TWO DIMENSIONAL ORB — The Red Rainbow

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Sal,

Where you?
are

I’m floating down to earth
I see that there are people being born and it’s the best day of two peoples lives
       while someone else’s mother dies
   and it’s the worst day of ten peoples lives
       and someone is diagnosed with cancer while just down the hall someone is cured of a life threatening illness

and there are people having consensual sex
       while someone is raped in their living room
       and someone is giving head in a back alley for money
       while someone else goes down happily in the back seat of a car

and money changes hands over a brand new home while someone gets foreclosed on
       and people are having nightmares about being suffocated to death
       while others daydream at high noon about backyard gatherings

and someone gets high in the morning
   while someone comes down off their trip at night

and its today somewhere
and tomorrow elsewhere
and yesterday over there

breakfast is being cooked with eggs and bacon
   while dinner is eaten with chopsticks
       and it's lunchtime by the water in the sunshine
           while people open umbrellas to the rain

and somewhere there’s a dust storm creeping over the hills
while snow falls in Denali
and the lightning is over the sea where sailors fight for their lives
and lazy paddlers cast fishing poles onto waveless ponds
and records are being broken
and records are being pondered and dreamed about
and somewhere someone puts on a different kind of record

and the needle screeches

while another falls into a locked grove at the end of the B-side
and cigarettes are stomped out at the same time as hundreds are lit
and there’s pollution in the sky and people cough carbon dioxide
and children breath oxogen from tanks just like the elders
and some people have cars with air conditioned cabs
and air conditioned homes where they sit and watch TV

just as someone turns it off
   and thinks about the documentary they just watched
       about people with no air conditioned cars
               with no air conditioned homes
                   while they take a shower in hot water

               and someone takes a bath with a massage setting in just the right place
while thousands are unwashed and caked with dirt and feasting on crumbs in the garbage cans
while someone eats more than their stomach can handle
and a bullet fires from a gun while another is loaded after being empty for days
and someone goes in while someone pulls out
and lights turn on and others turn off
and people tune in when others tune out
and everyone is talking while the other half listens
and then they switch and everyone that was doing the one Thing is now doing the opposite Thing and its all birth/death
       sickness/health
               day/night
                   storm/calm
                       hungry/full
                           thirsty/quenched
                                   killer/killed
                                           lover/loved
watched/unwatched
   lost/found
   breathe in
   breathe out
   stop
   go
   optimistic
   pessimistic
   legal
illegal
   home
       away
   drunk
       sober
   leaving
       arriving
   building
       destroying
   breaking
       fixing
   tall
       short
   big
       small
atomic/astronomical
sea/land
dry/wet
sky/ground
plant/animal
subconscious/superconscious
microcosm/macrocosm
light, the absence of light,
nothing, everything.

The Thing Is Happening.

Static.

WAKE UP

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