The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Who wasn't water because he was wholly the water stance? Who wasn't counting so he turned to water? The people cry out, why did I waste my time in school when I could have been learning kung fu? The last chamber is the one where you go out into the world and teach, but it takes until the end of the movie to walk through. If you arrived with me would you help me? If you arrived with me would you allow yourself to get folded? Who wouldn't listen to the great teaching? Filled with all other fighting stances you'll be embodied forever we'll stand perfectly still with true knowledge rippling through us like in the movie that flapping sound our bodies make when we're moving swiftly without moving at all, unfolding suddenly, you'll help me teach. Our knees and our teaching, how to make your head hard, as you joyfully smash it into whatever's in front of you.
contains
a
fold,
like
a
creased
page.
Eager
to
find
ambiguous
indentations
in
matteness,
I
invaginate
reality
by
making
it
less
simple.
-- Wayne
Koestenbaum,
The
Anatomy
of
Harpo
Marx
Extension of Projection
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