Saturday, April 9, 2011

Remember when Sextus said

we couldn’t know anything

because of the shapes

of our eyes?


When I kick ladders out from under me I fall.


There is no equivalent to

“to thunder” for

lightning. We may say

“it lightens”, which technically means

something else but essentially means

the same thing—a buildup of

electricity is released.

I catch a moment, here, there,

between thundering when,

things lighten.


Our very eyes condemn us.


The “I” is not within our field of vision.

We cannot see ourselves.

The “I” is a convenient grammatical construct but

otherwise meaningless.

Everything is meaningless.


Still there are clearings, small patches of

forest ground penetrated by sun where

it lightens.


If you begin with immanence you

end with immanence if you begin with

material you end with material, nothing

from nothing, from nothing, from

nothing, from nothing, from nothing,

from nothing.


And so on.


EWV

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