by H Brown

Created on: August 14, 2010

"Hai'n Kamikaze"

( I am the Wind)

traverse the dark matter of the backstage void

who the hell selected that intro music?

tred amidst a maze of signals and snakes

before the striking of the skin-shrinking spotlights

Hoi Polloi in the great theatre of Budokan

the contract stipulates what I say everyday:

you take off your top and give me ten dollars,

and I'll shout at you behind an electric guitar

tonight's opener was the close of the last show

which was nine-thousand miles away from now

origami  -Japanese for "multiple orgasms"

is an unfamiliar crowd that's chanting my name

shred the lead that I wrote while licking a werewolf

surely no mortal has ever played like this

they're all mesmerized, rooted to the floor

no one moved until the kick-drum kicked in

"Kim-mere-here-here-here!"  I gesture at them,

"I'll let you in on a secret.....I know."

back band rhythm as tight as an ear drum

and every bit as slick as sweet almond oil

the crowd becomes a single organism

blob-like, writhing, contorting in seismic waves

and evoking the most peculiar of vertigo

down somewhere swelled the size of a softball

batting out the anthems both new and old

I think the greatest honors are always phonetic

there is no single greater human capacity

than fondness for one whom you've never even met

ignore the revealing under the colored lights

it's like making love in a big room full of people

I know exactly how the great Pharoah felt

as he commanded thunder, lightning, and rain

temperence is dissolved through admittance

and I know if I have the power  -I'll use it!

watch the ships sink and the buildings fall down

the crowd-creature will ALWAYS ooze right back here

a storm of entities who lend you their breath

a massage of heartbeats too many to count

a cooling salt from the osmosises of life

an orexis carried forever on divine wind

I will treasure every moment in memory

somewhere in my mind this will never end

spread my arms to embrace you all, dear friends

because a piece of my life will always live here

thank-you, bless you, and I love you

and I hope one day we can meet again

all great fortunes found in far away places

are always close inside of a life worth living

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