I Am Not Waiting

contra Ferlinghetti

I will say it now, I will spell it out—

I am not waiting for the next comet to trigger visions of grandeaur

in a certain percentage of the population

I am not waiting for the bollide to impact & upset the American applecart

I am not waiting for the Big One to sink golden California in the sea

I am not waiting for the UFOs to land & set up a new regime of the Elohim

I am not waiting for the government to suddenly disclose what it spent years

elaborately covering up—though I would welcome it

I am not waiting for the ocean levels to rise on the beach front properties

of Malibu

I am not waiting for Nostradamus’ prediction #81

I am not waiting for the solar flare that will supposedly cook us all

I am not waiting for the stock market to tire of climbing higher & higher

I am not waiting for Y2K New Year’s hangover to hit the big computer brain

I am not waiting for the government to come clean no matter how much

internal scrubbing they do

I am not waiting for the secret government to say, Okay, folks,

it’s all been a joke

I am not waiting for the concentration camps to open for business

& marshal law be announced on national TV

I am not waiting for the next President to finally do something about

the wrong-headed direction of America

I am not waiting for global warming to be acknowledged in the textbooks

I am not waiting for Earth to grow barren before I wake up & do something

I am not waiting for the scientists to come up with the true facts of existence

I am not waiting for the next calendar date in the codexes of Mayan prophecy

I am not waiting for the Hopi timetable to schedule our entry into the Next

World

I am not waiting for the psychics to finally score a big hit

I am not waiting for the legislation of social justice before I can begin to live

a full creative life

I am not waiting for the guru to whisper in my ear

I am not waiting for someone else to clean up the mess of our forefathers

I am not waiting for someone else to come along to provide a needful Vision

I am not waiting for my case to come up or for my number to be called

I am not waiting for my papers to be in order

I am not waiting for my next life to fulfill what I can in this one

I am not waiting for the Messiah

No, I am not waiting—

I will say it now, I will spell it out—

I am sick of excuses for waiting.

And I am not waiting for a rebirth of wonder—

Everything I see, hear, touch, taste & smell, is a wonder

Voices & visions of the Invisible, the grand inspiration of Spirit,

is a wonder

And I have discovered America, & I am setting America

back on track—

The time of waiting is over.

I will say it now, I will spell it out—

I am living an extraordinarily creative, passionate, visionary,

transformative, multidimensional, self-actualizing, self-realizing,

Higher Self-embodying, pushin’ the boundaries of human reality life,

& livin’ it in the Here & Now

I am not waiting

I am not waiting

I am not waiting

1999