Pick Up Lines

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All your lofty wishes,

and your most tender heart-felt prayers,

are just sexual frustration,

and demands for gratification:

just sleazy fuck-talk and pick-up lines.

You can not molest the beloved with the filthy fingers of self-will,

nor woo her with the gutter-words of your linguistic consciousness:

far too crude,

far too shallow.

All your asking,

All your prayers,

All your I, I, I, me, me, mine,

Shut up.

You can not express being into experience,

– the utter irrelevance of all experience to being is itself freedom –

even your prayers are hostile noise

in the sweet ears of the beloved.

Stop hounding her like a dog,

stop harassing her like a rapist with your willfulness.

Be still,

Be silent,

Be nothing,

Be not in experience,

Be all in being,

and receive.