SamadhiMuse

            Alcohol depresses the nervous system
              the body responds by throwing it off
            swings begin
              you push down, it pushes up
            catch it right and sleep’s easy
              but incomplete
            you wake early, foggy and unrested
              catch it wrong
            and sleep’s impossible.
            Alcohol is a rock
              in the pool of serene awareness
                           gallagher
                           5 September 84

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            I am like plant in the sun
              I give forth seeds
            I feel its warmth and the wind
              the seasons pass while I live
            and only the mind
              speaks of time
                 of age
              of doing something
            only in the mirror of the mind
              can you watch yourself
            and this reflection is ego
              if you believe it.
                              gallagher
                              05 september 84

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

           What duplicity we play with ourselves
             our entertainment is full of murders and rapes
           we go and we’re scared or thrilled
             but, when we leave we can cut it loose
                because it was just fiction.
           But, ask how many would go
             if it were a documentary
           made for the strict purpose of telling us that
             ‘This exists,
                 this is real, …
                    see it, believe it with your heart.’
           Not many I suspect
              once the pandering
                 to our voyeurism
              and sexual stereotyping
                 was stripped away
           We won’t come to grips with this sickness of ours
             and we won’t come closer to considering it
           than giving a shudder reading about it in print
             when its real
           and going to see it as entertainment
             when its not.
                                 gallagher
                                 8 September 84
                                 after seeing ‘tightrope’

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —