FINAL (mess)AGE: 
A closing communiqué

    forGET aboot endINgs -
    foOKus ON how yer living NOW

    thIS moment
    wHERE is yer awareness?

    if yer thinKIN' ah mONey
    err pre-OKkupied with sEX
    err obseSSed aboot statUS
    yer all(READY) dead

    if yer filled wid wONdEr
    & kurioUS aboot everythINggg. . .
    & feel "AH HA" this mo(ve)ment. . .
    no matter wha' buREaukratic dukumints say
    you are LIVING!!


Linda: It seems life and death coexist. Isn't that an age-old teaching?

Lex:   (nodding) Yes. It seems as if parts of myself are already dead, 
       while others are vibrant. Perhaps the key point is awareness. In some ways, 
       isn't attention like a sword cutting though entropy?


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Reflections on how vibrant awareness differs from the compulsive hankering called "life."
KEYWORDS: zombie consciousness, keen awareness, preconditioned patternings, conscious living

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2011 in Tokyo, Japan ✠ Finished: 20214 in Shizuoks Japan
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