{"id":5426,"date":"2024-03-19T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:10:17","slug":"poem-as-the-whirled-goes-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/19\/poem-as-the-whirled-goes-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I look out into the world, I often get the image of chickens running around with their heads cut off. I see an addiction to &#8220;winning&#8221; that disconnects us from creation, others and ourselves, and in supreme irony, races us to a world of losing awe that matters.\u00a0 There is a deep and abiding order to creation. There is an awesome, eccentric, sacredness of every life. In a descending nihilism, there is a flurry of opportunities to embrace deep meaning, embrace one another, and embrace anew world. We are the people we have been waiting for. This is our gift &#8212; to ourselves, to each other, and to the world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>As The Whirled Goes Bye<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There I was<br \/>\nPain attention<br \/>\nTo the whirled going bye<br \/>\nIn the specious choice<br \/>\nOf being<br \/>\nWon or the other<br \/>\nA chicken with their head chopped off<br \/>\nRunning a bout<br \/>\nAwe over<br \/>\nOr the undead<br \/>\nThe most vacant of presence<br \/>\nWith in-the-box unthinking<br \/>\nVainly building AWOL<br \/>\nWile humanity dissembling<br \/>\nWear nothing madders<br \/>\nLike some wholly ghost in a dead religion<br \/>\nOnly too flail where others secede<br \/>\nAs change peers random<br \/>\nIn what seams natural selection<br \/>\nBaring<br \/>\nThat fucking life sentence<br \/>\nOr stay<br \/>\nOf execution<br \/>\nAs being right is halving left<br \/>\nAnd still<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\nPerhaps not<br \/>\nMeans<br \/>\nTo an end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look out into the world, I often get the image of chickens running around with their heads cut off. 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