.	THE PIED PIPER OF ADVANCED PERCEPTION by Douglas Blazek There is the sound       of keys in a typewriter's body       soldered together pulling apart. There is the sound       of a laugh at the throat of a word       slashing the sentence that imprisons. There is the sound       of coffee late night in a place       too dark to see if place is hope. There is the sound       of flame leaping farewell       deep in its eternal love of fire. There is the sound       of velocity within the slowness of everything       speeding to the peak of immediacy. There is the sound       of perception pied-piping to undress       its ever-attired advancing question. There is the sound       of a man tripping freedom       toward the cliff of himself. There is the sound       of a desire cranking a generator       inflating the ink of ripe inertia. There is the sound       of anger seething its ego       through a storm's printed teeth. There is the sound       of a song exploding       the lungs of its long-sought singing. There is the sound       of meaning unwiring its circuit       to inspire a riot of light. There is the sound       of emptiness compressed       into the immediacy of a mountain. There is the sound       of a mountain loading       its ultimatum into a gun. There is the sound       of a bullet subletting       a monk's public prayer. There is the sound       of a star flashing the loss       of thought's grandiosity. There is the sound       of a mirage braving the break-       through of a misconstrued god. There is the sound       of a sharpened morning carving       a new east for the sun of Cleveland. There is the resonance       of a target daresaying consciousness:       levy's offshot effect.

                                                     November, 2001
                                                     Originally published, in a different version, in
                                                     the "last issue" of The Buddhist Third Class
                                                     Junkmail Oracle, published by rjs and john rose,
                                                     February 1969.