CHANGED EVERYTHING
I
never forget the way I came.
Extreme
weather, drones,
Slippery
moss where there is no rain.
The house with no beams, no walls.
“Heavily
damaged” changed everything.
“As
you always do” changed everything.
Experiments
detonate reality bombs.
Mourners
gather in a universe like ours.
Ransom
doesn’t want us to enter her research lab.
“You
take orders from me now” changed everything.
Not
starving changed everything.
“I
taught them those algorithms ten years ago.”
The
dead dream they are breathing,
No
more tangled, hung up mind.
A
million things leave no trace,
Beautiful, whole, without beginning or
end.
11
August 2012
Spoken
word version from Commune, copyright
© 2013 by Jim Cohn.