BEAST
THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST LIFE
beautiful + cruel according to cg jung who knew
a thing or 2 about the vicissitudes he invented the
collective unconscious at the burgholzli asylum where
dementia praecox ruled down they fled into the
labyrinth without ariadne’s spool the minotaur is
not your friend modern hominid
janice stein professor emeritus +crone said: the middle
east is on fire so is the globe she lamented a time when
earth was warm under our feet we swam in rivers cold+deep
+there was new everything
the light is silvery-strange an un-named woman rides alone on
a horse something is different about this day horse now flying
upside down lands on woman’s legs silence in the meadows
how many minutes does it take? millennia to crawl out of lava-pools
+riverbeds in seconds she will never live by the sea
in nimrud the islamic state loots ancient treasures a 3,000 yr. old
site on the banks of the tigris john kerry says: no terrorist can re-write
history but as all good fascists know: demoralize the demoralized +the
world is your oyster colonies of ants with complex hierarchies re-build
the hill in it’s exact configuration while bamiyan buddhas +the winged
bulls of mosul will become embedded in the visions of 25th century
psychotics everywhere
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my sympathy with all creatures was strictly limited to warm blooded animals
the only exceptions among the cold blooded vertebrates were frogs and toads
because of their resemblance to human beings CG Jung
Spring 2015
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