My metaphysics is best summed up in a song I wrote for a friend dying of AIDS. It's called The God Almighty Blues:
God
Almighty is the name that you all give to me
But God
Almighty isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
So hush
your prayers, complaints and whines and hear my side a bit
I’m
gonna tell you why I made a world so full of…it
You all
think that being God is really where it’s at
Just
lounging on a throne all day while chewing cosmic fat
With
fifty trillion angel choirs all singing lavish praise
If
you’re like me this scene would drive you nuts within two days
It’s true
that all I have to do is give one small command
And
there it is, just what I want, and I don’t lift a hand
How
’bout a perfect diamond with each facet light years wide?
No
problem! I get what I want as soon as I decide
Limitations
don’t exist as long as I am me
But that’s a limitation! It gets boring
don’t you see
So I
enter amnesia, what you call the universe
In
which I savor all those feelings God can never nurse
Like
fear and hate and jealousy and worrying ’bout the rent
Like
walking up to my new car and finding a big dent!
Like
falling oh so deep in love then falling out again
Like
knowing that I’m gonna die and fearing how or when
Like
having some old bastard ride my ass from nine to five
Like
freezing down on skid row begging wine to keep alive
Like
giving birth to babies and like starting to grow old
Like
chasing after cuties and that rainbow’s pot of gold
So all
of you who wonder ’bout the “meaning” of your life
It’s
just a way that I can get a taste of toil and strife
By
living out a life just like it’s really life or death
I play
as many characters as ever drew a breath
Like
Oonga in the jungle and like Bill who lives next door
Like
Mary Queen of Scots and like old Fred who mops the floor
Like
Hitler and like Joan of Arc like Blackbeard on the Main
Like
Tom and Dick and Harry and like Einstein and plain Jane
Like
Moses on the mountain like the woman at the well
Like
Francois and Beethoven like Alexi Ho and Nell
Like
Ala and Johannes like Mugobwe Singh and May
Like
you and everybody else--just parts I like to play
Yes
just for fun I let myself lose my identity
I
trap myself in human form then wait to be set free
The
pain cries out remember oh remember who you are
Escape
this cage of flesh and let your light blaze like a star
So who
you think you are is simply me there in disguise
I think
you’ll find this makes up for the pain of life: surprise!
Yes God
Almighty is the name that you all gave to me
And life’s
my way of passing time...inside eternity
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