A Seamless BORDERLESS Monument
Con/Jur/d, 8/28/2024
What emperor asked, or was it friend
family member, busybody bureaucrat
who asked, after you die, what would
you like? and you answered, in your
pulsing, glowing, vitalist motion, with
A PARTY — A SPREADING — A BOX
impregnated with seeds; to our mind
your best answer was “build me a
seamless monument” and then you
just looked around, like you did in the
Blue Cliff Record Case # 18, and we
wanted to add, if we could, comment
on, when not to bother: errrEKMRMrrrr
if the loon’s lonely, even when in company,
cry
is not included don’t bother, if it lacks the
smell of pine
duff, dry beneath the sparkling,
furtive
sunlight, or just wetted by the mounted
blue/black thunderheads, wide white
puffs filled with self-important treaties
and threats
— DO
NOT BUILD,
leave the sign — UNDER
CONSTRUCTION up — while we
remember both those who fought
the raging fires, and those burned
like we were burned, THE acrid
panic when
SMOKE
blossoms just over your left shoulder
or the exact moment of understanding
when acquaintance becomes friendship, or
sudden, unexpected intimacy, or the cool feel
of water suspended above a dark, uncertain
DEPTH, the fear and trembling before a
raging deluge, the certainty
of a buffeted and B.A.T.T.E.R.E.D death,
a SURPRISE
survival, the sun setting
with nary a breeze, in a protected
COVE
if the stomp, STOMP —
STOMP, stomp
of a caterpillar, rescued
while we practiced capoeira
or the
taste of ice cream bars swum out
to the floating border dock
are, not included in this SEAMLESS
monument, to a life lived
like NO-OTHER —
— don’t bother building it
rather, let the undefeatable
NOW,
finish —
this
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 8/28/2024
Shout out to The SLOW Music Movement who inspired today’s music selections:
