Month: April 2013

I height Don Quixote, I live on Peyote
marihuana, morphine and cocaine.
I never knew sadness but only madness
that burn at the heart and the brain.
I see each charwoman ecstatic, inhuman,
angelic, demonic, divine,
Each wagon a dragon, each beer a mug a flagon
that brims with ambrosial wine….
The mountains are palaces, women are chalices
meant to be supped and not sold,
The desert a banquet hall set for a festival,
ripe for the free and the bold;
The wind and the sky are ours, heaven and all of it’s scars,
waken, and do what you will;
Break with this demon spawn’d hell-inspired nightmare
bond-Magick lies over the hill.
They said I was crazy, ambiguous, lazy,
disgusting, fantastic, obscene;
So I hied my sagebrush and cactus and corn mush,
To see if the air was still clean.
I height Don Quixote, I live on Peyote
marihuana, morphine and cocaine,
And may I be thrice damned for a bank clerk or store hand
if I visit the city again.

In the canonical bible the apostle Judas betrays Jesus in exchange for money by using a kiss to identify him leading to Jesus’ arrest. This apocryphal tale explains that the reason Judas used a kiss, specifically, is because Jesus had the ability to change shape. “Then the Jews said to Judas: How shall we arrest him [Jesus], for he does not have a single shape but his appearance changes. Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man …” This leads Judas to suggest using a kiss as a means to identify him. If Judas had given the arresters a description of Jesus he could have changed shape. By kissing Jesus Judas tells the people exactly who he is.