New Year’s Eve came and went, as Adams wonder not what New Year’s resolution Eve might make?

    This is New Year’s Day, said to be a time for reflection and a new resolution for the coming year, so...

Palm Leaves

By: Charles Bukowski 

POETIC OUTLAWS

DEC 31, 2023 

 

at exactly 12:00 midnight

1973-74

Los Angeles

it began to rain on the

palm leaves outside my window

the horns and the firecrackers

went off

and it thundered. 

 

I'd gone to bed at 9:00 p.m.

turned out the lights

pulled up the covers --

their gaiety, their happiness

their screams, their paper hats,

their automobiles, their women

their amateur drunks... 

 

New Year's Eve always terrifies me 

 

life knows nothing of years. 

 

now the horns have stopped and

the firecrackers and the thunder...

it's all over in five minutes...

all I hear is the rain

on the palm leaves,

and I think,

I will never understand men,

but I have lived

it through.   

 

Sloan BashinskyWrites Sloan’s Newsletter

I remember when I lived on the street in Key West, and New Year’s Eve came and I dreaded the exploding firecrackers, arial bombs and rockets red glare and star sparkles keeping me awake in my hidey hole until 2 or 3 a.m., or later. 

When I was a boy, I lusted for my father to bring me fireworks when he returned from another state on business, for fireworks were illegal in Alabama. I loved disturbing the peace in my neighborhood and at the nearby fire and police station, with Zebra firecrackers and cherry, TNT and arial bombs, which made my blood run and my dick feel better.

Being a man, I came to think I understood men pretty well, and what drove them. 

However, women were an entirely different species. 

4 wives, one by a church wedding, 3 by a judge presiding, 4 by common law, caused me to sometimes muse I was going for a PhD in women’s studies, which brightly revealed just how fucking stupid I was, because no man can get.a PhD in women’s studies. Only women can do that.

Today, I wrote a post at my Substack entitled, “So, Eve, when are we.ever not in church?". 

It begins,

"My take is, Eve did precisely what God designed her to do, and maybe some day the three Abrahamic religious will figure that out, and maybe their heads stuck way far up where the sun never shines yoga position is terminal.”

Meanwhile, I’m going to stuff cotton in my home alone ears tonight, or something

Over at Reddit’s r/spirituality forum yesterday, this went on.

Puzzleheaded_Drop

So, Eve, when are we ever not in church?

Religious 🙏

My take is, Eve did precisely what God designed her to do, and maybe some day the three Abrahamic religious will figure that out, and maybe their heads stuck way far up where the sun never shines yoga position is terminal.

Runsfromrabbits

🤔

So did Lillith

Puzzleheaded_Drop

Yes, according that that “religion”, but Lilith is a minor player in the history of hu-man-i-ity, which also calls itself man-kind, which says plenty. Maybe a year ago, I posted a poem at this forum, which upset a lot of people, because they could not, or would not, view the poem in its entirety, or, in its context. Eventually, the moderator killed that post, which left me feeling the moderator needed an injection of estrogen, so to speak. Here it is again.

"Bi Polar”

the world's favorite mood disorder

the cause of all human ails,

including wars,

if the demons aren't counted

bi polar disorder,

the destruction of the

south pole,

the feminine,

the north pole,

he ain't been

right in the head

since she’s been gone 

 

infrontofmyslad

The story of Eve and the tree of good and evil is a metaphor for duality. Humans embraced duality, which created separation between us and God, as well as separation from each other. Nonduality is the rediscovery of true reality.

Puzzleheaded_Drop

What I posted concerns the destruction of the feminine essence, represented by Eve in the three Abrahamic religions, upon which creativity, intuition, receptivity, connection to and reception from God depend.

In some place in space and time, duality merges sometimes for a person, and how that feels is very different from the rest of that person’s existence. I suppose a few people reached a fairly stead state of duality merger, consider the Taoist masters and the yin/yang symbol, a few saints, Buddha, perhaps, Jesus, perhaps, some women history does not recognize, but the rest of humanity has lived and continues to live in the duality paradigm, and without a healthy-functioning internal feminine, which is extremely rare in women, as well as in men, they basically are mutants from the original design. In the main, humanity has lost is creativity and connection with God, and is cloning itself spiritually, and devolving. 

 

Zagenti

well yeah, when you feel stupid for being a weakminded monkey and stepping away from perfection, you're gonna throw the next guy under the bus and make it all their fault. Well it wasn't me, things were fine until Eve got uppity, so boo hiss on her for the next eon or three! 

 

Puzzleheaded_Drop

In 2002, a woman I was crazy about told me in a dream that I had married Kali! I woke up, freaked out. Right away, I was taken through yet another well-deserved course in mirrors, looking at me. I wondered the other day, if what the world needs, now, instead of Jesus, is Kali, who doesn’t seem to me to care for how men think.

 

Men certainly have had plenty of chances, and look at how messed up the world is today. That wasn’t a knock on Jesus, whose teachings on how to live would have transformed humanity, had humanity taken those teachings to heart and lived them.

Meanwhile, I here’s a poem about Eve that fell out of me a few years after the bi-ploar poem fell out of me. If the shoe fits :-)

"Eve's Answer”

Vexing Truth

Life is Poetry,

Poetry is Life,

There's no more to say,

but that wouldmake God

a really dull boy,

now wouldn't it, Eve?

So, Eve,What say you?

After all,You have been,

still are,

blamed,for everything that went wrong

with hu - MAN - i - ty.

Well, do you really want to hear

what I gotta say?

Is this one of those

be careful what you ask for pregnancies?

Well, is it?

Probably, but say what you wish -

I s'pect you need to be heard.

Heard?

Funny you mention ears.

Yes, ears.

Such important receptacles.

Yet filled with concrete,

shit, propaganda, beliefs,certainties,

well, let's not leave out

SUPERSTITION an dRELIGION,

now should we?

By the way,

where do ya suppose

God came from?

Or, out of?

And, why do ya s'pose

I made Eve

in my own IMAGE?'

Cause Adam was

so bored and dull -

so ... predictable

He was BORING!!!

the shit outta me!!!

That's why.

Now

Shusssssh -

Don't go round quoting me

on any of that -

I've had quite enough of

the religious right

ta last me

the rest of forever

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com