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1.
Tired of being,
Energy
Is.
2.
If Mozart wrote laws
Not music
No one would follow them.
Too beautiful!
Too ethical!
3.
I edit.
You edit.
We all edit.
Edit what?!
4.
Buddha-mind
Is its own narrative.
Whenever it is
It is always self-same.
5.
We both
Saw an opportunity.
I took it.
You didn’t.
How come?
“I am the opportunity.”
6.
Three-eyed,
I see nothing.
Finally!
7.
One, comma
In a wrong place
And the entire self-narrative
Comes to a period!
8.
I remember the brilliance of the sun
The day I turned eight
and my dad took me to the Gorky Park
to explain the concept of infinity
with the help of a Ferris wheel.
10.
“I never missed a count,”
Boxer said getting up too soon,
Trying to convince the referee
Of the authenticity of his conscious presence.
Boxing isn’t a sport of fighting.
It’s a sport of waking up
Just on time.
11.
Same signature in all pain:
Impatience for pleasure.
12.
Suffering
comes to those
who want it.
13.
A six-pack  of beer
Has about as much spirit
As all of the ascetic abstinence
Of all thirteen Desert Fathers.
14.
The ultimate rhyme
is essence.
Just like the ultimate form
is meaning.
Whichever way you come by flow
It is always italicized.
15.
Infinity
Is the ultimate life sentence.
How guilty would I have to be
to deserve it?
Nah.
16.
If you could only feel
the smooth steel of this spoonful of meaning
You are right now putting into your mind-mouth
Time would
STOP!

pavel somov, still isn’t
copyright, 2009