Tuesday, April 10, 2018

the thin edge of occam’s razor


(for each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there may be an extremely large, perhaps even incomprehensible, number of possible and more complex alternatives. – forgot who said this because i don’t really care)

 

i was at the beach

a man, naked, was running around

screaming, “universal!”

 

i’m not sure if it was a good acid trip

or a bad one

 

the cops cuffed

carried him to their cruiser

and noticed me fully clothed

under the franchise of the sun

 

asked me what was up

“i’m at the ass end of the universe

trying to figure out if it is constipated

or has diarrhea”

 

i was frisked while i enlightened

that cavities can defy gravity

until the dentist forces a filling

 

they weren’t happy

but the naked man was black

they had what they really wanted

and left the white to watch the waves

 

i lit a smoke

no one else spoke to me

apparently encounters with enforcement

gave me an identity i don’t really possess

 

this one family kept staring at me

i approached them enhancing their unease

and said,

“the problem is that not only are people raised to

believe that there are such things as fairness and justice

but, also, that they are entitled to such”

 

then disappeared from their sight

which is all everyone really wanted

 

oh, what am i doing out in the daylight?

when will it be night?

where i can walk the streets

and repeat,

“i once prayed while on a bender

it came back return to sender”

 

title the poem the sacrifice of words

or scattered thoughts and fractured words

or please don’t think i matter

so you will leave me alone

 

right now my gums are bleeding

from too many cigarettes

but you can bet

i just lit another

while thinking about

the thought’s of others

while writing,

“in the art of soft reflection

i am dancing with deception”

 

oh where’s my music app?

i want to play “freak on a leash”

 

we need to eliminate the word “capish”

because no one actually comprehends

the dividends of a divisive mind

 

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