i'm special
i'm not like other people
i'm different
i can feel it
they walk around waiting to die
but they don't know it
they say they do
but they don't really
if they did
why would they care about nixon
or agnew or mick jagger
or sonny and cher
or hitler or napoleon
or jefferson davis
as for me
i've always known
i am going to live forever
because life is an illusion
and nothing really happens
except in the eternal brain
and i am the eternal brain
me
that's right - me
i used to go to the library
and read all the books
when i didn't have money for the movies
one day i was sitting at a table in the library
reading the doctor by robert southey
because it was the biggest ugliest book with the smallest print in the whole library
it was raining outside
it wouldn't stop
i was in the mood for a little panhandling
but somehow
i couldn't get up
i just sat there
i needed the money
it was time
rain didn't bother me
wind either
so why didn't i get up?
suddenly a great light flashed (it's always a great light, isn't it?)
nobody else saw it
because they were just people
just folks
but i was the eternal brain
i had another book on the table
my favorite astrology book, astrology and you by sydney omarr
and in the sudden flash of light
i realized i wasn't really a leo
i was the whole zodiac
i was the universe
everything happens in my brain
where else would it happen?
joshua and the battle of jericho
christopher columbus and robert e lee
davy crockett and the alamo
and wilbur and orville wright and al capone
they all never happened
except in my brain - the universal brain
i'll get up
and go back out in the rain
i'll keep on walking
and everybody else will die off
one by one
and then whole cities
i'll walk though the old and new deserts
until there is nobody left but me
and i won't have my hand out
i'll have it raised to the sky
it's always a great light, isn't it?
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1 comment:
This was really cool.
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