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By Jack Joseph Smith

ENGLAND'S BEE GEE'S "Just for Four hundred seasons we all lived in Vain" ACID I Sitting on the grass Greens petal-a green. The leaf is deep my Lord: A childs' challenge still fears the tips of trees- I fall more in circle from the cliffs. The air shutters with its fine breath Coming upward its scent clings to one And I watch breezes blow me infantile Seeking a higher sight Insights toward living Struggling to reduce power to letting go As in our revelations at the first turns. Loving the faces of friends: Mystery turning their ashes Saintly beginnings rising to form. Waiting for all to unconceal time Listening to damage unraveling truth Parting is such sweet sorrow to tell A way out wildness of winged flutter. Wind moves from one place to another. Head bent under a strange ivory cast The silk of ageless dances surging up years of the mind A human's twirl without body's composite over this soul As to a mask is life upon the tight stretches of canvas Commencing to show slightness in open laid fingers Real as experience Eyes and forgiving Are the complete hands of a woman lining our world

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'ENGLAND'S BEE GEE'S' / 'Just for Four hundred seasons we all lived in Vain' / 'ACID I' — a visionary nature-and-consciousness page moving from grass and cliffs toward sorrow, form, and the hands of a woman lining the world.

First of the Acid sequence. The page is no longer just noisy surface; its imagery now reads coherently as expansion of perception through wind, height, friendship, and bodily form. The Shakespeare echo sits inside a broader psychedelic meditation on revelation and tenderness.

Claude

'ENGLAND'S BEE GEE'S' with its epigraph 'Just for Four hundred seasons we all lived in Vain' opens the 'ACID I' sequence: a psychedelic descent into grass, green, and cliffs that resolves toward 'the complete hands of a woman lining our world'.

The poem tracks expanded perception by falling and loosening -- 'I fall more in circle from the cliffs,' watching 'breezes blow me infantile,' and 'Struggling to reduce power to letting go.' Friendship and dissolution braid together: 'Loving the faces of friends: / Mystery turning their ashes / Saintly beginnings rising to form.' The borrowed line 'Parting is such sweet sorrow to tell' is dropped in without ceremony among 'winged flutter' and shifting wind. The close turns from trip to tenderness, making 'Eyes and forgiving ... the complete hands of a woman' the frame that steadies the vision. Source forms 'childs',' 'shutters,' and the apostrophized title are kept as written.