Monday, 18 October 2021

Murray's Poetry 41-45

  


41. The Man From City Hall
       Mr. New-Mad

      The New-Mads know
      the big new automobile is a stolen woman

      The Townsmen said
      that City Hall owns a new automobile
      a big new automobile
      City Hall never takes it anywhere
      City Hall has it parked in City Halls Garage
      The Mayor puts New-Mad men like Himself into this automobile
      The Mayor puts super charged alcohol as gas into it too
      the alcohol burns it out young
      but it works for a while
      the automobile has a good shape
      it has darkened windows, her eyes
      it has a good upper front end
      it has a good rear end too

      The New-Mads know
      the big new automobile is a stolen woman
      in mercy to bring deliverance
      The Temples often arrive at City Halls Garage
      where that big new automobile lives as her destination
      The Churches arrival is always foreknown
      and that particular automobile is always lied about

      The New-Mad does not take that automobile anywhere
      The City Hall stole that automobile
      The City Hall found out how not to be found in connection
      with this new automobile
      The New-Mads found out how to steal them also
      The Townsmen found out how to steal the big new automobile
      and not be found in connection with the roaring of her engines

      The New-Mads know
      the big new automobile is a stolen woman
      in mercy to bring deliverance
      The Temples often arrive at City Halls Garage
      where that big new automobile lives as her destination
      The Churches arrival is always foreknown
      and that particular automobile is always lied about

      The New-Mads are difficult to uncover
      the signs on The New-Mads roads say what The New-Mads want them to say
      The New-Mads roads go in every direction
      and are The New-Mads own design
      sometimes The New-Mads are almost caught
      The New-Mads walk into City Halls driveway to ask who told on them
      The New-Mads blame The Black Negro Ashphalt and then all Ass Felt
      as being the ones who told on them
      The New-Mads madly insanely walk all over All Ashphalt
      and even blame The White Mans Lines on The Ashphalt for telling on them
      The New-Mads even examine The Womens Society they call "Their Road Bed"
      for new automobile theft possibilities and for informants in Their City Hall Sheds

      The New-Mads know
      the nice big new automobile is a stolen woman
      in mercy to bring deliverance
      The Temples often arrive at City Halls Garage
      where that nice big new automobile lives as her destination
      The Churches arrrival is always foreknown
      and that particular automobile is always lied about

      and The Temples taught
      and The Churches preached
      that at least The Christian Church Cross
      is now planted every few feet
      along the roads The New-Mads travel on
      in the shapes of the telephone poles
      and for those New-Mads that would go to The Cross OF Christ
      they do have to accept the wires attached=Their Crrucifiction Involved
      and abandone off City Hall

 
42. The Golden Forty Niners

      Oh Great Gold

      when you open up a barrel of Our oil
      and find it full
      and fare told We Great Gold will talk oil deals
      come to The Middle Easts Great Gold

      when We Great Gold sell aircraft to you very cheap
      and help you out with powdered milk
      then come and talk to us, Great Gold
      for We Great Gold will talk to you
      go to Them, The Golden Forty Niners

      when you find your children pleasantly away
      and through Great Golds Influence find them
      in The Middle East as Great Golds servants
      your thanks be to The Golden Forty Niners

      Oh Great Gold

      The Golden Forty Niners


       The Kings

      Oh King

      when you open up a barrel of Our oil
      and find it full
      and are told We Kings will talk oil deals
      come to The Middle Easts Kings

      When We Kings sell aircraft to you very cheap
      and help you out with powdered miulk
      then come and talk to Us, The Kings
      for We The Kings will talk to you
      go to Them, The Kings

      when you find your children pleasantly away
      and through The Kings Influence find them
      in The Middle East as The Kings servants
      your thanks be to The Kings

      Oh Kings

      The Kings


43. the old buddhist

      The old buddhist knew full well where true value was

      every evening after the buddhist had cleaned shop
      the buddhist would place what little money that was earned
      into a hollowed out tritipakas book

      the old buddhist would always put the hollowed out tritipakas book
      into the stores antique safe
      which for all the years that it had been in the stores possession
      had always appeared empty

      three times the store had been burglared
      three times the antique safe had been opened
      three times the burglars had left the buddhist tritipakas book alone
      three times the burglars had thought that the old tritipakas book
      was empty of all worldly gold
      three times the burglars had thought that the old antique safe was empty
      three times the old buddhist prayed and ask The Lord Buddha that the burglars
      would realize the emptyness of this worlds gold

      the old buddhist was never robbed


44. the shinto milky temple way

      the shinto priest, her friend, came to see her
      with his airplane
      it was made out of spiritual white feathers
      he called it the spirit bird crane

      he came from what seemed, to her, beyond the sky
      but she knew he came from the shinto milky temple way
      he came into her world
      called the abed of coals

      the lowly ways of this world surrounded her

      he said hello coal woman
      my name is shinto
      i came to call you from a bed of coals
      would you like to become a gem

      with her hand still shaking his
      she said yes
      and that piece of coal called coal woman was changed
      into a clear well, too, well faceted diamond
      with many potentials

      the shinto priest then put her into a purple robe
      that had a golden draw string on it
      her ancestors were well faceted diamonds and had recieved that robe also
      he held her tight in his hands
      when he started up the spirit bird crane
      and hummed her high up into the sky
      far beyond the clouds where he brought her into "The Voice Of The Silence"
      he then took her home to the milky way temple
      where he placed her most lovingly

      one sad day
      one of those diamonds that went with us
      became a dead gem
      shinto took it from the milky way temple and placed it
      within the temple named the dead star cluster
      that experience reminded me of someone
      who had been like the sun
      who became like a dead star
      with no light at all
      to twinkle and gleam with from within

      it was a frightening experience
      seeing a dead gem in the sky
      it was then twice dead
      with no chance of survival
      it had failed to radiate shinto light
      it had tried to take over the milky way temple
      by radiating its own light

      then the diamond woman spoke and said
      i am in the shinto temple
      that is named the milky way
      that is hummed high up into the sky
      within the shinto milky way, like others


45. I Am The Mexican Pick Head

      I have spent a long time with Mexican
      in the open air
      I have spent a long time with Mexican
      in the sun shine
      Mexicans body never seems to shrink from it
      hard work seems to get Mexican by

      I am on The Mexican Streets to expand cities
      I am on The Mexican Land to improve farms
      I can be of service in many Mexican Places

      the eyes of The Mexican Ones who cherish Me
      and are around Me and Mexican
      are never red and inflamed like The Angry Bull
      of The Mexican Arenas
      I am never hated and cast down by Mexican
      for I am properly and powerfully made in Mexico
      when I am used The Mexican Earth feels Me

      I am One Of Those says Mexican laughingly
      that cannot be gotten rid of though-out all of Mexico
      yet can be hard to keep even in Mexico

      I am The Mexican Pick Head
      I look up The Mexican Pick Handle
      at toiling Mexicans in Mexico

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