This Is What Hurts

This Is What Hurts

Rudolph Woods

Copyright © 2019 by Rudolph Woods

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First Printing: 2019

ISBN 978-0-359-91225-4

Reminder

People need connectors

Writers, heroes, stars

leaders

to give life form

A child’s sand boat facing

the sun.

Plastic soldiers in the miniature

dirt war. Forts

Garage Rocket ships

Ceremonies, theatre, dances

To reassert Tribal needs and memories

a call to workshop, uniting

above all, a reversion,

a longing for family and the

safety magic of childhood

- Jim Morrison

Introduction

I like to think many modern humans inflict pain on themselves so they can reach different aspects of reality. The medieval Christians would beat themselves with leather whips and this caused cuts with minor infections on their body. These infections produced toxic chemicals within their body, and this helped them reach God and high levels of consciousness. In modern society, we do the same thing using alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.

The ancient shamans have a similar procedure of tormenting themselves. They, additionally, use hallucinatory plants to help trigger the spiritual experience. Once you have been to these different realities and experience God and the infinite, you will continue going back because it is a marvelous place. I like to think this writing will serve as a gesture or bridge, for those listening, to better understand the present situation.

- Poetry is the absolute truth coming from the data in the mind; unfiltered, unstructured, and unmodified.

I would like to invite you on a wild journey through the