xxxxx - take care

 

xxxxx

it sings because the middle is an end and end beginning new

 
 
 
 
 

take care and

 

don’t take something unless you know the place for it

the world speaks in degrees of appropriateness

 

such that, a thing in its place

isn’t proper unless it’s true

 

attention reveals itself in the shape of thoughts

and thoughts formed in subjects discerned

 

in this, to each person the world speaks in worlds

calling through promises in the thoughts and things about us

 

the world speaks in degrees of appropriateness

we hope you will know by the whispers within you

 

take care

 

 

 
 
 
 

the products of reason belong to no one.

possessing, through the illusion of their possession,

the possessed become consumed with their consumptions.

and injustice is freed where mercy risks the surety of giving

in the form of credit that give the world its shape,

and shape it to its reasons.

 

xxxxviii - a prison of simplicity

 
 

xxxxviii

composites composed

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This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We shall bring you further information as soon as possible. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes.

Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. By leaving your homes you could be exposing yourselves to greater danger.

If you leave, you may find yourself without food, without water, without accommodation and without protection. Radioactive fall-out, which follows a nuclear explosion, is many times more dangerous if you are directly exposed to it in the open. Roofs and walls offer substantial protection. The safest place is indoors.

Make sure gas and other fuel supplies are turned off and that all fires are extinguished. If mains water is available, this can be used for fire-fighting. You should also refill all your containers for drinking water after the fires have been put out, because the mains water supply may not be available for very long.

Water must not be used for flushing lavatories: until you are told that lavatories may be used again, other toilet arrangements must be made. Use your water only for essential drinking and cooking purposes. Water means life. Don't waste it.

Make your food stocks last: ration your supply, because it may have to last for 14 days or more. If you have fresh food in the house, use this first to avoid wasting it: food in tins will keep.

If you live in an area where a fall-out warning has been given, stay in your fall-out room until you are told it is safe to come out. When the immediate danger has passed the sirens will sound a steady note. The "all clear" message will also be given on this wavelength. If you leave the fall-out room to go to the lavatory or replenish food or water supplies, do not remain outside the room for a minute longer than is necessary.

Do not, in any circumstances, go outside the house. Radioactive fall-out can kill. You cannot see it or feel it, but it is there. If you go outside, you will bring danger to your family and you may die. Stay in your fall-out room until you are told it is safe to come out or you hear the "all clear" on the sirens.

Here are the main points again:

Stay in your own homes, and if you live in an area where a fall-out warning has been given stay in your fall-out room, until you are told it is safe to come out. The message that the immediate danger has passed will be given by the sirens and repeated on this wavelength. Make sure that the gas and all fuel supplies are turned off and that all fires are extinguished.

Water must be rationed, and used only for essential drinking and cooking purposes. It must not be used for flushing lavatories. Ration your food supply: it may have to last for 14 days or more.

e shall repeat this broadcast in two hours' time. Stay tuned to this wavelength, but switch your radios off now to save your batteries until we come on the air again. That is the end of this broadcast. 

BBC TRANSCRIPT TO BE USED IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK

 

xxxxvii - the stranger

 

xxxxvi

prime trekker

 
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stranger

is the the

 

when we are

when we are not

not not

it

 

a thing repeated

is a thing the same

 

renewed

once again itself

first though

it didn’t know - it was like - it wasn’t so

and there was no one there

so new anew surprise turned tears beware

when no one first became

strange shape no name

the stranger is an anything

can any thing be stranger?

 

we fear to tread

our path was true

we have our normal things to do

the stranger though is always new

the stranger though is always new

and reared its shape and one becomes now two

what dream is this?

surreal strange the stranger’s ask

made heart-mad made

made shimmers in the body of our air

the stranger stood both here and there

where else nowhere the stranger was there everywhere

where any-when is anywhere

though anywhere was not the stranger

as anywhere might be

as anywhere might be a place

and placed we’d place

should something move or do

the thing again would no more surely show

forgotten where our mirrored shadow

 

the stranger is never itself

and plays no game

the stranger is never itself

so wish it never was speaks surety survival

collapsed our hearts and eyes on points of curious flew

there’s no escape save know to know

the stranger prods us go

so go we go

and go we go

our going goes

us going both

both different and the same

 

 

a thing repeated

is a thing

renewed the same

again once itself

first though

it didn’t know

it wasn’t like it wasn’t so

and there was no one there to show

a paper rips to scare

so new anew surprise turned tears beware

when no one first was named

strange shape it then became

the stranger is an anything

can any thing be stranger?

we tread to fear

our true was path’d

we have our normal things to pass

the stranger though is always rare

the stranger though is always rare

and reared its shape and one becomes now two

what dream is this?

surreal asks strange in stranger’s ask

mad heart-made mad

made shimmers in the body of our air

the stranger stood both here and there

the stranger stood both here and there

where else nowhere the stranger there was everywhere

where any where is anywhere

though anywhere was not the stranger

as anywhere might be

as anywhere might be a place

and placed we’d place

should something move or do

the thing again would no more surely show

forgotten like our mirror’s low

 

the stranger is never

and plays no game

the stranger is never

so wish never it was speaks surety survival

collapsed our hearts and eyes on points curious flew

there’s no escape save know to know

the stranger prods us go

so go we go

and go we go

our going goes

us going both

both different and the same

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

“SECRETS ON THE WAY”

Daylight struck the face of one who wept.

He received a livelier dream

but did not wake.

Darkness struck the face of one who walked

among the others in the sun’s strong

impatient rays.

Suddenly it turned dark as in a downpour.

I stood in a room that held every moment -

a butterfly museum.

And still the sun is as strong as before.

Its impatient brushes painted the world.

Tomas Tranströmer

 

xxxxiii - drips tall skies

 
 

xxxxiii

Shri Yantra

 
 
 
 
 
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good poetry begins with
the lightest touch,
a breeze arriving from nowhere,
a whispered healing arrival,
a word in your ear,
a settling into things,
then, like a hand in the dark,
it arrests the whole body,
steeling you for revelation.

in the silence that follows
a great line,
you can feel Lazarus,
deep inside
even the laziest, most deathly afraid
part of you,
lift up his hands and walk toward the light.

David Whyte