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1979-06-19

Tuesday, June 19th, 1979 



 
         Ten years I've loved this girl
         and I'm falling in love with her again.
         I'm beyond trying to understand
         what we are or what we'll be.
         Its just enough that life can hold this much for me;
         that I should love someone like Rose
         and that she could love someone like me.



 
         No mystery there of first time flesh, new skin to touch.
         No modesty or politeness, no measuring or comparing
         and yet, new.



 
         Each evolution of kindness is built
         on all that went before.
         Each caring, each easy assumption, each knowing...
         The appreciation of time and love's memories
         pressed in the squeeze of a hand.
         That happy glow just to join company.



 
         Its been so long since we've had pause to grow;
         divorce, lovers, bitter words,
         pain, growth, ...all unchangeable,
         all necessary for us to come here to this new love.



 
                                    gallagher
                                    19 Jun 1979

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

Posted in 1979, AA - Fair, Catalyst, Long Beach, Rose | No Comments »

1979-09-13

Thursday, September 13th, 1979 

         How strange that Kathy brought it home
         to me  today tripping on acid, Helen … Helen
         in perspective … Helen explainable … Helen real
         and now magical … Helen intact.
         All my work to shed roles and avoid subjective
         artifice struggling so against habits and training
         to leave my heritage behind me and I found
         waiting on the same station platform when I arrived,
         Helen.  Helen, stripped of all the same
         by reason of biochemical insanity, there at the same
         juncture.  One stripped by volition and one by
         insanity .. we recognized our kin
         no matter how we had come there.
                                 gallagher
                                 13 sep 79

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1979-09-13

Thursday, September 13th, 1979 

            Roles … too long we’ve been tangled up in roles.
            Masculine, feminine, woman, man, interlocked,
            symbiotic, fragile and unreal.
            Unreal outside of our embraces
            and the ego treasures we both carried off.
            Today, with acid whispering in my ear I looked
            at this … us.
            I’m not comfortable outside our enclaves…
            what is there of us
            if we stop our male/females dances?
            Clear eyed, we considered it and, hopefully,
            opened a deeper way.
            Consciousness, let us break our role chains.
                                       gallagher
                                       13 sep 79

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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