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1972-01-29 Rose II

Dennis — Sat, 29 Jan 1972 08:00:00 +0000

                             Rose II
                  I find it in the reality of her
                  that when she looks on me
                  its a good place to be
                  and so I clove to her
                  that the me she saw
                  could be...
                                gallagher
                                 29 jan 72
                                 Long Beach - on mescaline

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1972-03-18 – Acid Thoughts -

Dennis — Sat, 18 Mar 1972 08:00:00 +0000

                          - Acid Thoughts -
            We lie scattered in the midst of our own clues
            and say, huh?
            The newspapers and the TV are all we have made them
            as by life, we go on creating.
            Every picture tells a story, don't it?
            What is the sound of one hand clapping?
            Where should I be then?
            Caught in their scream to be
            or gently smiling...
            Somewhere where I went looking so hard
            I lost what I was seeking and fell down
            laughing into all that was left.
                              gallagher
                              18 mar 72
                              Long Beach on LSD

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1973-07-07 Acid again

Dennis — Sat, 07 Jul 1973 08:00:00 +0000


                         Acid again

            Psychic or what...when I can look in
              at cupboards and feel love.

            Laughing in the face of joy
              I've turned away so many times
                 to find it just there...

            Insanity comes in a pill
              but why make it real?

            I saw the spokes of the wheel coming together
              witchcraft...intellectualism...egotism...
            all lead to what we keep
              in our pills
            and we can't quite wait to get there,
              can we?

            Insanity at 10,000 watts, just another
              weapon in our arsenal.

                              gallagher
                              7 jul 73
                              Long Beach - acid tripping

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1973-10-13 Brother Unknown

Dennis — Sat, 13 Oct 1973 08:02:00 +0000


                       Brother Unknown

         My brother Elmer is such an enigma;
         he says things which I'd call unreasonable
         for anyone else and I'm swayed.
         If its intelligence, its not my kind....

         If its leadership or charisma, its impressive.
         And if its my misconception, its durable.

         All in all I can't think of anyone
         I'd rather drop acid with
         than my brother.

                           gallagher
                           13 October 1973
                           Long Beach

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1973-11-18 Psychic Power

Dennis — Sun, 18 Nov 1973 08:02:00 +0000


                       Psychic Power

         They were looking
         and in looking they caused
         what they thought to be
         and the circle turned
         with the child at the center.

         I've seen it and can't believe
         those who say thought isn't physical.

         True, our grasp (attention) is not normally enough
         to perceive the causal connections
         which link subjective to objective
         imagination to creation
         and will to experience.

         But they exist.

                           gallagher
                           18 November 1973
                           Long Beach

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1973-11-26 Rons week and Rons wedding

Dennis — Mon, 26 Nov 1973 08:00:00 +0000


                  Ron's week and Ron's wedding

         There was an identity of the weekend
         which, like identity's twirl,
         left me wondering at the conjunction
         of people and ideas.

         As if the fabric,
         which showing whole for the moment,
         must recede into time and vanish
         as all the parts.

                           gallagher
                           26 November 1973
                           on LSD

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1975-01-14

Dennis — Tue, 14 Jan 1975 08:00:00 +0000

            Some of us rise by spirit
            and some by kindness
            but most never rise at all.

            I've seen them on the side streets
            and the bus stops;
            the empty faces that fill the census books
            but not our hearts.

            Who am I to look at them?
            Standing outside, for just this heartbeat
            mixed and matrixed with them,
            my spirit momentarily paused alone.

            A fool and his visions
            just a breath from my own realities.

                                 gallagher
                                 14 jan 75
                                 - on acid

1975-07-03 After Diana on acid

Dennis — Thu, 03 Jul 1975 08:00:00 +0000

                    After Diana on acid

         That our spirits ran like water together
           and we were no more than our experience -
              is what I'm thinking sometime later.

         At some improbable junction
           between moving vans and long time compromises
         we walked through each other ghost to ghost
           and appeared again, unchanged.

         Its all too high priced and much too nice
           this mixing of friends and lovers, of fire and ice.
         Its more than our lives's fabric can bear
           that we could wear each other's hearts
              and the cloth not tear.

         My fire sign sister with the high maya price,
           you're very tempting, but the karma's not nice.

                                 gallagher
                                 3 July 75

1977-05-07

Dennis — Sat, 07 May 1977 08:00:00 +0000



         Here, where the center most gears spin,
         here is the distillation of what I'm doing here
         and I carry that moment timeless within me,
            though my passions may rage a thousand times,
         always ... it is like a spark.
         A bit melodramatic, now that the band's past,
            but there is something there.

         Else why can I here the winds go whistling
            in the midnight hour freight trains running
         through my soul?

                              gallagher
                              05-07-77 - acid tripping
                              long beach

1977-07-03

Dennis — Sun, 03 Jul 1977 08:00:00 +0000


         How hideously quiet, the house waits.
         Our lives, here, churning beneath the empty moments....

           It gapes at the sound of our breathing
           and the incandescent lamps bring our still photos to life
         Again, our love is bending to form.

         She calls 'derelict' at me
         for the acid I take and I resent her pushing at my fun.

           She points at me as the deviant drug doer
           on my way to the imminent fall.

         And I feel like a confused young professional
         in need of a little direction.

           I'm sound...I just don't care much.
           There's too many deep currents
         running in me at cross purposes.
         Too many dreams and realities.

         Too many blessings and blemishes.
           I'm a bigger baby than ever at thirty
           about to fall out of the crib again.

                                 gallagher
                                 3 July 1977 - lsd