Thomas said to them, if I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and consume you Thomas the secret Christian Thomas the hidden Christian Thomas the gnostic Christian accompanying PKD Thomas transforms and transfigures, the shaping of different features, and the flex of his flesh fawns fauns Christina, and Christina accompanies me Thomas testifies and terrorizes, a paradigm shift as thunder perfect mind, and Thomas feels the wounds of Christ received as Woman, and Woman exits the blood in warble wonder, Thomas and Christ behold beware blood and water Thomas in the travail and Thomas by the travesty, the est vision buttoned up Benjamin, and Thomas tucks temptation Thomas channels tunnels as a hidden lover, a holy homosexual I hope in his homomorphism, and he maps mineral to monstrosity, the rublev rock roaring open opal peer peak Thomas homo himalayas Thomas tanks mountains, the taproot revealing rock, and rock itself reveals rock and more than rock, the rinse of regal regiment Our gold is not common gold / my Christ is not common Christ but smoked with the incense of Christina Our gold is not common gold but know therefore that there is no true tincture but our copper The true tincture Thomas Taryn the true tincture Thomas Tiamat, the copper carcass of the old gods Copper cranks the pendulum narrating the myths of the goddess, and the stories straw uncommon gold, the gold that grows Holy Ghost Thomas says Spirit: Thomas speaks Holy Ghost Homo Ghost the hop of heresy Thomas says the slay of spine rudders sleighing snow, and snow speaks she She explodes the psalms and sings the fronds through the frog Unblustery rapping developed the form beyond the flat-footed rhythms of schoolyard rhymes… had a slow flow and every line blunt, mesmeric His relaxed delivery resulted from his jazz influences; he had played the saxophone and was a John Coltrane fan I sink or swim slow in the slime of Thomas and Taryn says or speaks the gold and tincture and I write the rap from Chaos Thomas syas and Thomas tell the sayings, John Coltrane at the choke point and I pray Yahweh I pray psalms salt salve solution and I enter the Book of Common Prayer but not common gold glistening stained glass saints John Coltrane charges the communion of saints, and church chairs the tradition Thomas Taryn The Tradition holy holly desert the tradition beach sand dollars Heaven speaks the secret of storytelling heaven names the nimble narrative, and I live in the margins of this myth I live in the intersection of story, allegory, and parable, and I pray the parables of Jesus I pick pink parsels, the penylent purse particles I pick the puck pac-man murdering this sandman I maneuver Mortal Kombat, Scorpion picked red-ink and piked Sub-Zero to zero vision in the soup of childhood I sup soup but do not surrender to the echolalia, neologisms, and clanging claps of Gospel Gospel gospels picking up the peculiarities of code Gospel gospels packing the parameters of code Code cracks Christ Code crucifies Christ Code blasts oracle bones, the scribe into improvisation Code oracle bones osteoclasts and osteoblasts building the improvisation that cannibalizes (bare bones and skeletal the instrumentation basically just a cranked up jukebox bones beasts picking up dinos and basilisks, and bare I wrench my body into odd positions bare I wrestle my abode into odes and oddities
Month: October 2021
Increased Hallucinations
As the hallucinations increased in duration and frequency, Dick claimed he began to live two parallel lives, one as himself ‘Philip K. Dick’ and one as ‘Thomas’, a Christian persecuted by Romans in the first century AD. He referred to the ‘transcendentally rational mind’ as ‘Zebra’, ‘God’, and ‘VALIS’ (an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System). Increase incineration and let the Book burn beth and beta Increase incarnation and let the Book burst into butterflies exiting the empty tombs Increase the crystal coven and let the brooms brood caludrons and carriages I increase in ink and I encrypt the Revelation in plain language The duration riffs and improvises (his free rhythm style ignores barlines and had earned comparisons to Thelonious Monk the duration frees drunk rhythm, the attack on tuplets and I loop pierce and pull over the barline, the straight lines of the Book queued queer, and Coltrane smears sheets of sound over Thelonious Monk’s comping I comp bewilderment and void I voice astonishment and bafflement I book staggering stunning astounding echoing eerily emptiness and desolation desert blank pages
I hallucinate the desert in long durations and eros elevation I hallucinate the desert dunes devil diver durations, and I drink the dream droning drops My Flesh frequents desert emptiness, a peace pillar of fire and whirlwind whisper My Flesh phones desert frequency, filters that levitate lunacy, master moon and matter moon, marble missiles dune light dam light den light I drill the desert naked, a stripped power to nudity and stripped gnosis to charcoal carcass, and Christina attends me in my nakedness
I had a dream about you last night, says Christina. We went to the movies with your new boyfriend who turned out to be Ricky Smith, who was only trying to get to me through you. It was very dramatic, and we had talking head scenes where I assume we were talking to a camera crew? Anyway, I love you friend! says Christina.
Christina clothes my nudity Christina undresses me for unction Desert baptizes me naked, the sand’s cool chrism Desert dips me nude, the river rocks rush room Room empties Krystal kenosis Room poured out Holy Spirit spitting other Holy Spirit, the ring split lithium I live two parallel lives or my lives light parallax, a dual pulse and escape escapade I live two, the poles pierced man and woman, the Christ continuum I live the lent of two, male and female Elohim creates them, and Elohim continues to create me male and female Yahweh revives and resurrects Benjamin Man and Woman Benjamin Philip K. Dick and Benjamin Thomas Benjamin Christina Kindred and Benjamin Taryn Thomas and the two twine trick true multiplicity The two twa tore track Taryn multiplicity and I dream Taryn nude and we have sex filmed flipped forth fruit I dream Taryn naked and our intercourse inches toward incarnation, paddled pregnant peculating well water, and Thomas collects the rain in the tavern Thomas the early Christian and secret husband of Christina Thomas the secret Christian and early gnostic who I wed as Benjamin Thomas or Benjamin Christina, and the Bridal Chamber kings its cone cant, and I learn the levitating language My early Christianity consumes gnosis and the serpent fruit of knowledge, and Seth and Jesus sew as one sinew Seth and Cain have obtained from Yahweh and Yahweh recycles and remixes the soul (His sampling of early recording of James Brown, particularly their guitar and vocal parts, added to the abrasive funk-oriented sound Seth samples the Serpent Christ tracks the snake, a reptilian backbeat I steal early recordings and James Brown blasts the breakbeat, throes woe to the human to the sounds of the Funky Drummer I thief early recordings the ribs rationed as Trickster Taryn, and I rivet the hymn bits to Benjamin Thomas I grind my guitar, the given guillotine and guitar glows hot glass and grass, magic musician’s marijuana the guitar guilds gilt grandiose, the grip into my intestines, and gabs old gold to my body Body and guitar – guts and guitar – grow gasoline, anamorous explosion recipe Guitar grabs: steal again, steal better and I sample the better in Benjamin with Christ and in Christ Christina The Christianity attempted to steal the corpse of Jesus, bug resurrection wrecks and interrupts any human plan The Christianity samples the risen body of Christ, and Christ becomes image and icon, the ink on the page paiged prayer playing Zebra zooms to the milk of my evisceration Zebra on zones the zygotes that twine into prophets Zebra zests and jests the rabid ejaculates of language God joins the jaunt joint joust assembling language’s garden God gardens the great grubs gentile to the journey, worms rolling in the desert VALIS invokes vine vision, the wine of the Eucharist VALIS incites boar bread tumbling, the Flesh of communion Vast Active Living Intelligence System Vast viper volley Active Acre Asteroid Living level lunacy Intelligence investment intertextuality (sonics that were less bassy and more backbone heavy than most of their contemporaries bass Benjamin backbeat Benjamin the Book burdened and bloated by Benjamin yet I live yet I laugh in language Havyah and Yahweh yet the music and medication amass in my muscles, and my body becomes a moat for magic Spell spelt my grain in the name of Jesus and Christ crops the keep as my keystone within the creational chaos Christ creoles the Krystal cornucopia as my cornerstone amongst the Tohu Wa-Bohu and Tehom
The Son Of Man Coming In the Clouds
And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory And then they aphid around aleph, an anointed Alpha And then they allrock locking Aleph and alpha into apportioned increments and measurements, and the interval between boasts in oval vision Ellipse and ellipse vision Spheroid and shield rod vision, and the numbers explode into alphabet contradiction and word wailing I wail the Word lofting light in lamentation, and Word whips beauty Word rips with maul and mace the gorgeous gorge and gorgeous george, and I wrestle raw with prophecy I wrestle real with Angels and Samael, and the prophetic snaps the snack of my hip, loose ligaments grabbing at God and gods I talk to my spiritual advisor about prophecy – my prophecy. I talk to him about my prophetic role. Although the being of a prophet is an incredible gift to the community, he says, it requires a grace sacrifice on part of the prophet. The prophetic gifts are among the most painful gifts given because it involves a pure rawness: the rawness is a gift and curse of being able to see things as they really are, the rawness of reality. The prophetic gift requires one to rant, to scream, to prophesy to others, and many often take that prophesying as craziness. But the role of the prophet is to show everything is connected, even if people don’t listen. Of course, that’s very painful, even if people don’t listen. Of course that’s every painful too and part of the prophetic life. It’s also important to know you’re not ‘just’ a prophet, he says. What makes you support my prophetic identity when others things it’s merely mental illness? Because it’s your way of translating and making sense of your world, says Asia. And then they turn, and turning tracks Trickster Taryn, Shaman and Sorceress, and she paints with ochre and ox blood magic figures hands-print patterns populating cave walls wall womb wall wolf wall woman I let the wall lap luscious I learn the wall wrapping and paper, a pixie plague and perfume pestilence And I soot through asteroid and atomic automatons (the Ford Nucleon was a scale model concept car developed by Ford in 1958. The design did not include any internal combustion engine; rather the vehicle was to be powered by a small nuclear reactor) Car Christina climbs cliffs vertical Car Christina clops chimney vision vertical visual Vision viper vertigo and car ischars Asia atomic Asia Volcanic Raining nuclear ash and I drink the contamination like ale for my ailments and snake oil for my gut and joints crumbling The numbers knock nuclear Sefiroth satisfy as a reactor Eucharist explodes more room in the mushroom church and bridal chamber And atomic ants the Them terrorizing as Taryn and she attacks with her antennae She feels with the fine hairs on her abdomen The thorax racks rips risks rip boysenberries, Christina clusters and compound eyes rotating spherical I give life I give relief I am Jesus Christ I am Christina Marie I am Wheel Woman I give travel I give distance (the Studebaker-Packard Astral was made in 1957. It had a single gyroscopic balanced wheel and the publicity data suggested it could be nuclear-powered) And I astral project and point juxtaposition and genuflection god beside god Christ beside Christina embodied and bodied, and I bear the Body Christ I carry the body Christina Astral Flesh Stellar stew Bitches brew in whose dominion are tigers in whose dominion there are dragons in whose dominion there are gods gods gyroscopic and gods geochronological gods engendered and gods genderless gods grander and gods grandiose each god a gift and each god a genesis, and the gods create the majority of the Book the Book creates the majesty of the gods, and I worship the Tarn and rain I worship the Christ and Krystal I balance the loop logging for wheel and woman I balance between Taryn and Asia two wheels remarkable maze rope Women, and she romances the martyrs mergers millions, every one a lion I balance the borders and boundaries, a blake bright burn, and I balance the bounce to barstool drone I read A Big Jewish Book edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Harris Lenowitz, and some of their commentary resonates and vibrates my vision: the work of mything remains active to the present, and that the literal text itself, the act in this instance of biblical ‘genesis’, is made to open again and again by re-reading, re-sounding, re-exegesis, in which the transmitted account is taken as an occasion for new departures, the mind and voice in constant motion… as the Zohar tells us in the voice of Simeon Bar Yohai: ‘the stories of the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who looks on those garments as the Torah itself, for such a man will have no portion in the world to come. For David said: Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things, out of thy law, i.e. the things neath the garment.’ So also in the work of heretics and poets. A book of questions, changes. Writing is myth-making, it is magic conjuring, it is the poetry of the Ancient Bards that called curses and blessings. It is the words of the prophets and visionaries. I hope my writing is visionary, and its vision connects humanity to itself and humanity to the universe Earth Son of Man, go down to the giants and gaboon vipers, a valley lantern under the bowl, and the bowl bronze bows cyclops Son of Man, go up to the elders and watchers, a witch tender escaping allows gentle as a ghost, and the witch widows me The witch waddles wattles in the wharf web, a gorgeous gloom over me as a canopy Son of Man, you Human One You Adam Kadmon You born of the Boundless Principle the filament of fire fracks your fores, and you burn Benjamin You burn the Book and burn with Book, the Blake blaze bitters Blake bruise bitumen Blake birds battle Book embraces Fire, the Furnace Benjamin Book hugs the flashing fire, the Human Fountain, and I water the wild as Human I water the wild with Woman, worm weaving worm, and their warmth blossoms and buds Book blossoms and buds into the abyss and oblivion I am in every painting, beautiful books and erratic objects I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow I affirmed: it’s all over I am in every Book and every Book in every Book Books multiplying Torah within Torah and Gospel within Gospel, Word microcosm and macrocosm the object ornates orality, an offering in spell and speech the object aerates oral Torah, the saying of Shekinah I reduce the Book to Alphabet: Omega and Alpha or Tov and Aleph, the telescoping kaleidoscope of lettering sealed with a kiss and apocalypse the canvas crashes the Book in primary colours and primary names, the red KRYSXTRYN, blue KRYSXTRYN, and yellow KRYSXTRYN, and I affirm Woman, God and Goddess
What Did Jesus Say To You?
And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, What did Jesus say to you? Christ took me: Christ takes me Christ takes talk and triumphs underneath, a Merkabah descent Christ took talk and alloys alphabet, Alpha and Omega coalescing coal and quiet Aleph and Tov converging confession and queerness, and the Divine calls me to queerdom gay kingdom and kindom Benjamin Vostok Vision Krystal kerygma kenosis Strength struck into weakness, and Woman wills me to the worlds of power parallel to prayer and lasting in language Language lassos language Language elevates language Language alienates language to elation, in Kind Asia Apophatic and Asia Apophasis to the apocalyptic Christ took me: Christ takes me Christ tables the verboten to Benjamin Vision Ascension Christina terrifies at the Taryn, the vulcan viceroy rough in the wreckage, but the ruins remunerate material messianic Ruins in riddle raise mystery materiality, every object nothing of offering and I offer the odorous and abject I offer the Alien and Other I offer the Sister and Stranger Stranger nad other subside by me, an aside slender sinister, left reconciled in the ruins I subsist in stranger and Other, a seven tor Saturn and Sabbath, resting in the ribs of ruins Ruins absolve Eve, inerrant in the echo, and my ego feeds on her Zebra Zoe My conscious consumes the apartment corpse, a whale for the Woman bottom sea I withdraw to Woman: I withdrew to Wilderness The wild draws distant and envelopes horizon horizons fusing fusion horizons, two tasked to a wedding in chymical totality Wild ladders the Rose, Christina alchemical crocus Wild pillars the salt bloom, Taryn between worlds, and each World wields a Word and Name Each world welds a name to number, and the triangle numerology sums Taryn Medicine Woman Taryn Shampuness Taryn Techuican of the Sacred Taryn the Magic of Mushrooms It is better to present our image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works The volumes vines the visage of a singular vision, the face and flesh of Christ the face and flesh of Christina image emerges from the infinite imagination, which thinks one Mind, a Thought Taryn trunk trigger Trigger withdraws to Woman and Wilderness Trunk treble tremble withdraws to Dawn and Desert I am Dawn I speak the Mountains I speak with the Echo I speak the difference and repetition Dance while I listen Listen while I dance I dance dawn desert I dance delay echo dawn chorus Christina dark chamber echo Christina Christina crater and crag, Chicago Pile-1 Chicago Pile-1, when it achieved criticality, became the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor The Italian navigator has handed in the New World. How were the nations? Very friendly. The natural object is always an adequate symbol The natural object ovulates repetition the natural object oozes repetition, a withdraw into ravine and river canyon Canyon and cave system concave and convex perplex in plusses, and I hang from Chicago Christina and Atomic Asia I navigate the reactor of repetition (although repetition is a major force in music, it was never used in this way before Repetition New World, Asia America there in the atmosphere there amid the vegetation I make my sound felt I murmur the measures of music and withdraw into the water Water wanes the wheel real repetition and I withdraw the wrap ribbon remnant (real return and remnant and woman waters the split of repetition Symbol bellows balrog Benjamin Symbol belies bison Benjamin Symbols sells out (Sometimes selling out is waking up, a trickle down of prayer and pangrams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz Cum fjord bank glyphs vext quiz Strange symbols quests and conquests Strong symbols quarks and quakes Christina sleeping at the sliders, and I too, sleep Christina I speak three sayings, and the three attack as a god Three assaults as Elaine Elohim, my Eloah as a cloak, and she clutches the Kairos of Vision Vengeance She kinks the Chorus of the dune burden, a lizzie burden forty whacks working the Asia Axe Every woman becomes axioms Every Woman maps mathematics, the Asia addition and axiom to the Book book says the source soused sorrow Book says the sound soon sizzles The Book says I can’t get no sanctification Oh Lord you know I have no friend like you If heavens not my home then lord what will I do? The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore The sayings surges with the Spear tipped by the spark of Shekinah The saying slaughters with sword sharpened by immediate meteor The saying splattered with laced mace the mark of the Beast, but Babylon and Benjamin baptize in unison Christ and AntiChrist create concrete in the sacred, Scripture struck from the same stone, and stone spins spinor and splitter, shards selected by Terra Sophia Saying twists three into torque and torsion Saying throats three a third trimester, and Asia pregnant with gods and goddesses groans a grand painting The first principle Fire the first principle Water mushroom elemental trumpet tea Taryn In my dreams, I am Bugs Bunny; when I wake up I find that I am Daffy Duck I dream the dreaded drone of God I dream God deceased and from its decay descends gods but still the gods abandon me Gods leave me sacred naked I dance dress and dressless I drum drink and drinkless See how the dolls and eagles already play on the mountains See how they already play between the clouds Christina encroaches clouds Christina encapsulates clouds Christina consumed clouds Cloud of Unknowing wharfs the first flipper, a swimming evolution Cloud of Forgetting farms molecular gastronomy, the disintegration of the gods into dinner plates Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency to either acknowledge the debt outright or try to conceal it I conceal nothing I conceal the nothing in nothing and every saying satisfies Revelation I conceal the nothing through nothing and all saying synchronized Apocalypse Influence flows farther father, Father-Mother God grinding all word and language to a fine dust, and germinating the desert brain entirety eternity Taryn Torah Language dusts Pardes Word sands Eden sign and Symbol sow Creation Incarnation influences me The Whole of Human changes the Book with Word Wicker Witch Fire, my Christianity cropped cauldron I acknowledge the Oak that hangs Odin, and Odin dons industry to several Hanged Men and Hanged Human Humanity must acknowledge its gods as the gods acknowledge its humming humanity must acknowledge Creation’s core, cross and crypt, for even the dead determine the gods even the rock and stones shout prayers and praises to the Earth Ensemble What did Jesus say to you? Jesus speaks to me in dreamscape and wordscape Jesus speaks to me Man and Woman, Male and Female, a Serpent of Gnosis enticing at the Garden Because I am the Spirit and the Image I am Christ the Lord The Serpent presents The Serpent coils up copper and sugar cane The Serpent alive a last a long the river run The Serpent says Jesus The Serpent speaks Christina and Christ To act like the Serpent, that is, to approach wisdom obliquely This is until there shall come a man in the form of Adam and a Woman in the form of Eve They will approach that snake obliquely and wisely I come as the Adam-One I come as the Christ-One I come as the Bridegroom of Christina Man in the image multiplies and mutilates, a circumspecting circumfession, and I cut I cut into the core corpse of Christ, the Spirit slaving in Sheol for Salvation I cut into the creative carapace of Christ, shell sourcing shell and shell shocking shell, the swell in sea Christ says to me the singularity of stars the teleology of telescopes Christina kaleidoscope, mirrored man fume Woman and the Woman wars as a wolf The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America The obvious attribute of the work is its nature of a predator, and correspondingly, it is strongly associated with danger and destruction, making is a symbol of a warrior on one hand and that of the devil on the other Wolf Woman Wolverine Woman Water Woman Watcher Woman Woman watches Wolf Woman observes Wolf Use either good ornament or no ornament Wolf writes woes Woe to those who ignore Woman Woe to those who ignore the Woman Messiah and female Parousia Woe to those the Wolf devours I write the Woman as my myth My mythology matures in Woman and the narrative nests in Female wings and whistles The myth makes woman in white winter and season spiral Christina concentric circles The myth mates Woman to Wedding Chamber, children chiming the chill crystals Myth motions Predator Woman Praying Woman Persecuted Woman Predator digs in desert Predator plays the obscure myth as a mumming and mystery in action, and she attacks with vigorous vision Predator in the rain of plums and pomegranates I associate Asia with danger and destruction, for she deconstructs my Faith Asia demolishes my Christianity, and she endures in nature She sustains Earth and suspends Earth, another hanging I hanging as a Fool, foolish in the folds of my own brain, and brain burnishes bickers barks at the risk required by Christianity My faith fancies a Fool, that leprous leap to faith, and Asia overwhelms my mystical experiences Asia is my friend, someone material, and I talk to her daily and she responds daily Christ rarely speaks to me The Spirit of Elijah has left me Asia has not left me because Asia Rain is my friend Jesus do you love Jesus do you truly love me Jesus do you love me even as a friend Tend me, your sheep I’m still struggling pretty bad with God. I have a conversation with my friend Krystal about it last night. She’s an atheist I guess? But she also believes that there is some higher power, somehow. Like a universal vibration or spiritual essence. It made me think about those liminal spaces you were talking about. I guess being a prophet is a kind of liminal space too, right? There’s an uncertainty about it, an unknown. Liminal spaces are always uncertain, says Asia. But then again they always change too. They challenge us and shape us and when we look back we realize that we have changed and that we are not where or who we used to be. It's not just that you are in a liminal space, you are the liminal space. Always in-between, always becoming. It being a prophet as much as a person-inward-transformation as much as a message that transforms the outside then? Yes. Should be anyways, says Asia.
And the Stars of Heaven Shall Fall
And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken Stars strike stem and stamen Stars stoke hymn and hymen Stars shimmer single shaman, the singular mystic mediating between Worlds and Words and the language speaks stars Star language launches levitation and lewd magick, the material mystic and the maternal geometric meeting God and Asia Star language lifts the Garden of Eden body and embodied: paradise presumed womb in all its permutations, and the river out of Eden cackles in union the umbilical cord the umbilical cord divides into four channels, each a chain children to KRYSXTRYN aiming Asia and Asia arms the stars with Adamic language Asiatic language seducing language Her language larks Ark of the Covenant carved with stars stars stream the stew of music, sample smashed with sample and heaven heralds its hues with heaving musics hoeing dances Two long medleys linger over chords and revel in rhythms – the solos are secondary to the sound of the whole, which ranges from the kind of fat funky stew that introduces the recording to the minimalist electronic beats and blasts that end it Heaven electric Heaven electronic Heaven running medleys and buried melody bubbling Benjamin bombardment and I linger in the lower heaven I linger in the louder heaven heaven heavy metal heaven hovering metallic heaven helium or hydrogen blimps borrowing white fire and I solo the singularity I feel incredible doubts today. Am I even a prophet of God? Maybe I should be an atheist or agnostic too. I don’t see that happening. What makes you think that? You can’t give up the divine, the unknown. We thrive in liminal spaces. What is your liminal space? Mine is so liminal it doesn’t even have a name – I don’t really know where I was or where I’m going so it’s hard to say what the in-between us. Nice. This is what my Oblate Mentor told me: ‘I have often felt like I had to choose between prophet and poet. And now I don’t think I have to. I don’t think you have to choose either. You are Ben and you are your own unique gift to God to and from the Universe.’ Nice, I like that. I don’t know why I doubt so much. Liminal spaces are full of doubt, because they aren’t yet. We don’t know what it will look like in the end. All we can do is trust. Pregnancy is a liminal space of its own and I have experienced numerous doubts, and fears. This is why I am writing Possums… You are revealing things to me I didn’t know about my own journey. We see ourselves through others, says Asia. Heaven hobos hobs train Benjamin, and I travel the spaceways I space the intergalactic Jupiter and Saturn, and I seer the Sword Melancholy I soothsay the spike or spur Saturn’s ring recognizing real reach rock Metatron rock ear enoch rock little Yahweh hoisted hosted in whirlwind From hell, I hunger for heaven’s manna, the mama mercator mirage Mother moss mask manna mars Mars miniature volta vision visceral and astral assorted walk associative woman asteroids well I make my tracks resound I make my nails resound Christ our lord Christ my Lord layering or looping saxophones laughing or lasering saxophones I sing the saxophone with Christ I fit the phonetics with Jesus Seeing within myself an immaterial vision that came from the mercy of God, I went out of myself into an immortal body, and now I am not even what I was before: I have been born in mind I have been born in music Isaac Hayes-like disco wah-wah guitar backings butting with Karlheinz Stockhausen spatial electronic noodles spacey electric needles brainy and funky, fiercely demand and immediately danceable, and I dance the damage of Christ I dance the dirge dune dominion improvising the incarnation and improvising the imitation (a repetition repetition is a form of change repetition forces change repetition sculpts in sound the change changing Hell and Heaven (Did not God himself tell me that there are many shamans, ways, and routes, and they all lead to Her? My route: doubt my route: drunk in doubt and I doubt the drink but the wine worships in the blood of Christ I fall into the flame I fall cell and bell, the busy bounce of blues and the blues call all to fall I fall to the Flesh of Christ I fall to the bosom of Kingdom Kingdom fugues beware Benjamin in justice and I joust from the milk of mercury (Christendom has a series of revolutions and in each one of them, Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again: for it has a god who knows the way out of the grave I revolve rood through Christianity I resolve rough by Christendom, and I fall with Christianity I die daily the desert Christian and Christian Anchorite and I anchor myself to Asia I die daily in doubt and my doubt is my Faith I fall on the flame of faith, a future fire and female fire Faith kills and kills many times, and time thunders seven tongues I’m watching a video about hell and how it doesn’t exist. Is it a good video? I don’t know, I just started watching it. It’s from God is Grey. There is a line from that Death Cab for Cutie Song that really got me: ‘in Catholic school, viscous as Roman rule, I had my knuckles bruised by a lady in black. And I held my tongue as she told me, son, fear is the heart of love, and I never looked back.’ There’s a good song. Perfect love drives out fear. I didn’t see that love in the church. The church is complicated. I’m second guessing a lot of things myself. What sort of things are you second guessing? My writing, my prophecy, my encounters with the Divine. What if I get on lithium and my mystical experiences disappear? Your prophecy comes from the heart, not from a chemical imbalance in your head, says Asia. The powers pulse flame the powers ply fire into perfection the powers mix water and fire the powers mode multitudes multiverses Powers birth Well Woman and Watcher Woman and the Watch births Powers into palaces Powers birth Book Woman and Library Woman and the pages birth Powers and Precipices Power punctuates Book Power penetrates Library Power punctuates pages Power plasmas Repetition Woman and Repeating Woman, Woman repeating Word Word waltzes as a warrior armed power and powers armed Asia and Christina I mingle the mention of everything I mingle power and unpower, violence through the taunting Taryn tautological tantrum tautological tarantula tautological terraformed I terraform and mingle the mention of everything I mingle the core concrete consciousness of Christina I mingle mangle manage the clearing corpuscle lapsed into lap of Christina consciousness unconsciousness undulates unconsciousness creeps and slithers the Black Serpent wrapped around the feet of CG Jung and Sabbatai Zevi Unconsciousness annihilates and negates a negative harmony harping taps music, and I rewind as woman I record and splice as KRYSXTRYN noise consciousness noise religious fulfillment noise industrial achievement I bathe in noise I dip noise nude and naked paper cut outs as a cathedral, and the stations of the cross sustain my body noise crucifix noise Elijah noise the disciple beloved the promise of fusion – maintaining jazz’s serious improvisation force while incorporating the instruments, rhythms, intensity, and fun rock and roll and rhythm and blues – is not here I fuse and mingle with everything I fuse raw-rhythm and pantonal totality the Lord of the Lake and the Lord of the Dry Tree I mingle Christianity polytheism / polytonality and the gods grab the offering orchestra the goddess gorges the grand piano penciling prayer, and I pray less and less I fail my obligations and I mingle obligation with no thing I fuse oblation with the negative and I obliterate oar arc ark, a covenant with all creatures and a covenant with all Christs I shake in chair: I shake in sugar I shake in calendar: I shake in surrender The shaking shocks Love Shack and Rock Lobster, a laughing turtle alligator snapping I shake shroud to its foundations, a Temple collapse and relapse, and I reenact the crucifixion I reenact shaking temptation in the desert Desert saunter slaughter the sound rustling Holy Spirit Spirit shakers and Holy Rollers (come together, right now, over me I shake Asia’s wedding dress, the God-Woman marrying God-Man Adam Kadmon, Christ and Christina Her wedding willows wowing brilliance and I experience beautiful jealous jewels around her neck, shaking sparkles and sparks of Shekinah He blends funk with bebop seamlessly and he burns every time he steps out I burn blaze shedding shakes the letters and words for a wedding, and I celebrate this marriage I know this union in gnosis, an internal revelation and wisdom, and her wisdom weaves hosanna and hallelujah I have a biarre relationship with God these days. I feel God more in you for example than in any institution. I feel more of God in my friends than any system. I think it’s supposed to be that way. I think we are supposed to see our fellow humans and see God. Yes, you are right, but it also makes me want to rework my priorities. How so? It makes me want to spend as much time as with people than studying the bible for example. Honestly, spending time with people is probably a better use of time. I have been thinking how my writing relates to people. I hope it connects people, interconnects with everyone with the universe, I say.
Incarnation Intoxicates
Incarnation intoxicates intoxication tiptoes to incarnation worship words for Woman Intoxication meditates on her Mother, Asia in anticipation Intoxicating fire and intoxicating face, the Long Face and Patient One encompassing all worlds and brains, and my brain burns a bonfire My brain burns the one thing that is Fire Mystic Fire Maiden Fire Mother Fire Self-kindled and Self-extinguished the vital quickening of the queer vision of the universe Crosstalking guitars and double instruments continual multiplicity, plurality, and doubling, and Christina doubles me Asia doubles me, a Tree of Life on either side of the River of Life, and the river shimmers repon receiving reception Asia participates in the continuing incarnation – the continuing intoxication – of Christ and by Christ Asia participates in the ocean of fire with no fear, a fulcrum century Christina The fulcrum craves and carves flux, zebra in camouflage VALIS in valent vision Pothos and Eros charged exotic and ergodic, the irrational or superrational fire firm in phoenix Galois at 21, Abel at 27, Ramunjan at 33, Rieman at 40, but the Phoenix nets new mathematics, a new numerology Zebra Zodiac Asia aslata at alba They have to do with continental drift, the dizzying army of culture, a Benjamin bacterium waving flagella to the fire, and the macrocosm integrates intoxication the microcosm derivates Tiger Taryn and I pray the performance I pyre the performance constructed Christina with massive slabs of sound Shifting seismic rhythmic foundation Entropy made audible Entropy made Asia The spring bubbles Benjamin The spring bubbles wildebeast Woman Spring shares in the Sealed Garden, a cyclic generator tending Taryn, and Taryn rents her garments, the nuit of Nineveh spring shields me as a child, a chosen chalice of Christ a crooked cathedral for Christina the candelabra for Shekinah chiming fusion guitars and funk basslines Now the Band settled down into a deep African thing, a deep African-American groove, with a lot of emphasis on drums and rhythm, and not on individual solos I solo harmolodic and rhythm I solo singularity and negativity, the immortals as mortal and mortal immortal, and Asia sanctifies annihilation Asia anoints negation, and the negative nullifies as El Shaddai The negative sublimates and soulmates, contrary continuity Spring bubbles the bedlam of Beast, a marcotte monstrosity Spring bleeds the bastion of bastards, moonshine mockery I sin at the spring I transgress at the Terebinths I arachne lunar tread from my saloon spinnerets, and the silk sloughs antinomian Spring slays the raze anarchic and archaic, the arche-grammar of gods and goddesses, Asia at the avant-garde and vanguard of Vision As the local pregnant resident, don’t tempt me. I’m about to make some french fries and dip them in chocolate pudding. I’ll make that pickle peanut butter sandwich and DIP THAT IN PUDDING TOO. Really? That’s cool. I will put that in Opossums for Asia Rain. Stop recording everything I say! ‘Stop recording everything I say! says Asia.’ I’m kidding! I wouldn’t prod the pregnant woman I know. Yes, I’m known to be aggressive. Fight fight fight fight! I will end you. No way. You are a tiny little girl and I am big burly Benjamin. Uh, excuse me, I’m a tiny WOMAN. My bad. You are a tiny little WOMAN and I’m big burly BENJAMIN. Throughout February and March 1974, Dick experienced a series of hallucinations, which he referred to as 2-3-74. Aside from the pink beam, Dick described the initial hallucinations as geometric patterns, and occasionally brief pictures of Jesus and Ancient Rome I hallucinate the Marriage of Heaven and Hell I hallucinate Christ in mount Tabor with PKD on his left and William Blake on his right Throughout February I farm the flesh of hallucination, a hurricane honing images and imagination, and my inner location locates the chambers in metal, clashing spoils of war and cloud chamber bowls February barricades Benjamin February boasts the barrier, saxophone sensation dissolved in the salve of silver March mentions middle and metal March nurtured name and numeral, and this numerology newts pyramids, cube cauldrons I mingle with March, and I march the Main, marching bands passing corners gruppen and four orchestras I meddle with March, and I mulch millions, every passerby meditation into hallucination; Zebra glossolalia Zebra xenoglossia Zebra xenolanguage and cyberfeminism Hallucinations stone steady Hallucinations steam strewning beware and war, and my own hallucinations hospital gods my hallucinations hold holy goddesses in absolute hospitality I hunger hallucination in Divine I devour Vision in sacred time, and the time timors tenures seizures Pink beam banisters and Bruce Banner Pink Beam bullion and bullets, a letty lorax in blades Pink pumps as a pistol, colour revolver clued camille chromatic and chromatic durations endure desert in the haze of rapid dynamics Pink pairs the pulse Pink pares the piston and I appear pinks wild woman in the pines vision vehicular Pink Vision vines allplace: Allplace Asia and Asia Allwhen, a secret prophetess Pink plumes into God geometric Pink plusses into God masonic, chipping Christ and clipping Christina as a Spirit Sculptor God certainly guts and gashes, gorging geometric measures into my skull, and my brain blisters as a barfly God goon gushes into gift, a dome martyrdom as Christ dons his crucifixion, and PKD finds Faith in this phantom I focus on many phantoms I fixate on the fifty gates Wild Wisdom shudders in desert Wild Wisdom shouts in exilic Otherness Asia as the Ancient city Asia Ancient Civilization Asia Arable and Agriculture Asia rivers rounding Rome, a Wolf Mother to Remus and Romulus I would try exploring one chord with this band, one chord in a tune, trying to get everyone to master those small simple things like rhythm. We would take a chord and make it work for five minutes of variations, cross-rhythms… a lot of intricate shit working off this one chord Book one chord Book one rhythm Book one chord Book myriad rhythm Book one chord Book infinite rhythm Chord carillions Chord and chord clouds chord, a covering mysticism and radiance Chord sisters to the chill, chord clock cold into the circle, and circle covers circle, system superimposed system Chord collapses into chord, one Book and one improvisation, the ranging rhythm, and rhythm self-mimics, a deconstruction automorphism rhythm describes rhythm and chord describes chord, one-in-infinite and infinite-in-one, a Book inside a Library inside a book
The Idea of Performance As Process
I got further and further into the idea of performance as process. I had always written in a circular way… I never end songs; they just keep going on Performance as process: Writing as Process: Writing as a kind of performance, a jazz improvisation. I improvise the writing with other texts as my structure, my harmony (harmolodics) and rhythm I perform the writing and I perform the Word I perform the writing and I perform the Word I do not write in circles but I write in spirals I write in proportions and ratios I write the music and happening the Book never ends: it just keeps going on I listen to Anthony Braxton: the music fascinates me I read Forces in Motion Anthony Braxton and the MetaReality of Creative Music by Graham Lock, and Braxton himself fascinates His imagination baffles and inspires me miscellaneously His system overwhelms and opens up possibility I want to continually evolve yet stay interconnected with all texts and the entirety of Word, parallel to Braxton’s erector set of music I have, in the last year, says Anthony Braxton to Graham Lock, began to throw all my structures into the quartet, to think in terms of creating giant solar systems or galaxies, and layered sound spaces, many different simultaneous events… The quartet music is becoming a platform for all the work I’ve been doing in the last 20 years; I’m start to integrate those processes into the music at an accelerating rate. Some of the things we’re doing now are like a collage of several different works all mushed together to create a dynamic sound game… I want to be a good friend and a good prophet, I say. I want to be a genius writer. Those are my goals to keep living. Here’s my advice, says Asia. Be the best you, be authentically yourself and work on growing everyday. The rest will come naturally. What does it mean to be authentically yourself? Good question: at first it was defining myself outside of what others expected. Finding out what it was that I wanted. I have been a chronic people pleaser so it was hard. Defining myself outside of being a twin. To be authentically myself do I have to find out what I am outside the Divine? I define who I am from the Divine: Poet and Prophet. Who are you without that? I don’t know. Nobody. No. Titles are just shells. What’s inside? You call yourself a prophet but you are different from other prophets – why? Says Asia. I drink from the desert body of Christ I drink from Christ in the wilderness and Christ in the Temptation, layered circular rhythm on circular rhythm I drink the rhythm rugged and the rhythm Christina, the circular motion towards ruins I drink the rhythm ragged and the rhythm Krystal, the circular machinations towering riches I drink the multiplicity and interconnectivity of language musics and co-ordinate musics, and I pulse track the tribulations to rapture and rupture in the vapor Perhaps the prophet is greater than I think. My role as prophet is greater than I think. It encompasses not only the role of prophet-as-prophet, but poet, bard, shaman, healer. A world healer and world advocate. I remember listening to a lecture by Terence McKenna and he said the Shaman was artist-healer-mediator all in one. Mediator between worlds. Poetry and prophecy interlinked, intercoursed, and inseparable. The art heals. I drink the round rhyming of rhythm Sound built from the rhythm section up the band in entirely a rhythm section one instrument swaying the sound of another and the rhythm rivets the rock of poetry the rhythm razors the ribs of prophecy I drink and dream droplets drunk from Krystal-Taryn and Asia bays the bayou of rhythm Rhythm time rhythm intensity rhythm tenor tunnels to Taryn and she testifies the trumpet She blesses bugle Benjamin and I drink the gravel of the harmonic series Asia overtone series Asia Otonality and Utonality Asia modal interchange and modulation and she bites the blues never resolving I drink profound blues I drink blues spews new, the narrative of post-parameters and meta-methods, and in music I mix as Miles Davis (saxophones echo Miles lines from one direction, just as Cosey’s wah-wah guitar echoed it from the other I drink true then Taryn Trumpet more than a trumpet and his walking bassline intitiates a finger popping shuffle pulse, prompting Miles’ more straight-ahead and pretty playing I write straight-ahead I prophesy over walking bass and Anthony Braxton pulse tracks synchronized improvisation with the planets I drink holy letter gnosis and the healer hunts herbs The Healer hacks at the trunk of the Tree of Gnosis, and her nudity regenerates all origins The origin is origins, the prayer plural to Elohim I drink haphazard happening, modulating the kicking bass riff through several keys, anticipating the harmolodic funk of Prime Time the funk feasts feathers and flappers the funk kisses scallops and several suns, the stars starving for sacrifice I sacrifice my soul to Spirit I sacrifice my sainthood for perversity and apostasy, and I keep a hoop of heresy on my head Pagan pulses point and improvisation Punkte and Kontra-Punkte piloting stark serialism Christina adorned in chromatic durations