Simple Theories

  The next step: a row of balusters topped by a rail. In the fertile vial of early making, needs become effective as progress. Naming rites ensue.   The documented name Tiglath-Pileser (8th century BCE , you aren’t dreaming) left several important inscriptions of his reign. Deeds of greatness including conquering, shockwave shivers, enemy in fear, presentiments of pride, adumbration, who founded perplexity.  Language the first wall of city-state. Everything raises to purpose. City suffices in stating nothing but gathering. A time before no time existed. Murmur proclaims, or vice versa, as will. Breathless actions written in stone and clay. History before history equals people singularly ungrouped.  The Sumerians woke at the dawn of thinking about when beginning began. They discovered a fertile land between knowing rivers. If Figure A exists it would show a map with all possibilities directed by imagination, a splendid fireball of rigour.  Imagination always beco...

  The jocular Sumerians who tried hard. They ranged. They predicted Babylon, and that Assyria would be plaintive in outgrowth. We thought to look at writing but were visually impaired. We strove for the idea of striving while finding pieces everywhere. We read of prescient Gilgamesh and his rapt friend. Lethal strokes from the names of deities bedevil us. The quantum of that lasts years, vinyl memory, each as long as Buddha. All this nonsense of sense, we took turns. Those Sumerians at the bitter provoked cycles and drew words. Now there stands a dusted idea. Seasons flatter us with preservation and the idea we serve. Roots bottom out, tree rises high. Only now say words are poetry, only now grasp particular.