any thing but this?

any thing but this:

going crazy

as if the trip was complicated

cause your marbles fell loose

having no bag to collect themselves

or

holding conversations 'bout a stint in jail

as if they were peaches and cream

served in a blue Wedgwood bowl

no!

going crazy may be a blessing

a welcome break

from the buzzing madness busying your mind

with the chatter of shrill voices

incessantly speaking confusing words

in tongues of blurred and buried forms

you might wish this on yourself

when lunatics attempt to flee the bottleneck

of whispers swirling near your ears

bouncing about the bones in your head

sequestering sanity

like one listening for the Voice

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -In contrast to faith as knowledge, faith that is experience and word immediately gives us the reality that it aims at, the way a poem does.  What is separated in reflection is not necessarily separate in reality, though knowledge always tends to dry up living forces.

  -Get ride of the idea that secularism has prevented the Gospel from getting through to people.  It's the rationalism that was introduced into the message, making it abstract, imperialistic ideology, that undermined it.

  -A faith which produces fear or sleep is a false faith.

  -...reason recognizes that no choice is made once and for all.

  -...to sing the Credo is not necessarily to live the faith.