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By Jack Joseph Smith
Staying Still
Once I took a dream, once a dream took me
Each time I think I don't feel how it had been
To try and then trough away thought is right and wrong
Don't let anything go away,, put it in the ground
like a bandit; their searching will be your joy
When I went searching the desert was God, the
mountains were easy,, secure, lonely with love:
even if she was there,, the sea was always nothing
is next; structure with all of the above: gives
you art,, a challenge to yourself, cause if you
do only one art, still you will know all arts. If
one can do all art is different, all the while,
the one art leaves you always to be at home with
all the rest Going on your way is so quiet. the
wonderment of lost,, for the first time,, how clean
it is. My brillance is that I see nothing and it
need not be spoken of; possibly now when consequence
is seem one hundered years ahead, where as money is
This! if you have it today and don't have it tomorrow,
it has no moral,, it is just that traveling on is
better for knowing more. If the sea skips and stings
fast across the top, that is one thing,, but if it is
shallow enough to be turned underneath.
Then that is another.
as if Stillness were not all a metphor.