(no subject)

[sexbeat_go]

"When living creatures
crawled from the earth
in
its early days..."

exeunt. from the mire
of primitive paleontology
with
the new-born sun.

parlor tricks which
confounded our ancestors
like
wind & fire.

even now we lack
the right kind
of
violence/speech.

we speak in silences
& laugh without mirth
it
is too much now.

",they were speechless ugly
beasts; they fought o-
ver
lairs and
[acorns..."

all life from water
Melicerta our nurse-maid
from
cradle to dust.

we fashion knives
harden our skins
until
there is no blood

beneath. the soft
forgiving flesh
is
foundationless.

"with their nails and
fists, and then
with
clubs, and so on..."

fashioning metal
out of bones
the
alchemy of

organs. bile to
tip arrows
to
poison our blood.

tongues still im-
potent, clumsy
like
infant bodies.

"with the weapons
which experience produced
at
each successive
[stage..."

growing into fine
young web-spinners
with
no blood to bleed.

"until they dis-
covered nouns
and
verbs which gave.."

in a moment
this moment?
we
meet ourselves for

once and for
all face
to
face "a meaning..."

a stranger speaks
we receive
with
ears open "to

their cries and feelings."