5801. MANUFACTURED GLASS

MANUFACTURED GLASS

And so brittle that the thumper would break;

shatter the million pieces into a million more,

infringing upon our lives centered here on but

one reality with some fifteen thousand more  -  

and, you know, they are all happening at once. 

So, watch out. your goodness only goes so far.

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This miserable sandbox I eat sandwiches in, oh

not so bad : the dirt and the gruel together mix,

making an ease of digestion only better by roughage

or fiber, any of those things the textbooks say.

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Here on the beach, I am grounded : like ground glass,

like the elements of sand which make the glass; 

transparent illusion, rippling sheet, something to 

view while viewing through. Like the middle ages, 

some leaded, colored glass, a view at a saint, 

kneeling in nothing, and bathed in some vast

yet ephemeral eternal light.