The death angel there were twenty million planets with twenty million humans all longing for the chance to sing the same song: a beatle's tune featuring cosmic lyrics. The big little notes with small, giant blue messages all vibrating head . . . sending the emotions under bandage pulsating. It is not pleasant to sit and to feel one's brain rise in form and texture . . . it is easier to duck in caves or huts or lay beneath band aids or just turtle down within hard shells knowing all the time individuals don't matter for the cube shall always function without you moving a muscle, mind and all your back trouble, eyebrow tick-tocking twitching, feeling hits like a pancake, wooden walls that are closing in on all three sides simultaneously, angularly, geometrically-- shapes and figures sending psychological distorted patterns bending in time and space motion towards a spinning torched galaxy-- in the cranial skull and universe via the cosmic portal in the skin and holes from the ground or black wholes no . . . of course the cycle of trash and whispering must never conclude itself and the endless stream for the search for joy must cascade into the dark abyss . . . Steaming towards . . . the long awaited warrior of the heavens of the red mountain of white peeks of beauty and then she will step upon this everlasting flower of humanity and soul or soil delivering the beam of hope of the flashing yellow toothed devil on the burning cross for our delicate consumption then as smoothly as she arrived shall extend her flowing, ascending appendage those glorious golden wings and leave earth forever once again then we shall crawl from huts and shells into the bright sun above our heads looking for the signal to breathe the air again, looking for the sign to stand and reach toward our brothers' and sisters' arms the signal for it to be all right to gather our sisters' and brothers' hands . . . Raising them towards the soaring angel Copyright Bill Carr 2002