Flat Meat Diner
This poem was originally published in Lummox, Oct, 2014. https://issuu.com/poetraindog/docs/revisedl3sampler/9 Flat Meat Diner The highway stretches like an endless, mall food-court for turkey buzzards.
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Go Ogle
Go Ogle Sometimes we miss things that are just over our heads. Let’s learn to look up.
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HAI-KŌAN Each ball rolls as pushed, yet, try to repeat one path, mostly chaos wins. A kōan (公案) is a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment or the “great doubt” in the student practitioner.
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EVOLUTION OF VOLITION I’ve seen plants display behavior, if not learning, sans nervous system.
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Needle spins too fast to point in firm direction, easy to lose way. No one anymore can distinguish greater good from lesser evil. When profit is weighed against cost in human lives, we sail uncompassed.
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Raw Marvel We’ll teach them to reach with caution, but children must pursue their wonder.
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Navier-Stokes Equations Intrinsic to flow, how turbulence gets started no one understands.
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FORMATION Dust coalesces in orbital overture – music of the spheres
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DISTANT OBSERVERS Fixed stars, silent night – really all’s still exploding, and just seems still-frame.
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FIRST APPEARANCE In memoriam Robert Sheckley reflected in glass a commonplace human, startling at first he’d fit in, he knew Earth’s sentient forms blinded by expectations Trying to gropple in this restricted body, settled for a grin. I was very happy to have this tribute to one of my favorite writers and all time […]
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BARD OF MARS 