Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111292357360.2440-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: of the considerate
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:57:51 -0500
- of the considerate consider just for the moment, for the play of words; as if this were written in linux, i'd go back already and change everything in the world this isn't a poem, literature; this is a request; consider just for a moment, for the play of the moment, the benefits of mass destruction elimination of every man, woman, child, on the face of the planet stranded astronauts even miners going beneath within; the violent disease-bearing clouds of radiation flooding; consider this, the benefits for all of us - the end of all information and media; yes, now we can theorize endlessly about this there are vast curtains in the sky, they are slowly closing in one or several centuries, in millennia, things growing, clawing back, like it was, nearly like it was almost a model of how it had been, but something not there, something on the order of furious perception nothing, perhaps a rock or stick or stone; nothing, perhaps sand or mud or bark; nothing, perhaps a vine or clay or branch health upwells from the submerged womb of the planet; almost health; now we can theorize endlessly; then, we shall be silent; then, we shall declare nothing; then, neither relative nor absolute, neither defined nor erased, neither subject nor object not even the tiniest name; but a glance, a knowledge of determination; among friends now consider just for a moment no human alive; ideology, pollution under erasure; value always already the result of a past posterior of absolutely no account; there are no ruins; an enormous planet; sunrise sunset; lunar phases; storms of infinite night and day; comets close to the presence of sound; storms we may sleep tonight in comfort recognizing the curtains; they close from above; they close from side to side we may sleep dreamless, just for once, just this very night before the stage recedes, from the presence and gathering of the world _