On a mild
evening in Florida, palm trees decline to point the way
through
swirls of rush hour traffic. Knowledge is meaningless where strands
of artificial eyes blaze like Kali's necklace life may well depend on bacteria,
molds, and chemical compounds, but thought achieves complexities
that cant be reduced to prior building blocks. This is
one of the great puzzles of thought: It can originate its own
species,
select unnatural ideas, and show its own evolution, and much
thought that is quite unfit survives, unable to see behind, change
lanes, drive in circles, turning around, disoriented.
Under the
cover of darkness, in this part of town one neighborhood mirrors
the streets of another. After several phone calls, Sasquatch
is eating grilled fish.
Table
manners impeccable,
nobody
burps,
swamp gas rises in a moonless sky.
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