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Hierophanies for Goblins

from Hierophanies for Goblins by Holistic Wellness

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Grew weary of speaking in universals
Couldn't finish my work when
selection of the perfect phrase took eons
Attached my business card
with sixty peerage titles in half-point font
With unlimited time and infinite resources
I could manage the waste of these importuned forces
Grew weary of abattoirs and people behind bars
And too many laws and not enough peace
and this side that side can't side me
The engine room of the world laid bare
with its kyriarchal trappings everywhere
A coal trimmer's shoulders, the seat behind the throne,
the misdirection painstakingly honed
Grew anxious at having to choose
between a set of contending opinions
If right mind exists then
can someone who knows only filth be truly wrong
After mining the first asteroid
for nuclear stewardship deterrents deployed
We're never going to make it to Kardashev I
while we perceive other beings as less than ourselves
Grew anxious as I lay,
contemplating things on my list today
But time enough to sit, take care of myself,
send love to the haters who wish me ill
Flatulent bovines chew their cud
while beachfront basements fill with mud
Without that mud, the lotus can't grow
and without the lotus no jewel to bestow
Grew distant from other humans
It took me too long to realize
that the sum total of my brain is nothing
I can observe interactions
and model quantum particles with tiny transistors
But I'm looking forward to the age
when I can merge my mind with machine intelligence
Grew distant, that's all,
clinging to suffering I recall
A rousing awakening, arousing great doubt,
and who is dragging this corpse about
I think in 50,000 years evolutionary pressure
will make our eyes goddamn enormous
For facile scanning of displays
on a sub-micron level and I'm undismayed
Grew unattached, grew unattached,
grew unattached, grew unattached

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from Hierophanies for Goblins, released December 15, 2015

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