Jelly Jar Logic
"Jelly Jar Logic"
Living in a jelly jar,
Floating on a beam of light,
Psychedelic transcendental thoughts
Race through piles of mental junk
Looking for a place to land
Is an ancient white unicorn
Carrying multi-coloured trade beads
Speaking with my ancestors
Then, a knight of the round table
Grabs mighty Excalibur
Cutting the smoky air
While a rock n roll band
Plays a backbeat for a singing nun
Making time with 3 vestal virgins
Where preachers sermonize
On a topic of acid free rain
Now look behind the light show
You’ll find a red ball rolling and
Bouncing down the street
Where 2 naked bodies
In the distance, between
Here and the hill
Are entwined in
Passionate verbal intercourse
Stopped at a green light
At the corner of Haight and Ashbury
In a crowd of stoned-out people
Riding in a black convertible
Being driven by a
Book touting English professor
Is a young impressionable
Long-haired poet.
Scantily-clad women dance
In and along an ancient maze
Urged on by electric symphonic music
Filtered through newly-budded flowers
Leading the dancers
Away from a conformist society
Of grey-suited monkeys
Carrying their black satchels
Filled with pages-on-pages
Of contracts and memorandums
That indicate that it’s okay
To steal Indigenous water rights
Finding themselves being lead
By a bearded man
Wearing a tan-coloured gown
Looking like Jesus of Nazareth
A young man walks through hot coals
To lie down on a bed of nails
As a fire serpent
Curls up under the bushes
Of dried out branches
Trying to hide his frustration
Over the lies of political gorillas
Pounding their chests
Yelling out righteous obscenities
About the ills of society
And how they’re going to change
Legislation and make policies
That’ll better the world
And change the status quo
Looking through the curved glass
Of a half-empty jelly jar.
Personal note on the poem: one of my most favourite places to visit is San Francisco! I love walking around the city, up and down the hills and along the waterfront. There are so many things to see and for me I love to take photographs of the street and the people on the street. This to me is a snapshot of what I saw over a few days in the Haight Ashbury area....