Louise Landes Levi


Trilogy / in retreat

                              I

                              1

do you think it was 'friendly fire'/ what abt.
   gay killing?/ all this just to arm the mili--
               tary & disarm the people.

                         (e mail to d )

                              2

                             OK/

             you think i'm a freak
        because I write (to you) - basi -
cally but not totally indifferent - some
   times inimical, depends on the year
      & circumstance, but imagine if
          I was shooting heroin into
                    my arm, instead

   you wldn't like that at all & wld. probably
          be
               very
                        upset abt. it.


                               3

Thuston's car visited the Buddhist center
    at 6.30 - last night. Both the up - com
        ing star poet(ess) & his guitarist
              K.  assume the pryamid
                    pose on stage.


                                4

                              The
                     really deep messages
            are received by the Hopi. the In-
      dian prophecies assert a deep concergence
between the Tibetan & Indian peoples - but I never
     heard anything like that mentioned by the
            Tibetans. The only thing I heard
                 was that they - the Indians
                    only had part of THE
                         transmission.

    Wonder what the Indians wld. say abt. that?



                               5

                            Rabbi
                 Rami has IT/ so does DCS/
      if sectarianism brought down Tibet, according
              to JG, it's also bringing down the
                         EARTH
                                    according
                                                   to
                                                        LL


                                 6

                                 Is
                          Kali Yuga an
                      excuse for our ignorance/
               watch how the ferns evolve, so joyously,
            & how they die
                                           in
                                                    Winter.


                                  7

                                   I
                        loved you dearly
                    & you knew it & ignored
               me/ really you had no choice & I
         knew it. We were reliving our 'traumas'/
               later we wld. meet in safe zone. I
                  knew it but I don't think you
                       did. Still, at night, we
                           talked, even far
                               apart, our

                         spirits


                                   met.

                                      *

  w. reference to the girl/ the guy was coming
   to rob not kill/ the police, in this case, did
      the killing ('friendly fire') Queens, NY

            18.5.13

  w. reference to the gay man, ********* shot
 in the face on 6th Ave. & w. 8th / NYC, NY
       by a 'passer by'



                  II
           ( Hitchhiking/ Conway, MA)                  
                   
       Willy\picks me
up/ he seems a bit unstable
  but the convertible com-
       verts me & I'm off
   to? Conway, as it were

he's an ex military (pacifist)
       still freaked out fr.
                Vietnam,


              He tells me
          the truth abt. the
    vegetable poisons, spread
         through the forests 
             & the rivers &
                the lungs &
        the bloodstreams
        of the young men,
         working for the US 
                                            of 
                                                A


       30  of his 'brothers' shot
     themselves, in the 'mouth' 
      he graphically illustrate/
            this, it's almost a
         
                      mudra

           w. ALL that money,
           ( fr. the US military)
               he asks  what
                     cld. they
                                   do
                                       w.
                                          it?


                            *

                      Arrival
                 at  Buddhist
        shrine/ there's a feast
      going on -  want to come?
          everyone's welcome

      that may be a euphemism

             next time, he says,
                  I've already

                      eaten.



                   III


        Dream girl, i'm yr. dream
   girl, yr. dreaming girl, yr. girl in
     dream, you see her, she
           dreams you, shes

                  yr. image -
         maker,  dream - image.
   dream in dream, Vishnu's dream,
    am I Simon's dream - image girl,
        accompanying him - on
          bicycle -to Death girl,


                     Am
      I yr. dream girl, death girl,
dreaming girl, unseen, unseemly,
  dream girl imagines, dream life,

       dream boy, dream love,
         we meet, in dream
           forest, in
                          deathless

                                 dream
                                

  Imagination/ is the filter, dream
         image, dream

                               girl,

                                      death

                                            girl.



Louise Landes Levi is still in Kyoto - having been placed

   There by co-vid fate/ in NYC she is the

      Recipient of the 2020 Kathy Acker Award

     For excellence in the AVANT GARDE. Forthcoming

  WHERE I STAND IN ANGEL. Cool Grove Pr.
  
        & sound-art recordings:
        
          Opacity & Oblivion, Sloow Tapes,
              & Mad Song, Oaken Palace.



 
 

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