LISTENING TO ROBERT BARSKY'S(1961-) LECTURE ON WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS(1865-1939)

'You are fighting the entropy of the universe',

says the lecturer of Yeats,

yet - I am not. I am

succumbing to it. 'The most

beautiful woman in Ireland,

Maud Gonne.' Copulating

on the grave of her first child

to re-conceive her - that

is fighting the entropy of the universe;

creating life

in search of re-creating a life lost.

I am the Fisher King, living

in a withered land, no seed

can grow. Go forth,

seek the holy Grail of true life -

the Grail of fighting the entropy

of the universe, the human fate.

Live and create life, in

abundance. To beget,

to conceive, to give birth

is to push back the entropy,

the decay, death and loss

beyond your own lifetime.

12.11.2017