Hymn for Zarathustra

Location

Connecticut
(Within a place—within a mind—without space and time and rhyme and reason...)
United States

A land flowing with milk and honey
Has its place in dreams and for those gone…

And for us?
It has been.
It is now.

It will be that war conducted on
Both sides and either shore.

I have looked out the window.
I have stepped out the door.
I have come off the mountain.

I have buried the dog.
I have eaten your bread.
I have taken your wine and your dead.

Gilded star, to whom do you speak?
Three thieves were crucified that day!

There’s still a burning and a storm in mind…

When did it hole up in mine!?
Here-in, here?

Can you tell me what it is?
Can you tell me how to stand for it?
How can one come here,
Coming to be believed in, and to be?
[To be free!?]

What have I said?

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