{"id":2631,"date":"2010-03-12T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2010\/03\/12\/poem-thunder-painting\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T04:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T09:37:27","slug":"poem-thunder-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/12\/poem-thunder-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem | “Thunder Painting”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Don’t be desireous under White Mountain.
\nThe river’s tall feathered tail
\nWill blast you into the crag’s milky fountain.
\nWill whisk you away
\nTo a faraway place
\nIn the steam boat’s desert Sun,
\nBuried beneath a 17th century ruin.
\nYou won’t get to stay up and play.
\nEach door will turn you away.
\nYou won’t burn your fires at midnight
\nOr dream of the horse haired magic of twilight.
\nThe cattle callers will stake their claim
\nDown your captured, straining, mustang mane.
\nOnly for the bewildered and assertive has time begun.
\nSo now you are forever on the run
\nFrom the father with a shot gun,
\nFrom the book that’s never done.
\nA story of a man who climbed a cloud
\nGetting passed the Giant by not making a sound.
\nBut the danger is he may sleep on the stove or be a meal.
\nWhen there’s a castle on your head
\nThat’s part of the deal.
\nIf you find your way down
\nYou’ll be the talk of the town.
\nCovered in Goose down
\nEveywhere you go golden eggs roll around.
\nRescue Mother from the debt.
\nTake Newton’s weight off your head.
\nLift the Goddess of Sais’ silken veil.
\nAnd for the New World set sail.
\nBuy your Indian master whose been two places at once
\nBefore he sells Manhattan for a buck.
\nInside his pipe is a 10,000 year old pine,
\nJapanese Geisha girls and black Saki wine.<\/div>\n
It don’t take science to tell us it will never die.
\nIt’s one hundred deer skin catamarans
\nSailing Chinese warriors to settle Peruvian lands.
\nThey’ll block your walls and tear down your office
\nIf all you can think of
\nIs sex with the White Buffalo Goddess.
\nSo when you approach her, lay down your mask.
\nLet the blue Moon dance on the snowy fields and pass.
\nLet the deer’s eyes see through the men with guns
\nTo the glistening forest and endless mountains beyond.<\/div>\n
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