Mythical Thinking

Mythical Thinking In the beginning there had been the word… She had spoken wisely and made believe had been a poet all her life creating fiction scripted parables about a primordial bang Now she encountered writer’s silent block yet pondered about her bestseller in waiting quite ready to reap the harvest and sensed she had to deal with considerable competition She rested in the ocean’s tide among pebbles ‘Can I produce a stone so big that I cannot lift it myself?’ she answered in the affirmative got stoned on hash brownies and magic potion A rainbow presided over a giant shibboleth ‘This is a defining moment in history unfolding I have created Socrates Darwin and Descartes let the party begin and philosophy challenge’ ‘They will believe to have created Me in their image’ Wishful rationale delusion psychopathology or faith the jury is out there but ‘I appointed the judges at the High Court of arbitration in the Garden of Eden’ She sensed there was nothing more to achieve sat in her deck chair awaited Titanic battles ‘A bit more cannabis won’t hurt I am God after all’ but had been warned about relapsing dependence When she was about to thread Camels and dope through the eye of the needle injected some more into self-proclaimed heroine of glory and fame she shivered and fainted for the rest of day number seven