Absinthe Hymn — UNREVERSED
2008
A Betelmire rarity!
like a white star
tangled and far
tulip that’s what you are
my father’s mansion’s many rooms
have room for all of his children
as long as we do share his love
and see that all are free.
and see that all are free to grow
and see that all are free to know
and free to open or to close
the door of their own room.
what is a room without a door
which sometimes locks or stands ajar?
what is a room without a wall
to keep out sight and sound from all?
and dwellers in each room should have
the right to choose their own design
and color schemes to suit their own
though differing from mine.
yes and each door has its own design
to suit the owners state of mind
and those who’d want them all the same
don’t understand the human game.
my father’s mansion’s many rooms
have room for all of his children
if we do but share in his love
and see that all are free.
the choice is ours to share this earth
with all its many joys abound
or to continue as we have
and burn god’s mansion down.
pete seeger
May Day was positive and peaceful in Manhattan.
Brion Gysin
HASCHICH FUDGE
( which anyone could whip up on a rainy day )
This is the food of Paradise — of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises: it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies’ Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if taken with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one’s personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by ‘un evanouissement reveille’.
Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful of each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.
Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as canibus sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognised, everywhere in Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called canibus indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.
