open throat...

open throat

do you see all the people
coming through?

the brownies
and warriors,
popes and priests,
teachers and lawyers,
George Washington and the cherry tree...

isn't it funny,
this salad
of lettuce and tomatoes
and even Taco John,
the Outsider,
the Moroccan vendor,
the old bratwurst with mustard
in Salzburg,

is there really a "me"
apart from all this?!

how could it be
that what lives here,
inside
and untellable to anyone else
is not "me"?

what crazy mind
could claim to pull the seagull
flying through my mind right now
and put it in the sky
as a totally separate creature
with a totally separate life?

and the same magician,
politician,
misclaimer
would grab hold
of that image of my old boyfriend
and set him "in another town"--
give him an existence
completely apart from the dreamer

how funny it is

can you imagine
everyone's hallucinations
made into cardboard cutouts
and placed around town,
around the world,
on big billboards
for all to see...?

oh my goodness what a world...!
overpopulation?

i guess

multiply everyone
by all others
so for each original
there are 7 billion versions!

what a wild and wacky world!

Enjoy the ride, sister!!!

i love you

at least we can see it is
the Greatest Show on Earth!

The Family Brothers and Sisters
Queen of Hearts Circus...

it's really amazing

we all get along so well...

:-))))