fly-by-night go-go clubs
pulsing surging in pyrotechnic tribal beats
munching on Sesame's Treats
like a key to reclaiming innocence

and the technicolor-paste groove gods
caps on sideways
break down - XTC snakes in twisted meth on the warehouse floor
electric flower children
writhing
in a bizarre orgy of KLF & Sheep on Drugs
and sweat and flesh and methedrine
the acid-test utopia Timothy Leary never realized

sun rise
     day break
    scorch of heat
radiation glow
running tangents     tandems
 barren land
skin          crackles
in the insta-heat stroke
   buildings crumble
beneath hallowed weight
          Man ex     ti     n     c   t
and the world
   rejoices

trepidations
trepidations are longing in the garden
fears that a serpent never lies
never dies
and the roots of the trees lie together in silent prayer
aching
for Lilith to return

thehecticstressthatisthenormofeverydaymadness
createsthedesireforamomentspeace
answeredintheneedto
go outside
taste the brisk wind - invigorating
light up
and for a few minutes
relax
and watch the faces in the clouds
beforereturningtotheinsanity

ride the mindwave
ride the mindwave
ride the mindwavemindfuck drowning in preposterosity
absurdity only in the communal conceptual logic
conventional common sense
     DENIES the paradigm shift
     DENIES the advancement of dreams
and propagates apathetic complacency
             like a virus infection disease rotting the general state of affairs

but no no no no -- not me
no sanity straight jacket
     shepherd's lithium
NO spinal tap and gene pool splicing
     will silence the fever in my words

How dare you claim me mad!
How dare you label me
How dare you try to stunt me
     categorize me
sentence and confine me
     to a school of thought
     a singularity
another raging poet
     tossed into the cauldron
                              brewing
boiling
     Here -- MercyRain -- just another
            victorian romantic
            abstract surrealist
            absurd pointillist
            strange lame poet
sequence the data
     just another... --
            lost
            in the oubliette of Definition
just another 'just another'

SWAT-censorship goons
     shooting labels warnings
            like Josef Stalin
            and his happy machine guns

                                  ratatatatatatatata

     They are the Men In Black
     the Slaver Soul Traders
Capitalists delving in skin deficit
and They will contain you
    They will contain you
    They will

               IMPOSE
               IMPOSE
               IMPOSE
     martial law of the soul

your ki is on the auction block
            SOLD!
               to American Express
            SOLD!
               to CNN
            SOLD!
               to the IRS
            SOLD!
               to the GOP
            SOLD!

just ask the hippies huddled on the ground outside the IMF
eyes bleeding from the torments torrents of mace

but mine eyes have seen the making of the Asphalt Kingdom
and proud proud PROUD
     lay claim stake to eManciPATION
   I have read between the lines
     found the EXIT door
and now swim with the Dolphins
                    in the Fifth Dimension

come dance with me, swim with me
every young girl
     who's seen the unicorns in the forest

everyone who watched Jackson Pollock paint
     and said, "Ah-ha!
            This man paints with the hand of Zen!
ohmmmm..."

and everyone who sees fit
     the rhyme & the reason
     to use their income tax refund check
             to roll a blunt
     and dance the rain dance
                    INSIDE
only to find their toilets overflow

the cost is only a tale or two
or maybe a 'once upon a midnight dreary'
and make love by the fire
     and share
            in the dandelion wine

You are invited
     to swim with me

You are invited