endless lesson

the words came back through flora purim
same as I heard them one night
soon after the record came out
1972 - return to forever:

look around you my people
if you look then you will see
how to love – life is paradise
all together
what game shall we play today

and in my fragrant bath on a scorching hot day
i realized this song embodies the most benevolent
aspect of my dear outrageously honest tom dodd
who gave me hope when I was young as did the song

here we are all together
free to have and do and be
what we see – for the first time
all together
what game shall we play today

the song the singer the teacher
insisted upon joyous creativity
when like now so much
seemed hemmed by madness

for tom the notion of boredom
was insufferably wasteful
nonsense of the numbest
and least engaging

there were
there are
no un-marvelous
or uninspiring
chapters

you
are
here

arwulf arwulf
july 2013