I see the best mimes of my generation saved by madness,

Brazen hope in undone selves,
Tracking beat thoughts through helpless nights, scurvy-tinged luckless days,
Accelerating towards the cliff of chaos.
Entropy! Spinning dervish, wheeling out
Reality in mystic Turkish dance,
Ping-Pong souls in Brownian motion, Energy!
Kinetic and Potential, frenetic and torrential;
Losing sleep with quit time spent in fixed repose.

The world goes on in
Shiva dancing, billion-fractured-souls-colliding glory!
Imploding world, supernova just around the bend.
The holy rites of transubstantiation,
Lost in miracles of mass communication,
Massless Mass, devoid of weight,
Lost in crystal ozoned air, all meaning stripped away.

Emotions desecrate souls' manneristic dance.
Awareness fades as melody contorts
The dreamtime coda's rhythm-sinewave pheremonal trance,
Praying Mantis courtship ritual ending in oblivion.
Lies that echo round in stillness,
Truth that primps and preens,
Beauty turned to ugly reminiscence,
Transformed in seeking out its own perfection.

Retracing these sleepwalked journeys through silken pyjama's dreamless dawn.
Reason overwhelms with its power of persuasion,
Erasing scarce remembered pain before the fulness of its welling night.
Saurian still, Cretaceous movement.
Uncertain thoughts, gently lapping shores of prehistoric beaches,
Eroding time, returning to the dunes.
Imperfect glances, hiding all they show,
Funneling fallacious future's light through closing doors of hope.
Mislaid torpor falling through the mists of swollen lies,
Cryogenic truth, frozen in suspended animation, awaits the thaw.

Primitive palliatives relieving only surface imperfections,
Spackled cracks of intuition's shadow.
Blackening twilight - limited purview's golden sunset,
Fading to foreboding, twinkling Venus-glow,
Heaven's starry balustrade, walkway into night,
Mythic territory, traveled in cloak of indecision-
Skeins of wistfulness, spun tight and worn long.
Hiding progeny in folds of celestial gowns,
Material of Asgard,
Rainbow Bridge, receding into infinity,
Carries these thoughts through thickening gloom,
Through capable gloom,
Through cleansing gloom,
Finding the way without recoil.

Unhealthy reticence, beyond normality,
Triumphant bloodletting, and the leeches die forlorn,
At the spa for the soul on the shores of the Lethe,
River running into mystery, fed by the receding flood-
Melting whimsy of the night,
Brings shafts of dirty downtown light
Through smokestained windows eye,
Disturbing and destroying all my hideous premonitions,
Revisions and revisions on the wholesome path to truth,
Converting noble blessed dreams to tragic self abuse,
Speaking out against the will of those who hide all faith,
Weaving nets of subterfuge, waves crashing on the shore,
Breaking down the rocks to granules small and small ans small,
Sand that everywhere preserves the footprints through the tides,
Cycles watery lesson turning into ghostly silence,
Preempting programmed universe for others, without cause.

Arise! Arise!, And take your place!,
Make your peace!,
Fake yourself!
Until the facile answers come and do not give their solace,
Track illusory contemplation through railyards of the soul,
Across the fields and streets and sky,
While day and night change place and blend,
Undistinguished unbecoming, tracing out the hours.