SUPERMAN & MAN
                                     A Poem
                                By W.C. Leadbeater

          The Overman waits at the end of Time
          Zurvan was Overman to Zarathustra, that dark enigma
          Cloaked as though in shadows in a forest
          & the Overman yet waits at the end of Time

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          He is you & I  
          & what's positive in the I & I vibration
          Now that we have access to the info-net
          cowboys riding the tides of fate
          Our minds are lost in cyborgs
          Absorbed into cyberspace
          Man-things of burning chrome  
          & all that was left of Man gone  

          & the Blood is Bitter Wine
          Inventing religions like monsters
          My religion is schizophrenia
          The Worship & the War-ship of the 
          21st Century Schizoid WoMan--Barbed wire strangling 
          Absemir; he is the Stone
          Which the Philosopher's sought 
          Mercury, Salt, & Sulfur 
          He is all that is left of Alchemy
          & Superman waits in the Shadows
          He raises the scalpel to change his insane brain
          & now all that is left is the Ghost
          & the Machine is Lasers in the dunes; fighting over 
          The desert moon Lucifer, 
          where Cannibalistic aliens bring resurrection to the dead
          Communion, but not bread & wine
          Or bread & water

          The dead Anthroposophy officer--
          Man-Wisdom for a WoMan
          The reincarnation of the hippy
          mental medication; thorazine blues the only salvation; 
          Medicine for the mind in the face of mind-lasers

          The All, S/he is lost in a wilderness of pain
          The situation hopeless, but the tranquilizers do their work
          & S/he is able to rise from the dead like a Phoenix
          Alone in the Heart of a Glass City:  
          A Labyrinth of Mirrors
          The Phoenix reflected there--
          & resurrection just a shot away

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