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1980-04-01 Aprils fool

Tuesday, April 1st, 1980

April’s fool

Hard running … flat out working
on a Maya high
lost in the computer’s labyrinth logic

Making it work … for some ego trip?
for the joy of creation
for the passage of unconscious time … ?

Virginia, Washington D.C., Portland, Maine, and Quebec
Rose and Christopher
Work’s cresendo … time’s almost inaudible
laughter.

gallagher
1 Apr 80

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1980-04-29

Tuesday, April 29th, 1980

Oh, what dancing arabic eyes speak to me now?

as dark as the crusades and balustrades and minarets

high noon over Mecca and Mohammed’s’s sandal

they echo here to me in these Lebanese eyes…

04-29-80

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1980-04-29

Tuesday, April 29th, 1980

I pound on the walls that bind me here
but they never lessen
my Age, Death, Insight …
the incandescent realizations of chances lost,
of the permanence of change,
they come and dance to me
when I stare in the mirror
ever step is more fraught with irrevocability
as I go forward
because I have so much more to lose
its always less the open slate now
and more the written Word … the patterns born,
and crucified, and calcified,
and finally … owned.
And though I pound on my walls
and drink the wine of these thoughts
into the depths of night…
it is.

04-29-80/2

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —