When our scientific mind betrays us
Here's a response! Mini existential crisis at Walgreens led to this:
"Metronome"
All the facts of aging.
Declining functions start
from ages 20 on, 30 on, 40 on, 60 on.
At some point the eyes will cataract.
Linda writing from beyond death
about the faint counting she had felt
inside her being, the ticking sound.
Standing in Walgreens waiting
for a shot of vaccine to send me
into asphyxiations or not. If not,
walking out the door into the blinding
of 4:31pm. My body knowing
what to do and when and me glancing
at the clock it doesn’t use, wondering how.
My body like the tides and the agave.
Like the pewter dusted succulents sending up
tall scraggly stems down the block.
Can this timing exist without knowledge?
Can safety exist without stillness?
This and this body and that one, moving
to the same invisibility: powerful,
elegant, holding. Keeping time.
Here's a response! Mini existential crisis at Walgreens led to this:
"Metronome"
All the facts of aging.
Declining functions start
from ages 20 on, 30 on, 40 on, 60 on.
At some point the eyes will cataract.
Linda writing from beyond death
about the faint counting she had felt
inside her being, the ticking sound.
Standing in Walgreens waiting
for a shot of vaccine to send me
into asphyxiations or not. If not,
walking out the door into the blinding
of 4:31pm. My body knowing
what to do and when and me glancing
at the clock it doesn’t use, wondering how.
My body like the tides and the agave.
Like the pewter dusted succulents sending up
tall scraggly stems down the block.
Can this timing exist without knowledge?
Can safety exist without stillness?
This and this body and that one, moving
to the same invisibility: powerful,
elegant, holding. Keeping time.