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Antler: The Selected Poems

Book Review by: daniasri    

Original Author: Gary Snyder
We wish that benificent beings from Outer Space
would land on Earth and bring us the Vision we need
to save us from
destroying the world.
We wish a spaceship would come from Outer Space
and transport us to its planet''''s utopia
where creatures exactly like us but enlightened
or creatures very different from us but enlightened
exist.
We wonder if some of the people we know
aren''''t possibly from Outer Space,
Or complete strangers of unearthly beauty
or great tender geniuses of love,
poetry, music, dance, art—
are they not emissaries from "out there"?
We wonder if possibly we are
Outer Space Reconnaissance Consciousnesses
programmed not to awake till now,
Cosmic Reconnaissance Renaissance Consciousnesses
programmed not to awake till now.
What is my Mission on this planet?
What am I here for? What am I here for?
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Suddenly we realize WE ARE FROM OUTER SPACE!
WE ARE CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE!
EARTH IS OUR PLANET IN OUTER SPACE!
We don''''t have to go in a spaceship from Earth to the Moon
and take Mescaline and look back at our Earth
or walk in space after smoking
millions of joints
to realize we''''re in Outer Space!
We are just as much in Outer Space
wherever we are on this Planet
as we''''d be on our moon
Published: February 13, 2008
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