Jarsua Part two
[00:00.98] An island swim through choppy Maine waters.
[00:04.97] Canoe journey fast along current not once stuck in an eddy.
[00:08.68] Soccer that I couldn't keep up with and Lacrosse that I almost scored with.
[00:13.73] I kept childhood teddy until I first dropped at 16.
[00:18.25] That was no pu bear, more of an adventurous Paddington.
[00:21.71] That was when I lost virginity to a hippie girl, one-year older than me.
[00:28.37] I gave her the bear and my roommate got the boot from boarding school.
[00:33.14] We blew a bonfire, stole a school bus and qualified for 6 am flag duty.
[00:40.04] When I finally graduated, Dean Perk confessed his shock.
[00:49.60] College brought with it those basics like "Who am I" in India, to Kashi, City of Light.
[00:51.20] A ponytail Sanskrit scholar part-time blues pianist recommended Robert Pirsig.
[00:56.50] A blood drinking Aghori offered the frat red wine from a skull.
[01:02.36] Frat houses house no horror save the one who died.
[01:05.81] Bumps of riddie pledge night galore.
[01:08.99] Get me out, but let me be a house painter, who surfs Cape Cod
[01:14.30] After salvation? As long as it includes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with cold OJ and Doritos.
[01:21.74] Watching Celtics score triple dubs.
[01:26.53] Even the parquet hosted subversive chants.
[01:28.91] "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
[01:31.58] Bouncer at the House of Blues.
[01:33.96] Skating through Cambridge I bought a Honda Civic for $350.
[01:38.21] The Green Yak.
[01:40.60] Me and George a white Shaman drove cross-country until it ran out of steam.
[01:45.11] In a corn field there happen to be a service station. towed by AAA.
[01:50.70] At Crow Dog's Paradise I met Chief Leonard floating on his back.
[01:56.00] "Isn't it a nice day?"
[01:59.74] The air was pungent with smudge resin war bonnets of memory.
[02:03.18] In charge of the fire, I was visited overnight.
[02:07.15] Heyoke struck on the forehead by lightning I got released from cigs.
[02:12.21] Popo pulled us for driving too slow.
[02:15.68] Passing breathe-allizer I offered shower to dread-head phish-head.
[02:20.71] Stan Brakhage flow hypnogogically.
[02:24.69] Orson Welles, Henry Jagolam and more "missed" opportunity.
[02:30.02] 9/11 N.Y.C. Anthology Film Archives, Meekas and the pink-hair godmother of Hendrix.
[02:39.32] Although founded in 1685, the town I grew up in outside of Boston still has no street-lights.
[02:47.29] When it was time to deliver, the mid-wives got lost.
[02:50.74] Stopping at a random house along the way they asked for directions.
[02:55.52] Skip more than 20 years later I notice Tibetan prayer flags hanging from that same house.
[03:02.97] Randomly passing by an old Volvo pulls out the driveway and I follow
[03:09.62] Further on down it pulls over at Jacks.
[03:12.80] I too get out and introduce myself. I believe we may have dated.
[03:17.59] She converts from Secular to Orthodox.
[03:21.58] Yet before moving to Jerusalem tells me of a flier.
[03:25.03] Down in the East Village there lives a Lama.
[03:28.49] Lama is a master of cutting through via an exorcism which releases ego called Chod.
[03:36.22] Many years later having become a follower, I met Lama in Kathmandu.
[03:41.00] He told us that if we have a child, it will be good for the lineage.
[03:45.52] He said that after conceiving we should call him and that "he'd come."
[03:50.58] This is what we did and a couple of months later Lama passed away.
[03:55.89] When pregnant we saw five rainbows reflecting each other over my hometown pond.
[04:00.68] The same pond we explored on blooms during blissful summer heat.
[04:05.98] The same Summers when I worked on a golf course, did landscaping and painted houses.
[04:11.56] The same hourly wage that I took when growing up.
[04:14.74] The same youth which got me to where I am.
[04:18.19] The fate to grow by virtue of having been born with a choice to go cyclic or liberate.
[04:24.31] To feel the hand of control and manipulation as clear source for rebellion.
[04:29.11] I am a patient boy
[04:34.41] I wait I wait I wait.
[04:34.69] Puppy love crush.
[04:35.74] Skater with ripped sneaks, spray paint and ramps.
[04:38.67] Copy Salvador Dali, rap, Madonna and Michael Jackson.
[04:42.92] As a boy wear jacket and tie, a hope on high to join team prep.
[04:49.29] So nice. Me like!
[04:50.62] Khakis, argyle and boat shoes beckon birkenstocks, long hair and a glass blown chillum.
[04:56.73] Until it began breaking.
[04:59.39] First in Bodh Gaya at a Zen temple where Steven Segal was seated.
[05:03.10] Then on a cliff in South India contemplating the watcher, watched and act of watching.
[05:09.21] Third Dzogchen in Swayambhunath to Nangchen, Kham.
[05:13.72] Like a puff ball in the wind for 20 years set adrift.
[05:17.44] My great best friend, sublime Dharma bum bro, and ancient Guru died of pretty early heart attack.
[05:27.27] oh the Atilla hun.
[05:31.79] College mentor suddenly gone with pancreatic cancer. Kung fu master in the line of Li Cunyi too early on died too.
[05:40.56] Another male guardian left quick and then my son moved away with his mother.
[05:45.35] Yet now back! Playing poker with a Tibetan environmentalist neighbour to Samdhong Rinpoche.
[05:50.13] Dad himself suffered bad reaction to Pfizer, didn't he?
[05:53.57] Got shingles and sped up on dementia, but shy from guessing too loud as to why.
[05:58.08] Line them up like cattle and milk it for all its worth.
[06:01.27] Human family bobbing along, breaking the mould, typing it out across the land.
[06:06.32] You might manage to dismantle my world, but at least tell me how.
[06:12.16] That cave digging foreigner crept inside his past.
[06:18.55] Receiving flow of blessings for unpacking the real.
[06:22.52] Sensitive to a drop, twirl up on some spine, shine bright sublime, wicked divine.
[06:30.24] Keep a crowd wriggling forth, gouging diamonds dandy some more.
[06:36.07] Sloppy saltwater sea craft bustling like new.
[06:41.64] Usher in the time an ark so proud I give it to you.
