Two Bodies We Live In

two bodies have I one is local—I move with it the other is the Universe—I move in it

with both bodies do I die: in my local motile body, by and by; as the Universe, on another scale, even more by and by

you have two bodies, too one of them we share we all die together as the Universe didn’t you know? It has a wailing home too yes, that moan, that shriek, is our home our ancestral home and our future home all borne along on the rising wave of the attenuated shriek

outside of our instincts we can shudder in our second home.

of course art crumples in our home that crumbles: ashes, ashes, we all fall off the roaring edge ashes, ashes, we all fall off

the sheer drop ledge ashes, ashes, we all fall down as one body, the Universe, into the last, ultimate tailspin down the last unknown black hole