(wrote the night when Allen Ginsberg died... take it or leave it, it's honest_
I think of what those final moments were like
for you, and what you must have seen
as you drifted away. You wrote of death, fame, many things,
you held with your last breath only a joyful scream
that was expressed in your life, and your lines,
heart-lines, waves of thought pattern sublime.
Teacher, will you return, where have you gone, will I see
you there? — and I will come to you from the grace
of the grave that can never hold you. The topography of
life, of the mind, I bring all words I can muster to this place
of pages. Raise me towards compassion, raise me divine
into your arms of instruction, towards thought pattern sublime.
Oh, in the presence of my enemies of ignorance, bless me
with the strength to carry you further, your vision,
and never betray. I will not bow down before them, I will
only record what I must from my posture and position.
God, now you are gone, but I can feel you in the transom of my spine
intoxicating inspiring enlivening me into thought pattern sublime.
Thought Pattern Sublime
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