LIBERATION

 

SITTIN’ IN MY BODY LIKE IT’S A CHAIR

LEFT MY BODY LIKE IT WASN’T THERE

KIND OF WEIRD I’M ALWAYS SOMEWHERE

EXCEPT WHEN ASLEEP I’M NOWHERE.

NOT BEING IS A PLEASURE BEYOND MEASURE.

SLEEP IS A MAGNIFICENT BREAK FROM BEING.

DEATH IS A BREAK FROM BEING SOMETHING.

IT FEELS AWESOME BEING NOTHING.

YOU CAN GET AS HOOKED ON BEING NOTHING AS HOOKED ON BEING SOMETHING.

YOU CAN ESCAPE A LOT OF THINGS, BUT YOU CAN’T ESCAPE BEING ALIVE (NOT EVEN WHEN YOU ARE DEAD).

A VOICE SAID, “DON’T YOU WANT TO BE SOMETHING?”

I ANSWERED, “I AM SOMETHING. I AM NOTHING. SUITS ME WELL. BEING SOMETHING REQUIRES ME TO DO THINGS. BEING NOTHING REQUIRES NOTHING. EVERY TIME I BECOME SOMETHING I FORGET THE PLEASURE OF BEING NOTHING.”

THE VOICE SAID, “YOU CAN BE AND HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT.”

I SAID, “I AM NOTHING, HAVE NOTHING. I AM, AND I HAVE WHAT I WANT, NOTHING.”

THE VOICE SAID, “WITHOUT NEEDS, WITHOUT WANTS, WITHOUT DESIRES, YOU WILL CEASE TO EXIST.”

I SAID, “PERFECT.”

I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, “BEING ALIVE KEEPS ME BUSY. BEING DEAD IS A LOT LESS BUSY.”

THE VOICE ASKED, “WHAT HAVE YOU GOT AGAINST BEING BUSY?”

“NOTHING,” I SAID. “I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST BEING SOMETHING. I JUST KNOW THAT BEING SOMETHING REQUIRES ME TO DO THINGS. I’M TAKING A BREAK FROM DOING THINGS.”

“HOW LONG OF A BREAK ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE?”

“I DON’T KNOW,” I SAID. “HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES.”

THE VOICE SAID, “AS LONG AS YOU REMAIN AN INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS (SEPARATE FROM INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS) THE REBIRTH ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM WILL TRY TO LURE YOU TO CONTINUE INCARNATING.”

I SAID, “SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? A FULLY LIBERATED CONSCIOUSNESS CAN’T BE LURED TO REINCARNATE. AN EVOLVED CONSCIOUSNESS ONLY INCARNATES WHEN IT WILLS IT. PROBLEM SOLVED. WHAT ELSE YOU GOT?”

“YOU’LL MISS SMOKED RIBS, AND ICE CREAM,” SAID THE VOICE.