A Seamless BORDERLESS Monument

8/28/2024

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:

Rhucle & morimoto naoki - Reminiscence (Seil)