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August 7 — Taking Action
(For Dominick DellaSala)

To choose marriage is to choose bondage is to
create boundaries is to intensify
ritual of unearthing shadow taking it out for a dark, wild ride
is madness & insanity, the only thing
to do.    To choose sacred union & oneness — an oath before the creator
create a third body - sum of its parts transcended, some of its parts require
action immediate & decisive action akin to stabbing @ darkness
directed challenges to the blank wall by hanging old pictures.
Purposeful ritual is to open door to creator's
action w/o fear, w/ submission    w/ complete surrender capisca?

Ritual is destruction of the old world, Kali-esque,
allows us to petition deities and first the spirits evil may haunt
us. (This is a psychic curveball.) Help the querent
to I.D. weakness & tendencies. Help the querent
clarify reasons    timing    intent
who is this person to cast my lot w/ will
we be happy? Are we ready to be parents?
Are we calm in each other's skin?
In
relationship our clothes are always off. In relationship we seek
to perfect self, we display our buttons as
those huge gaping wounds from youth. Look
around. When the coast is clear partner/soul-mate/lover/spouse you help
us by licking the wound clean.

Through silence we strengthen our
ritual we feed its power
we make it more potent w/ each step, we
re-write our past — this is personal historical revision,
our crayons are ready — scribble away — destiny is a
personal
mythology we write ourselves — ashe!

8.7.01 w/ lines from
Light of Passage by Kathleen Wall & Gary Ferguson
after Anne Waldman