some sort of ode, or proof that winston churchill was a carrot

[wineberryjunky]

"The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics."

something so small so great--
doesn't it always happen that way.
a metaphor from the tips of the reaching fingers to length of the grounded toes
doesn't stop there
...so literally.

here before any of us and here for so long after,
a wooden piece of placeholder on one side of the globe
and a bronze-limbed statue on the other.
a friendly fire weapon,
the end of mysticism.
a mirror of a brother to an italic i,
an impetus to art,
a point of reference--
it's truth everywhere,
and keeps your floors clean through it all.

think about it.
write it:
red on white, green on pink, black over blue
--so many circles--
so many different meanings,
each so much the same.

...wonder like looking up at the stars
in silence breathing,
we know so much intimately;
something completely outside of ourselves
fills us up entirely.

all of this for us, not for dead Descartes
who did deny it and yet still placed it as the empty centre of his world--
what we know.

you are beautiful
but are you rational?