I just learned the word Hesychast

So let's go back, let's go
way on back to the 14th century
and let's
experience
some theosis

From rhythm and focus
be ascetic - become mystic
lean into the hēsychia mode
** save me, help me **

And who wouldn't like to reach a
profound inner quietness, a
state beyond concepts and images
** save me, help me **

Through constant purposeful prayer
experiential - quietist
** save me, help me **

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
do attest to it. Cyril
of Scythopolis knew this

Psychosomatic techniques
are all we have, I mean
we're on Mount Athos and it's 13 hundred
and whatever

Archbishop Gregory
defended its theological underpinnings

Barlaam the Calabrian
had plenty to say

He linked Hesychasm with
Messalianiam and Bogomilism
but I know which side I'm on

If you're living this life
you're living the guard of the mind
and you'd better not proceed
in pride, arrogance or conceit

I'll go into my closet and pray
if you know what I mean
* oh save me, oh help me **

    o h  s a v e  m e

    o h  h e l p  m e

His middle name was DeForest

Humphrey Bogart
Home-Free Bogart
Hungry Bogart
Hum-Free Bog-Art

Humphrey Boat-Guard
Huffy Bogart
Hum-Free Bug Art
Humphrey Beau-Guard

Bump-Free Hogart
Humphrey Blowhard
Humpfry Bogey
Hump-Flea Bogart

Humpy Bouquet
Home-Fry Bogart

The 1988 rabbit

Flash back to the 1988 rabbit
me and flatmate Harriet
found when finally clearing the
overgrown garden
a catastrophic ecosystem unto itself
which our landlady
had demanded we tame or tidy

We'd seen a notice on a local lamppost
'Lost Rabbit Louis' a photocopied photo
like they don't all look the same - no
need for leporine phobia

Harriet exclaimed 'This is Louis, look!'
he seemed happy enough mooching about our
dense bosky thicket
our witchy wigwam atrocity
pink nose of legend atwitch

Harriet cuddled and cupped our
tame discovery and we returned him
to the address on the poster

A little girl opened the door, looked at
rabbit, took rabbit
slammed the door in
our good deed faces
without a word

We joked maybe it wasn't even hers
maybe it was her birthday and
thought we were bringing gifts
from the Rabbit Delivery Society

The we walked back 'home'. This
fucking garden won't tame or tidy itself

Moderate rain

☁️ Oooh say can you see <of course I can>
the bruised rainbow sky, I've been
half asleep (rude) while she was driving fast
just the way I like it (rude), stop that

M25 or M3 not my problem now listen
the sunlight insists o'er purple clouds yes
this is a world class
rainbow and we've been heading into this since
2012 when we choked
asleep merely

An hour now from
Hampshire / Berkshire blah blah look
like you've got a clue amid this
F1 aquaplaning spray of rushing rubber

    Hi hello how do you BIST
    mein nom ist Hermisch
    travel in aut mobile eins per
    four fear five (fuff) Jahre

    Restricted to quarters
    due to terminal f****cklessness

Rest for moment hobble in cave ja
my head hurts about ow
pibble pobble glücklich - there's
    no passenger seat
in the future for you pal - can we
not bring it back to the ABSE EFFE T

All encom en com, hell wha yy
    excuse me sir-
01100001 01100010 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

∴ absece efftec
urdi ming y- fdnawa
thass tc huoly puolopoo

The Office (UK)

A song just came on, a spark
and I thought it's been
40 years since I had that
summer job in that office with the girls

Frank F. Farmer was the boss boss
- what's the F for?
- 'ave a fuckin guess!'

The song could have been Kate Bush,
Billy Idol, Eurthymics, Prince

They all played as I drove my car
back and forth Saturdays too
for the overtime

I was fully tuned in that summer
a hard working student
like never before or again
if I could step back, I'd kiss myself

The permanent girls would chatter all day long
an avalanche of filth. Send the rest of us
the temps in the annexe
out for snacks and coffee and the
chasing of wild geese

And everyone smoked all day long
you have no idea what it was like
back in the day, back in
the ding-dong day

I used the upstairs photocopier for my dissertation
took home liberal amounts of stationery, part
of a long-term pattern of offending I would like
to be taken into consideration

We had a canteen where everything cost nothing
and there were dessert challenges. Once
I guzzled 14 assorted delights and won
nothing but everyone's admiration

It was a benign introduction to decades
of future office life
variously stifling calming suffocating infuriating
once or twice life affirming

My sister's school bully joined the
temp team for the final week
he was a cheerful oaf but I refused
to give him a lift in the rain on
the last Friday much to his bafflement
I know who you are pal

And I just realised
with cheerful nihilism
it's been 40 years

it's been 40 years so hello tall shy Richard who 'the girls' all fancied

it's been 40 years hello Charlotte who thought you were better than all of us, and you probably were

it's been 40 years hello to Mogg my snotty little pal who liked The Fall

it's been 40 years say hi hello furious Fiona who hated both perms and temps

it's been 40 years hello/ goodbye to Claire with the curious hair you were the filthiest of them all

Good egg, bad egg, scrambled egg

Demand-pull, cost-push, built-in 
        *e*g*g*
eggflation for my troubled soul

Consumer price, producer price, house price
        *e*g*g*
eggflation for your fevered brow 

Creeping, walking, running, hyper
        *e*g*g*
eggflation for our worried minds

Official, true, perceived and
       *e*g*g*
eggflation for these desperate times

All my apes gone

I like the activated almonds
Nostalgic for the rustling jimmies
Homemade coconut, milkshake duck
I let the archangels take him
✧ ͜ʖ ✧

Skill issue, Dandori issue
Press F to pay respects
Leave no dwarf behind
It's explained in CFYOW
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

4 squealers lined up ready for inspection
John [Series Name]
Temba, his arms wide
Flippin' bricks for Mansa Musa
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