DEAD GODS DO NOT DIE - and other vagabond poems - Larry Goodell - he can't help it - Fashionism of Success and DADA LIVES and Oh Say Can You See

by Larry Goodell

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1.	Fashionism Of Success 01:31	info	buy track
2.	The Rise of the Fall 02:48	info	buy track
3.	DADA LIVES 02:45		buy track
4.	Oh Say Can You See 01:24		buy track
5.	I'm Not Here 03:13	info	buy track
6.	Oh Patriarchs of the Dong 02:48	info	buy track
7.	Dead Gods Do Not Die 03:28	lyrics	buy track
Dead gods do not die. By their nature they rest in your unconscious. “The unconscious is God,” Jung said. I think it is all dead gods. Pick one out and breathe on it. What happens? It comes to life. Suddenly Zoroaster flies before you stretching out wings from his rock and hovers in his ancient power with great command and demand. That mysterious wind from his powerful flapping feathers turns into Quetzalcoatl and the fires of night ignite. There is his ancient pyramid presence, the serpent coiled in your heart. The steps that go up to the sacrifice of dawn and suddenly the birth of Aphrodite out of the shell out of the water the ocean lapping at your feet. Oh lover of love caress me, Avalokitishvara reach out your 1000 arms of compassion from your put together self. Bring me into the Buddha of your heart as Jesus walks down the road and tells me how I treat someone suffering is how I treat him. But the deadest god of all is god’s god, the father of all. He is broken into thousands of pieces back into the mother of Earth here in this little nick of the universe. He is dissolved into her as he was in his ancient history. As the hands of compassion ring out and around: gods on gods on gods and a sea of goddesses as the sun Pautiwa looks down in four colors and the twins accompany Spider Woman to her adorned festivities. Right at home with my twins and her presence, that old Wind Woman who lives on the crest of this mountain where I live – quiet now in the mind, I say goodnight to, layered mind the imagination of all created things, the muses of the instant from non-burial grounds deep down under the Orpheus put together and wandering singing, orphic orchestra, what a strange chorus to hear as I turn out the light. © 2012 larry goodell larry goodell 2012
8.	Neo-Con Come On (free) 01:21		download
9.	Just Is (free) 01:19		download
10.	My Piece of Flying Saucer (free) 03:01	lyrics	download
What’s really important is that the eye be open to the ear . and the ear be open to the heart. . . The heart whatever it is, be open to the breath. . . . The breath be open to the art of the mind. . . . . The direction of creativity taking over. . . . . In that the given direction be given. . . . Oh heart-intellect, intuition . . it falls from the sky into your lap and you can get up, . let it fall to the floor and be swept away, or recognize, oh mind of the art, this seed, . unusual object fell from the sky . . or earth essence made manifest. . . . Mother sky, father earth, moon goddess why? . . . . Practice allows me to recognize . . . when something different approaches. . . As everyone may, learn to . appreciate originality. There is no known marking on this thing in my lap, . this piece of equipment. Of what use is it. . . How big is it. What material is it made of? . . . Where, Creator, did it come from? . . . . Can I trust it? . . .. . What shall I do with it. . . .. I look at it. Oh, I hear something it says. . .. A heart beating inside. How exciting! . . This is the most interesting thing that’s ever happened to me. . My God, it’s breathing. Such long slow breaths. . What lights! What markings. .. Oh it says for me to follow my art. ...My art of mind. .... The direction of creativity taking over. ..... The giving of it, take up .... and build on it, you, me. Yes, ... we. .. Here it is, I hope you find it as curious as I did. . I just took it and went from there where it and I followed, fostering. .This is how I got here. .. I am truly appreciative. ... Life has a lot of joy when something new .... arrives on the scene. ..... It happens almost every other day .... to me. ... Here .. What do you think? . Or is it just fun? larry goodell / placitas, new mexico from Breath, poems 2002
11.	Quiet Is Winner of the IHSF Award 01:24	lyrics	buy track
The Academy of American Fidgets has just announced the winner Of the Imogene Hopkins Stuart Malfeasance III Award For Carrying a fish with clamped feet over the Brootkins Institute. Mary Mary Mary Quiet has swallowed a canary And was first hand-standing over the Institute while Her feet held a Brooklyn trout. At the other end The honorary board members of the A of A Fidgets Nervously docked her only one report for having not been From Latvia. The University there is seen to be the Primary Institute for fish-jumping, standing on hands, And catching diseased trout. But Mary Mary Mary Quiet did graduate with beaucoups des honors from The Numbskull Apparatus Part-fixing Academy in Why Lean? Arkansas, a first, and we hope, a last. larry goodell / placitas, new mexico / from All of Love, sonnets 1987-88
12.	Gift Giving (free) 01:24	lyrics	download
Oh lovely light of the world world of lovely light enter my spirit and fight with the darkness it will take some struggle, but what do I know. You may rinse everything out with light and renew the spirit. You may just be and the burning sunset exalt. Lifting up and exchanging the dark for light the deep depression pit home destroyed as Shiva danced it out, as a kachina of the sun came and went and left the children happy, the young parents at home with each other, the fires burning in the sunset relinquishing to the darkness and stars, at least the stars again. “I give you the stars, you unhappy wretch. I give you the light that was and will be again and again and again and again, I give you the stars.” larry goodell / placitas, new mexico

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Poems Presented Here: Fashionism (88), The Rise of the Fall, Dada Lives (84), Oh Say Can You See (84), I'm Not Here (84), Oh Patriarchs of the Dong, Dead Gods Do Not Die, Neo-Con Come On, Just Is, My Piece of Flying Saucer, Quiet Is Winner of the IHSF Award, Gift Giving

a haggle-pag of a glorbeedoo of poems and some semi-songs . . . actually just as serious as you wish to make them, honest products of voice & mind . . .

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released May 2, 2012

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Larry Goodell Placitas, New Mexico

Piano/poetry collaborations AT TOP, THEN POETRY, THEN PIANO IMPROVISATIONS AT BOTTOM!
Live poetry I have recorded, edited & released here, pay what you can to help me with the site cost, free jazz piano-keyboard improvisations, interviews, radio plays, some songs from a lifelong resident of my native New Mexico, I'm a performance poet who "blasted off the page" in the early 70's. Love to all! ... more