THE
ABC’S OF
READING ‘MAN’
by
Leland Jamieson
With
thanks to Zecharia
Sitchin for Earth
Chronicles.
A
‘To see
it, feel it, make
it’ solaced
him
the most, and
never more than
when he wrote
a poem, or, more
to the point,
he’d brim
it
full of speech
poured freshly
from the throat
of Mother Tongue’s
ad-libs into the
Void —
where random possibilities
all float.
Wave-forms
of speech observed
(collapsed) all
buoyed
ashore an ars
poetica, a largess
of mindfulness
to school the
anthropoid . .
. .
B
Einstein said,
“Evil’s
lack of good.”
Redress
of this shortcoming,
which the Anunnaki
imposed on apes
they hybridized
with less
intelligence
than they, is
more than rocky.
Their hubris we
inherited in full
—
A-bombing Hiroshima
and Nagasaki .
. . .
Washington,
Baghdad, Tehran,
Istanbul
reflect the rule
of anthropoids
who lack
full mindfulness.
They fleece, and
run with the wool.
C
How might our
poetry help draw
us back
in stride with
Gaia? If we’d
only read
and write and
listen to its
bright sound track
we’d
dance to it, and
(fed our daily
bread)
we’d seek
to free folks
rather than control
them with disinformation’s
swollen head.
We’d
grasp our species’
fault line. We’d
console
and groom ourselves
with mindfulness
withheld
back when . .
. . Homegrown,
it might yet make
us whole.
[NOTE:
The fuller statement
attributed to
Einstein is that
cold is lack of
heat, dark is
lack of light,
and evil lack
of good —
or words to that
effect.]
©
2008 by Leland
Jamieson
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