Up where egg and sperm pair, no one has a name
Plopping out into the sunlit world, the newborn
Clothed at once in myth
Crammed with myth
Carrying out myth
Dreaming of myth
And all the lies hold firm through the life
like the field around a coil
And when the current of the life is finally broken,
the myth
leaps back out of the mind
the inductive arc at the opening of a switch
The body and mind finally congruent with fact through
action
Because mind has emptied, and action is undirected
by myth,
misapprehensions,
and carefully handed down misbeliefs
| October 6, 1987; titled March 25, 2005 | Copyright © 1987, 2005 by David Newkirk (david.newkirk@gmail.com). All rights reserved. |
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