Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1212200237100.5227@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: samskara
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:40:05 -0500 (EST)
samskara i tear myself apart i'm selfish i want enlightenment for me i'll stop your suffering but good i've got knives and ropes burning red eyes and ropes words that cut through diamonds sutras that cut through words i'll come back together again i'm bring you bleeding on my back i'll carry your bones i'll eat your bones but good i'll wear you down to the marrow my enlightenment is boundless my enlightenment breaks your body i'll carry your broken body my back breaks your body your body breaks my back your body breaks my bones i'll wear you like burning skin i'll throw you back into life i'll drag you out again watch out don't kill yourself save yourself for me it's faster it'll do us both a lot of good it'll do us both a lot of bad grab me gnaw my bones away tear out my eyes i'll see you tear out my skin i'll feel you "Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi, svaha!" * http://www.alansondheim.org/boned.mov * "O Bodhi, gone, gone, gone to the other shore, landed at the other shore, Svaha!" - trans. Suzuki from the Prajna-paramita-hirdaya Sutra.