'DREAM'
THIS MORNING AFTER
WAKING AROUND 7;00 A.M.
WENT TO THE COMPUTER
AND WROTE A POEM
ADDRESSED TO NADER TALEBZADEH
ON THE OCASSION OF HIS
BROTHER NASSER ORDUBADI" AKA" DR.NOAH MACKAY
THE POEM
FOLLOWS IN ANSWER TO
NADER'S RESPONSE WHICH WAS AS FOLLOWS
"Salvador the discoverer
Thank you for your note of understanding.
Nasser was a warrior
that will be missed.
He asked permission
from his family to leave
on his hour of death.
Only after Kim ,his wife conceded
did he shut his eyes
and off he went,
to the realm of forever..."
Nader Talebzadeh
"HELLO
YES HE WAS A WARRIOR
AND I OFTEN WONDER
WHERE IS IT THAT ONE GOES
AND WHETHER EVERYONE GOES
TO THE SAME PLACE
JUST AS EVERYONE SEEMS
TO HAVE COME TO THIS ONE PLACE
MY YOUNGER BROTHER MARIO
A GREAT ACTOR AND PAINTER
ALSO JUST MOVED ON
A FEW MONTHS AGO
I ALSO WONDER WHAT THEY SEE
WHEN THEY MENTION THAT
THEY WANT TO MOVE ON
EVERY NIGHT I HAVE VIVID DREAMS
WHERE I TRAVEL ALL OVER THE PLACE
I AM CERTAIN THAT I AM
DOING ASTRAL TRAVELLING
BECAUSE WHEN I WAKE UP
IT IS HARD TO ADJUST TO MY BODY
AND SOMETIMES FEELS EVEN PAINFUL
AS IF I HAD BEEN DOING
LOTS OF PHYSICAL EXERCISES
WHICH I ALSO DO BUT THE PAIN OF WAKING UP
FROM MY NIGHTLY TRAVELS
IS QUITE DIFFERENT
FROM THE MUSCLE PAINS
OF MY DAILY EXERTIONS
WE HAD SOME VERY HAPPY TIMES TOGETHER
YEARS AGOI REMEMBER YOU ALWAYS SMILING
AND I HOPE YOU WILL REMEMBER
THOSE TIMES
AND REMEMBER TO SMILE A LOT
AND BE HAPPY
EVEN THOUGH AS WE CAN SEE
THE WORLD THAT WE A RE FAMILIAR WITH
IT IS CRUMBLING
DISAPPEARING RIGHT BEFORE
OUR VERY EYES
THERE NO PLACE TO DROP ANCHOR
THERE IS NO PLACE
WHERE WE CAN GO
THAT FOREVER BE UNCHANGED
THAT FOREVER GIVES US SHELTER
FROM THE EVER CHANGING STORMS
WE MUST ROW AND ROW AND ROWFOREVER
EVEN IF WE WERE TO BECOME STONES
THOSE ARE MADE UP OF THE BONES
OF THE MULTITUDES OF BEINGS
SOME FAMILIAR
OTHER STRANGER THAN FICTION
THAT HAVE COME
AND THAT HAVE GONE
LEAVING JUST MILES AND MILES
OF FOREVER ACCUMULATING
SKELETONS DETRITUS
THAT TO US PASSES FOR STONES
SO REMEMBER TO SMILE
AND REMEMBER TO DO
WHATEVER YOU WANT AND CAN DO
WHILE YOU ARE STILL
A WALKING LAUGHING SKELETON
NOT QUITE YET
MADE UP OF STONE
SALUD Y SALUDOS
YOUR KINDRED SOUL
SAL"
I THEN WENT TO THE KITCHEN
AND MADE A MUMBAI VADA PAV
IT WAS DELICIOUS AS IT ALWAYS IS
DRANK SOME ROSEMARY
AND CARDAMON TEA
ALSO REALLY GOOD
WATCHED SOME TV
AND WENT BACK TO SLEEP
I SLEPT FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS MORE
IMMEDIATELY I BEGUN TO DREAM
I WAS WALKING ABOUT
WITH MY MOTHER HOLDING HANDS
WE WENT DOWN STAIRS AND STREETS
THAT I KNEW IT WAS GUADALAJARA
BUT IT LOOKED NOTHING LIKE IT AT ALL
WELL, MAYBE A BIT A RESEMBLANCE WAS THE
THE FRENCH INFLUENCED STREETS AND AVENUES
WAS THEREANY WAY I THEN TOLD HER LET US GO VISIT
NISSIM CICOURELMY CLOSET CHILDHOOD
FRIEND WE WERE BORN IN THE SAME HOUSE
ONLY 3 DAYS APART
AND GREW TOGETHER
UNTIL I LEFT THE CITY FOR GOOD WHEN I WAS
EIGHTEEN YEARS OLDWE WENT TO NISSIM'S
HOUSE AND TRU THE TRANSLUCENT GLASS DOORS
I SO MORE THAN ON PERSON COMING TOWARDS
US IT WAS NISSIM WITH AN ENTOURAGE EVERYONE
DRESS TO THE MAX NISSIM THEN GREETED ME
AND SAY WE ARE HAVING A CEREMONY
SOMETHING LIKE A BAR MIZTSBAH COME WITH US
WE WALKED SOME TIME AND WENT TO A CLOSED
TO TRAFFIC STREET TABLES WERE SET AND
NISSIM SEEMED TO BE THE LEADER OF THE EVENT
HE WITH OTHER SAT AT THE PRINCIPAL TABLE
AND THERE WERE TABLES
ON THE SIDEWALKS ALSO
I FOUND AN EMPTY PLACE AT A TABLE AND SAT
DOWN NEXT TO A BLONDIE WOMAN THAT COULD HAD
BEEN FROM MANHATTANWE CHATTED FOR A WHILE
WHERE YOU FROM AND SO ON
THEN I WAS GIVEN A PIECE
OF ALUMINUM FOIL TO COVER MYSELF FROM HEAD
TO TOE AS A NYC MARATHON WARM UP
BLANKET WHICH I DID THERE WAS THEN A
PARADE OF LOTS OF CHARACTERS DRESSED LIKE
BEEF EATERS BUT WITH LCD LIGHTS ON THEIR TALL
HATS THEY WERE MARCHING HOLDING
BATONS THEN IN THE DREAM I FELL SLEEP AT THE
TABLE I HAD LEFT MY MOTHER NEAR NISSIMS
TABLE AT THE HEAD OF THE LONG PROCESSION OF
TABLES I WAS WOKEN BY A MAN THAT COULD HAD
BEEN A HASIDIM FROM BROOKLYN OR MANHATTAN
THE TABLES WERE MOSTLYEMPTY AND THEIR WERE
LEFTOVER CUPS OF A YELLOW TYPE OF TEA HE THEN TOLD ME
'YOU MUST DRINK THE TEA, AND TOSS THE BAG
WHILE THINKING ABOUT ALL THE NEGATIVITY AND
PROBLEMS THAT MIGHT BE SURROUNDING YOU"
HE THEN REACHED TO ONE OF THE LEFTOVER CUPS POUR
SOME YELLOW LIQUID ON A GLASSPICKED UP THE TEA BAG
AND HANDED THEM TO ME AND SAID DRINK IT
I DRANK IT AND TOSSED THE BAG LIKE DOING AS HE
HAD SAID THEN THERE WAS NO ONE THERE SO I HEADED
TOWARDS THE NISSIM TABLE WHERE I HAD LEFT
MY MOTHER BUT BY NOW I DID NOT REMEMBER IT HAD
BEEN MY MOTHER THE WAY BACK WAS MUCH MORE
TORTUOUS AND LONG AND IT TOOK ME TROUGH
INDUSTRIAL ARES PLACES WHICH I DID NOT SEE
WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED THERE I HAD TO SLIDE
TROUGH METAL LADDERS JUMPING DOWN FROM
STONE TO STONE DOWN FROM A HIGH HILL UNTIL I
GOT TO THE LAST STONE WHICH WAS SILL QUITE A
WAY FROM REACHING THE STREET BELOW I THEN
JUMPED ALMOST FLEW AND LANDED ON THE
GRASSY STREET BELOW I LANDED SQUATTING BUT
FELL BACKWARDS ON THE GRASS I THEN STRETCHED
MY SELF COMPLETELY AS THE PASSERSBY WERE STARING
AT ME STRETCHED OUT ON THE SIDE OF THE
SIDEWALK FLOOR I DID NOT CARE AND IN FACT I
WAS FINDING QUITE HARD TO GET UP FINALLY I DID
AND FOUND MY WAY TO THE TABLE AT THE HEAD
OF THE EVENT STREET WAS EMPTY BUT THERE WAS A
WOMAN IN A FUR COAT WITH A NAME TAP ON HER LEFT SIDE
'BY THIS TIME I DID NOT REMEMBER IT HAD
BEEN MY MOTHER,AT ALL' I SAID TO HER DID YOU
HAVE TO WAIT LONG SHE REPLIED
NO, NO, NOT ALL, WE THEN STARTED
WALKING AS IF GOING BACK TO WHENCE WE HAD COM FROM
AND ALL HAD BEGUN WE CLIMBED SOME
STREET STAIRS THEN I WAS SUDDENLY ALONE
THEN I WOKE UP AND IT
TOOK MY ALMOST 10 MINUTES TO INSIDE MY
BODY WHICH HURT EDNOT LIKE EXERCISE AND NO
SPECIFIC AREA RATHER IT HURT ALL OVER I FINALLY
WOKE UP AND GOT UP AND BEGUN TO
WRITE THIS DREAM DOWN
SAL ROSILLO