Things From The Air The Office That Nobody Goes To One lock locks both Strippy confidentials. Why wake yourself? A wish is as good as a smile On this highway of guts. It is together More than you know, Kissing the area we had last week. I can't get it out of my head — The fire escape that ends in mid-air, Silent music... How long will it last, Fraternity of health in these measures? All lakes have names Part of a year Wherever they go. Perfect the day, Half of what I cannot use, Your clues are funny waves of steel Erotic strain, Strawberry oil — Honey, don't give me instructions! $109.98 There's no universal lumber company Butter on your hand. They're all new Amazing irregularity Make the merchandise work now Stop controlling you No more seeing what I have already seen. Have you got your eyes? Diagram the back. Be happy and shit This communism rent. It's not a total brain-wave. My carbohydrate grandfather, Say something that's right. "Nice quarters..." It's a nice psychotic chair Constant eater Eleven-piece aluminum woman A hundred and nine ninety-eight. The Fictions The lady that had the affliction strike her right in the highpoint Complete musical practice A train of sequences To talk themselves The coal miner going deep underground Frozen ice Everything is very real there Beautiful food that you're ignoring Wait a minute! "What peace can my heart know In not beholding all this now" The best of all bows Rich famous exonerated All that you hanker for "An inexhaustible lost art" When she's biting, when she's laughing Whenever her mouth is in motion The conqueror of mountains Spacematics Superior order All by itself It's good naturally like the great outdoors None does what this one does If you have nothing better to do I knew you'd like it Believe you me Here there are worse things than dysentery — Yes, I said that! Introduction to "Nights in the Skyroom" — 1973 A mirror of the mirror It could happen to you The shit of many centuries With some people in the world yawning Is pretty exclusive My heart coughs His name, His perfection And the world is so forlorn and downcast Out of sight I write, I recite My Memoirs Music, the music of beautiful music — No use looking as high as that. Who could help us? Stranger things have happened Tomorrow A job, not a career! Some seed which was afterwards to grow This humiliation continued Knocked down and fatally injured I laid an oath Great oaths from little acorns grow By my unseen hand That died with her Too tempting to be refused Many such heartbreaks A terrible blow almost immediately Toying with for some time for you Hasn't been used since that day To live again in the present in the future Some delicacy actually Since then it's grown worse He got down on his hands and knees Prolonging this vulgar brawl We serve each other right The ruin of my whole campaign Bagged one there A few days in bed The remainder of my life Not in fiction but in fact A glass of warm affection Merely to tantalize Introduction to "Speak Cantonese or Irreconcilable Differences" — 1974 Success creates obligations exhausted long before our most optimistic expectations which represent the vast majority of today's world population that moderately priced at that to complete this introduction like an important addition to the alphabet has been misleading tourists for years, pronounced "Tavern Which Has." Away! In the first fresh smell of dawn you're wrong! What excellent bodies The ice blue secrets — Does she mention me in there? A base of riddles The Great Eye can defend. Who knows! Maybe love will pay my bills? Like the sky I'm hung over you. I took my hand and put it on the shelf It was neutral. It has no sex. It didn't have kittens. Imagine sitting down eleven hours and counting the minutes That's done, I'm glad. Oh, don't put them away Avenue of America I'm tidy and you know Write away right away Stand up straight and put your hands behind your back! Get 'em up there and watch it! You must play with your playfellows — A brilliant mind and a fine businessman... Sweet Thing — for Linda What to do with this dusty jewel Plumb the depths My tears are gone Tiny worries You're not alone The pupil is not the master This hot earth Breathing relief "Just perfectly poised Fulfilling every moment" Clean beds Lazily put to bed Down here Many tears have been shed through the years Over devotion Stronger than time Tired and deaf Suffering from life A cruel jewel there A turtle a rose A hazy glow A hole in our memories Turning my life into one big black work of art In forgiveness like the earth It's in charity My tears are gone High above all time and space Poem Serenade us tonight with your charms Cough cough. I am about to perform a death defying feat. I will leap in the air through my toes! Aarf — I got caught in my ankles. Please forgive me. Buddha Buds Heaping and weeping The folds in the robe Radiating friendliness Enslaved by thought This putrid body of mine Real state Life against life Known, gained, developed, forsaken Avarice, passion, anger, fear The picture of despair The picture of joy The picture of nobody Desirelessness, signlessness, selflessness The tension that falls Magically to a conclusion Elusive as a shadow when you try to take hold of it Love alone The banner of the name Too gone It's only a matter of time May all beings be happy! A Heart in Practice Change from sadness to joy The first moments of meditation His tears fall in the dust Here's a phonograph of this photograph Misery in everything He got weak because he was strong Sensitive and crazy Sin comes from cities Love walks in and out I always know everything The man of words A constant fine powder of dust Penetrate to the heart of the matter Proceed in the face of sorrow Eight hours of sleep Without a peep Things from the Air Sooner than you can blink mechanically Let your fires — for flame! I had a dream and then, where is it? Black tulip that makes way for spring A dream of wine Power makes that old car go It won't be long before the difference between you and mankind will be hard to find I wandered through the hearts of men, hoping for a sign Life's broken harmony When things get rough from day to day for the man Get it on in the dark! Take me Shadow of a man Let's spin together These beautiful fruits available even in the wintertime When you snap your fingers with your eye Other streets are building quite abnormally The finest tunes I ever knew That rescued the man In that hole itself Especially on you Singe your whole body with mist Where the rubber meets the road At the moment skies are clear but clouds are starting to roll in Raining down as cold as ice — Why is life so unkind to you? The young always win in the end, don't they? The price for Sunday afternoons Traveling in apples and cheeses She moves him like a ring From the ground unshoveled Love is real and I'll fade. A Kiss on the Breast of Time Too big to be boring YOU MUST WORRY — MUST YOU WORRY? The sun never sets The happy slaves An ancient exam by the Great Examiner The dreams of a lifetime The alarm that never sleeps Ideas of death Love and the lover It persists It changes A child born of pain The needles of thought A line of clouds The removal of desire You U. I lived there all my life Stately holes Change the news "Now that the fucking is over, can we get back to work?" I can hardly bear to see it change Tying the knot tighter Hopeful young things. Poem -- for Bob Dylan Get him up on Christmas with a gun! It's the sad part of it, More attention to your family Isn't mush but it's a mention — Incredible feeling fills the air Goodbye from everywhere Loving you has made me clean I can fly if I want to, you know — Watch! We may have a more serious problem on our hands He'll blow his top when he sees these containers Imposter! Charlatan! I care not! The shape of your ears or the color of your eyes White teeth and fresh bread You don't lose one to get the other Oh, leave your old guitar of a heart I have changed — permanently Watching him grown on earth Climbing on human bodies until he reaches the sky — He's one of my favorite admirals! The Desire of a Man Get up on your feet! (I've got a feeling I'm doing something wrong.) Stay kissing and kicking! (I don't deny I like the power...) That's the first word out of the devil's mouth Where your style really starts He was knocked off balance Transported in a mystic state I see your Eiffel Tower fallen in the dust. It's painted black! Amuse us again with your farts. Let no one speak or laugh. Machinery of love Open it up! The face on the ocean floor Arise in your mind Hanging over the tops of the trees It will come soon enough. Pictograms A louring sky Birds in a nest, waiting for food, their heads bobbing, going, Cheep! cheep! cheep! Roiled in sheets, tossing and turning, in a fever, in a sweat Rats in a maze Climbing the side of a mountain A horse chafing at the bit Wandering In a small boat at sea Treading water (Trying to find a place to stand) Introduction to "The Memorizing of Tenderizing" — 1978 Take away my anxiety. This anxiety is killing me. I wish I could do as I pleased. I don't know when I've ever been so sad. I need a rest. I'm nailed to a cross and I want to be free. I don't know what's become of me. Even on conducted tours I have to be alone. Now I know what my pretended friends are worth! How can they live without tears? Meteor — from Karel Capek Get away from it! The finest — what does it need? In anything, in a garage A terrible almost hopeless task In lethargy a scrap of paper Wherever my eye alights Strange Here are some technical conclusions which can be drawn from the previous explanation Like a butcher apprising a beast Like a dog sniffing a bone It was going out and coming in He began moving slowly He used to kneel down Even that paradise is hidden inside black seething water which is all phosphorescent There and then filled with a feeling All his life might be only a dream inside regular diagrams Who knows how long a dream lasts as he gazed out for hours A man in whom exists this present contracted in time everything he ever was... You say, quite a medley! It is frightfully difficult to express things Everything is made for us out of small pieces Picking up shells by the sea Not in vain Ardent Love I read in the news with the first sign of spring Many of you will be building things around your homely cottages To meet your individual therapeutic family housing needs. Imagine all these years and we still can't communicate! It stands to reason that somehow we should all attain a mastery such that the idea of the impossible does not exist. Alas, too soon — how few — our years are ended. "Oh it's a long long time from May to September and the days grow short when you reach December." Oh, how I remember that rainy September that September in the rain. The stars were out, or rather, in and I yearned to adore you — too late, too soon, too few — those sunny days. A flame burns in my heart! Who turned the radio down? Where are my shoes? My shoes and socks are gone! My love is real In between the interstices of outer space They're coming in little clusters now! He entered the cocktail lounge disguised as a waitress. In Order to Shoot an Arrow One Must First Draw the String To search for truth and kindness is not an evil thing to do The earth is enjoyable, goodness knows An unfailing lighthouse for the blind Look in yourself to see Let yourself go! (Dance wildly) A pall of gloom has descended on the people It shouldn't necessarily be how much power anyone has Long have I sought what is fitting Gone is the need for tears Here I am, ever coming on To bring out their hearts, as they vibrate Majestic Sound YOU ARE NOT YOUNG Dinny's Song Isn't it lovely out here in the moonlight. How could I have left without saying goodbye? It's so painful to remember And hard to forget. I have forgotten what it's like to be at the party. I have forgotten what it's like to be free. I have forgotten everything I ever knew. Now I want to forget to be me. Everything's only a picture On a wall I'm longing to see — Please don't take my picture! A glamorous life is not for me. I have forgotten what it's like to be at the party, etc. Much better off I am Since you entered my life. It makes me want to balance On the blade of a knife. I have forgotten what it's like to be at the party, etc. The sky is raining mascara Have you ever been kissed by a man? Fate has taken pity on me. I'm just doing the best that I can. I have forgotten what it's like to be at the party, etc. Poem — from the Tao Te Ching Consider how nature operates. Who directs it? Who plans it? Who pays the bills? Some things blow away while others stay. Some go up while some go down. It's the wise man who leaves well enough alone. Fantastic Horizons — What's the use of hanging on? — Eggs and eggs. — Thoroughly thoroughly. — Beyond your thing. — A silent prayer. — With joy I come, I come with joy! — Wider and wider. — Now I want to know the truth! — How well timed everything is. — A new equality has settled over the world. — The wretched of the earth. — Closer and closer. — How I fear the fall. — Happy, happy, I am happy all the day. — The important thing is to not desert the others. — There is no greater love in all the world. — Bye bye. — Looking toward the sky, listening for the signal, we wonder whether there are others around us who dream, suffer and speculate as we do. — You don't know what you're doing! — Don't worry. Faithful Love — for my father All over the world people are crying I hate to leave this beautiful garden. It's like a long, drawn-out beautiful dream But the flowers keep fading and getting so fuzzy... Let's pretend that we are snails Let's pretend that we are snails Because I did not do Because I did not do The clouds keep reforming All is sticky and gluey A tent obscures the sun I think there's more strenuous work ahead Two screamers in a row: Ahhh! Ahhh! Oh, keep on believing that you're living ever after All my hope is in you How Does It Feel To Be Lonely? It's funny what things stick in your mind Something beautiful is hard to find A hammer is handled and a nail is pounded You smile but your sorrow shows In a circle of light you have the sensation of being alone Once there was a tree... Poem Beautiful bird, you are mine Everything is kind There just isn't time I hope that you will find This is the prime It could be anything Pink Refrigerators These pink refrigerators of my heart These aimless notes The rattle of a stream The gabble of a turkey. What was it that fell down by the dock? I heard a splash and it was cold... 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