The mind grows wild
with desire, and the flesh
responding feeds the mind,
and the mind feeds the flesh,
and together they go off
over the cliff, tumbling
down, down, down -
happy as they go.
The human mind
that could calculate
the parallax, tell there
are 274 moons around Saturn,
say when the last Long Count
date was inscribed, when
the last, mad Carolingian
was deposed for the brother
of the king of France, and
knows Li Bai didn'd drown
embracing the reflection
of the Moon, that mind
is all lust for the moment,
all that knowledge cowering
in the dusty corners of the brain
knowing there are greater things,
moments when the knowledge
matters not, and mind and flesh
go over the cliff and tumble down,
down, down - happy as they go.
22.04.2025
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