RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.

Wednesday, November 12

TOP TEN ALAN WATTS HERDING PARABLES FOR OX BAKER FANS

#1: searching for goddamned/ox somewhere in this cluster/of fuck and man shit
#2: FOOTPRINTS! high along/mountain paths where ravens roost/obvious ox prints
#3: the beast becomes clear/ass end sticking out tangled/thicket of madness
#4: I wrestle the beast/grasping at his massiveness/an exhausting fight
#5: finally roped in/my commands and his actions/become unified
#6: straddling his muscled/back I ride him home, back down/into man’s valleys
#7: home again peaceful/ox rests I rest no ropes whips/none necessary
#8: all-encompassing/nothing becomes as immense/as ox-ternity
#9: this world continues/spinning full circle constant/while my beard’s gone grey
#10: wandering man’s streets/a boy just a boy walks past/looking for ox prints

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