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Edward Naquin 
 

Myths are the truth of what happened and what will be distilled to an elixir more palatable to those of the ruling persuasion. At their best, they illuminate like shining manna from heaven, settling mind and soul; at their worst, they are unmovable chains of the state, mentally shackling the people. Break the chains and reach for the manna!



 

Now in the age of Aquarian doubt,

in patriarchal means, cabals attempt

to control everybody's scene,

they made the net on which

we spiders say aho, 

But the new truth is there,

we are aware in our brains and souls

that science is the magic of directness,

and magic is the science of indirectness,

thus reconciled feminine and masculine, uncovers

the truth of that which we do not know,

soon discovered one insight at a time.

 

***

 

I am the son of the Lorax,

descendent of satyr-blooded people

who live under the leaves, and care

for the trees on the edge of your

cement deserts and plastic lawns,

I am the son of the Lorax,

housies see me roam free,

Houma, Naquin, last of a native people

treated as a disease, thought extinct

but I still breathe the morning breeze,

I am the son of the Lorax,

and when Babylonian rubble has burned and fell,

I, son of the Lorax, shall breathe well.

 

***

 

Gritty city streets help radiate the heat

that agro vibes feed upon,

people unwitting pawns in deadly secret games,

it all reduces down to what’s flowing in the gutter,

same old repression and refrain,

When will minds be as free as the rain?

 

***

 

the flight of the raven possess intellect,

random seeming flight,

the perfection of the curve over the illusion

of a straight line

 

***

 

winning any contest

requires favor of the universe,

and the greatest champions

win, not due to skills or fortune,

but by agreement of the known and unknown


 

Edward Naquin was born in 1969 in Jennings, Louisiana. Naquin studied History and Literature at U of L and SMU, as well as Botany and Computer Science. He is a fire, music, and lyrical performer who has traveled about the United States and Central America. Naquin studied 8 years with Daoist Shifu Hwang and 4 years with Alvin Yellow Robe, the Way of the Inipi. 


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