Poem

The magicians

I wrote this in my early 20s under heavy doses of Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley.

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Awareness contracts to focus
they say it’s not hocus pocus
to them it is just a thought.

Through invisible incantation
matter dances to mentation
the conscious rewrites the Points.

But quickly they lose their way
emotion and thought carry them astray
while the birds scream Attention! Attention!

They take note but never remember
“stay strong and never surrender!"
the fools never realise “I am.”