Thursday, August 3, 2023

Poem: Accelerant

 

Accelerant

 

it was the birth of art.

ways to excel

magicked from sticks and stones. 

 

god-animals

appeared on cave walls,

hunted and stabbed

to feed us with their death.

 

it was a new kind of drama,

orgies of humans

in diasporas owning the stage.

 

it was that old dramaturgy of ants,

expropriated and rewritten:

new and better battles, crueller hierarchies,

superior hives.

 

it was the beginning

of the final, greatest decision of all,

evil and good

in a one-way race.

 




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8/6  "owning" replaces "owned"

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