mtc cronin: 45

life unravelling
how it arrives at truth
not the same thing as what is true
they can't work at it
every skeleton has fifteen bodies - more!
every body has thirteen mouths - they could be eaten
all at once!
they not only become dizzy trying to think about
their countries
they watch as people
become small inside
they pay money to hear their own voices,
the voices of those they love
they stand in public feeding money into the inanimate
breathing the voice into what might be coveted
they disdain
they are seduced
they disdain
there are things they could quite easily be aware of
they think the dead are lost
they think they can find the dead
they do not look for the time they are wasting
they do not know that that time is accumulating on a plate
that is offered to them
when asked about it they say it runs out
they have become very sensitive to pain
they are very aware of pain
they ignore pain
they let their arms hang down and not only this
they have forgotten the true meaning of the hand
what do their lungs do?
they do not know
nor anymore how to possess what occurs
what other way is there?
why do they not ask?
their prayers and requests all have to do
with an excess of desire
everything becomes beautiful, all heroic
as they reduce their world to understanding
as they understand the cosmos
as they understand god
they countenance evolution to here
but not from this point
they do not believe how what they know
kills depth