| LOUIS PIRRO |
| the D A G O S P H E R E o t h e r p o e m s |
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| (c) copyright Louis Pirro, 1997 - 2001 |
| IDAHO KOAN Monk: "Master, what is Zen?" Master: "Through the dams a salmon returns upstream !" |
| ( CIVILIZATION ) Civilization is the fat painted lady rolled in an alley |
| COFFEE KOAN The people walk by... I blow them kisses through the smoke. |
| A FEW WORDS A few words is all that seperates lies from the truth, the wise from the dumb, and then from now. |
| CLASSICAL MAN In youth he was like Odysseus, but time has left him stumbling... |
| ECHO Shadows of branchlets trace her face like capillaries put there by the sun that started it all. |
| A HAZE The smog cloaks a crow... It masks the pine and those perfumed; but reveals again my dissatisfaction. |
| PIONEERS Pioneers nude brief celestial vacuum formed but vacant and now like Adam and less naive |
| BLANKS You were my adventure... Now we are left with riddles As our brains ripen on the ground And your corvette dries and splits in the sun. |
| THE RECONCILED Selves of dated propaganda wage war while the heartland turns the soil and then starts anew |
| THE PASSAGE OF THE NIHILISTS all is gone not much is there & no one's left to cry dispair... but the void still begs to be understood and the fates conspire that someone should... |
| MY GRAVITY RHYME Gravity attends a Mass- It's audience a guarantee... One should plan to commune, for lack of velocity. |
| SLEEP WITH THE FISHES... Joe Gill was the first writer I knew. Later, I named my fish for this man. Both regarded me with mild interest from behind plates of glass. Neither could type well. Only one knew Mickey Spillane. |
| THE LAST TEACHER The last teacher will come with nothing, sit silently, and wait... but say little. The last teacher will listen to his heart beat, but not be believed; then leave. And the last teacher will be forgotten again. |
| ETHER the ether displaced with rectangular pink precision the sky - pea green with envy clash a world known only to He who lighted an unknown flame |
