Imagination

The desert is a harsh b***h

with long swept hips and a cool

glare I climbed up her thigh

naked and I saw nothing, nothing

to delineate the sand from the sky

nothing moved, no birds could last

only the wind worked its way by

and puckered my skin as it passed,

nothing but wind, and sand, and sky;

And she whispered to me up on her

thigh, this is what it’s like when you die

and I replied, no, this is creation

when you remove all stimulus from

the brain, a little DMT remains

and this is what we call

“imagination.”

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Even the desert is full of life if one knows where to look. It might not be the sort of life you'd like to meet up close and personal but it's there. My five year old daughter and I were just examining a broad-headed skink on our porch. He wasn't one bit afraid of us and let us get really close. She had to draw and color him with his olive green body and bright orange-red head once we came back inside. Inspiration from creation stirs the imagination. I enjoyed the read.

[JR]

Thanks man, yeah, I agree. I've spent a lot of time in Nevada and Utah, and caught plenty of stuff out there lol. The idea I was shooting for was something I got from a documentary... when you remove all sensory input, all stimulus, what tends to take over is imagination. Be it creativity or madness. I also buy into the theory that naturally occurring DMT in the brain plays a huge part in this... trying to cram some big things into a tiny poem lol. I like to be short and to the point, but maybe I suffer from not expanding on my point more now...

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I sometimes imagine complete empty wastelands where is no humans anything what can live and bothering me. It's always give me total freedom and happiness.

[JR]

There is a lot of freedom that comes from that, removing ourselves from everyone else. I think it does really inspire creation. Thanks for the read.

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You welcome it's just resonated with my current state of mind . I am actually living in remote wetlands and woodlands which give me quiet lot oportunites for my imagination.

[JR]

Awesome! Good place to be.