9 October 2025

brief visit

and then I went there
and understood what it was all about
not what they told me, for sure

life has no business to speak of
no reward or punishment either
just being, a plenitude beyond

my wildest
a desolation better
to none, yes

on a random night
I stepped out of a cloud
onto earth

there were lives made of nothing but words
brightly lit pedestals in the dark
with just a few insects dashing above them

and other lives with words
folded into the brains of animals
that ran on two legs

and sang songs, strung
strings of thoughts, turned them
into things you could

rely upon
to travel
some