12/2/23

Tighten Up to Overcome (poem)

  

  The philosopher tightened a wrench
giving an extra twist on the nut at last
a wheel fixed firmly
he let the jack slack
and the electric car dropped a wheel down

  Where rainfall is measured in metric terms
while kilometers will drop in turn
scientists collaborate to fondle the Earth and Universe
calibrating concise intervals with facts to learn

  Measurements of the sky and falling stars arrived
to be or not to be comets
asteroids and pieces of broken planets
crowding imagination for what it’s worth

  Maximum population density
structures that killed growing spaces
reshoveling dirt with androids, A.I. and hydraulic power
overcoming the world’ perspicacity

  Packed in tighter than drum skins
beating the syncopation of cities
economic consumerism watering down
existence with chemical sprays too profound

  The philosopher considered robust existentialism
and dialectical reason’s functionalist
structuralism phenomenalized in serial cues
everyone in line watched youtubian news

  Building more buildings
wider than before
shaped like atrocious mountains
for everyone an open door

    Artificial instruction light fireflies way
passing through darkness unto eternal light’s day
something other than nothing
it was forever to be

  Something in motion; everything to see
electromagnetic accelerators a million miles long
gossamer wires in zero gravity spree
fields will hum capsules like generic song

  Bootstrapping beyond silence
when nearly everyone is wrong
finding the brightest stars
when all life is nearly gone

  What would become of you and I
if no one does plan ahead
would brilliance  at last overcome
materialism that can lead to just dead
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