Bare, Cling, Plan, Die, Infinity, Infinity, Nothing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR37sEirmGU

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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.)

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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.

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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.)

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“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.)

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The rest is hazy.

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