Theater of Utter Charm Part 16
where narcissistic assumptions are presumed
to be a priori and default perfect
in so far as we estimate ourselves
in the slightest vaguest
single point mirror ghost called I
this is the grand knock me down delusion
when we are a many named one
meanwhile actual levels of imperfection
buzz along the turnpike of oblivion
being a matter of degree
being merely the endpoint of all creation
along with the givenness of opportunity
genetically instinctively ultra foundationally
beyond the single unkempt mammalian organism
in a glut of sense and guessing games
too often taking us to the place where
stupidity regenerates itself
in an unsure defiance of prediction
so what is it about the persistence of stupidity
he asked in a spasm of rhetoric
or is stupidity simply regenerational
like proteins in a brain cell
sighing with the adjacent winds
in the natural world
OK the three final or precipitating causalities
1. yes, the natural world
2. family extended to society
3. intelligence is self-amplifying
so we're going to understand
where things come from
less soon than where the sparks fly
because the cognitive world is dark period
connected to an unbounded dimension
for which we have no detection
other than thoughts that coalesce at its surface
there is no metabolic process
storing all those stale vistas
where is the drawer where is the closet
the rest of the banter about mind and being
is a three finger three color cartoon
unworthy of evolving cognitive beings
we are after all children of infinity
there exist alternative views on everything
and as such cannot escape concluding that
we have a mission period
and that we stop wasting time
chasing possum and playing arcade charades
you have a mind use it
for something other than
seeing yourself everywhere
in an anthropomorphist's wet dream
because the mockingbird's song is not indexed
or slave to an ancient rotting system
of pre-sieved characteristics
which can impel the careless reflex
towards symbolically linked events
circling the whirlpool of going going gone
death being merely blackness
it can be said with some certainty
life being merely desirable
meriting equally infinite measures of defense
while living the many absurd predispositions
that shape cultures
we become conflicted because
I'll say it again
we are composite beings
miming from day one anyone
sliding into view
clouding the scope with instruction
intended or otherwise
fantastic or otherwise
Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2018
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