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MARC OLMSTED
Karmapa
In America ‘08
Touching the
Void
mountain
climbing book read by
Berkeley intense young man
void opens from
tunnel over concrete veins of highway
FORTUNE COOKIE fast delivery ghetto
red motor chair
Granny diabetes taking a spin
portly East Indian
man, buzz flat top cocks eyebrow corny wrestler
daring action (in
deeper fear)
eyes locking w/ me –
he thinks the
world bullies him – perhaps right –
but this wrestling
match already lost
“& the winner is…Decay!”
Earth Bearing
Witness
8 centuries of the Buddha
glass case statues
on the way into security
airport checkpoint I
pause – look at them all
“Crowned Buddha”
Black Crown Karmapa
for sure
on my trip to
Seattle to see his new 17th face
Whisper Transmission Tibetan lineage Head
“clear, unlocatable, nondiscursive,
naked
emptiness-awareness
is the authentic lama”
–
Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
Virgin America’s purple–lit air cabin reading
William Gibson’s latest cyberpunk novel –
which happens in the
present –
electronica music in the
toilet – a
trumpet doing a
mediocre stab at Miles –
I could be frightened in this Bardo
Distance to go
73 miles – red jet on USA map –
Google journey graphics back of the
heardrest in front of me
In the bathroom mirror I am shocked that I’m old
But the smell
\in the airporter bus is the same
from last century
like a pink chip in an old urinal
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Karmapa in America
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Panic
in the Disco
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Return
to Forever
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6
6
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Paramount Theater marquee 5/31/08 Seattle, WA
Later in the Seattle bar
back of seat
sticker
crossbones dakini?
“skydancer”?
DAKINE
Hawaii islandspeak “the word you use when you don't use the word”
But the waitress did
have a Buddha tattoo
giving me sugarless
Red Bull –
in 2 weeks 2 days
sober 23 years
3 times w/ 17th
Karmapa
3rd time
by invitation only
he acknowledged he
was
back will be back
“like Groundhog Day” movie said
Dzogchen Ponlop –
over and over
(“But he does it for
us”)
Bill Murray actor
returning
vast space Karmapa
in Seattle of the
skateboard
homeless punks of
gloomy sky
every 3rd
on crank
I’ve heard though
already
apparent their
harsh energy
Exploring the night
by myself
mad professor in the
all ages club
where The Melvins
played
The Black Angels
I am a Black angel
of the Black Crown
Karmapa
I wrote Black Leather Tantra
and was old even
then
1992
but I still like this
dark planet
illumined black light
glowing purple
in a dream
in a skull
Skywalking night
Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast
Soon I leave your
physical form
O Karmapa
less soon I leave
mine
talking to the 20
year old w/ Dharma parents
born in Halifax saw
Trungpa Rinpoche when he was 5
He pieces together
my Naropa U. backstory
“You knew Allen
Ginsberg?” he guesses
“Yes.”
“You’re old school!”
Gave him my card
after we sat
took Chenrezig
empowerment together
OM MANI PADME HUNG –
later
looked at my ticket –
I’d sat in wrong seat, wrong row & nobody’d come
Over and over we
come back for us
I’m the Black Angel
of the Black Crown
over and over
I’ll eat less meat
though skull cup
runneth over
Over and over
like Groudhog’s Day he does it for us
and the world needs
help
Black angels unite
coast to coast
10 directions
black light poster
peace sign
skateboard
down from the sky
5/29-6/2/08
[Originally
published in NHS 2008, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs08/Marc_Olmsted.htm.]