Nothing Was Delivered

PAGES TORN FROM A BOOK OF
PROBABLE WISDOM
& HOW TO GET THERE, or
Nobody NEEDS to be Enlightened

(an allegory)

ACT ONE

“When you look into the abyss
the abyss also looks into you.”     (Friedrich Nietzsche)

ACT TWO

“Call me, come over, listen carefully, save my life,
give me strength”     (Ted Berrigan)

ACT THREE

“A fine little girl is waitin’ for me
but I’m as bent as Dostoevsky”     (Iggy Pop)

EPILOGUE: A Day at the Beach

“The very place puts toys of desperation,
Without more motive, into every brain
That looks so many fathoms to the sea
And hears it roar beneath.”
                      (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4)