Outlaw Buddhist
Kali's Garden
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Way down here in Kali's garden
Way down here digging deep
with seeds of anger, betrayal, and the recurrent cry
of the dispossessed, the searing drive for blood and vengeance.
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Way down here in Kali's garden
Way down here digging deep
Way down here
while the faithful sleep
The pain of imperfection is always there.
This thing called human difficult to bear.
Only sensory deprivation or sensory overload will make you not care.
Whichever road you take will lead you to death.
Cheers to the few who dance their way through
til death comes into view.
But way down here in Kali's garden
everybody's angry
everybody's got an ax to grind.
From the first war of birth, Kali oversees in blood.
A mythic image cast in a dark shadow to the violence
that leads to the awareness of the human.
Kali receives the prayers of we depraved humans,
the prayers of the downtrodden,
the prayers of our greed,
the prayers for protection in our weakness.
For the awesome power of Kali's image is because we are corrupt,
violent, angry, and seek revenge.
We know of Kali's blood lust so we invoke her.
We know violence, force and fear work more efficiently than meekness
and humble words.
So we invoke her.
We call upon the animal soul and dress it in the trappings of god,
in the ceremonies of the Goddess, in the music of the emotions,
to obscure and sanctify our primordial urges.
Way down here in Kali's garden
Way down here digging deep
Way down here while the faithful sleep.
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Way down here in Kali's garden
while the faithful sleep.
| Maybe it all started with French junkies or the educated fringe of British colonial aristocracy (more likely the wives), but the patrons of Kali lore, Kali Ma art in the American pantheon of chic intellectual souvenirs of power giving gods (goddesses) of twentieth century boudoirs and drug dens of depravity have surely adopted Kali. Exotic upper class Anglos, intellectual Jews, drugged artists, and the Catholics who will tell you they are no longer Catholics running to and fro in the bank of Asian consciousness always adopting some corresponding icon, or image or artistic representation to pray towards or ask power from, or get blessings from in mirrored reflection of the Catholicism they violently deny. KALI MA KALI MA KALI MA Words from a Hindu chant familiar around the world, in the unchallenged conditioned mind of the catholic educated Kali becomes Mary. The rest of the world makes no such connection, bemused by the connection to Mary much less in confusion or equivocation with Kali. Cults of Catholic Kali spring like weeds in the unthinking. Way down here in Kali's garden 8 Way down here in Kali's garden where roses bloom in blood and revolutions spring from angry tombs Way down here digging deep while the faithful sleep Kali's moon is dark far beneath the earth with motives hidden The whisper of her lust forbidden in ceremonies of darkness driven. Legend has it that Kali was messing around with some pretty boy, and Shiva the big Yang God got very pissed off and cut off Kali's toe, throwing it in the marsh land from which grew the city of Calcutta ...Kali's toe. c. db 2004. Copies of Kali's Garden in its entirety available. Please email. |