August 21, 2011

Sun Ra Sunday


THE SUBSTITUTE WORDS

How carefully laid the scenes
How brilliantly superimposed
The substitute words to say and do.
How forced the seeming way of the pseudo-life.
If they would believe that vanity has them captive
If they would but believe the earth-gravity
Has them chained to its earth-plane vibration
Then they would come to know
Beyond the thing they call
The Beginning and End of knowledge-wisdom.
They would come to know
And they would know they know.

--Sun Ra

2 comments:

Liz said...

Love this powerful image - seems like something Jung or Campbell would have enjoyed, too. Nice pairing with the poem!

Rodger Coleman said...

Thanks, Liz! :)