Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

222. MUSIC TO MY EARS:

Alben Berg or any other guy from the symphony would probably tell me something new something little but it wouldn’t matter because the trouble with the church is that it had trouble with everything else everything outside of it just ask Galileo – to use but one example – the guy with the star problem the sun problem the entire wide-cosmos problem of space and God in space and Earth in God’s orbit and even Holst wrote The Planets to try and tell us something anything musically about the very same thing but then who comes along but any old ragamuffin catholic dog-catcher priest-nun loser wanderer babbler going on about again and again The Eucharist and the presence of God-Made-Man within it but I’ve always thought maybe the real problem has been instead of God-Made-Man it should be Manmade God instead that’s the crux of the problem which I think too is Latin for cross ain’t that a Sun Son fucking God for coincidence and here it is as I’m just trying here to fall asleep that there are voices again trying to tell me something other than what I want to hear and ‘VOICES FROM THE EDGE LIKE THIS ARE ENOUGH TO CONFUSE ME TO THE DEATH’ and that’s a famous quote I know but one the origination of which I cannot give you asparagus fields onion patches Petaluma to Port Reading farmers of the world unite and all that but I wonder what do Marxists think of Heaven or did they ever talk about it ? speaking of workers’ paradises ‘to each according to his need to each according to his ability’ seems to just about rightly sum up the concept of Heaven but sweat equity needs an actor’s guild card I bet and some things are naturally funny AREN’T THEY and the guy in the airport lounge I just noticed was once a famous public figure now grown decrepit and I thought dead but maybe that was Lola Falana I was thinking of instead or Claude Osteen a ballplayer I remember from waybackwhen when the Way Back Machine would transport me anywhere it chose not me not them not Rocky or Bullwinkle or Rocket J. Moose or whatever but FRACTURED FAIRY TALES it always was for me 'tell me Gar do you remember anything special about being eleven years old ? if you do just mention various things to me as we talk' but 'nah I remember nothing except that I got my stamp collection going on my eleventh birthday and that’s just about the time it stopped too so any valuable commodities I may have are all by accident and if those old German stamps are valuable then you can’t have them how’s that' so the more I think about it even Lucas Foss Leonard Bernstein Marlon Brando his very self would have to agree ‘there are things we’ll never understand oh sly one more things in Heaven and Earth which surpasseth all understanding even until the END of time” in the name of the Partner his Sun and the Holy Roast Amen Sahib Amen…”