Happy St Patrick's Day!

    

   APPENDIX D

    Happy Saint Patrick's Day from God is a Mushroom!

    Remember to consume responsibly, whether it's a pint of stout, a glass o' whiskey, or the nectar of the Gods itself...

    When last we spoke it was Epiphany! now the Carnival is over, some of us have run on lean times: with the economy in flux, we take a break from eating flesh like our ancestors who tended their flocks millennia before the Bishop of Rome established guidelines for all good Catholics to live by. Before even Dionysus or John Barleycorn or Joseph the Patriarch invented agriculture, beer and acid trips, when we were following around Moo-Cows and Shetland ponies picking white and golden mushrooms from their dung, riding the Fabulous Beasts flying through the air and over the moon, full and white in the vast empty sky. 

    Patrick was one of the three Patron Saints of Ireland. As all know, he eradicated the brood of that wicked slinker who first tempted the All-Parents in the Garden of Bliss; yes, open your eyes, folks, we are talking, once again (or did I even write that chapter yet?) about a Religious Ban on Psychoactive Mushrooms, pretty much the essence of all modern monotheistic hypocritical religious dogma: on the one hand, plagiarize all the trip reports from Moses to Ezekiel to John, and forbid the common folk from using the Keys to the Kingdom themselves and having a direct and personal Vision of God. 

    The patriarchal, colonialist, military aristocracy would sooner impose a culture of drunken violence and possessiveness, a true Kingdom of Satan, under the Sign of Christ...but far be it for me to tell you not to drink today, oh no! After all you're talking to the editor of The Discriminating Wino---By all means; brew your coffee beans n' pour a shot o' whiskey in dere...just be sure to use public transportation on the way to work. 

    Although: this would be quite a nice day to call out. It's raining here in Boston; a taste of home for the Irish, to boil some cabbage n' potatoes and put on some bagpipe records...March 17th is the last day, according to Robert Graves, of the Celtic Lunar Tree Month of "Nion", the Ash tree, associated with warfare (the ash was used for making spear hafts) and the patriarchal god Odin. The flood season is ending, we're almost out of Pisces; soon the agricultural year will start again, we will celebrate Easter and Passover...  

    And that's the rub, really! We celebrate the birth of grain, the sun, life, food, Christ's resurrection, and we have our beer and flick on our electric lights and drive in our electric cars and we forget all about the good old days when we ran around loosely clad in buckskin eating wild mushrooms, snatching eggs from quails' nests, dew on our bare hobbit feet...boy this weather puts me in the mood of All Seasons

    I'm a changeling... See me change...

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