"LAST WORDS"
Towards an Insurrection of the Poetic Imagination
TABLE OF CONTENTS
my life as fiction
Author Introduction 15
drifting clouds
The Clouds of Unknowing 23
Vertical Integrity 24
This Body 25
First and Second Attentions: The Vision Circuit 26
Self-Initiation 29
Bridge Walkers 30
Amor Fati 31
Fallow Fields 32
3 Things About Writing 33
The Perks of Aging 34
Courting the Muses 36
Cinema of the Future 38
Frontier Scouts of the Gene Pools 40
The Good Fight 41
When Enough Is Enough 42
the bardo tunnels
Neither Here Nor There 45
Dearly Departed 46
The Mental House Life 47
Insurrection of the Poetic Imagination 48
Fine-Tuning Your B.S. Detector 50
The Shdow Knows 51
The Self-Improvement Scam 52
Failure of the Universal “We” 53
The Untied States of America 56
The Alchemy of Obsession 55
The World Owes Me Nothing 57
The Earth is Calling the Shots 58
The Tragedy of the World 60
When Tragic Turns to Magick 61
What’s the Rush? 63
Predicting the Future 64
incantations (to be read out loud)
Babes in the Abyss 67
The World Is Not the Planet 68
Bells 69
The End of the World as I Want It 72
the woman is not the anima
Living With A Sorceress 77
Her Wisdom 79
Subterranean Love 80
Trick Top Hat 82
reality-challenged
You Must Learn to Speak Their Language! 85
The Last Piano Lesson 87
Suddenly Limelight! 89
A Kettle of Condors 91
Making an Art Out of Poverty 93
Anima Attacks! 94
Publish or Perish Part 1) 97
Publish or Perish Part 2) 98
Catastrophic Reckonings 100
Reinventing the Romantic 102
The Workings of Self-Work 103
An Alchemical Marriage 105
Keeping Portland Weird 107
A Holy Trinity of Love, Art, Community 109
afterword
by Sylvi Alli 111
Vertical Pool
TALENTS 118
CREWS 119
VENUES 120
SOUNDTRACKS 122
FILMOGRAPHY (1993–2022) 118
ParaTheatrical ReSearch
(video documents 1999–2018) 127
