I, Rebel

 

Grady McMurtry

 

7 September 1943

 

 

Ho—rebel—you

There in the darkness

What have you seen? What weird

Infernal gorgon nychtolopic holds

Your trance-like gaze in awestruck wonder set?

What liche—or vicious larvae lethal have you found

That snares your thoughts in mesh-like plexus bound?

 

O fool—thou

There upon the precipice you stand

Slobbering and gibbering at the moon—know this truth

There is a universe—and there is a not universe

A seen—and an unseen

A Thing—and a no Thing

A Being—and that which is a beyond Being

A Chaos—and a Cosmos

A That-Which-Is—and a That-Which-Is-Not

You are

I am not.

 

 

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