ALL YOU READERS
Saw all your readers of
hard science fiction
hunting for signs of incipient
technological breakthrough
and places
of extreme, alien-like anomaly
in both planetary hemispheres
places too
in ancient hermetic texts
where they frame things on the cutting edge
of current discovery in
cognate metaphors, framed to
capture
the mysteries of the time
text speaking here
outside itself; way beyond itself
and all that has
survived purely on the basis of
its own enchantments,
presently divested, devoid,
emptied out
decides to self- sublimate
or otherwise disappear
civilization playing a game of dice,
sophisticated beyond all measure,
but dice nevertheless
hereby
to make each and every call
on where
there will be life
continuity
and where disassociation
and death
life of itself only valid as logical
and conceptual emergent phenomenon
via and
courtesy the
creative mastery
of death
death’s complete philosophical mastery
of itself