Change cannot be too far behind.
She came into the farm
where I often work
and asked for ten big bags of Alpaca poo.
Of course, I said, Thats no problem,
I bet you are a museli munching
left wing liberal, save the planet type
digging Post-Modernism The Eels and watch
lots of cultish French films.
She said, Yeah how d'ya guess?
I just smiled and said, because
I dream of Rothko painting on
my tombstone with those runny bits
soaking into my old rotting body
applauded by a parade of Goths and Wierdos
who never actually sleep.
What gave me that clue?
Her T shirt said (front) Love Trees
and (back) Save Polar Bears.
I told her I did these things
but my love remains unrequieted.
She said, Listen to me
the first words I ever spoke were
Om Mani Padme Hum.
I was deeply impressed.
At nursery school I organised a war resistance group
and demanded we stop reading
Janet and John books
and got to learn about cave men,
Celts, Jutes and Saxons
things that were real.
Then she brightly blushed,
Tell me of you she said.
Well when I was thirteen
I wanted to be a lumberjack
wear pink lipstick and high heels and
had Lisa Minelli pictures
pinned to the bottom of my school desk lid.
Needless to say I was a late developer
but felt like some sort of god.
She gave me a strange look
Like I'd better give this guy advice
before total mental breakdown occurs
and let him know there are other ways of living.
Read Frank O'Hara and John Ashberry she said.
I told her I had,
also Ginsberg, Blake, Shelley and Haiku.
It was then she began chanting 'The Heart Sutra'
in Japenese
and this totally turned me on, followed by
The Red Flag and Power to the People..
Do you know, she said,
I'm in the Professional Mantra Chanter's
Darts League Team. We get all sorts there
Bin men, Brain surgeons, Prostiutes..all sorts.
We always hit one hundred and eighty
when the spirit moves us.
Would you like to join us, she said,
coz I can see you might be a Marxist
and you look like someone who might like incense.
Also I think I could love you.
I started to get weepy
like being at school
being the last one to be picked
for the class football team.
Then I said I could love you too
but most of my spare time
is spent at the Organic Tea Drinkers
Appreciation Society.
She said..What's a lovely man like youi
doing living in a place like this?
It gives me strength, I said
and a sense of wonder.
Change cannot be too far behind.
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