Love is All

Love is All
The Rest, Illusion
Fear, Delusion, Hatred
Mere Disturbances
The Force of Love
A constant, silent,
Vibrant Flow
It's EveryWhere
The Violence Intrudes
The Institutions only
Obstacles
The Civilized Pursuit of
Constant Progress
Constant Growth
"Self"-Interest
Only All Illusion
Obfuscation
Of the Only Thing there is.

ZL 12.17.05

into space

Writing, every day
Until I've got no more to say
I guess'll be thru-out my stay
On this miraculous
This globulous
Adventure into space
There's time to ponder
Time to procreate
To teach the children well
and transpiration
is the thing will tell
your destiny
is insignificant
Your Spirit Soars Forever
(So invest in it.)

ZL 12.17.05

Simple.

Very simple
Sit
Enjoy
Another moment going by
and Gone
and then another
Gone
Infinitude
EnLightenment
so Simple
so Complete
so Empty
Freedom here
for Free
forEver
Simple.

ZL 12.15.05

Oh, could I

Oh, could I really
Be the freedom
I can see it, clearly
So it seems sometimes
and other times it's blurry,
vague, ungraspable
But could I,
simply,
Simplify my Life
Exude and Spread
The Peace
If Peace is what I Am
In thought and word and deed
Indeed
Then it could be accomplished
Need to Free Myself.

ZL 12.12.05

Traction

How to gain a FootHold,
Traction,
When I've got no Motive
want to Live
and other Places
call to me
I cannot see
Another way to be
and this
is unacceptable
Imrisonment
in Urban Wasteland
Pointless.

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Feral

Feral
en el gran Ciudad
Got no way to be related
No desire to even be here
Got no overriding Dream
of climbing ladders
to the stratosphere
for what goes up
is downward bound
I'd rather be
On Earth
to start with
Feral
Got no need
Don't want
To be Here.

ZL 12.11.05

In Infinitude

Flowing upon
A rendition of faith
Taking what you're intending
Defending the theft
Such as never before
Nor imaginable
The unFolding continues
Incessantly masking
Unknown inhibitions
Relentlessly wound
You're an object
Unfounded on mere speculation
and such-and-such justification
Precludes any logic
The chaos asserts
In infinitude.

ZL 12.11.05

Here for Spirit

I am here
for Spirit
Need no things, no money,
Need no admiration
or sophistication
Here for Spirit
What I need
is Dwelling in the
Emptiness
I need to be available
for healing human souls
Eliminating all the conflict
in ourselves which we inflict on "others"
Need to see the Sameness
of us All
in every moment
in dissolving separation
We will Heal.

ZL 11.21.05

"Brooklyn Dream"

Each Brooklyn household
Growing
its own food
and sprouting
composting
on rooftops
and in yards
community gardens
vacant lots
Becoming
Self-Sufficient
Eco-Conscious
Active
to Transform
our Damaged World.

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Joiner

I'm not a
JOINER
so it's hard
sometimes
I'm not to be a leader
of somebody else's dream
For though it seems so
Noble
Living out the
things we label
Dignity
I need to carve my own
Route
Live out my own
Aspirations
for this Life this World, this Planet.

ZL 11.17.05

Eddy Puss

It's Nothing
but Good
We're Convinced
As we survey
Our Kingdom
With still-bloody,
Freshly gouged-out
eyes.

ZL 11.15.05

U. Mobile

Upwardly
Mobile
We Flee
We're so Free
to Rejoice
In "Our" Progress
and Blind
All our eyes
To the OnSlaught
Our Progress
Inflicts
on the so-vast Majority
(and as such, of course,
on ourSelves.)

ZL 11.15.05

"Freedom"

So
We Define
Don't We?
Freedom
as the ability to buy,
to acquire
All These Things,
All This Stuff.
Don't We?
Where it came from,
the living conditions of
those who produced it
Not as important as
"I'm " "Free" to "Own" It.

ZL 11.15.05

M.D. Noah

A modern-day Noah
They're sure to ignore
and shove under shag carpet
They clean with such passion
thus
all we can smell is the
PineSol Fresh Scent
as the bodies outside
keep decaying
nerves fraying
I'm saying
why won't we
AWAKEN!!?

ZL 12.11.05

Banter

Banter
a lucid Encounter
occurs
and the pace that we grow
or recede from the trying
the vying for winnership
such an old-dull-headed
can't we all see now
it's empty,
a ruse,
a hypnosis?
and lingering doubts
come as shouts
from our insides
as crisis befalls
we can't say
we weren't warned.

ZL 12/11/05

Tumbling

And some more
tumbling lines
pouring out now
and How to excuse all the suffering
caused by consumption gone
out of control
in a few thousand years
let's repent
end delusion
commit to a future
the Native Americans said
we should plan
seven lifetimes ahead
and preserve
earthly Balance.
Amen.

ZL 12.11.05

Deplorable

So afraid of the work
We're afraid it would be
So ashamed just to look
At the harm that we're
Causing
Alarmed but we're so
Deer-in-headlight-prone
Shirking the staring-us-in-the-face
Urgency, Need
As we seek out the lowest price
See to our interests
Invest in the profiteer pirates
The shipwrecks they've caused
Deeply under the surface
And we see the placid serene
Our great trauma the laugh lines
Around our own eyes
The impoverished, dying
Ignored
It's deplorable.

ZL 11.30.05