VI.
So, all my bad luck today was because I had to see you.
I bought a small coffin, because I reckoned that the one
under the ground must have rotted long ago – I suddenly
felt very happy. I was floating in the blissful haze that
characterizes religious transcendence and the onset
of alcohol poisoning. I had an appointment with
People magazine.
“Now I know it’s for places and money and things – not people.”
(Mrs. Leo Warren, 1972)
-Marvin Gardens
A Religious Procession of One
The third art of living became a burning and unsolvable issue.
The continued search for analogy led to dramatic confusion.
Everything there is beautiful and easy -
everything but leaving!
You’re getting impossible, I didn’t mean that at all.
You’ve misunderstood on purpose.
It means all sorts of things but it doesn’t mean what you think.
We all have to be reasonable or what’s bad gets worse.
Suppose a man is innocent of what they say he did:
in my life, that’s the way that it’s turned out;
I’ve had a lot to think about.
Give me an idea and in two minutes there’s a second
pushing out the first.
-Marvin Gardens
Breadcrumb
1. Erwin Panofsky, Meaning In the Visual Arts (New York: Doubleday, 1957:153)
2. Albert Churchward, Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man: The Evolution of Religious Doctrine from the Eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians (London/New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1910: 308-315)
3. R.P. Morgan, Twentieth Century Music (New York: N.W. Norton & Co., 1991)
4. Michael Ventura, “Hear That Long Snake Moan” (Whole Earth Review No. 54, Spring 1987: 35)
5. L. Hudson and B. Jacot, The Way Men Think: Intellect, Intimacy, and the Erotic Imagination (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1991)
6. Barbara Walker, “Yoni,” in The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1983)
7. Robert Graves, Difficult Questions, Easy Answers (London: Cassell, 1972: 176-79)
-Marvin Gardens
Now Free to Rhyme
food good
made head
air year
In Deliberation
forage orange porridge
-Marvin Gardens