Know Your Enemy

I have not only
not
loved my neighbor

I think I am am afraid of him!

he is out to take my money,
i think

or to gain my consciousness
to bend me to his will
change me

no title

It is all there before us
as a grand buffet
right at our fingertips

this life

we all dine at the same table

this world that bore
so many different souls

how it works

you just don't know

how many prayers you didn't have to pray

you just don't know
just how close to disaster you were

the breath of the wind carried you

so light
you didn't even feel it

52 Cards

reality one:

Normal Waking State
realm of action-reaction and interaction

reality two:

Dream State
realm of essence creates material understanding

The dream state uses imagery of the walking state
to relate ideas and feelings.
Literally,
You feel it, you see it in dream imagery

a mine of thoughts and emotions

but there is one more

reality:

this one we will just call the
"unproven"
it is to sleep as sleep is to waking
it is another layer

erase your body
your thoughts
your feelings

and there is still something there

we don't know what to call it

but clearly we are playing
with more cards
than are in a deck



~joshua

Self Storage Unit

I was smoking a cigarette,
despite my lung cancer

passing a homeless man
next to
a climate controlled self storage lot

~joshua

Born Upside Down

sometimes I think I was born upside down

there was somewhere,
a mistake

I am above
in the clouds

tangled in the
indiscriminate beauty
of the open sky



~Joshua