beat, beaten, arise with dazzled eyes on the wings of phoenix. beat, beaten by a man, men, this gender battle because no man would be beaten by a woman, not even you. but beat is not beaten IS movement forward hear your house that roars in minnie’s kingdom.

beat generation. the only war that matters is the war against the imagination. diane di prima, woman of the.

beat is time, time, time, and there WILL be time - grandfather’s clock / too big for the shelf / stood ninety years / on the floor. only clocks stop, not time.

beat, beats go on. rhythms in brains - dude that kicks ass - IF you listen. parker-c, carter-b. coltrane-j, lady-day. quiet now for monk. qi gong⁽¹⁾ brain fire duchess joanne brackeen. LISTEN.

BE AT - be attitude - in my solitude / you haunt me.

sing to me jack, jacky-kung-fu-kicking, jackie-pink-suit-picking, A-JAX! shouts the loneliest duck, privately unbeaten in remaindered re-runs into monday - around midnight - mornings in the dark. comedy channel, orlando’s route 66.

millennium joy. beatitude.

⁽¹⁾ Chinese breathing exercises, linked to marital arts. Not unlike exercises practiced by the Falun Gong and other spiritual groups.

ps: my short story ‘until the next century’ is in the current (january) issue of a webzine at www.carvezine.com –  it is a zine dedicated to the writer raymond carver