Invincible Anti-Weapon
[Anti-Weapon / New Manhattan Project]
Introductory Ode to the Invincible Anti-Weapon
Because war and strife have been done and done.
We’ll end them with an anti-weapon against which no violence can stand.
I like to be healthy and free, with spending money and time to stroll the lanes and greens.
Or while me awhile on wharfs with freighters spilling over overhead — for example.
And let our minds be beautiful and our art hilarious as God’s patience!
This anti-weapon sucks the hardness out of every heart
without even trying.
We win without moving,
So we can use movement to work the infinite space of creative thought.
No one can resist the ageless, pre-idea, pre-feeling Truth;
It screams within and without each human outline.
No one’s immune. No one!
And thus the anti-weapon advances, claims us all everyone.
No longer cramped and torn in illusions of zero sum me vs you,
we move free on earth as in heaven.
What anti-weapon?
Love?
Yes, but infinite:
a ruthless compassion
whose relentless expansion
is actually just a change of perspective — a turning towards the how-it-is.
Turn me round, let me see. Turn us to see, help us see.
Fill me up. Stand me up straight and tall.
Help me push out from within.
Please!
I don’t want to keep limping along like a wet noodle all the livelong day.
A bright light that laughs merrily, kindly, all is well.
Something like that.
An anti-weapon of great power.
AMW/BW
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[Anti-Weapon / New Manhattan Project]
[Something Deeperism Institute]
Original Version:
Because war and strife have been done and done.
I’ll end them with an anti-weapon against which no violence can stand.
I like to be healthy and free, with spending money and time to stroll the lanes and greens. Or while me awhile on wharfs with freighters spilling over overhead–for example.
And let our minds be beautiful and our art hilarious as god’s patience!
This anti-weapon sucks the hardness out of every heart without even trying. We win without moving; so we can use movement to work the infinite space of creative thought.
No one can resist the ageless, pre-idea, pre-feeling Truth; it screams within and without each human outline. No one’s immune. No one! And thus the anti-weapon advances, claims us all everyone. No longer cramped and torn in illusions of zero sum me vs you, we move free on earth as in heaven.
What anti-weapon?
Love?
Yes, but infinite: a ruthless compassion whose relentless expansion is actually just a change of perspective–a turning towards the how-it-is.
Turn me round, let me see. Turn us to see, help us see.
Fill me up. Stand me up straight and tall. Help me push out from within. Please! I don’t want to keep limping along like a wet noodle all the livelong day.
A bright light that laughs merrily, kindly, all is well. Something like that. An anti-weapon of great power.
AMW / BW