SIMPLICITY
IN THE MYSTERY OF LIVING MATTER
AND THE SIMPLICITY OF DEATH
Today someone sent 6 pizzas to my house at 4pm via Uber Eats
I was not home When I asked the driver to call me he texted:
I am deaf sorry not calling It is also New Year’s eve 5,778 at
the stroke of midnight Mercury must be in retrograde? So
many crazed happenings World spinning off of axis for a change
Yesterday waylaid on traffic circle driving it for 20+yrs. Still circling
when pizza call came 2 quakes in Mexico Yesterday’s on the anniversary
of the last 8.1 One brother hunkered down there in tequila territory Jalisco
Quake by-passed brother +thousands of agave plants saved (woo hoo!)
3rd hurricane shredding Caribbean islands Fake news shows us the eye of
hurricane God nightly from special hurricane planes Visited all of the islands
when young +beyond the grasp of by-pass horrors that would visit father 2 yrs.
hence Stout boy with bad hair a.k.a. Rocketman launches nuclear missiles over
heavily populated areas of Japan Yellow haired vulgarian threatens to decimate
heavily populated areas of Korea
I contemplate the complex million fold division of cells The centre will not hold
Late summer envelops city 31 degrees 40 with humidity The judges of this year’s
arts council grants think themselves too good for these generalizations +are
unmoved As my self esteem plummets I continue to collapse +re-form
My hope chip irrevocably altered by the near losses of 5777 (a.k.a. 2017) +the fact
that 6 rotting pizzas await my homecoming A cool breeze wafts + the reflecting
pool at the Thompson Hotel reflects: a wizened face +electric red frizz 1st fall
leaves floating on surface Ice man cometh As I make furious plans for escape
I hear the sound of God laughing
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Man makes plans. God laughs.
(Maternal Grandmother Sarah Marlieb)
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A veil of haze protects this
Long-ago afternoon forgotten by everybody
In this photograph, most of them now
Sucked screaming through old age and death
(John Ashbery Pulitzer Prize 1975)
Fall 2017 Ere of 5778
songanddancegirl 