Bye Bye 2014 and Caution: Realities Crossing

Bye bye 2014. I'm not going to post again until next year. I need a break. I need to take a mental vacation, I need cognitive relief. I need to go to Disneyland... mentally, I need to go to Disneyland, I need to escape into an ethereal resistant to a damning belief in universal entropy (abolish altruism and its privilege!). A lot of films will be watched and a lot of books will be read. Forecasting 2015 is going to be difficult because I'm not sure which idea tormenting me into paralysis I want to attempt to complete first. This isn't writer's block or anything like that. I'm always writing and now, I'm always painting and designing.

I'm always creating.


(Mott & 1st Street, Boyle Heights, USA)

Caution: Realities Crossing

  Conflict always arises down here
  One man from one life
  Crosses paths with another man from one other life
  Both have one but together none
  They claim the road because their experience resides
6  In a prism that they couldn't imagine another one sharing
  It is a petulant encounter, pettish and then violent

  A woman and her beauty and vitality
  Crosses paths down here with another woman
  Both ideal and alluring, resplendent
  If equality existed, they'd be equally enchanting
12 But both only know the superiority
  Of the lives they lived, theirs, the only one
  Both consumed by the compulsion to conquer

  She owns the crossing and so does she
  He has dibs on the crossing and so does he
  The grandest place where realities meet
18 A dirt road meets with a brick road
  Which intersects a granite road
  Roads of cement, cobble stone, and grass
  Roads of silver and gold

  Travelled by bicycle, buggy, horseback
  Travelled by every vehicle bound to the ground, any mode desired
24 All end down here, this crossing which is now a graveyard
  Empty cars and trucks, dead horses, and bike wheels
  Make great tombs and tombstones for the prideful
  All of the travelers who never recognized and despised
  All realities not in their purview, their imagination, their guise

  Here they lie
30 And that's the reality I surmise
  Now leave my crossing or it is here where you'll die
  Here where you'll lie
  This way I own
  All alone
  Leave mine and return home

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