After Lew Welch

Th stunning silence of early morning offers no clue to the noisy mayhem that follows through the hours. Reality will drive you crazy today. This is what happens in a dying empire that is taking the planet with it. Unless you are waiting for the Rapture you might want to look at your options. You can't stop this decline. You can obsess about it. You can rage against the injustice of it all, get drunk, raise hell. You can kill powerful folks, mistaking this for revenge. Or you can blow bubbles in the park or read a good book or buy a painting or cook a great meal or go out dancing or give things away just for the hell of it. It's up to you. Nature doesn't care. You make good fertilizer as well as the next guy. The great Lee Hays of The Weavers had his ashes scattered in his zucchini garden. A man ahead of his time.