Saturday, May 2, 2015

6681. OF THE WORLD

OF THE WORLD
Who has hollowed out the turtle at the Great Divide,
who has left this grand void in the Heavens?  To
walk myself now through Olduvai Gorge, I stumble
upon man's earliest Man  -  yes, from back when
before there even was a God. Yet how can that be?
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I am confident of all things, and I can explain this too.
Come, sit, have coffee with me : see these yellowed
teeth I wear? They are stained from the coffee and red
wines from too many night's delights, and I simply
keep moving from there. This God thing, is but a
word, and before there were words it just was not
there. The effort, perhaps, like a theater with brand
new lights, was pulsing to bring in the crowd. But
until there was language, I'm afraid no one came.
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You can fight my inherent bias, I guess; counter my
arguments with grand cosmic schemes  -  of when the
sky had voices and when the lights were flaming in
those heavens we'd mentioned . But that was then, and -
yes, OK,  -  this is now. We lost all that spark years back.
Now, now there's nothing but quiet where there used
to be noise. Even a God has given up on us, while 
here we go about to destroy all things :
of the world and its sainted strings.

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