.
God (again pretending to be
Moses)
just rewrote His Theses and His
Thoses.
I know because He just now
hurled them
at my head, theatrically flaming,
from the sky
(God’s a P. T. Barnum kinda guy):
seven
reminders from heaven he hopes
will gain
renown. (He said I could pare
them down.)
.
1. Bare it all.
2. Cling to the
lie.
3. Plan never to
know anything.
4. Expect to die.
5. Infinity must
be true.
6. Infinity can’t
be true.
7. Nothing
whatsoever has to do with you.
.
Unbounded and unfounded chaos would
appear
to be the order of the day from
Massapequa
to Cathay, New Delhi to Islamabad.
It’s not
that anything might happen but that
everything
must happen which contrives to
drive one mad.
But can cocoa mounds like us be
driven nuts?
(I asked God. Weak with
laughter, He replied.)
.
“Since the Cosmos must and
cannot happen,
maybe, baby. But only after an
infinity of ifs
and ands and buts. And infinity
don’t know
from ‘after.’ And candy bars
are lazy.”
(As I have tried hard to little
avail to explain
before, we are candy bars and
God is crazy.)
.
The rest is hazy.
.
.
I like the second stanza best. You're an interesting poet/writer :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Dylan! Between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas your name has a lot of poetic provenance!
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