Inflame Yourself  

Lovers:    Cease your idle kissing!
                     Inflame yourself with love and jissom!
Painters:        Do not live like Saints!
                     Go fuck the canvass and cum with paint!
Poets:           Throw away your pens!
                     And drink the living blood again!
Politicos:       Renounce your stupid laws!
                     Tear down the gallows, tear off your bras!
Vagabonds:   Drunk on wine and song!
                     You just keep on keeping on!

O refuse to sleep! Tear up your planner!
Dismantle your cage, take up the hammer!
Build a ladder to worlds above!
& like Beaudelaire said: always be drunk!

Take hold of lifes hair! Kiss her sweet neck!
Fill her with passion 'till her sex is all wet!
Find the river of life, and drift on a raft!
Ejaculate appleblossoms while the universe laughs!

Be Everyone! See Everything!
From wintery death to explosions of new spring!
For we are our own limit! We must lay waste to our brains,
Full of old learning, and be born again!

Perhaps I'll die young! Perhaps I'll burn up too fast!
But all bodies are carcasses, in the future and past!
For a voice may go mute if to often it sings!
Ending as a shooting star with broken icarus wings!

But why save up my worth, spending pennies a day?
I'd rather blow it on fireworks, and go out in flames!
I've never claimed to be a saint! I use the law to wipe my ass!
I like to sleep beneath signs reading: Please Keep Off the Grass.

I always cross at redlights! I often steal fruit!
I play paradigmal hopscotch between monkhood and the blues!
I've loved and lost! I've wrecked and I've been ruined!
See: sometimes you do it, and sometimes it done to you-

Some say I've had a wonderful life! Some say I live in sin!
Me? I make no claims at all, except I love and live-
Well, I guess sometimes
I eat and shit
But mostly I just
Love,
and live.

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