In the beginning was Ignorance, which, after seven days of
metastization, took no rest, not even a nap, and saw that it was good
—or, if not 'good', at least very effective.”
……………………………………. —Fascist Bible 1:1
Yankee Disenlightenment
it was once considered
not good
not to know
to know nothing
to be willfully stupid
yet not lose face
to purposely
un-understand
the shape of light and
lay of land
to be a barren dumbass
in gnostic space
to immediately drain
each inconvenient drop of fresh new rain
which, like elixir, drips into our
cranial mixer
to refuse to skewer
enigma
to not rip off
the scabs of old scrolls
papered over wormholes
to not burrow to
the middle of myth
to mine the truth
that makes it stick
to unwrap the burial cloth of corpses
centuries dead then deny their deadness
with occult discourses
to treat the factual as merely
fleeting or inactual
to elevate superstition,
and call it Tierras de Dios
wherein a singularity
is mysteriously split into a trio
and god becomes a thing
cleaved like other things,
malleable, meager, mortal
(a shade of god’s awesome former self)
to become The Pale One most loudly worshipped
in the land of guiltless gringos
.
by Jim Culleny
5/16/15