| Paris Lament (for Jim Morrison) Ralph Haselmann Jr. Hampton, NJ I am the Eternal Traveler Hitching a ride on homeless highways Walking thru faceless sidewalk cities Passing thru restless impromptu dreams that merge w/ the utter banality of day The sound of the rain echoing my pain until I go insane w/ muted disdain... We were once We could have been But we didn't because I was too much like you And nobody wants to hold up a mirror to themselves Counting down the days, the hours, the months, the minutes to when I again can meet my maker Because life is too much to take and all that I could ever experience is just the tip of the iceberg And it all points to how much there still is that I'll never get to see and accomplish The paycheck just feeds the curiosity and never quite quells the human hunger for knowledge And knowledge costs too much these days so why even bother learning anything anymore Because in the end you just soak in all the literature movies music plays conversations friendships love affairs drinks drugs food sex And die a bloated spirit brain body sponge... Nobody knows the lonesome wailing blues as well as I do Nobody knows about paying their dues as much as me Welcome to Life, the burning arena the great big shit-filled sea Growing restless w/ time Carrying on w/ diseased mind & living w/ ravaged limb Waiting for the final hour to be physically free Stuffy pillow feeling & tired sullen eyes All alone in this soul asylum called life One fine day the music stops It used to come in fits and starts but now it just trickles out into eternity... Help, I've fallen and I can't get it up anymore! Well I been down so Goddamn long that it looks like up to me C'mon inside my head and help me set my thoughts free... Lazy raging bastard! Great screaming Jesus Christ! Goddamn shitass motherfucker! You're all a bunch of fucking idiots! In times of anger I vent my spleen Let others think I'm mean I don't care I blow off steam Anyway things aren't always what they seem So this is how it ends, in a warm Paris bathtub womb Welcome to the world that waits w/ open jaws instead of open arms We must resolve to dissolve these weary walls... Sleep to hide from reality Sleep to hide from the relentless round affirmation of the seasons Sleep and sleep till you can't anymore The dream muse dissolved my room and entered my conscience... (In dreams we acquire the wisdom & the vision of the prophets) Being & Nothingness are lately one and the same. I think I'll fix me an existential sandwich. A final raising of the glass to friends & families & lovers A toast to Rimbaud and living on the edge of desire & madness & creativity Go ahead and set up that chessboard, Death You hooded bastard! You coward! In the room the angels come and go, speaking of vertigo... It smells up here like death in the air and so I await to face my fate and all my past has now at last begun to run away towards the sun... So much more to accomplish yet So much more in Life to see Run, don't walk Anxious to be Walking the forever tightrope searching here & there for the lost lunatic fringe of freedom Alone again on down the road Make a right here, so I'm told So the story, a new ending Finding freedom, never bending Gathering up a palm full of wisdom As I enter the Grand Kingdom Time & tide can only know the silence that is Heaven Doorway to the Otherworld, the soul flies on w/ wings unfurled A ragged angel runs thru the sudden light as hushed images fade from consciousness and all sensations fall by the wayside... Silence. HOME PAGE & ARCHIVES
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