precise departure point

"Precise Departure Point," January 16, 2022 (#16)

title from Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (2021)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (2021)

one line from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)

Precise Departure Point

Our great nation suffers from a debilitating addiction.

Crimson? Wrapped around wire?

Nothing. Shooting guns crackled across the fields, and

they will be fleas jumping at the eye of an elephant. Ants at the

Cumulonimbi were reaching critical mass.

From the bottoms of my feet, I felt the transformation begin.

No paths there wasn’t inside the ’closure just a mil’yun boulders like

the echoes of the marauders laughing as they feasted.

Best news of all: started composing on my own account again

the way it flings all the verbs into the dark. Then there’s the

discussions over whom the corpse and whither the messenger had

another sack of bloated, musty manuscripts and

found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into

the space between, there’s hardly room for a gas meter and

my angels of redemption. Permit me to elucidate.

Pay off all this debt and have enough left over to

to give a maid a copy of Walden for Christmas rather than

eight billion people to feed.

1-16-22 "Strong Arm" by Sam Lubicz (2006)

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1-16-22 "JFK" by Sam Lubicz (2008)

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"Pineapple Bud" by Georgia O'Keeffe (1939)