So I learn to wait— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
like the trees that grow and wave in the wind
endless now, sometimes I can, sometimes not.
I feel myself stir.
can’t be real unless something’s happening
a woman, people, travel…distractions all
pleasant enough when they come for free
but much too costly when I seek them
So I learn to wait
feel this moment on my skin
without the cage of acceptable conditions.
just this one, whatever it is.
gallagher
17 oct 83
irvine
Archive for 1983
1983-10-17
Monday, October 17th, 19831983-10-18
Tuesday, October 18th, 1983Great newspaper today— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
A Lebanese Druse was quoted;
“We’re not massacring anyone,
we just surround the town
and don’t let anyone surrender.”
Also the EPA says the ‘greenhouse’ effect is no myth.
temperatures and ocean levels
up significantly by the 1990’s.
oceans 4-7 feet higher by 2000.
Oh yeah, and we gave a Nobel prize
to a man for his work on theoretical economics.
gallagher
18 oct 83
Irvine
1983-10-25
Tuesday, October 25th, 1983 Voices against an unstoppable trend
peace, ecology...
I hear sanity out there
in fictional works and splinter movements
Germany's Greens...Amnesty International...
Small fragments bobbing on the river of history
bound for the sea of final realities
to a final ocean of silence and armageddon
But...I hear no forming consensus
no rising conviction ever wider held
that the issues ARE critical
that the implications ARE deadly
That this paradise of nature
and the wonder of our children's eyes
our plastic everythings and ego competitive structures
are all tissue paper illusions
against an unforgiving reality
I hold those I love and wipe my eyes
that I might better see beyond the immediate moment
beyond the local forms which seem so permanent
the paychecks, the city streets and their names
There, the news that plays before us like some global soap-opera
against the force of our blind consensus reality
that says there are no problems unless we agree there are
I want to see where this history is carrying us
gallagher
25 oct 83
Irvine
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —