Romano-British Dragon, 2nd Century.

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The Chords of Flesh & Spirit

"So it goes." --Vonnegut

What does it matter? Another age of Death, a repeat of things already destroyed. It seems we can never learn, because we don't really want to, HATE & PAIN are easier than LOVE & PASSION.

Truths are lies. One is none. So it slowly goes.

This strange deception of Time, this bizarre alteration of dimensions, has made me prone to disturbing dreams. Thought patterns intersect spasmodically. Realities bifurcate and fission, only to rejoin and be smoothed over in the stream of Time.

!Ignorance chokes us before we get the chance to breathe!

Notes:

I wrote this at a time (1999 approx) when nothing was certain. Those were times when I thought that 'success' or 'failure' were cleanly divided concepts. All the writing from this time period has that unfortunate innocence. I have my codes, but now it seems as if those polarizations have run their course. And the true lesson was that all of it; HATE & PAIN, LOVE & PASSION, are congruent, vital and contradictory--in themselves, and each other. If anyone was ever influenced by the 50 volumes of this missive, I apologise for the lack of confusion. It seems like there should have been less clarity and more chaos.

Maddening.

Especially, the 'one is none' business. I don't even know where that came from. It seems like it came from somewhere. If anyone has read that or this I would appreciate knowing where the phrase came from.

The Vonnegut thing. I met a girl, a sweet Aries, who got "So it goes." tattooed on her wrist. Say what you will about writer's, the work sometimes lives beyond them. Rare treasures.

Also in the 2006 issue by Massachusetts band Unearth, the song titled, "So it goes" covers some of the same conceptual ground that inspired my own writing. Trying to find a way in the world. Finding many. Surviving, awakening, we make it somehow. I definitely found it vital to encourage all those impulses towards honesty. Even if they later proved to be naive, and in some ways lies. The Core remains.