Noosphere
"Science can't solve the mystery of the universe"
Everything from front to
Back...
...Serrated edges,
Miniscule cracks
Along the windshield
Of our lives...
...So don't get too attached,
My child...
You see this is what I absolutely
Fucking hate
About technology...
Our present state!...
...The human element is gone
So were enslaved by
Small machines and they're (our?)
More rigid forms of reason...
...Similarily,
We're enslaved in
The pursuit to make sense
Of our plane.
"Don't need it!"
We don't need no perfect
Circle,
And we won't find one...
...Not on this surface
(Like a seal balancing
The ball)
All things miraculously
Are spinning
Out of orbit, and off
The grid...
...And just like Ari Up,
And Sid,
We make a helter-skelter
Sound
With all our quarrelling,
We're bound
Towards a new
Repressive State,
But I won't track it...
...I cannot scrape
My fingernails against
This board.
With all the worlds still
Yet unexplored
I can't determine,
Only bear witness...
Kiss your grits,
Ignore the cactus!...
Everything from front to
Back...
...Serrated edges,
Miniscule cracks
Along the windshield
Of our lives...
...So don't get too attached,
My child.
©
2017
Bunny Villaire
The Truth About the World, and Everything Else Humanity has Forgotten
i. genesis begins with a whisper,
a mutter no one is alive to hear
yet everyone pretends to understand anyway. there is truth in the inception of
the universe: that death does not
overlook, and that the world
continues to spin regardless.
ii. infinity is incomprehensible,
the expanse of space a graveyard
of failed missions to understand
it. the human mind is not capable
of grasping how small our kind
is compared to everything that
lies beyond. what can be gained
does not equal what can be
lost, because we can lose everything
and our mother and the loss
will still be endless.
iii. immortality is a myth to
explain mortality, just as
absolute power is paradoxical.
the inevitability of the end is
the only reason we want to avoid it.
the days blink by like
lightning, a millisecond to Gaea's
eternity, and our eternity is wasted
when we try to live forever.
we fail, and time marches.
iv. deliverance is one part
liberation and three parts too late.
illusions come when we least
expect them, our dreams are
only what we want them to show us,
and even salvation cannot
free us from greed. (freedom
from pain does not equal freedom from suffering.)
everyone is starving for something,
and it does not have to be food.
v. every exodus comes with
sacrifice. every revelation leaves
a body burning, every funeral
leaves another dead in the wake.
everyone leaves with the intention
of never returning, and half of
us keep our promises.
we keep walking, and see nothing.
we keep walking.
vi. the earth revolves around
the sun, the moon revolves
around the earth, and we
revolve around ourselves.
so does everyone else.
(this is the reason for destruction,
the reason we trick ourselves
into believing we deserve more
because we are better, when
really, we have always been the same.
death is equal,
death is predetermined,
and we already
cease to breathe.)