The Stoned Apocalypse (25 page)
“Keep in touch,” he said.
And shortly thereafter I plugged in to the current of sexual flow which increases in intensity and volume in inverse proportion to the level of conscious freedom in the nation. I added a new mask to the theater of identifications which has been my life, and became a pornographer.
I watch with detached interest now as I go through my days. I breathe in, I breathe out. Who am I becoming? I see lines in the winds of time, leanings which congeal into the contours of the future.
A new trip begins to write itself in. Another voyage into knowing. But with a single difference from all the others before it. This time I cannot deceive myself into thinking that the trip has some destination, that there is some final act which will draw everything together into a bow of understanding. Never can I forget that everything I know, or do, or think, or feel, or create, or understand is but a brief poignant gesture into the supercilious face of the unknown.
There is only what is, and that is mute.
I have stopped searching.
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Copyright 1972 by Marco Vassi
ISBN 978-1-4976-3493-0
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