National Mindmapping Week

National Mindmapping Week by Yogi Carmichael
Columbus Balboa Hudson Drake
earthmapping surfaces fast with greedy hand flagplanting.
NASA marsmapping
surface softscooping with a cold voyaging arm microbeless sands.
Enter Magellans of mindmapping
let your right brain have a say.
Is that so?
Valleys, sinusoidal ups-and-downs, abyssmal grand canyons,
cry-me-a rivers, sob-story seas,
land masses of disconnected desire,
cities of sardinedensity thoughts
Rarefied countrypeace musings: roads less traveled
but for recreation and daydreaming.
Central schema: i am that.
i am mind, i am map,
independent of God's daydreaming.
Is that so?
Dream: nightmare, people, crooks, chasing. Scared, crying.
Scream, dying, sweatwaking, alarm,
crooks gone, people gone.

Where?
Same place we go when God wakes
			gone.
Goals, aims, desires,
money, job, play, thinness,
svelte spinachstomachs,
fun, love, longlife, safety,
no pain.
Oh oh, ‘safety.’
Red flag.
	Nice family of five, opening doors and arms.
	Smiling, helping needy couple;
	today are found bloody dead on turning the seedy pair out.
Mindmap impossible dreams, locate brain, right brain,
any small portion of brain, in perpetrators:
traitors against happiness.
Why is that so?
No self, no mind, no goals, no future, no past,
no story.
Columbus discovers America indeed.
Mindpolluting
bullies: TV advertisement, propaganda, politicians.
Sue them: mental malpractice, mind abuse.
Soulpolluting:
	Carry a gun, carry a baby, wear designer jeans
	tight.
Right. i mapped my mind.
Wanted, got everything,
all of it: duality, blissdepression.
	Better to love and lose
	than never to have loved at all.
Is that so?
Dreams buried with the murdered,
ammunition in weapons of the crazed,
death music of looneytunes.
Different world.
Need map through wreckedcar carcasses, strewn bodies,
	rat's maze. Changing times.
	Big cheese just around the corner
that was just around the corner where
Magritte was painting himself painting himself.
Jaggedpane window, Dalíclock lock, thieving innocence,
innocent in some far past.
	Dog eat dog,
	big fish swallow smaller fish gulp littler fish eat eat, . . .
Never mind Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia:
all in a day's work.
Somebody's map.
Stomachmapping: a process to behold.
Big restaurantworld; Woody Allen says so,
	but what does he know,
	gone to mindmapping heaven.
Brainsunset that is
So
the moon fails to illuminate,
	eliminate negatives, ac-cen-tu-ate the positive.
Positive thinking: easy cure.
Easy for you to say so.
Everything sounds so true, reasonable, logical, right,
	'Absence makes the heart grow fonder.'
	'Out of sight, out of mind.'
What purposes call up wordweapons these?
Truth
		gone.
No answer.
Flee to desert, mountain, island, retreat, commune with nature.
Map your areas, your yard, your dog, your palm, your. . .
Bodymapping more fun.
Left right bodies merge, brains merge, minds merge, souls merge, . . .
Eastwest yinyang yinyang dog
					gone.
Hide hide the cow's outside.
Crowdhiding we are hit
		gone.
Foresthiding we are chopped down
		gone.
Surfacehiding we are scooped up
but not for long.
		Gone.
Hide hide the cows.
We all become vegetarians
gardencultivating on last unpolluted peninsulas of mind
to find lost treasure map, map, any map.
X marks the spots before my mind's eye;
sanity awaiting, largelooming on the horizon.
Oh oh, ‘sanity,’
red flag.
Society mindmapping: busy charting, drawing, mapping, limning,
finding themselves,
dreaming God creating me
				dreaming
					God

© Copyright 2001 "Yogi Carmichael" and Arizona State University West
Background photo: Large Magellanic Cloud, © Copyright 2001 Axel Mellinger;
Photo at top left: A cradle for stars: Star-Forming Region S106, © Copyright 2001 SubaruTelescope
Last Updated: April 26, 2001

	PaloVerde The Arizona State University West Literary Magazine	May, 2001 Volume 9, Number 1
	Poetry