EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING

 

Everything is everything

it's all in how you look at it

the day is the day

the sky is the sky

the song is the song

all is all is all

it's all in how you look at it

 

music is music and that's that

but music can't be music if the notes are flat

 

but ears can change and be changed...

listen with different ears and you can hear music everywhere

on the freeway, the factory floor,

in your garden and the creaking of the basement door

Coltrane and Bach used the same notes

Hendrix and Segovia played the same instrument

Cage and Gillespie sang in harmony

listen and you'll hear them

listen and you'll hear

listen and you'll

listen

 

art is beauty this everyone knows

but the portrait is ugly if you misplace her nose

 

but eyes can see much, much more than we think...

change your lenses, clean your glasses,

pop out them orbs and replace them if you have too...

whatever it takes to see things in a way unknown to you

see, see, see! that there is no fundamental difference in beauty

whether it is a flower or a sunset or a broken spring coil or a rust stained

toilet or...

 

poetry is poetry and it rhymes and it doesn't and

it has meter and it doesn't and it is static and it is dynamic

and it has almost nothing to do with language

if you want poetry listen to your dog snoring

if you want poetry go watch snails fucking

if you want poetry follow the mailman for seventeen blocks

if you want poetry check out the backhoe digging a trench out on Western

if you want poetry look closely in the eyes of your lover and don't you dare

turn away

if you want poetry remember...

 

everything is everything

everything is everything

everything is everything

everything is everything

everything is everything

everything is everything

 

(c) David McIntire

 

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