Gnospels (1981)
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THOMAS’ SECRET SAYINGS REVERSINGS
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How do I hold her in me as I speak
She is a real woman every time she is
No man hath spoken more the more there is to speak
Find what it is in here and it will never go away
Dont stop and there is a turn the other side of the tongue
Look up the birds the sky it is the sea not out there but in there
Not in here but out here as you know her so will you be her
Her out or her in you grow older to make her a child again Ask
Hiding in plain sight she comes always into her being
She is a real woman every time she is
And everything in free fall means everything engraves
And nothing covered will remain without being uncovered
And the lion becomes man consumed by man
How do I hold her in me as I speak
I perform operations upon the traces of her sentence
Do not tell lies and do not do what you hate since all is plain
If you have ears take this large fish
Psyche sews seeds and reads
Fell on rock failed to root and no ears
On the other hand there are the fruitions
I hold you and wait for you to blaze
Away and away to have passed to have been beginning
First one then two and then what
No man hath spoken more the more there is to speak
Go to the one who goes to the one who goes to the one
who goes to the one
Do what you lie and tell what you hate since all is plain
You are like a righteous angel you are like a wise philosopher
You are the more there is to say for whose sake
I am not your master because you get high on the measure
Every one thing I have ever said is two
For whose sake heaven and earth came together
She is a real woman every time she is
Tell me who am I like
Throw stones and let the fire burn you up
To say these things is her every wish
If it’s there eat it
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LOGNOSIS
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Who says where it is said.
The utmost reader has too much to learn.
Simple Simon, simple to say.
Betrayal. A theme to go beyond theme.
Makes me happy. Puts in a line, Everything.
Calls me to think on a line invisible.
Miraculous birth. And all the great names.
Pantheonic aspirations, with no effort.
Gnosis. Even to have said the word.
To have been said where it is said by whom.
We are adrift. We have crossed the trail of reason.
We have sat to sit and sit alone and more.
We have not come unprepared.
But the utmost reader has way too much to leam.
The utmost statement is even now moving before him.
We are adrift. For even to have said the word.
To have seen it as a concretion however transparent before the eye.
To have seen it perform its unholy act of joining
word with word, state with state, to have sat to sit
and seen logos laying into gnosis
is to have been the utmost reader. We are adrift.
Now we are listening. We were to have been here.
Ever to dare to think to say the word
is to be before the time to come.
Be patient until the line has ended.
Upend it, you who are adrift in it.
You who say it where it is said say it.
Say it to see it. See it to say it. To say it.
Time is come. To be before. We were to.
Now we are with. We are with now.
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