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by Anthony Estes A collection of writings from the summer of 1999 to 2003. Inspired by friends, lovers, allies, and explorations. This is my life's perception. These thoughts combined create a window into one hell of a journey from Chicago to the edge of existence but still searching for more. |
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Send an email to spacelotus@phamilygathering.com if you would like a copy of the book or a pdf file created by Bartok for Burning Man 2003 Deep beneath all that we see is the center of my gravity The balance between earth and man is the center of my gravity Freedom of knowledge through culture in song is the center of my gravity Making love to the sun from a mountain top is the center of my gravity The giving of gifts by the grips of waves is the center of my gravity Finding the honor in the sacrifice for peace is the center of my gravity Watching the fire melt hypocrisies is the center of my gravity Laughter for no reason is the center of my gravity Taking the time to cultivate one’s imagination is the center of my gravity Conversation with the wind is the center of my gravity To tilt the angle and twist perspectives is the center of my gravity The snow falls up to my nose Intentions closed No self control Consumption of greed I fall to my knees I’m now a snowman losing my green Like a starving race we circle the plate Forming in lines with no escape The vice grip tightens while our innocence cries I look at myself in the mirror and say goodbye I render my thoughts to a place I once knew A love free for all with encouragement for me and you A land positively made for pleasure To the point of orgasm in our minds forever The dust in the air carries the ambitions of our virgin intuitions Every step across the playa is a step closer to the fire The expansions of life and the capabilities of flight make our possibilities endless with might The surge of energy with each breath taken The feeling of supremacy while being in control of our destiny Every action given is a contribution to the community Every person you speak to is you equal their happiness is your gratuity Words try to explain the forces that rearrange the thoughts in our brains forced upon us by the culturally deranged It’s the feelings and the inspiration that pulls you in The respect and collaboration with so many friends The heat and determination for spontaneous masturbation ignites my passion to make you scream and beg for more Charity opens the door The birth of collaboration A step up in evolution New discoveries in spirituality awakening sensations of euphoria Reaching inner peace Breaking down barriers Opening the way to Intellectual growth and communication Life in its grandest state makes the depressions disappear, the sadness sleep, and the negative never more Unmasking the unknown Introducing reality to the fantasies filling the minds of us all The future of human kind has just begun to flourish into a dance of joy inspiring art and beauty to rise with the sun It’s time to grab hold of our intuitions and become the rock stars we truly are Feel the breeze you and me On top the tree singing free Above all through the wall Hold on tight Fear not to fall Across the horizon Make children No fighting Close your eyes Drift off Imagine no crying Let go of boundaries Search for lighting Open your eyes The world’s not so frightening Do as you please As would in your dreams Scream out loud on top of a cloud Find your dharma in the ground Next to the tree where you heard the song by the two of us Free and sound The pursuit of pleasures to slay the beast Live life to the fullest to say the least With undoubted knowledge to fulfill the feast of peace and love to never cease Striking the body with a tantric touch to free the scent of passion and lust Play on the swing and kiss the sky You are yourself not him, her, or I I sit myself down in the sand to reflect on life and find who I am I am a person just like you We live on the same earth just a different point of view It’s hard to imagine what the next day will bring Live your life in the present the future is just a dream Expect nothing but what you can give and in return you have found a friend Take in to effect the times have changed We’re stuck holding on to our past while our culture is rearranged How can creativity surpass if the governments don’t support our fundamental acts? I don’t understand the expectations of an out lived generation Not one person is the same but we live our lives by a dead person’s perception Evolution has become a corporation of individuals striving for material possession The thought of spirituality seems secondary to the rise of fame No time for pointing fingers and placing the blame Let the imagination escape and there’s no such thing as jealousy and hate Energy takes hold of my soul and fills my heart with contributions from life releasing my spirit to take flight and my will to explore spread peace and happiness with an appreciation to love all creations of chaos dancing in a plush field of liberty and a freedom to kiss the lips that light my flame keeping me warm and secure in reaching the purpose for being spiritually strong as the winds collecting the scent of our laughter and addiction to the sun making all beauties unite under the moon to comfort our screams which makes our sadness seems meaningless in a world filled with harmonies that make us remember what it’s like being a child as time ticks away at the seams of our rights and dreams of a clean reality which moves us forward in evolution one step at a time when not all men are created equal but as cattle grazing in a pasture of higher educational greed accounting for the rebellion that flows in our veins and makes us human beings searching for a way to cure disease and ends wars about colors of skin or the beliefs that make us who we are and set us apart from the laziness that continues to keep the creation of art in our minds instead of on the page which our children read and learn the energy I speak of I feel distant in my mind No concept of time Almost not real To the point of fantasies being reveled Another day of mystery until the dawn Tomorrow it will be history like the words to a song What else is there to do When your reality turns to blue Your identity breaks off in two Your intentions are stuck in glue Nothing, just except who you are Expand your thoughts from near to far From violence From rape From sickness and hate
From anguish From pain From sorrow and rain
From disease From crying From police and dieing I wish for people to stand up
To art To poetry To love and philosophy
To friendship To happiness To courage and prosperity
To health To freedom To peace and spirituality I wish upon thea a free reality The anticipation of a society’s creation A world of hope with an artist’s dedication Escaping the hype of our materialized nation The birth of compassion to love our neighbors and be a unified expression The exchange of desires in the heat of passion lights my fire I am you and we are everything among the dancing empire We rise with the sun and fall down to earth to find the gift we were given at birth To strive for peace To love all man Reach out to a friend and walk the land Look deep inside to find your soul Amongst the wind we are free to roam Like the mountain reaching so high Remember to soar in what ever frees your mind Look at the moon can you see your reflection? Imagine the possibilities in this world we live in I’m not gonna work hard anymore for a job that treats me like a two dollar whore To disrespect a human being who changed his life to keep your cash register ringing I slave for you and all you think about is a profit we’ll let me tell you something you can take this job and shove it up your ass and out your nose It’s time for you to realize there’s more to life than what your ego sews Out the door I run to gain my sanity I hope you have fun finding a new fool to lick your crack and be your tool One day I might see you again sitting on the corner with your cup of tin I’ll give you a dime then say good bye I hope you realize from my perspective why I think you are a fucking waste of my time Emptiness comes over me. Bill collectors frighten my freedom. I’m sick and tired of playing catch up. So much for the gift, it’s now turned into a burden. I’m just now seeing the repercussions of my life style. I play with the big dogs for a while then swim to the deepest depths of the ocean. The most important thing for me to do now is not give up, be strong, and just live my life. I know the sun is my friend and wisdom will guide my way. This would only be a waste if I didn’t learn from my mistakes. It’s been a hell of a ride so far. It’s felt as if I was living life at a hundred miles an hour and now I’m stalled out. All I can do is daydream and hope for the best. If I could only turn my brain off and sit in silence to enjoy the breeze of a spring day. My biggest goal to achieve is to be able to be calm when shit hits the fan. My freak outs flip a switch that brings out my worst achievements. Like everyone I meet there always seems to be a time to feel sad. Being broke and penny less you see the world in a different light. So far I realize a bit more about how humans have evolved into what our government likes to call a capitalistic society. It seems like people who have can live with the fact that others do not. For the rich to be rich the poor will be poor. Is it wrong to want to look towards the future? Is it wrong to want to change the traditions set forth by the people who lived before us? People change. Humans evolve. Why are we stuck in the sludge that will some day kill us off? We must pay attention to what we produce into the world besides the electricity and the gourmet foods. I’m talking about the smoke stacks and the people behind bars. The ideal world would have an equal society unlike ours which seems to be free above the surface but if you look a little to the left and a little to the right you might see things in a different light. I realize my point of view is only one representation of what has seemed to have happen to our O great nation. I guess a part of me wants a revolution but to many people find it easy to live the way that we do. Just as the rich make the poor the good creates the bad. With one you always seem to find the other. To change direction we must have forgiveness and that means opposites must work together to find one common ground. The bounties of the world need to be shared not with a monetary value but with the merit of a good life. For peace to happen we must let go of material objects that clutter the focus. From this day forward I move my heart from exploration to revolutionary because to explore with an open mind we must have a clear path to follow. You only get what you pay for You only get what you give You only get what you dream of everyday that you live Breaking down the concept of space A place to go with no disgrace Your faults erased at a snails pace Pick and choose a day dream to soothe because in space you have nothing to lose Chillin on the porch watching the world go by Trying to breakdown why a person has to die Too much cholesterol in the apple pie I glance at you with a smile Your funk brings a tear to my eye The silence of the serpent wonders me To be free to fly and earn my keep Conversation amazes me The flow of collaboration through ideas and dreams Like butter on a hot skillet the word poses a goal to achieve Beyond anticipation and the finish line the blind ways of man lead to no where except the place you were born The brain wears down like the lead of a pencil when all you think about are the thoughts that posses you Imagining a place to retreat the youth and innocence of creation watching as we evolve into a tie and a suit jacket I puke at the site of our civilization evolving into electricity dependent marshmallows Harsh words seace when I realize I am the person my mind dwells on but to no worry, because I’m growing as the letters of this mess spell out the equation of deliberation through the blood that feeds my soul A diligence of sort Divided concurring to report The cold chill sends the will of gifts Deep inside the axis shifts to allow the sweat embracing of humbling taste Music pastes the picture of purity through arrangement not authority Identity of style and shape tend to define the core to which we relate and form debates to free our mind and uncover the unexpected Our wisdom resurrected from the subconscious and the birth of the righteous to show the way so new generations don’t repeat what we set out to defeat Let the words run from the lips and electricity shakes the hips to dance and take a chance with a love collaboration One and two make three the odd creation Close your eyes can you see a revolution of truth Before you know it you’re setting sail Revelations of uncertainty solve the questions for which we encourage our prime incentives of being free and not controlled by the soldiers we train to defeat the cold and relentless thieves who rob us of life and in return give us grief by the blade of a knife that we supplied and lied to the hard working communities that pay the taxes to keep the villains active but with our reaction we must stay strong to show the governments in charge are wrong in the way they give power to the criminals who takes our away A suffocating silence shutters the mind In and out the head forces tend to rewind behind the street wise A penny in the hand may become a surprise If you dissect the eyes you might find the lies to be a little sideways After living chaos time to go to the highway and if you want to get freaky hit up the bi ways Don’t under estimate the importance of the happy days No reruns Just a bunch of see and says Sitting on top of an arcade Beating the street Finding a hustle and getting paid Paying the bills Collin the chills Blessing the man for pressing the pills Peal the skin Rebirth begins Erase the sins Let me in to satisfy Keep you out to recognize Say my peace to synthesize Will you reply to the one and only west side hypnotize Or will you say good bye in the stench of a lie The blue sky feels fine with a box of red wine Turn around and look back to see the wall collapse My dignity now intact Experiencing the gravitational pull from the inner connections between the gene pool Recollections of once being unaware of the box that keeps us bound Time to find and exit Time to walk around I’m confused with the notion: Should a person live a life to indulge the senses or build endurance towards virginity? My pulse subsides The floor speaks with the enthusiasm of a drum Vibrations of sound sets the mood and freshens the air Are you aware our senses battle with hunger just like one another? In every orifice and every pore is a need to feel adored The slightest touch on the skin will soon begin when birds that sing become our friends Out amongst the grass sits a young boy who reached in his pocket and pulled out a plum He smiles with delight The taste was right He grew three feet that day and ran faster that light The simplest of stories may break the ice of insecurities but to quench the thrust of the comedic verse is by far the sweetest purse Driving Smiling Eating out of your hand Remembering what it was like sleeping in the sand
The fresh air and synchronicity Dancing under the tree of life Making History
Tapping in thought to make a plea Piercing deep into my soul Imagine loving free Begging the sunshine to let me in To beam me up and make me his friend Like Kerouac and a glass of gin I bury my hands in the earth and hold my heart made of sin
The gears grind to my surprise Detecting the lies My arms tied I try to lift off the ground but realize I can't fly I try to speak but the peanut gallery is to salty Inside I start to weep but I bite my tongue Poetry if my calling I stand my ground and pretend that no one’s around I’m in charge so put you fucking swords down I do this to educate To set us straight form the propaganda stuffed in our faces I feel honored to sacrifice my dignity to make people realize what we can be The possibilities are endless Just like our imagination is a tool for creation our compassion is a tool to form relations with the brothers and sisters whom we call strangers can one day become our neighbors If we could only evolve with the times there would be no unemployment lines and you would find it not a crime to feel free to open your mind Living on crack corner where the vampires search to fulfill your order Rocks or blows and hard knock hoes A bountiful feast for the worlds least The cycle revolves everyday from the bed you sleep to the filthy street On your hands and knees you slither and creep to find your dose before you weep Too close to my blood I can not watch Friends to foe I wish it would stop Smooth the cracks and take the streets back from the life less victims of a dope fiends rap Abuse than you lose When lost there is no return To die on crack corner is a life left to burn Preparing for capture Waiting for prey Looking at the rapture every working day Held tight with a cloth of red Light emanating from my head To attract your spirit Telepathic kisses Can you feel it? Don’t be shy What every you say will be just fine for our naked ears need to feed on the mystical rhyme What do you really need to survive with balance in your surroundings? What color do you bleed? It’s the same as every living being Fold my hands to pray to what I don’t know, or do I? What a surprise to find the god that put me here with no purpose but to get lost I’m searching for a candy land No judgment allowed Self indulgence is not a need Freedom for exploration endured Peace of mind Respect for life Were not the only ones Think of all the daughters and sons The urge to scream kicks at my feet Must ease my vibration A common thought of love I weep Understanding the core that builds the wall The outward push sends us to death with no real reason to enjoy a vague hope that the next dimension is a tropical getaway with no one around to spoil the day A feeling of hate runs through my body when I realize I work for chicken feed Sick of the corporate greed Time to plant the sunflower seeds I just want respect No over the head dialect I’m not a robot that works for you We work as a team I sign my name I give you truth I look out for you You look out for me To be classified as a low, mid, or high is to say you are less of a man than I I sweat just like you and work just as hard Treat me like an equal My voice is just as loud Don’t you want to feel proud of the people around you? If not then your enemies will surround you I might be shy and I might be young But on the inside I am a lion ripping your heart out It’s the principle To give you must receive I feed my strength Your pity is what I read In the red, white, and blue we’re economic prisoners Our quality of life threatened A cry for help is calling to open the ears of those blinded souls who think everything is OK just as long as my credit card balance is paid America is merely a pocket in the world but yet we create more damage than all the others combined. The man is just better at hypnotizing our people to believe in a false freedom. Our straight forward image causes our walls to grow higher as we alienate ourselves from the rest of the world. What materials we’ve been told are important to gain were just a gimmick to fuel the flow of currency, to make the greedy rich, and to camouflage the beauty of the ordinary simple human being. I give a solute to all the conmen who have lead the world to war. You’re all nothing but a bunch of psychos that made the rest of us poor. Killing innocent people on the dotted line to expand boundaries and watch a cultures demise. But when you realize how much money war creates for our governments. Well, there’s your answer why. FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH I wish I could say to you face I would spit and save the day. Look what you have done with your trillion dollar gun. It’s killing the force that made you a man. You’re committing suicide where you stand. I officially inaugurate myself into the lower class. My credit is shit and my life is in dept. I’m chasing a dream I never witnessed but was thrown down my throat by the giant political machine. Built by murder and greed we The United States of America can’t seem to get the disease out of our system. Addicted we think only of ourselves and with disorder we turn on one another because we may look a bit different or we may have been labeled a certain way. Call me what you will I know my name It will always stay the same No matter what I wear or where I stare my name stays the same No matter what time of day or the words I say You’ll ask me like a man because you don’t know but what you see You only find out when you ask and only then will you receive It doesn’t have to be like this. Stop living in vain and help your fellow man find the true meaning of freedom. Remember it’s not about you but us. I’m only one of many and can only do so much but that’s nothing compared to what can happen when people works together. We’ve seen what a country can do. Let’s see what our world can achieve as one. Stage to the left Up rise in strife Coma removed In scents burnt night Worships cool air Lost paint Blank stare Eating the dew Sweat pours Found ground Sucking toes Need dies Picked your nose Apple falls Why fake Friends with fate Related to state Lower the rate Misplaced the verb Doorbell rings A misfit answers Water in the ears Stars for lunch Time is not a measurement but a feeling A sense of movement Sometimes slow Sometimes fast Having no control but not knowing when the last second is To question time is to realize there is no such thing Just one big drawn out life with many different perspectives Cover the system with a mist of roses To whom do I honor this quaint visit? There is no face to read Your energy is submissive Tripping on what grows Turn around to pull from the ground What gets in your way deserves not to live another day Is that what you think when you see death do you blink? No amount of washing will clean the sins from your presidential sink Just admit to what you have done People make mistakes Have your apologies begun But what do you care? You have some chump bring you clean underwear Being taken care of from the neck down Speaking for people you’ve never seen around No one really knows what we need Only what calms us To make or minds reseed Beware cause in a little time the fade will change The next mock election will be arranged Another suit to look at and another face to place the blame Searching for a vocabulary to out fit my soul An apocalypse of brainwaves to infiltrate the population to rid the world of the pop culture slaves Hungry? Then search for your own meal If you only take what’s given sooner or later you’ll have to steal The string grows tighter The puppet master has won What happened to the respect like father like son? Down we go like a pinnacle saint Shake a hand to end the restraint Television the intellectual prison Made to control our delicate situation Greased like a pistol Corrupt as the dark crystal For stimulation we dilate or eyes to what is given Still no time to feed the poor but just enough to engage war Rotten to the core you political whores Bending over collecting money in the back door So you can play on the high definition screen all that propaganda about the all American team Our minds have surpassed all your unconstitutional acts Excuse me as I burn the mask and give your reason a swing with my ax To the loved ones who make it to the other side May you find your peace and be free to fly You lived a life that no one could mirror The world has not ended The planet still spins Life comes to full circle I’ll feel you blowing in the wind Political monopoly our generation plays Trying to keep our wealth and our mortgage paid Blocked by barricades of the right wing renegades A mockery made of the outside world America is power in a downward spiral Giving up on every emotion worked for by the innocent ginnipigs feeding on government cheese They plan for us how to live and breath You call that free Remember the 60’s and the sacrifices made Lives put on the line Respect was paid to the revolutionary minds that paved the path to freedom of speech and pro humanitarian acts A positive march to rewrite the story of the hell that seems so mandatory to keep the picture painted of happy people accepting authority Take a stance and be you own entity Fulfill your destiny to learn from past hypocritical memories One life taken seems fine if you fighting on the opposite side A white flag in the air opens the blood hungry eyes I see you driving in your S.U.V Radio blasting Pretending to be a king What happened to walking on you own two feet? Oh yeah that’s right the bigger the car the smaller the meat I need an aphrodisiac for the soul A cosmic consciousness next door to reality Escaping the walls There exists no gravity Sensations blend A blurring of reason To realize we are a part of everything and in control of nothing Ease the broken glass vibes The self richious attitude blankets the truth Read the eyes to unravel the noose Tearing into my stick shift heart Drinking the nectars Buried in a river filled with salt To sour to drink To dense to sink Coincidence you sly friend The path you took to uncover the lady Leaps over fields of rainbow lilies Her sweet divine sage questions every last crave A psychedelic world exists through doors opened by Mother Nature’s hidden gifts Expanded thought will persist Words can not yet explain the edge this wave creates With patience and awareness of ones true self a meditative trust will guide your way to levels once bestowed by shamans ages ago Primal yet elegant Scent of soft silence Puzzled to the point of intrigue Imagining the artistic and spiritual possibilities Van Gogh comes to heart Comparing the lines that separate this dimension from the next Both harsh yet beautiful in the representation of emotional feelings A suit of energy skin tight Travel to a space not made of light but of solid thought opened in full sight To touch salvation and explore an uncharted territory of the mind is not as far off as one would think Just take a deep breath Hold it for 20 seconds Try not to blink Inside a Rubik’s cube six lines of dissection spiral to the center of a vortex This is reality dimensions away My world is spinning to the point of having no sanity A woman’s voice relaxes me Accept your fate she sings There comes a time when all actions are powerless Rejoicing in realizing that I am not part of a material realm but by infinite levels of consciousness waiting for me to find the strength to see the truth Adjusting to the memory of what I recalled on the last visit with the divine mint Everything I knew before had no place in this space She is in charge Any amount of fear either conscious or subconscious is thrown before your eyes You either accept you fate or hold on for the ride She is an ally you hold close and learn control Only those who are worthy are guided on their way to the sacrament Those who are chosen take on the responsibility to hold onto her truth and respect the power This is not a cheap thrill but a rocket blasting through doors of consciousness Only with wisdom and balance with ones self can a person be ready to explore her world Be honest for she sees through lies and reprimands the one My life pattern is changed with every visit From a straight line to a spherical imagination Questions past our concept of life’s creation To an infinite expandability of our minds interpretation of a true path of spiritual greatness She finally opened the door to her den last
night May you find the inspiration to believe your
imagination Earth mothers Plants enrich Animals protect Man Cultivates Together we are life With out one nothing would exist Give me a blunt or give me death I’ll take my last breath with my friends T, H, and C I’ll enjoy my day singing a song to release my joy free Unlike the booze I always lose the battle Society pushes the bottle to the children like a toy rattle So of course you might think it would be safe if I had a drink No one would judge me for being a pot head granola freak But when I think twice the herb seems so nice than to turn the bottle upside down Your senses damaged and there’s no point for sound cause your on the ground tossing you cookies passed out no one’s around Instead of buying that case you should have bought a pound of that sweet Mary Jane She always makes the negative energy just fade away 15 billion years of evolution from the birth of the planet to the awakening of our perception Living on the edge of human existence and
born with the same heart as the first human we're not far from who we
where An essence of simplicity hoping for
reassurance to encourage our choice to take what we think is ours In reality we belong to the eternity of all Our quest to satisfy the demons swell as the
war with our life force destroys a hope for finding God We walk on her with every step To have control of existence we must have
control of ourselves Excepting a balance of wants and needs Deciding what will benefit all life not just what’s right for man It’s hard to be who you are when trigger happy crusaders force you to be someone you’re not. There is no just cause for war. What’s best for some is just hell for others. Good or bad destroy one and there could be no sun. Remember we’re not just fighting terror, we’re are fighting ourselves with an undetermined future. The choices we make today will shape tomorrow. A world built on blood sooner or later may burst and flood. So stop the bombs on our mother so one day the sun will shine, dust will clear, and we will explore love honestly. May we always have the freedom to pass on the stories that teach the truth and pray for all people so one day we can live in peace. You can live by technology or you can make you own philosophy Participants keep on sinking Conceptionist free their thinking A broad horizon echoes my thoughts Dreams of mount Zion recycle my consciousness Floating in a sea lotus’s I’m caught My mind rests in clouds of cotton candy Playing peek a boo on top of Manchu Pechu Stranded on a island with my sweet Mediterranean equestrian Uninhibited blissful secretion of passion Bare naked wet bodies Fantasy is reality Lay me down blanket of sea Fluttering away on wings of life Captain of beyond Kisses from god Yes my heart deep in blood Thick my breath All is my sight I grasp hold of reality Reality as light as a feather My father the weight of never Season to reason Depth conception from the inside of my gut The whole world hears the time is now No fear is near Smooth energy vibration Rainbow tight passion Ride to inspire or insanity Puffs of clouds soft landing Prepare for elevation See a revelation Be a new creation for unity of spirit To see now means a lot more. To see past, through, or beyond. A view point of a giant with the body of a human being. I know what I feel but language can’t explain. I choose to be far away because it makes me feel proud to be alive. It is who I am and what I must do. Not all ears will open and not all words are spoken. I see my body as a unit, I feel my soul is who I live to be, a ray of light or a cloud of smoke. Om shanti shanti shanti |