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Chapters (25)
  1. Dedication
  2. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
  3. Bare feet on linoleum
  4. What happened when I left you
  5. The Land of 1000 fires
  6. Never to Heaven
  7. Never to Heaven
  8. Tessa DiPietro
  9. Past the bushes Cypress thriving
  10. SportCruiser
  11. Quiet Waiter- Blue forever
  12. Quiet Waiter Blue Forever
  13. In the hills of Benedict Canyon
  14. happy
  15. Sugarfish
  16. ringtone
  17. In the flats of Melrose
  18. Thanks to the Locals
  19. Paradise is Very Fragile
  20. Salamander
  21. 18. Haikus
  22. Haikus
  23. notes for a poet
  24. A Note on Images
  25. About the Author

No one ever touched me without wanting to kill me

except for a healer on 6th Street and Ridgeley

Tessa DiPietro recommended casually

by a medium i no longer know

She said my number one problem was my field was untrusting

when asked what to do she paused and said

nothing

which sent me right into uncontrollable sobbing

because there’s never anything you can do about the important

things

She said

Ok, one thing you can do is

picture the floor rising up to support you

and sink into the back of the bed that’s behind you

too much of your energy is in front of and above you

Which for some reason made me think of a live show i had seen

Jim Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl

1968? (check date)

the blue trellised lights gave him an unusual aura

like a halo or something- made him 8 feet or taller

i remember just thinking he looked out of his body

but definitely like a God on stage

So i told her

Maybe an artist has to function a little bit above themselves

if they really want to transmit some heaven

Then she told me

Singleness of focus is the key to transmission

for an emphasis on developing inner intuition

close your eyes and feel where you hold your attention

if it’s in the back of your eyes walk it down to your heart

center

and make that the new place from which your thoughts enter

clairvoyance comes mostly from this simple function

Oh- and Jim died at 27

so find another frame of reference when you’re referencing

heaven

And did you ever read the lyrics to ‘People Are Strange’?

He made no sense.

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Past the bushes Cypress thriving