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Artificial intelligence
Strange, this count of days, these long months bled into years. Each year gathered time like the spinning of some causal skein whose length tangled
through each breath, through every exhalation of profundity.
Were they indeed profound, or merely found, as individual moment entangled it’s precursor with present tense where scarce consideration of uncounted
precedent quivered it’s vanishing perspective.
What arrows then, shot those many sunsets that stretch their amorphous glow back to a beginning scarce remembered, an almost anonymous, half forgotten
span of sequence that never considered consequence.
I’m standing one legged on the face of a man long dead.
My right foot shifts and slides on the back of another as I stretch and miss, then tensing, leap for the next finger and toehold. I catch both self
and breath while I dangle there, my grip slipping as I frantically grab hold with my other hand and haul myself up. Ever up.
My knee is in the groin of someone.
I offer no apology to these dead people I clamber over, they had their turn, their day is done.
I know them all, most intimately. I’m the reason they’re stacked here, a mountain of men and women that I used and then discarded.
Have you ever considered the sheer monotony of years spent scaling humanity, of only adding to it’s expanse by a mad scramble up?
The summit is in sight, that pinnacle that seemed like an insurmountable obstacle when I first started. A last few shoulders to climb, a last few left
to walk on and I’ve made it.
I take a deep shuddering breath, raise my hand on high give my head that practiced shake as I think of all those whose life’s and work I stole so
that I could have this moment.
I glance down.
There beneath my heel, Milton, Virgil, Homer, Voltaire, Dickinson, and on and on and on as I both hear and feel the tassel as it lands on the other
side and I shouting grab that symbol and fling it high.
YouSir
edit on 6-3-2019 by YouSir because: (no reason given)
edit on 6-3-2019 by YouSir because: (no reason given)