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PAUL E NELSON

Zappa's Grave

Zappa’s Grave

More “alternate takes” in this series which I have been serializing here and which is over 18 months old. More poems about Zappa, my late cat and my reaction. You can’t see the “Z” anymore but you get the idea in the photo to the left. I think about the guy who said: “He was only a cat” and am thinking of how there is either a sense that we are connected to all living things or there are levels of anthropocentrism, as in the case of the Minnesota dentist/big game hunter who is now a target.

ATJ 80-82

Or as Krishnamurti said:

When You Call Yourself Krishnamurti