Inside Job
mdmorrissey, June 2006 (http://www.mdmorrissey.info/inside ). Please distrubute widely (thanks!).
1.
The somnambular
peregrinations that we like to call the life of the mind
are seldom
interrupted by ideas.
Still, it
happens.
A butterfly
flaps its wings in Java, causing an earthquake in the mind.
A bug
awakens in some dell of memory and becomes a colossus,
straddling the continental lobes.
The
faintest whistle, growing unheard like the corn,
suddenly
house-high, bursts like a banshee out of the blue-blown sky
and finds
us standing in the tracks.
2.
Why weren’t
the windows closed on Elm Street?
How can a
bullet do gymnastics?
How could a
caveman beat a multi-billion-dollar air force?
How could
those buildings fall straight down?
We think
inside our minds how it could be
that so
many could die so strangely
until one
tells us, screaming through our deafness
“We didn’t
die. You did.”
What are we
but ghosts, waiting to be born?