTS TO THE

ENDLESS MONSOON OF POSSIBILITY!!

sounds corny??

its NOT!!

this is 'practical application' at its most heightened and exciting state!!!!

FEAR NOT, weary travelers!!!!

just listen.......

in the end of the day.......

it is the deeds which one has performed, the actions.......

in the end of the day.....

it is the souls which one has touched.....

the quarters and dollar bills which we have dropped into the paper cups

of the needy on street corners.....

in the end of the day.....

can you sleep well tonight,

knowing that you have protected those whom you love and treasure?

beyond reproach.....

beyond measure.....

can you live with the pain which you may have inflicted?

in the end of the day.....

will there be chariots and magicians,

performing the 'rights of passage'?

these are the elaborate and introspective meanderings.....

of 'ME'.....

connective tissue......

Christians call it a 'silver thread'........

Buddhists call it 'the one'.....

connecting all of us in a fulcrum of light and sinew.....

magnetic field.....

energetic pull.......

birth charts.......

blah.....blah........

I AM YOU......AND YOU ARE ME.......

Clark Kent hath spoken!!!!

nimrods and bookworms and the freaking talaban>>>>>

its a mixed up affair, to be sure!!!

waist not, fair readers!!!!

atonement will place you under a STIGMA..........as it were......

conscious, sentient STIGMA........

with a condiment selection of chagrin, rebirth, illumination, and self deprecation!

why???.....you ask???

why is she spewing these sublime and disassociated esoteric isms at us????

what have we done to deserve dissertations on 'sinew'????

what you MUST understand, my loves, is that the words have WEIGHT AND VERACITY.....

waist not!!!!

want not!!!!

illuminate yourselves from WITHIN.......

THE LIGHT OF REDEMPTION, OF LOVE,

WILL SHINE THROUGH YOUR EYES FROM 'WITHIN'

GORGEOUS!!!!!

SIMPLY GORGEOUS!!!

and they will usher in the dawn......

forgiving the naives.....

'contra indicative'......

counter 'intuitive'??

or so it would appear!

forgiveness comes in various shades of gray.....

for the fools will wash the heels of the 'mighty' with cinnamon and exfoliating spice......

and they (the fools) will continue, in earnest,to attempt to REPLICATE the 'envied' ones.....

they idolize them with such intensity,

that it evokes a kind of PITY from the one ACTUALLY being FOLLOWED!!

difficult to explain rather.....

nonetheless, these are the challenges of being LARGER THAN LIFE.....

i am PERSONALLY speaking to you......

from the heart.....

deep, private, and extremely challenging experiences.......

laced with both CHAGRIN and OLEANDER.....

lavender and unsaturated fat.....

peculiar.....

and we continue to place one foot in front of the other......

its that periwinkle sky!!!!

it makes me feel the OPPOSITE OF BLUE!!!

it makes me feel LAVENDER AND VIOLET AND CLEAR!!!

it makes me feel ULTRA VIOLET!!!!

yummy, yummy periwinkle sky.....

sign of the solstice of autumn......

sign of SIGNIFICANCE.......

of judgment day.....

weep not, fair maiden.......

judgment day is imminent.....

thank HEAVEN that you were such a good, good girl!!!!

the judgment will be favorable......

the judgment will be JUST......

JUST DESSERT............

devoid of entree!!

aperitif......

blue haired ladies will be agape at the ritual of sovereignty!!!

CLEAR THE DECKS, MATE!!!!

"confluence".....she said....

yes!

confluence......

confluence of events culminating in a

  SPLENDIFOROUS SPECTACLE..........

and such......

yes!!!

OK then......

i think we've done (collectively) 'bout all we can do!!!

in earnest........

calculated, earnest integrity.......

bar none!!! 

that shit will follow you!!!!

I'm serious!!!!

you cant hide from confluence!!!!

you can TRY!!!

but it will be an exercise in futility.........

waste NOT...........want NOT.......

did Gandhi say that????

or was it the little green elf, sitting upon my right shoulder????

in any case, the sage has spoken, and the magical,

 mystical vapor is rising upon the' cradles of Bethlehem '........

so to speak.....

waste not, good fellows......

time is short.....

FEAR ITSELF is the only obstacle on the path of 

'righteous indignation'......

and so on........