WD 46 “Letter Found in a Jacket Pocket”

A verse inscribed in fire and light

Letter Found in a Jacket Pocket

Bad things achieve immortality sometimes, curse

Your red dust, wholeness permeates you

Turn me

Away, invitingly, Queen of Ants

Because each time we accepted that we knew nothing, we understood everything.

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I don’t want your car keys (Can’t drive)

I don’t want your home address (I’ve been there)

Your old set of matching shot-glasses (All broken)

I don’t even want your attention

And if there is a way to peacefully abdicate divinity  I’d like to spend the rest of my days as a sea slug

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So, tell the boys back home I’m not there anymore

Tell the pastor I’ve found another church

Tell my mother and father and Georges Lemaître that I am the First Cause

Tell the mourners to cry for themselves

Because each time we accepted that we knew nothing, we understood everything.

Bad things achieve immortality sometimes, so curse

Your red dust, wholeness becomes you

Turn and face the falling brown sky King of the Dead

Because each time we accepted that we knew nothing, we understood everything.