Expatriate Lovers

Cambridge, USA

May 28, 1994

Letter to a lover

Struggling with

Cultural Exchange

Shibuya

Tokyo

Tagawa-san, You asked,

What is there to love after

having seen too much,

perhaps,

of men's Deeds

once having believed

in his Creeds?

Eros' Serial lovers

From El's Earth to

- Shaddai's Limbo

- Adonai's Purgatory

- Jah's Heavens

Jehovah's Hells,

fictive havens, all

Agape cowards

badly nurturing

our insecurities

and immaturities,

myth's old cries

downward trickling

endless lies

in parody trite love words

recounting stories from history

narrow Western culture designs

ring Eros through the inner ear

strong sentiments, a purpose

in Civilization ignoring tragedies

committed against one's fellow

as those many tribes of dogma

feed chosen people confusions

myths destroying all inferiors

those below power, used at will,

and greed

Especially America, spoiled inheritor

step-child escaping European history

where ethos pursues accumulation

competition superiority success

where truth forgets, history ignores

people in holy plastic, burying

hallow icons, feeding nothing,

and heaven

such forgetfulness and ignorance

continues despite revelations

even great ones, or so we have noted

a few Poets and Philosophers

maybe that rarely honest Priest

or the vestige breed for revolution

a myth, about an honest Politician,

and mistrust

These 4 Ps failed to inseminate us

the cultural mind called the West

with values serving humanity

or a nature intimately enveloped

so P lies concentrate words

their Phallic ideas only designed

to penetrate, the lyrical ear,

and mother

not spiritual as would-be motive

some great novelists remember

occasionally, for a few who care,

and read

poems jotted as short stories

meant to rest and reverberate

strongly, purposeful humanity,

and end.

Miscellaneous Lovers

With real lovers :

of sharing pleasures

of learning each other

of drinking cultures

unafraid of jealousies

unplanned unpromised

unmaterial unmodern

spontaneous serendipitous

smiling secure...

ergo, our future.

Or public lovers :

you could send Mia your values

I could send Woody my weaknesses

they'd settle with juices of vivaldi & vines

in bedroom's quiet giving

rather than with the bile of christ & caesar

in bedlam's noisy taking

of lawyers and reporters they'd not be involved,

friends and artists in France we'd be resolved

And fantasy lovers :

with a stirring face

moving like wind-swept lace :

man places well on th' breast

loving words, leaves them rest

'is worthy lips in 'er mind

so content with acts n' kind.

Oh, match spirit no less

divine with every caress :

woman keeps acts singing

touching soul, leaves feeling

open mind will give more

lovin' nature to the core.

Goddess beauty, earth lore.

Even anonymous lovers :

who move in Eastern gentleness

through feeling their tenderness,

finding more of her inside

no exotic illusions reside.

There are similar outward forms

in far corners unlike these norms,

with whom I 've felt much rhyme

close savouring passing time.

No doubt we know this thing

those who merely wish t'cling.

This interest beset with passion

though not of manner in fashion,

Eros moves eas'ly excuses

poor years of male self uses.

Men seek a body to borrow

or chain spirit to a'long morrow,

theist psyche rapes lies fixed

'fraid human joys a d'vine mix.

Agape serves human courage well

glances stares smiles would tell,

if words verses songs d'verse

make paths short long converse.

Such freedom full and fair

no witness judges gods' glare.

Thusly fate might rightly be known

pleasant dreams ease to softly moan,

enhanced they onward pass

fresh breezes thru spring grass.

Nothing taken from existence

than beauty o' less resistance,

each step keeping our heart

touched n'tuned to our part

in nature's godly harmony

....our Art.

But poet lovers

  have no plan

pursue no future

there's so much past

never taught

it's blinding

...weak lying teachers

instilling mistrust.

  yet still contented

learning truth

love beguiles

keeps hope human

trusting nature's way

...death's face is known

'tis life's aesthetic.

   Jesus' Lovers

The mystic evangelizing lover of Jesus

Jesus' Eastern colony Barabbas' vices taught

The earthy unpaganizing lover of Jesus

Jesus' Celtic acolytes prejudiced narrowly

The egotist adventuring lover of Jesus

Jesus' Brown heathens murdered imprisoned

The empire discovering lover of Jesus

Jesus' Latin progeny instilled oppression

The greedy imperializing lover of Jesus

Jesus' Black children enslaved dehumanized

The elite solemnizing lover of Jesus

Jesus' White brothers robbed and pillaged

The unnatural puritanizing lover of Jesus

Jesus' Sisters and Children raped degraded

The power capitalizing lover of Jesus

Jesus' Ignorant poor mercilessly exploited

The political ministering lover of Jesus

Jesus' Educated taught megalomania

The progress calvinizing lover of Jesus

Jesus' Technicians slavishly modernized

ALL proselytizing lovers

hypocrite lovers

salvation lovers

loving drones

dei-humanizing love

ADULTERERS ALL

CONDEMNING GODS.

  Monotheistic Lovers

The Semite virgin's wet desert dream

impassioned a simple subtle Joseph

into seductive salutary betrothal,

ending vicious visions of scandal

by Eastern hero's angelic copulation.

A commanded wife's sensual stimulations

determined deities or devils ending exile

spreading hallucinating fratricide

savaging tribes by heaven's bloody call

with scimitar's Messianic march on Mecca.

Thus theistic legacies became a trilogy

exploiting ignorant fears of mother-earth

men brokering power by salvation threats

preach blind faith to bedazzle human love

from Genesis' misogynist lying,

to Ezekiel's senile menacing

evangelical demons call

apocalyptic extortion all,

you, Abraham's flocks of legacy

bow not to mythology

you, Barabbas' scheming progeny

pray not to hypocrisy

blame not celestial fantasy

you, Moral Cowards until eternity.

Wait! Stop! yelled Aquinas, demanding his answer,

But what of God as First Cause?

As effect, an horrendous history, replied Kant; philosophy

as empty non-sequitur.

In rich wood pulpit, dressed black, Rocca Secca then argued,

And of Cosmological Relations?

Immanuel said, As my Christian name, a conclusion by

Implication is not reality.

We control land, contents and men. Is not that the reality of

our Teleological Plan?

Like Faust selling soul, moral controls, though pretty verse,

Postulate only, make poor logic.

I converse with God! Ha! Ha! So there you have it! What of

our Ontological Reason?

The highest concept, ever imagined a Homer or Augustine,

does not itself prove God.

The theologian screamed : Excommunicated! Damned!

Unless Faith be sufficient.

The teacher asked, Do ideas prove esthetics? Or faith reason?

Or political correctness poetry?

Devil's Lovers

Stalin was a serious Seminarian

Hitler's nurturing was Catholic

Joseph slaughtered 30 million citizens

Adolph engineered 20 million humans...

give or take.... corpses ALL

How many divisions has the pope

How many murdered in 2000 years

Forget Allah's internecine jihads

Promised Land still time to count...

Abraham's progeny.... does ALL

Mao tse-tung's tax men & landlords

Ho Chi Minh's Catholics & dominos

Fidel Castro's mafia casinos & brothels

Allende's fruit & fishery companies...

US predictions.... bloodied ALL

So...let's forget much real history

genocide Crusades and many Inquisitions

Agnostics Manichaeans Docetists Bogomils

silly Puritans and loving Quaker friends...

So easy.... forgetting ALL.

Forget Jesus' record with Indians & Blacks

Forget His colonial conversion of pagans

Forget His heathens in Indochina China et.al.

Remember 100 million 20th century Christians...

Corpses.... murdered ALL.

Forget priests condemning wise men

and burning people speaking allegory

changing myths into sky-god scripture

burying Greek and Roman cultures too,

Milton's vision bright.

Who burned books into myths of purgatory

welding dark ages into hellish guilts

promising heaven by ritualized tricks

squelching smiles & laughs in hell,

Dante's penance seared.

Who taught us Erasmus' sardonic humor

Homer & Rabelais buffooning the gods

Cervantes & his students slashing myths:

"Knowledge is dangerous for your soul,

my son".

Forget heroic Lilith rejecting YHWH's dirt

forget Chaucer's and Boccaccio's lead

Eastern Pillow Book and Karma Sutra frowns

Joyce, Lawrence, Miller, even Kinsey ignored,

Bard's wisdom untaught.

Forget condemning woman to physical wiles

forget lives tortured serious this brief stage

made to fear anti-christs, whomever that be

radicals heretics pagans bedlam'ed or burned,

brokering sins.

Forget all that, just try remembering

Stuart Mill's Utilitarian loving people

Rational Nietzsche for a Shavian child...

as neo-macho Biblical Jews bloody land,

dogmatizing superstitions.

But never forget 100 millions, murdered

by Christians, ALL...

Salvationists + Materialists

Ignorant + Superstitious

Afraid + Paranoid

plus then the Violence

= A Progeny of Liars,

There you have it, Noam ignored,

by clock-watchers, ALL...

Reds excused genocide installing ideals

Nazis excused genocide expanding myths

We executed Nurenburg Order-Followers

We executed Tokyo demi-God-Followers

  Dulles Rostow Taylor Lansdale begun it

Helms Colby Westy Kissenger Nobel 'ed it

Ike Kennedy Johnson Nixon godly ordered:

"Save those Gooks!", you Democracy-Followers

Never forget 6,000,000 Slaughtered

By Americans, All