Be Poly Be Many

 

 

 

Like Psyche, She says,

Get-with-it—

                     I give you

                         the new connection,

     I give you, like,

                            permission

to be any of many-

                             in-

                                   one

                     I say be poly,

            be many,

   embody

                  multidimensionality

         out of

                    the burstin’ out

             of invisibility—

Like, who walks into

                     your little ego

                                     body?

          Is it

             sub-personality?

                Higher Self I AM?

                    Astral entity?

                        Disembodied

                                 unfinished

                                              soul?

               ET wants ta

                      suck up

                          your energy

     or reveal to you

               a new destiny

                      more than

                             you alone

                                    could imagine—

             Can you, like, handle it?

      Can you, like,

                             do it?

 

Learn discernment,

learn, like, who wants ta speak?

              Who wants ta dress,

                        like how—?

Like now, you can do it—

Be poly,

                be many,

be full of surprises,

be spontaneity

        of intelligence,

            but be smart

                       about it,

            and be

                 without confusion—

     Ring a bell

                          & get clear,

           if you need to.

Don’t fret,

                 don’t get upset,

    Psyche

          comes to you

                   & shows you

             how to,

                      speaks the word

         when it’s right—

    Trust

               & be—

 

Like, no more confusion

No more frustration

No more alienation

No more dis-

                     orien-

                               tation

Like, step into the street,

        a liberated animal,

                throw open your cage—

                                    Can you say it?

World, I don’t take your conditionin’,

        I’m a new gem out of the dirt

                  you threw at me—

       See, my facets, my beat,

           I’m connectin’ to

                     the Big Wheel

                         spinnin’ like I’m goin

                              in sync,

        round & round,

                       hittin’ the bell

          each time—

 

           Be Sun, be Moon,

                 be the planet or star you choose—

            Be masc, be femme,

                be polymorphous

                         in any verse,

                     be, like, androgynous

                             incarnate,

                   be trans-

                                 gendered

                  Be high-tech cyborg,

                             if that’s your thing,

                      be poet shaman

                                    of Vision

             & read others

                                    the future,

                      be prophet misunderstood,

                                    heart full of

                               new truth,

                    you speak it—

                           Be the mover,

                                legend maker,

                be dancer of the sky,

         be your lover

                              in reverse,

                 be lover to another

                                 who is other,

                    who knows

                         this place,

                  who knows

                         how you talk,

             who knows, like,

                     the hidden code words

                                         you know…

        but nothin’s secret

                                  if you

                      open

                              the window—

 

  Be poly,

                be many,

           be any of many-

                                     in-

                                          one

The grand

                 dis-

                       pen-

                              sation,

                        the cominat’cha shot

                   of injectable Time

                                    gives it to ya

I give you

                the new connection,

       I give you, like,

                             permission,

says Psyche—

 

Be the bird sunrise

you Song-throated you—

 

Be the lipstick sunset

       celebrated

                 of a thousand pictures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 1999