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What Next?

By Gary Corseri

17 March, 2015
Countercurrents.org

Consider the Naked Ape!
Tell them: “The team is All!”
They’ll gladly kill for the team!
(Just tell them when they’re small!)

The things they learn in youth
They’ll carry to the grave.
(They learn a limited “truth”—
Little enough to save.)

They live their limited lives
In cocoons of love and hate.
(One often becomes the other;
It’s largely a matter of Fate.)

They dance to whistled tunes,
Espousing mystical rot.
(Some of it may be sound;
Most is probably not.)

Each understands according
To things misunderstood:
A shadow-world in dumb-show
Where “evil” contends with “good.”

Meantime, the stars are whirling
And galaxies collide.
(They say it’s all evolving;
Towards what—we can’t decide.)

Maybe… a greater vision;
Maybe, a global hell:
Something beyond derision,
Or something too horrid to tell….

Gary Corseri has performed his work at the Carter Presidential Library, and his dramas have been produced on PBS-Atlanta and elsewhere. He has published novels and collections of poetry, has taught in US public schools and prisons and in US and Japanese universities. His work has appeared at Countercurrents, The Village Voice, CounterPunch, The New York Times and hundreds of publications and websites worldwide. Contact: [email protected]






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