Kal Archer and the Shah of Athabasca

It takes no time To go nowhere, It takes forever To go everywhere.   Johnny wanted To run away as Fast he could All in peace,   Without reserve, To live by rules Mitigated only By innovation,   For as long as He could figure, On being alive To then believe,   It takes no time, To go nowhere, It takes forever To go everywhere.  ~Victor Imari (10/27/05)

The brightest star Among millions, Doesn't illuminate The other stars.    ~ The Shah of Athabasca   I've chosen Yogi Bera's advice, I've done so more than once.   Like confessions on confetti, I've felt most of my travels.   Where I didn't want to stay, I moved on to places I knew:   If I could do it all again, I'd do it in reverse by now.    - Victor Imari (10/7/5)    

     Any old shplan might       Work with problems.                 ~The Shah of Athabasca   Any old thing you may Feel can be made up   Of your very own life's Dreams and desires,   Failures, triumphs, You get the idea...   All those feelings, Bound to collide,   On but one condition: That they're allowed.        ~Victor Imari (29/08/05)

         Truest love is the best          Peace of cherishment.                     ~The Shah of Athabasca   Between humility and humiliation Lies a chasm, which cannot bridge   The tests of time are but forgotten Like accidents over darkest nights   Filled with anticipation of horrors Sprung from desires to change lies   Deep within the human condition That challenges your self-dignity   To places where the atmosphere Is familiar, but the people are   Not.   ~Victor Imari (8/24/05)

Personally, I prefer some Paranoia to the real thing.        ~The Shah of Athabasca   When experience is aged expectation, The truth is eclipsed by the unknown.   Risk is to belief as its merit is to inheritance. None can be another; nothing is merely anything.   Freedom is more the offspring of discovering, And letting go (of some truth, than its capture).   ~Victor Imari (06/04)

Between desire and possibility, Flows opportunity. Between love And loss floats some disutility. ~The Shah of Athabasca As far as eyes see, What's lost is uncertainty; Perhaps a tribute Paid by the same torrent: What mystery? All the same, never fate be Where hope runs dry, At the mercy of dreams to die. Perception is the public self Don't you know: Choice is God's gift, And decision is our torment; And time is that wheel, Riding those divine railways... 'By the way, about that bridge...' Might there be a single currency, You think, over galactic years? It is indeed too bad we can't deal With all the world's ill in one setting: All seven sins, in just so much time. With all the visions, And revisions...alas, Indifference is the grease That expedites our(downward?) Spiral of despair; Precluding the friction to obviate Resolution toward repair. The truly heard are Not among the veritably haunted. 'There will be time, There...

Two wrongs don't make a right, Though three lefts generally do. ~The Shah of Athabasca Attached by a rope, Borne into chaos, So close nature's heart, With sword in hand, We cry, and try, and If condemned forever, The rope must sever; Hardly remembered, Free at last, With pen in hand. Irresolution, though, perhaps The consequence of tributes Various virtues pay to vice, The mother of all hypocrisy Seems cheaper than deaths Relentless frame Up of solitude; so Much ground to cover, A moment of clarity Worth lifetimes of sanity, But brews the rage, Even precludes the cut, Through crowded conscience, To invalidate the sentence, And keep free the innocent With pen in hand. ~Victor Imari, 2001

A blank slate is Life indeed; thank God for whispers.        ~ The Shah of Athabasca   In so many ways, You may or may Indeed not know; You know enough.   Take names, for Example: I have Many, it seems. Some not bad.   You see, there Is my aim, I am Egotistical, not; An easy sailor.   Just whisper truth, And I am all ears. As for price, well, Truth is priceless.   ~Victor Imari (March 11/2005)

In the dark, All you feel Is your face. ~The Shah of Athabasca The difference between Opposition and competition Is co-operation. The difference between Competition and co-operation Is opposition. The difference between Co-operation and opposition Is...peace? Wait and see... ~Victor Imari (02.1.04)

There was inert malaise To the whole shituation... ~ The Shah Of Athabasca Waiting for the tides to turn Your way just doesn't work So much energy is wasted, In making sure otherwise, Someone should just write Something, and be done. ~Victor Imari (7/11/05)