Connected and Interrelated
Connected and interrelated:
Never re-stated too often, too much.
No crutch and no gene bank can keep us in touch
With the past of the past of the past,
Cause and effect with the last
Laugh of all. I read that where coral grows,
One single pee in a coral rich sea
Can initiate grief, crumbling reef,
Change the balance of lichen and snail.
Coral (which grows at the rate of your nail)
Becomes pale, then sand –
From the pee of a swimmer too lazy to land.
I read that a flock coming north in the spring
-By the flap of a wing – can initiate hale,
The swing of a feather, the sting of the weather
Distorting by changing some groove.
What then astrology (so hard to prove)
Whose movement of planets is said to steer fate,
Temper, temperament, sending your mate?
Breath, decision; they interrelate
With the movements of atoms and rays-hard-to-measure,
Affecting the work of the whole in their leisure,
Floating, colliding and God-alone-knows…
The trick is to come out of this thing like a rose.
What if my doing and thinking has ways
Which touch all of the planet, all hours, all days:
The game is so layered.
Everything mine, yours, its, theirs, hers and his
Affected by history, wizardry,
Fate –
One must accept, and keep acting and wait.
(here’s the chain – grammar free):If I hit my kids kick the cat
Eats the mouse starts the fire in the house
Where the fireworks are stored
Blows my neighbor toward
Heaven the street’s set aflame I’m to blame
Go to jail get no mail
Lose all hope ‘cause the kids now take dope
‘Cause corruption is rife so my son takes the life
Of the one who blamed me leaves a family
Teenagers, wife, baby: Globally augmented,
THERE’S WORLD WAR III!
Connected and interrelated.
You never can say it too often, too much.
©Connected and Interrelated 7.25.1994/tinkered with 5.23.2008
Definitely Didactic; Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
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