Thoughts while re-reading Lermontov
doors of consciousness don’t
open, instead they revolve;
gates to being are painted on
publicity stunts cosmological style.
butterflies exist
to be devoured by shrews
whose hearts go
ping plop poo
when surprised by a hiccup.
ouija boards supply better
data than presidents or priests;
computers write poems.
but no one worries about bombs
who knows we’ve all a super
nova due in three billion years or
zip-code still isn’t perfected.
yet under the milieu,
at the bottom of myth,
beneath over-due taxes
the sunday afternoon struggles
of bored people after meaningfulness
assault reality’s cardboard wall
squeaking they too count, must
count, ought to count too
(tape bach - even listen, save
an endangered mammalian species today,
risk for a chance coffee black)
as if the entire galaxy -
mighty pin prick of metaphysical lint
- were more than a thirty-second note skipped
in the universal crescendo of silence,
when all they need do is sit.
a pebble or a planet,
triviality makes such a mess
attempting to be grand.
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