[Marlene]
Excuse me, sir. I believe
you to be the person I’m
to see about Bree
and her ex-boyfriend, Kevin.
Are you Joseph Ward?
[Joseph Ward]
I am, but what affords me
the pleasure of your youthful
company this day?
[Marlene]
Johnathan and Crystal said
not to be bashful,
but to be careful to wear
conservative apparel.
They thought we should meet
early some sunny Sunday
’cause Nature’s your church
and you are apt to research
anything for the asking.
[Joseph]
Cordiality
aside, your smile abides
a genuine warmth
to last a month of Sundays.
How do you know these people?
Is there a problem
with Kevin that channels your
need for assistance
or is it, instead, with Bree,
or, possibly, in essence,
something different
other than what your intro,
with no bio, framed?
[Marlene]
My apology, I am
Marlene Marlo and I’m here
ably endowed with
common sense to proclaim my
strong attachment to
my Uncle Marlo who chose
to pursue to cue Crystal’s
Johnathan to view
Compton’s three-coined-arrangement
of a better path
of favorable insight
concerning humankind’s plight.
You carry the coins
as does Johnathan’s stout band
of vigorous friends.
My family is well known
and shown to be helpful to
coin carrying folks
who revoke competition
for aggregating
groups of cooperating,
decent individuals.
[Joseph]
So your cordial tone
is grown from those who are prone
to cooperate
to weave a tapestry that
entangles diverse angles
of all perspectives
keen to leave no stone unturned.
Picasso is proud,
but not all viewers perceive
meaning from pure abstraction.
[Marlene]
But I’m not speaking
to anyone but you and
it’s true that you know
to wrestle the undertow
of converging subcurrents
of huge, crashing waves
that might become a liquid,
tumbling, wet grave-cave
were it not for your gusto
and good sense to dispense funds
to pay the expense
of fortifying mind, soul
and body blithely.
Personally, I enjoy
Picasso’s blue paintings best.
Rest assured I’m here
more for you than me to see
what can be procured
to score relief from Tina’s
dilemma that feeds your grief.
[Joseph]
So, Kevin and Bree
were actually no more
than good camouflage?
[Marlene]
Nothing I said was a lie.
You can try to minimize
or deflect to eye
some unknown, phantom-made threat
but I would not bet
that such strategies will please
you with fantastic results.
If you consult your
vast experience and Joe’s
Honor Coin you’ll join
your two best attributes to
compute that which will appease
any doubt about
my sincere honesty for
reciprocity
to honor all your effort
to assist other struggles
to enlist samples
of alternatives to hard
core status quo blows
to progressive shifts that shield,
preserve and nurture all lives.
Our first meeting
deserved special attention
to secure, first, your
best appraisal of time spent
with an unknown entity.
Speach is linear
unlike showing a photo
that explodes meaning
completely and instantly.
I had to find time to paint
a full photograph
of myself with your best friends.
Marlo’s a surname
of a family greatly
invested and completely
interested in
developing the human
consciousness beyond
the confined blindness that moves
animalistic instincts
to react to facts
hard wired in D N A
that stays the course for
animals that do not plan
proactively to refute
a narrow command
that may stand in the way of
a better life choice.
Uncle Marlo decided
to voice his learned advice
to entice his friend,
Johnathan, to recommend
to his close fellows
Compton’s perspectives because
he knew that Johnathan would,
pursue because his
close companions already
abandoned sanctioned
unfettered competition
as a holy position
to evangelize.
Johnathan and my uncle
maintained their prized ties
up until he passed last year
with an air of contentment.
[Joseph]
So, we’re a pair, then?
[Marlene]
Oh, we’re inseparable.
You’re amenable
to a loyal friendship with
one who carries the three coins
and readily joins
enthusiastically
the quest to live more
harmoniously even
when stressed by obsessed doctrines
of competitive
superiority that
gives much to a few
leaving the majority
to stew about their bad luck
for having a life
stuck in poverty’s low class
or the scarcity
of opportunity for
some middle class improvement.
[Joseph]
So your prophesy
is we will be best of friends.
[Marlene]
Each of our souls
intends to transcend upward
or forward toward expanding
our consciousness
of the reality we,
three, are a small part.
[Joseph]
“We three …” Who is the third soul
to behold the gains our
brains will obtain and
maintain as the foundation
for more expansion?
[Marlene]
Why Tina of course though she’s
yet to endorse the value
of clinical help
to pursue Bartholomew’s
imposed dilemma
from his inflicted trauma
of child sexual abuse
for six confusing
years mixed with fear and tears laced
with beer and other
intoxicants promoting
addictions’s solution to
love and happiness.
Did Bartholomew love, or
consume, her young soul?
Did she presume naively
that she was fully worthy
of kind affection?
Is this not the swirl that hurls
your thoughts to frenzy?
[Joseph]
You seem to be completely
in tune with my mind’s monsoon.
[Marlene]
The grand Marlo clan
understands its brand of help
conveyed to persons
who’ve displayed simple ways to
offer relief to other’s
grief perpetrated
by narcissistic beliefs
of would be false chiefs.
You, Joseph, and Johnathan,
Crystal and all their fellows
echo the same core
scenario for increased
personal growth for
release of harmonious,
stabile methods of seeking
to stretch the framework
of consciousness with a depth
of comprehension
of Creation’s Masterpiece.
Like Tina, choose to engage
or to stay away.
I offer to you that which
you offered to her.
Does it not occur to you
that this is a centered point
of Compton’s condensed
view of Creation’s true move
in lieu of giving
ultimatums or sanctions.
Choose a path to traverse and
immerse your self in
its terrain that just might change
out of range from your
initial vision that weighed
your decision one way or
the other trying
to cover contingencies
that cannot be seen
to intervene poor judgements.
Your cauldron of confusion
regarding Tina’s
simmering broth of very
dark illusions feeds
your soul with stark, tasteless pleas
from bad hallucinations.
You’re troubled with a
befuddled mind and could use
my probing views to
diffuse your mental fog like
the rising sun’s morning rays.
You should know you too
have trust issues akin to
Tina’s strong need to
control and be fully self
determined even if it
ruined her best chance
for happiness. Be gracious
grant me one day’s grace
to trace lines that might unwind
the tangled, mental vines that
bind your troubled soul.
[Joseph]
So, how do you know the whole
import of Tina’s
self imposed tort to thwart good
male fellowship for macho
bravado that shames,
defames and proclaims gentle
action unmanly?
[Marlene]
It’s handy for family
to share and reflect about
the affairs of those
who propose to expose cloaked,
priceless subtleties
that can free mankind to be
more than instinctive mammals.
The Marlo clan are
fans of all coin carriers,
so, we talk among
ourselves about who delves
in the advancement of one’s
personal attempt
for improvement. We all share
to help prepare us
to help the unaware to
fair better from the contact
that will then extract
new insights to fight against
naïveté and
ignorance which in essence
is the root of all earthly
human suffering.
Cooperating along
with education
is the best resolution
to replace the disgrace of
bullets, bombs and war
or narcissistic, selfish
greed that needs to be
heaved upon history’s past
heap of atrocious conduct
to pluck the human
soul from being stuck
in perpetual
stagnation that continues
to devolve a loveless life
of violence void
of any condolences.
Hell is self imposed
always as a consequence
of slighting one’s true nature.
You were very smart
to embark with Cole and his
fellows to start their
remarkable adventure
to secure a well prepared
presentation to
elicit conversations
about humankind’s
frustration to find useful
resolutions to earthly,
daily suffering.
Tina was not yet prepared
to share the challenge.