Does anybody get

Does anybody get
How important a refrigerator
And a stove
Are

Does anybody remember
Bein out in those fields
Starin up at the
Stars

Does anybody know how
Wonderful a simple
Coffee maker can
Be

Can we not look past
The next thought
And see the miracle
Of what we see

Does it all have to
Be taken for granted
Is it all expected
To just be there

Does where we’re going
Have to create
The mad illusion
That we’re not anywhere

Except in a knotted up ball
Of anxiety and neurotic impulses
That fires off questions
And desires

Covering over
Food water shelter
Air and
Fire

****
****

Stereos power and fame
Pieces of paper
That explain
The importance of our name

But all pale in the presence
Of the fire flys glowing
Green and amber
Soft hued flame


Neils
April 30th
2001
*
different fires
*
transcribed this time
12:10 am
11/13/2004