barbarian benediction
amazing to me is the mouth, an organ for breathing, eating and
emesis,
modified to talk, to abstract from or in spite of the world as
perceived.
the mouth has transcended its original job as to teach the fingers
to write,
the ears to listen for features other than the scratching claw
and even the brain, that casual repository and suspicious
processor,
to leave the planet and picture the stars and all else reachable
by imagination.
the horizon tempts the eye with possibility. the air is clear and
good,
and so what if it isn't. you have to breathe something anyway.
maybe you’ve eaten or maybe you’re hungry, either way it's time to
go out front,
the hunt, the mild shopping so amusing to so many.
stuck is being mud,
trodden on rather than treading onward; you cant say why
because the horizon lacks labels, you know you don’t know
anything.
so it's really just the hunger, the empty
stomach, the void,
the interior lack, or the surplus, the careless frumping around
of the body looking for new sensation.
is only this miserable lack of substance, this scurvied belly
gaunt
with emptiness and the world in all its brutally innocent detail.
it is on this scene that the sun begins to rise.