"There's not much doubt in any of our minds that no complete idea springs fully formed from our brow,
needing only a handshake and a signature on the contract to send it off into the world to make twenty-five billion dollars.
The germ of the idea grows slowly..." - Walt Kelly

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Misalignment tankas

NaPoWriMo is officially on - here's Day One.

I. 
Donate your spare time,
the "extra," the un-needed. 
Donate your organs. 

Will your actions match your words? 
Is there peace, or reckoning? 

II. 
Call them pre-modern, 
as "primitive" is uncouth. 
Even the past cries. 

Preserve their uninformed means
of navigating the world. 

III. 
Before noon, we cried 
to witness the end of time. 
Clocks were unwelcome. 

Necks crane to find an angle
along which there may be meaning. 

IV.
Behold the canyon, 
an opening of spent flesh, 
pothole of the gods. 

There will be no deepening, 
no energetic myth here. 

V.
Open eye or mind, 
but mercy - never try both.
Hearts are frail enough. 

Give speed to the tumbling, 
and prepare to greet the ground. 

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