Psychedelics inspired poem...

Untitled, I wrote the first 3 lines tripping on mushrooms and finished it the next day.

I am not to be seen,
nor heard, smelled nor tasted
but to be felt without senses,
above delusion of human perception
peel my skin like dry paint off a canvas,
for art is not eternal
nor immortal, it is bound to its creator

And I am the generator,
fueling the minds of luminous teenagers,
chaotic like airplane propellers
splattered with clay, a sculpture
that spans the length of a curved runway,

And here lies point A
telling how to begin
but not where, why, with whom or when,
for the end lies on the horizon

I am your ticket,
your pass on the bus
that pulsates and bubbles with pus
alive as you and the rest of us
steady customers, but not them,
stable and sane, with sanitized brains
in the shapes of tetrahedrons, pointed like weapons,
legions marching in straight lines of reason,
while we roll along like the cycle of seasons

 

Thanks, I also took a lot of inspiration from The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test... The most obvious being the bus metaphor.

 

Ha, I could never really see it as a rap, but maybe spoken word...

 

Thanks, that was one of my favorite parts to. The book is amazing! A great social documentary of the 1960's psychedelic movement, but told through the perspective of the craziest, most hardcore acid trippers to ever exist! But they're not freaks, because they're all really intelligent(The leader is the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and can handle that much mental stimulation. They don't have to work because they just live off of the money Kesey is making from is award winning book and play. But there's some twists and I won't say anything, but it's also got some great descriptions of the acid tests that they ran all around the country, and of the acid trips themselves. Anyway, I definitely reccomend it if you're into that culture.

 

Maybe, I write lyrics for my band and a lot of them are strong enough to be poems, but I might end up just posting some more like this one once I finish this other project I'm working on.