Give up and Go on

In the church of the lonely monkey
The monkey lays on the pulpit
with his head dangling over in such
a way that he can see the whole church
upside down.

He waits for a thousand life times like this
and still the church is empty

He ponders if he should give up or go on.
The statue of the buddha suggests
Perhaps you can do both
Give up and Go on.

How long before she finds me

I have left a trail of crums into the woods
How long before they are followed

So much to say

There is so much to say
I will have to be silent to get it all said.

The Gospel

Most people if they were to understand the gospel according to me

Would not think it good news.

But the fact that there is any hope at all is the good news.

As we move forward towards the tomorrow beyond the peak of oil.

The delusions become fueled by want and fear make ready the soil for blood

Another wave a of devastations waits the resolutions as we

We prepare by neglect to pound ourselves into a new stone age with

The gifts of science.

The reader may wonder what is the gospel

The Gospel is that it does not have to be this way.

That we can with courage, compassion, truth and action find a better way.

That fact that I like a worm I retreat from the bright light of truth

May explain my depression.

Salamder Sushi

Is there a cure for this existential funk?
asked the obese orangutan
Solzhenitsyn's salamander sushi
is a sure cure.
you will see the world more clearly through
the ancient ice lens
but you will not like it.

Church History

Studying church history looking for God
like digging for fossils to for looking for life
Just as fossils tells how life came to be as it is but
the stones we find do not convay richness of being alive

Carp

In the warm water beneath the dam

a carp slathers he way through the openings

between the reeds rooting for nuggets

of yum the slimy layer of scum

pretending not to notice

that a thousand miles away

I the center of the universe

am pouting