hallucination of normality

[revolutionR]

as a teenager in the late sixties
I took LSD because nothing else
was happening, religion did not
school did not, and my family did not
teach me anything, so I thought
it was the revolutionary thing to do
I thought the psychedelic experience
in the context of the times
because in those times a changing
it seemed like we needed to explore
these things, because the world seemed
to be headed in a direction that was
unhealthy to us humans

as I began to get into poetry
as poetry was there as I tripped
like the poetic lyrics of Dylan and Donovan
I felt the same way about poetry as psychedelics
that I was just going into another mind manifesting
in the sixties we were coming from an emerging
science fiction reality, grew up on flying saucer
movies and robots that looked like juke boxes
we had been subjected to the twilight zone and
the outer limits, so LSD seemed like a way to
get into other realms other dimensions
we just did not know what was really out there
or in there, the future seemed to be a mystery
that was moving so fast but at the same time
there was so many contradictions, and questions
we had all this sci fi stuff kicking around
in our coming out of the gray fifties heads
but we also had seen beatniks in movies
so we had an idea of speaking about what was a drag

and what seemed cool, we were kinda messed up
coming out of the first decade of television
so as crazy man as it seems LSD was suddenly on the scene
and all this happened against the backdrop
of the Vietnam war, and the culture seemed to shift
like a eightball gear shift nob on a hot rod
so some us teenagers blasted off, on a cap or a sugar cube
like Donovan sang, in season of the witch, beatniks
out to make it rich, so as I already thought
of myself as a beatnik, I stepped into the unknown

so I began to read the Beat poets after the late sixties
in 70' and then I discovered surrealism, because surreal
is a good way to describe that psychedelic experience
and it did not have to be science fiction but it
saw reality in the surreal, through exploring language
through allowing words to speak for themselves
without being too concerned with definitions of meaning
in effect exploring the meaning of meaning
as it has been handed to us, which if truth be told
too much of what has been handed to us is false
surrealism was like jazz, it was looking for the notes
between the notes, looking for the point beyond contradiction

and that point was everywhere if it was anywhere, like knowledge
like knowing through going into the collective unconscious
as Carl Jung called it, we were learning to to see symbolic
so as to create a language of symbolic reality, that could be
trippy and abstract expressionistic, to use as a tool
to sift the sands of eternity, and find the relics of time
because our everyday use of words is not adequate
to describe what is really going on, which is like trying
to explain what it was like in the late sixties, on LSD
or what it is like to see a UFO, or the surreal lyrics of Dylan
" take me upon a trip upon your magic swirling ship"