November speaks
in grays and hushed blue
now drowned out by demon-
possessed December,
with flashing red
and dyed green,
whose true whites are painted over
with whiter lies
Belief in God is a kind of hope for a happy ending, that justice will prevail. A good hope. But that there is "a" Justice that could prevail is the hope reified into to a single and simple ideal, its platonic form, found nowhere but in being a shorcut from everywhere. The sad, self-contradictory part of that simplified, singularized perfection, is its propensity to be raised above its present, complex, unsigularizable life, and made eternal, to the detriment of whatever imperfect happiness and justice may be possible now.
what if zie germans
had won
and still the now: !
turned out
identical to the now,
now: !
how dare you?
not possible!
how dare what?
fuck possible!
it was impossible
to win
and yet
we did
(well, they did. who did. someone did.)
won?
nothing seems
to happen when
I think
a lot seems
to happen when
I blink
Life is in the blinking
"Man" is in the thinking
Bumpersticker idea #9:
"In case of rapture, I'll still be DUI."
(Yes, I realize how offensive that is, but isn't "this vehicle will be unmanned" even more abhorrent?)
is there something about memory
that distills the past, rarefies emotion
purifies delight. lonilneliness. hope. wonder... textured all, and
somehow evaporated are discontentent
ennui
and the present banality of the very same(? aforementioned) sensations
such that the present is so short-changed as to force the question
is it something about neurons?
what a question, given that once,
beside a love
I saw a shooting star tear
the whole sky from top to bottom
is there something about memory
that if I eschewed my present love,
eternity would crown her queen of every tomorrow's past?
what synapses, holy
holy
but my paradigm tells me it was actually a meteorite and that
for all I know
all the stars might already be dead
so,
if I say,
whatever interacts is part of a greater whole
is that bar one of a grand metaphysical narrative
or am I practicing English grammar?
or can't it be both
each sunrise all rise seeming new
yet same blue sky persists in blue
come clouds again again comes gray
til older sun stains old war’s day
yet same blue sky persists in blue
come clouds again again comes gray
til older sun stains old war’s day