Monday, November 18, 2013

Scissiparity


 division of division of division of division of division of...

one
                  branching
                                            into another

                            we come
                            in

ex-
perience                                                                     of se

                                -paration

                                                                  borne
                     between

                              a branching

(The mystery of the origin of life as it is related in mythology or the beliefs of the world’s major religions may be cast as the following problem:  how can something come from nothing?  Or rather, how can life come from death, or at least nonlife?)

                                                I and this mystery here we stand

                              above,                                                           below
beyond                                                 behind

“no name no tongue has soiled it”

                                                                  the mind / the spirit

                                         leaps!   to hold it, to behold it

HOWEVER,

The animate and the inanimate are not so logically discrete as we might like to think.  
E.g. the virus.

Why should death be the defining experience of humanity?
1. because it is universal?
2. because it causes the ego pain?
                                                                              fuck that

A collision of molecules brought you into being,
                                you in-process you

a process never present to itself as complete
                                            because,
                                            completed, it no longer           is
itself

                                                                    What molecule(s)
                              will you meet
                              that stop

                                                                           the becoming you
that you are?

AND IF (ah, the beauty of “if”)

                                                        you bumped into
other
             molecules?
                                                        (“Hey Mikey!  He likes it!”)

AND YES (good old “yes”)

the bird, the wind, the wave,                       the star, the clock

The mysterious                                   “and”
            the mysterious    “yes”             &            “earth”

                                                       a plural of parts
in
                                -finity

part AND part
                     night AND day
                                            pain AND joy
bbbbbbbbbbbbbb

               empty of unity
                                              AND
                                                            empty of transcendence
                        
                                     Yes!




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