What It Is

What is it she asked
young girl on an Acid Trip
WHAT is IT
is it Sigmund Freud's half smile
through his magisterial beard
nonetheless chomping on his
big cigar does it all come down
at last to sex are we
mice in a maze cheese  down
the path ignored because
we are pushing the button
that stimulates our hypothalamus
until we die from hunger
is that it


Is war just sexual frustration
all that killing and usurping
nothing more than the desire
to fuck and be fucked
are we cock blocked is that it
our guns cocked ready to shoot
and the world population
that is all about the fucking
right and world hunger
we eat to fuck and suck and
get the cum out
is that it

or maybe it is art
we live to create music
poetry paintings videos
film architecture the Pyramids
and the Sphinx they are not
just cock blocked cunt sphincter
deferred products of frustration
they are expressions of our spirit
as we push up our endeavors
up the hill of creation
that is it

Or is it
our moments of rapture
our love our awareness of
beauty of truth of goodness
of gods is not that it
wisdom emerging from our years
of fucking and fucking around
allowing us perspective
making us see and feel
ecstasy fuck is not that it
being high and sharing a pipe
or dropping acid together
that is it
isn't it?

Jack 5-24-24

Belle Isle by James Land Jones

Belle Isle

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Late spring and night. Rain-scented air
Surrounds us like a presence. Ahead,
Past threaded rivers, Belle Isle waits.
Beyond, St. Catherine's Sound unreels, a bolt
Of crumpled purple-silver, into the far horizon.


For months we've said we'll boat out to Belle Isle.
Now lightning plays about us in the shuttered trees.
Transparent knives of moonlight sculpt your face
Between my hands. Your eyes, grown deeper blue,
Compel my lips as birds are drawn to air.


I wait, a silk banner to be filled by you.
Give body to my body through your body.
Turn my empty cloth into a sail.
So fitted, voyager, what is Belle Isle to me?
I would explore the rivers of you all my life. 

Written "For Jack--14 Sept 1984--with love."

May

May
Be that you are
Me armed against me
In my arms this
Night springing with
The fountain of you
My budding love

Maybe
You hold me
Knowing the new
Shoots of ourselves
Entwined will turn pair blossom
Sweet-bitter fragrance
Of May

Advancing Years

The blessings of old age are mine
You've got your health you say to me
You can walk through the high meadow
You can enjoy the fruits of your labors
Drink the finest wine puff the Peace pipe
See the world in all its splendid variety
Reminisce your rich life of accomplishment

You cannot know my Love how such blessings
Are curses for my health is my undoing
The source of my lust my longing my desire
Once again to fuck in the high meadow
To roll my flesh with another's flesh not
Merely to sate but to be desired wanted
To have my Lover tremble at my touch

What is the world's splendid variety to me
Beauty encompassing me returning my stare
With one of kindness mistakenly assuming I
Am sweet generous someone's saintly granddad
A philanthropist not a philanderer someone whose
Memories ought to be preserved for posterity
As I am fantasizing the sweetness of your posterior

How we are herded into this false integrity 
This jail of  distinguishability  propped up as
Revered when all we are is reviled our bodies
Reminders of mortality the very thought of our
Nudity disgusting the young Hell disgusting our
Selves nothing of the weathered twisted juniper
On the cliff standing in sublime loved resplendence

The truest blessing of old age is that it will end
The body and mind will fail  as we own oblivion

Jack