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 Visit from the Wise Woman Who’d’ad

Here is a short poemoid which was borne of a text conversation I had with Stacy Schaefer.  

Below the poem is a recording of a reading done in my best Bill Boroughs voice (well, maybe not best), but first the written version.

 Visit from the Wise Woman Who’d’ad
(Who’d had Words & Meals with the Huichols)

It’s a nightmare my dear,
I’m quite disturbed by Saul ‘n’ all. 
But, here to protect ‘n’ preserve 
things since 2011, FALL!… 
I’m keeping things cordial, (for now)
N’still tryin’ t’save FARM & scene.
15 years here…roots DO’W, now 
“So, what happened?”
Known eventually…
(Oh, and by the way…
they stopped paying me back in May)
Could harm only my efforts & luck
pointing out each’s deeds that sucked 
So please, play along today, as
I shan’t be out-lucked!!!

∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

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——CIRCS——

42 Room Chateaux 

“Ok heading up to my reading room.”

Some folks think it would be a drag to live in a single room.

But what they DON’T know is that years ago when I lived in Coconut Grove Miami, I had an isolation tank on my porch. And using it every night for almost two years, both with and without vitamin K. One issue arose. Despite traveling to places deep deep in universe/mind I would always return to the reality I set out from. 

I quickly put a plan in place. I developed a technique based on one of John Lilly’s programs I found in his book Simulations of God. Whereby I would step into the tank from my current reality and practice getting out in a suitable parallel reality where only one very tiny detail was different. 

By doing this every night for such a long time I reasoned I could hop my way into realities that were incredibly different. I may be native to this reality, I may still be in my tank, I may have hoped my way here. 

That’s the one undesirable outcome; As the differences in these parallel realities are so minute, one can never be totally sure of the past or the future. 

One thing I can do is live in a single room. Because that room is many different rooms in many different realities, with just a slight difference each. 

Sometimes a reading room or library. Sometimes a bedroom or study. One is/was an alien musician’s room, full of strange instruments never seen before. 

Anyway, now that I have the ability to do the “in-one-tank-and-out-through-another” trick, only sans tank, this one small room is all I need. 

This is a 42 room chateaux.

∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

≈Ω≈

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^©2025
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——CIRCS——

‘Pestilent Product Peddlers in Popups
Offering Discounted Satans in a Sale Without End‘

The products aren’t actually problematic,
you see? It’s the telling using billboards
and signs & radio and TV. 
The medium is the message, I’ll tell you now,
just as McLuhan told me. 

Products & fuel so awesome we drool, 
but in the end, we’d still be their sad lil’ tools.
They’d still inevitably havtah tell us, see?
After the sale we walk off the lot, and DAMN IT
we’ve bought another car with no key!

Again, independent of honesty, or made by a bee.
When delivered at no cost and virtually free
Even with intentions that are good, just and true. 
the kind of ring of which we speak,
always ends up wearing you. 

Like a ‘84 Corolla on a bit of black ice, 
Belov’d shineola goes all shite ‘n’ sick mice.
AdExecs prey we start telling our friends;
because nature & beauty have no way to defend. 

Then it all gets very brown
(even more than it tends),
and then just that much sooner,
we’ve all reached our poor fin.

∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

≈Ω≈

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^©2025
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——CIRCS——

‘So many colors’

įÅ Templther part III

When she arrives
Each of the familiar hues
splinters into a prismatic
spectra of its own

A thousand times
a thousand different greens
Solid colors become patterned
With subtle changes

Saturated whites
Become rainbowed fractals
Bright red lights
warm auras of orange

But when she turns away
Only is there blue and gray

phtoto by Gorka Nelson

∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

≈Ω≈

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^©2025
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——CIRCS——

‘Each Temple its Own Color’

įÅ Templther part II

Each temple its own color
Each stone its own shade
Brilliant frescos depicting her life’s trials.
Fighting the old bird goddess
Slaying the gorgon queen

Depetrification of stoned revelers
Brought back to this life
With a spreading smiled wisdom
(Occasionally much to large for her face)
Multicolored purgings, and a clown nose.

Two weeks in the arid desert
Praying for rain, then dew, then…
Worse than blue. Worse than gray even
All becomes brown, or tan, or…
devoid not only of color, but creativity.

Still faith tells me to proceed.
Do not give in, but push on
Try again, become reborn
Die again if needed.
But do not acquiesce.

phtoto by Gorka Nelson

∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

≈Ω≈

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^©2025
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——CIRCS——

‘Village of Temples’

įÅ Templther part I

An entire village of temples
Made of stones
from ancient walls
With mortar of synaptic sinew
and contracting heart threads.

Giving off a deep low hum
and glowing a rich warm red
Except just before dawn and
After strong thunderstorms
When it shows as a deep orange

Each temple is dedicated
To one of her infinite attributes.
Beauty. Creation. Psychopomp. Fire.
The receiver of grace. Gentle & Soft
Worshipped with truth, service & love.

Snake-nuns. Clown-Rats.
Space-bums. Clergy-Cats.
Mo-Hawk, no-hawk
Dreadlocked, butch-chopped.
Many forms, The Most-Faceted One.

phtoto by James Charlick

∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

≈Ω≈

TheVacantCleft.com
^©2025
d’Çłęfțïį VVækåńțęæ

——CIRCS——

The Nervewing’s Nest‘

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∞

d’Çłęƒțïį

Only Friends are Real
Embrace Shulgin-ness
DON’T SCARE THE HORSES
DO BETTER!

≈Ω≈

TheVacantCleft.com
^©2025
d’Çłęfțïį VVækåńțęæ

——CIRCS——