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The External World of The Internal



“The External World of the Internal”

when the Internal 
finally woke up,

it was like all the words 
in that book, flew at It 
like flaming arrows, 
an external barage, a tale, 
of trading 10 for 50,
a poetic hot mess of words

it was a rude awakening
from the comfort 
of that internal place,
where once it slept,
sharp shards flew at It 
pricking and piercing It, until,
like a chrysallis, It split - Open;

the soft invisible, 
genteely ensconsed
other side of the page,
overcome by the
complex codes
dumbstruck, is
waking up, and 
the Internal emerges

with the many Other words 
like people and their faces
hiding in trees,
slithering seductively down
branches to root systems
that never leave -
hmm, one big happy
dysfunctional family

looking for new words, 
new fruit, 

the old stories burning,
too many unread
for fear of scorching -
the breath of life 
offers more fuel to the fire,
it eagerly turns the pages,

we continue,
to burn -

in the beginning 
there was one word,
and from one,
the many 
words arrived, 
but not as one, did they grow -

for what relevance, 
that one word? Its purpose?

it is as if the singular 
would be the One before
all Other words, but,
before the better of it all,
the external world 
must needs be first,
re-programmed 

to crack 
and come undone

to truly tempt the reader, 
and all the Other words with faces,
to be singularly possessed,
enough to walk across a page, 
as if to walk across 
a Body like water,

their tongues 
all speaking babel
outstretched for adderall,
hungry for that manna on request, 
now fed to the One World gone 
all adhd narcolept’

the language, peculiar,
foreign and unexpected,
eventually lands amongst us all;

written automatically 
through the hands 
walking with the legs of Man, 
tracing curves in the road 
taken by way of Trees, 
the woods go very deep here -

at that table, witness 
the seated now all lost, 
their last suppers scattered 

competitive and warring 
like rabid hounds - of course,
this is not entirely alien -
this Lot have been 
tearing each other to shreds
for ages, drinking blood 
and breaking bread, but
it’s all more -
lab rat territorial now

at that family tree
the marking, 
of minds eating chips RFID

its once strong Oaken legs,
now rapidly being chewed away -
the apples, which were good, 
all consumed long ago, 
the rotten decomposing - 
the core of All, 
just pure lies on the floor,
the politics of a wormwood world;

let us start 
from the top of the “T”ree
Trouble with a capital “T”,

where the best apples are found, 
a vestal woman 
plucked and bound,
the rib of man inside her, 
like sister made 
from the dust 
of a brother 

what produce 
from that ripe harvest
rolls down and out 
that bone of baculum
into the world of Eden?

out through the gates of Eden,
We, all the excommunicated roll,
like rabbits, “I’m late, I’m late”,
running out of time, 
we all take our time
(usually 9 months)
to ruminate, but we are 
on much different time now

the internal, 
excommunicated 
are cast out into 
the incestuous world
like the many sorry words 
in a bad story

and there we are -
rudely awakened

to confront the lessons 
that our esteemed teacher
set out for us de Sade like -
drawn and quartered, 
we are thrown out  
into that lost future world 

others’ bones are 
thrown out for us to eat
like words

the phropetic place set 
and the stories of 
an ancient Word and 
its fledglings, 
just old chapters now, 
lost in the burnoff,
largely unread by many unconsidered 

the invisible internal 
in the external world 
considers, 

We are dancing around like 
wild eyed Nebhi’im
We are all undressed
like loose tongues 
at the frightening
Table of Nations;

“This is their Lot” 
the prophets project 
to those in missionary,
“when witchery is at hand, afoot,
beating time with the bone of Man”

Candide Diderot. ‘24 



“And the rib, 
which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, 
and brought her unto the man.”
(Gen 2: 22-24)



“Pull you in before you fall,
Not as sweet as it appears
Someone tell me why I'm here”
(Slipknot/Adderall)



“In doubt to deem himself a god or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little, or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself, abused or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all,
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest and riddle of the world.
(Alexander Pope, 1734/Poet)



“What is Man that you are mindful of him, 
and the son of Man that you visit him?”
(Psalm 8:4) 

Copyright © Candide Diderot

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