the active ingredient

 

Gerald Locklin

 

 

william burroughs invented this

dream machine of flickering lights.

you are supposed to stare at it

until the technicolor visions dance

around your brain.

 

certain strains of arabic music

are supposed to enhance the experience.

 

also haroun -- a hashish candy.

 

something tells me that,

even without the music and the lights,

the haroun might work pretty well.