Best Poems Written by Christyl Rivers

Are You Real

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Everything that is real to human beings
Is not so real anymore
We invented money and gods and robots and twitter-feeds
We sit behind a blue glow
Wondering where we are.
Or are we, at all?

Were we?

We were. There. East Africa?—?maps are real?—?
Because we dragged lines in dust,
Then made them from trees,
Then electrons
We collected mind pixels,
(a made-up word, like thoughts)
We abstracted those bits,
Into symbols, into shapes, into policy
Then we asked
Where did the sky go?

Once…

Gods and goddesses, centaurs and dragons
Swirled above, spiraled into heads and hearts.
Around our campfires
Bears grumbled, lions haunted, elephants huffed
Until we borrowed some sparks, blew them into the dark
Then. We emerged with those sparks tell each other stories
Like the one you are reading now.

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