April 2, 2004 In Response...

In Response To His Eternal Sunshine Of The Active Mind

activated eternal sunshine
illuminates interior design.
gear shift and lever,
clever as this year's monkey.
we hold the secret turn-key,
released from traps to discover
the definition of free:

the ability to wander in the wonder
to make the fear a thunder fuel,
to know that to become wise,
one must also embrace the fool.

in this school, the scholar and the skeptic
meet in a hectic bar for a beer or two,
loosening up their language, hoping for a clue.
amidst this great to-do, a translator enters,
orders a tall glass of water, room temperature,
makes the conversation new with the knowledge
of ghost scribbles and ancient song-
there's still debate over write and wrong
but suddenly the soundtrack soothes the late night long,
words giving way to movement
(dance can be an improvement on dead language).
limbs manage to loosen by the light of eternal sunshine,
over time the damage dusts to death and
the whole room inhales the blooming breath.

the conversation now a conversion,
not one of coercion, but rather immersion
in the holy hopes of hallelujah,
a gutteral roar of praise for the personification of peace,
a deep release of rhythm facilitating the sacred prism.

The world now speaks with intuition,
we peruse its paragraphs and find
that soft inside the eternal sunshine of the active mind
its much easier to listen.