Nice read on a grey morning. Thanks. Arthur
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From: "grasshopper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: New sub: Ego
> Ego
>
> A shamanisitic friend tells me solemnly
> about his astral journeys, of the passage
> through the ether that is not empty, but alive
> with golden energetic swirls, sparkling
> like dust-motes in shafts of sunlight,
> about his speakings with the spirits of animals,
> that they have souls untainted by ego, unlike humans.
>
> I think of a blackbird fluting variations of MemeMe
> into the growing dawn, the stallion coralling his kingdom,
> sly squirrels rolling requisitioned nuts like Sisyphus,
> the jealous cat who shoulders his brother aside
> to usurp a caress, his gaze twin 'I's in amber -
> but I nod . We all have our truths, our knowledge.
> Why shake the fruit from another's tree?
>
> grasshopper
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