Jose de Gouveia 

A Long-Distance Love Meditation
 
The pulse of a lover's mourning
beats flush flesh red at daybreak
trembling with desire acheing for want
of what once was but now absent of

In these temporary states distanced
by oceans I swim the butterfly across
the waters of imagination images
of recent memory find fancy here

Where anything is possible I feel
your body curl into the curves of
mine together bowing down to the
will of the gods and our own humanity

These mortal rocks of flesh soften
only upon each other's exclusive touch
bending our realities to fit the form
of our dreams where we alone create

A Love we never knew nor knew it could
know us for if power lie in the knowing
of things than the things we think of each
other transcend even our feelings of being

Yet human we are in this form we take
this Life we live this journey we take
from island to peninsula to main land
to sea from air by land we travel to meet

And be this Love that has set us free
from the shackles of conformities
you there I here we always near
that rhythm flowing through the veins

Of one celestial body shared
singing songs of Life-long Love
as our rivers flow from mountaintops
into the valley of each other's Soul

Where our own ocean's tide rises
and swells under fool-hearty full
moons smiling upon our ripened fruit
harvested again when the sickle glows

Finding Mother Moon grinning upon us
again as we depart our body for a Love
that reigns as Lord in the Kingdom
that only two bodies as one can find

Beyond the confines of our mind

 


 

Subject: Computer Virus Warning

Virus, virus on my hard drive
of my PC with '98 windows
a whole lot of gateways to a soul
infected and infecting
spreading like a cancer
killing my memory of many
long lost and deleted objects
for I too have seen the best
gigabytes of my generation destroyed
by yet another hackers madness as I
shove an aspirin into my disk drive
and double click on Dr. Watson's menu

As the online porn queens moan and groan
RealAudio sound bytes of virtual MichaelAngelo...

Because the information highway ends not
by the blow of a silent horn but the zap
of an opened folder as a new Y2K
era is upon us I'm not sure if
mutations of newly adapted technology
will heal all in some sort of Virtual Second Coming
or kill us all in the rougher electronic slouchings
of a much meaner holographic beast

The computer monitor awaits
with RealVideo and WebTV
just click here for free access
its not 2000 but 1984
much different from grade school
when being hooked on phoenics
felt so much different than
hooked on the internet

I'm with you Bill Gates in the starkness of a new millenium
with you as our on-line Savior with mouse in hand -
awaiting your crucifixion!

I'm with you Bill Gates in the sunny skyless cloudscapes
gleaming super-nova whiteness upon your capitalistic
blandness!

I'm with you Bill Gates in the blue glare of white
flashing screens with no savers in chat rooms and
forums and newsgroups and websites and, and, and...
The
New World Order's Age of Reason?

Because the world truly ends with
some sort of sound and whether it be
a bang or a whimper will never be noticed
in the internet zone where I swallow yet
another anti-virus somewhere in Norton

Wasting away again in Cyberspaceville...

While conforming to the net's political correctness
of kind words in chat rooms, sensitive electronic
mutabilities and safe on-line sex at an URL
linked to my homepage wondering if the

Computer has the virus
or do I..

 

 

 

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