#2237 - to exist is one thing

 

2237

7.45

14.ii.26

to exist is one thing

just a draft

 

to be a thing

just to be

to be matter

solid, neither made

nor ever to be other-than

 

unless something else

changed, yes of course

and there’s our pure delight

just to be thing un-thing

solid, or not

even diaphanous, entity

or else a force

and some say nature

 

to such extent

to matter

 

so then to live

if idly

as by whim

to even grow

say reach

be moved

 

not just by breeze

or Earth’s turning

to go

tug tide

 

to tell it to the moon, the stars

 

and on alone

 

come the wriggle inch

till wheel

till roll along

decide your way

or all fours crawl

 

not be where you were planted

 

to feel along

to touch we’d say

and more

 

the eye and catch at

to hear the tall wind

cringe

 

then to know it for a fact

to know I am deciding

to know this as I am

 

clock’s ticking

even when there’s none

 

to watch

and know you’re watched

to entertain suspicions

 

to tell

I mean to speak of this

to mean

and so to wonder why

to know what what’s what

know what you don’t

 

and to forget

 

then upright

count distance

stare out the sky

 

to know you go

be for a while remembered

 

this is as far as we’ve come