to be and not to be

the Young Philosophers' Club

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Released Feb 20, 2010
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[color=#363636;]i walked in a landscape where things were not things but ideas[/color][color=#363636;]not ideas but seeds of ideas seeing their own fruits and thinking[/color][color=#363636;]maybe not[/color][color=#363636;]trees uprooting themselves and dissolving into bits and bytes[/color][color=#363636;]in a landscape of fragmentation and maybe-yes maybe-no[/color][color=#363636;]in a landscape where you can only walk in circles[/color][color=#363636;]and in such a landscape i saw flowers of pure and unspoiled beauty[/color][color=#363636;]beauty that destroys the beholder[/color][color=#363636;]chasing beauty, fleeing from beauty[/color][color=#363636;]the snake eats its own tail and swallows itself[/color][color=#363636;]what is left over?[/color][color=#363636;]i saw flowers of pure and unspoiled beauty[/color][color=#363636;]i saw seeing itself[/color][color=#363636;]i saw i[/color][color=#363636;]i walked in a landscape where walking was the landscape[/color][color=#363636;]walking the talking[/color][color=#363636;](walkie-talkie)[/color][color=#363636;]walking the talking[/color][color=#363636;]where words became sounds[/color][color=#363636;]sounds[/color] became noise
noise became silence
silence became perfect
perfect became redundant
redundant became rhythm
rhythm became melody
melody became love
love became God
God became a mouse
a mouse became a human
a human became a house
a house became a word
a word became all things
(in the beginning was the word)

all things, all things, all things
so many things, who has the time
for so many things, all things
to see a thing, to be a thing
to think about things, to know things
so many things, who has the time
for all this spectacular abundance
for all this time
who has the time for all this time?

i walked in a landscape of time
day turned to night and night turned to day
and i wondered
if night turns to day
and day turns to night
is day really day
and night really night?
or is it something else turning into day and night?
or is it nothing else?
or is it?

that which appears changes
that which doesn&rsquo;t appear never changes
that which changes appears
that which doesn&rsquo;t change doesn&rsquo;t appear
but is?
or is not?

i walked in a landscape of is and is-not
is and is-not
to be and not to be
to become and not to become
to believe and not to believe
to see and not to see
to feel and not to feel
to do and not to do
to breathe and not to breathe
to be and not to be
i walked

walking, i wondered
am i walking to get somewhere
or walking to get nowhere?

walking, walking, walking
i walked right into _______[color=#363636;] [/color]

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Siddhartha Corsus