Into the dispersion of mechanistic dreams
Into the endless recitation and posturing.
Audience and playwright all cast in iron:
Carved into hydrogen mountains and light.
Written in fuchsia atop peach topography,
Rising as steam to the heartbeat of night.
Sinking in heat funnels into the meshworks,
Into the grime and dysfunction of mind.
Into the volatile spirit of urgency:
Past the known into the uncertain find.
The memory that can't be readily recalled
Of the beginning—before the writing began,
Forget it: be calm in the tempestuous moment,
Listen to the lecture of the universe to man.
Attend to the spirit of the crazed homunculi,
Tormented soulwanderers still sing their songs.
Minister kindly to bell-laughs and harsh sighs,
Scribble the life-rights and paint over wrongs.
Behold, the genomic star clusters commiserate—
Gossip in sparkling genetics and ice,
Establish the cities of striated latency,
Discuss the dark cities of pleasure and vice.
The course plotted by agency grand
Unveils itself slowly in ambering time:
Variety dissonant drums rhythms querulous
Awkward, off-tempo, yet nearly, they rhyme.
If to unison joined, all is naught but itself:
From the belfry of truth pour the hymns of concord.
But so loud, but so bright—that the ears of the universe
Split, into harmony, from one accord.