III. The Conversation in the Long and Hot and Winding Receiving Line at the Funeral
Two quarks collide
left and Right
wind goes where it pleases
you hear their
hear its
SOUND
-- the crash –
where they come from
where they go
no one knows
even when they thought the great crasher
would crash them to make more
they do not know
they do not know where they go
or if they can get any smaller
break them, smash them, crash them
find out what they is
I did this as a kid
with little racing cars made of aluminum,
tin, and filled a three-foot-deep hole with broken bits of
tires and plastic windows
had help from an Italian kid whose mafioso dad told us all
'That cleaner right there'll take blood right out of carpet.'
then, bored, moved on
did not come any closer to learning how to reconstruct a
model car
so it is.
even The Crasher crashes.
-- sound harmartology collides with pneumatological sounds --
and so
Two quarks collide
one gives way that the other may
quantumly entangle with the soul
of owner,
either
on
or
off
or
both
Wait, what? Both?
A third place
it goes.
II. The Meal
(this soup tastes like heaven)
III. The Conversation
quarks in an atom strung together
into one of many proteins
II. The Meal
(there's more than the steak available, perhaps you'd prefer almond butter or the spinach soup?)
III. The Conversation
spiral downward into
D
N
A
that compose
II. The Meal
(scraps go in the compost)
III. The Conversation
an intestinal cell
in intestinal walls of
intestinal cells
each holding 46 chromosomes
that eat
that magically turn food to poop
IV. The Whisper
"What comes out of a man's
what makes him turn unclean"
III. The Conversation
unlike yet similar to the cat
and rabbit
and our gutted childhood Kanga.
II. The meal
(pass the sausage?)
III. The Conversation
Rotting gut rotting in my gut
an ache
a worry
a compassion powered by
σπλαγνον
go with your gut
mine and theirs,
mine in theirs.
Right?
Which may be why suffering and dying
remain my visceral themes
II. The Meal
(9 pounds of undigested beef was still inside John Wayne's smaller intestine when he passed)