The days are more random than we expected
Con/Jur/d, 4/21/2022

You’re arguing from history,
        he said.
You’re trying to cover your words,
	she said.
When was this?
	Don’t know.
The conjunction of time and age
	Don’t care.
is less linear than expected.
	So what?
The alchemists believed God was 
	Maybe it’s your trauma,
was eminent and inconspicuous
	this obsession,
by vivisectioning the World via Words
	this religiosity, this holiness!
What they found, was hollowness,
	Wait. Are you paying attention?
everything, they paid attention too
	Or simpling echoing?
were beats and scratches on an egg.
	What? Ridiculous!
What all philosophy and all knowledge
	Here you go again.
's  an echo, echoing from the shell
	You’re wasting my time.
Our experience of time
	Leaving!
derives from the outer surface
        How did I? Back here?
the inside is empty and what we
	There hasn’t been a we  
live is a POV of 2D on a 3D surface.
	for a long long time.
When we move along the curve,
	Get it? We’re over.
we believe the illusion of
	I mean it this time.
everything happening in a 
	Thought it would be good
single direction
	again when really

        We learn
you’ll never change
	how now
Don’t know how this started
	can be antecedent
The end is clear enough
        to what came 
before,
        before,
	the end.

Just Found
Con/Jur/d, 4/21/2022

Half the time I don’t know if I’m being
deep or obtuse. You’re the one who
suffers for it. Don’t get me wrong
I’m stuck too, I almost cried
when I found the 6 blank
pages at the end of
‘The Gateless

Barrier: Zen Comments 
on the Mumonkan
by Zenkei Shibayama'
Shambhala Press 

despite the cover
crinkles, the dog
earring, the well
traveled scratches

I failed
to shed
a single
tear

at such beauty.