Instead of Moving On

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Let’s start mesmeric underground

events whose purposes remain
oblique, but irresistibly alluring.

Let’s go about the business of

insuring we are potentates who

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commentate upon the finished work:

which means let us obliterate all

notions of the future and the past

and place our faith in the repast of –

no, not now – but some condition so

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beyond the powers and the realms

accessible by our prefrontal cortices

we’ll only sense it through the schemes

of mitochondria whose life in us

insures we live. Let’s infiltrate

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the earth, and scream at the indignity

of birth. Let’s give and undergo

and interleave. Let’s be the grieving

residue of all who’ve gone. Let’s put

the lid on rhyming that with dawn.

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When we are done, instead of moving

on, let’s fall luxuriantly deeply into

sleep, and dream of having something

we might actually one day find

inside ourselves capacity to keep.

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