
I used to sleep with two pillows, and a little light on.
And I used to hit the radio when it didn’t work
I had rain- boots, and a rain coat too
That I wore two times in my life
when my mother wanted to take me pictures outside.
And I used to have a good friend,
that talked to me every night
I also had a small bathroom
And a mirror with broken sides.
You know, I Know
If I ever tried to get back
And write some letters,
Or buy the newspaper,
There’d be nobody,
Recognizing my voice.
But I never got blue
I could enjoy small pleasures,
Sometimes I even had money for coffee.
And I remember an old, red scarf
That once I put on my cat,
He jumped and got hanged
I buried him on my backyard.
It was hard, but I could move on
I can see the scarf in my closet from here
Oh, my poor cat,
Rest in peace now that you can.
I have some magazines on the floor
Sometimes I like to see the pictures
Though they are dusty, they remind me
Of that miserable part of my childhood,
When I lived in a big house with my dad.
It reminds me of how lucky Im now,
That I have a thread of water
In a hole in the roof
And even some rats
drop around to see how Im doing.
I count with a strong power to read
People’s mind
And I can frequently
put my feet off the ground
I got a strong tendence
To talk to the sky
Because you know, I know
That maybe somebody
Might be listening if I sing
Or if I weep,
Because If I ever tried to get back,
I know you know,
Nobody would recognize my voice
But I don’t mind;
Over all,
I got a piece
of my own ground
To sit on
whenever I want
(Alone)
Y si hubo alguna melodía permanente
Algún reflejo de luna en el pecho
Si fueron dulces los abrigos
Y eternas las manos
Si transitamos alguna vez
Ese puente a las puertas del sol
Si se ablandaron las sienes
A la voz del mañana
Y nos transformamos en Tierra;
Fuimos minúsculos pedazos de ser
Ante un cielo tan profundo
Cuando la sabiduría dormía
Sobre melodías permanentes
Y reflejos de luna ambulantes
Justo bajo mis pies.
Habremos caído en la noción del piso
Se habrán desvanecido los hilos de sol
Penetrando la piel.
Y tal vez ya no exista
Un tiempo sin bordes
Ni ese Dios del que fuimos parte.
Si en algún momento
Fue notable la ausencia
De piezas menos, o piezas demás;
Hoy resurgimos
Estando, Quizás
Agotados de morir.
Si conserva el abrigo
Algún sinfín de películas
Antes de dormir,
Son ahora no más que viento,
Deslizándose ante mis ojos
Por estas calles ambiguas,
Que en mi insomnio
Levemente, desvelo.
But yester-night I prayed aloud
In anguish and in agony,
Up-starting from the fiendish crowd
Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me :
A lurid light, a trampling throng,
Sense of intolerable wrong,
And whom I scorned, those only strong !
Thirst of revenge, the powerless will
Still baffled, and yet burning still !
Desire with loathing strangely mixed
On wild or hateful objects fixed.
Fantastic passions ! maddening brawl !
And shame and terror over all !
Deeds to be hid which were not hid,
Which all confused I could not know
Whether I suffered, or I did :
For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe,
My own or others still the same
Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.
So two nights passed : the night's dismay
Saddened and stunned the coming day.
Sleep, the wide blessing, seemed to me
Distemper's worst calamity.
The third night, when my own loud scream
Had waked me from the fiendish dream,
O'ercome with sufferings strange and wild,
I wept as I had been a child ;
And having thus by tears subdued
My anguish to a milder mood,
Such punishments, I said, were due
To natures deepliest stained with sin,--
For aye entempesting anew
The unfathomable hell within,
The horror of their deeds to view,
To know and loathe, yet wish and do !
Such griefs with such men well agree,
But wherefore, wherefore fall on me ?
To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.
"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large — this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual."
"Touching the soul directly through the eyes and, indirectly, along the dark channels of the blood, the moon is doubly a divinity."
"We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell