Lyrical Essay

                                                                       Of and In

 

 

 

.000001 Textureless, surfaceless, numbness of stone.

 

Over 60 million people were killed in and around the time of World War II from 1939-1945.

 

Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945.

 

           In the United States it is estimated that the number of pets owned is around 74-96 million cats and 70-80 million dogs according to the ASPCA. I adopted my cat from Second Chance in Murray. She was the last kitten they had, probably because she is black and people have silly superstitions.

 

 

1:1,000,000 Clumsiness, rythemless, patternless, shown.

 

Guido of Arezzo is said to be the inventor of modern musical notation.

 

There are 97 million songs in the Gracenote database and I’m guessing there are millions more out there.

 

        Once on one of my many long days of delivering here and there, I sat at an intersection and just listened. Closing my eyes knowing the light would take a minute to allow me to pass, I toned out the sound of distant sirens, the chirping of birds and the hum of my own vehicle. I choose to ignore the noise on the radios, the murmur that floated out of open windows and simply listened to the sound of the tires slapping the pavement in front of me as they raced past. The unified pattered of the sound and the almost rhythmic rise and fall as they came close and fell past me sitting there. I could hear the sea with its waves in this tide of motors driving rubber over stone and tar. It was calming.  I thought about the high tide at the 8 and 5 hour and the low tide that creeps slowly only when the wind pushes it out and on for whatever reason in the small hours of morning or late, in the fading of energy to rest again on its known shore. How many waves break each day and what are the chances that the one that brakes for me, does so on this street?

 

 

1/1,000,000 Time lapsed and time pasted and time skipped and torn.

 

Between 1501 and 1830 some four million Africans had been transported across the middle passage, the transatlantic crossing, to America.

 

 Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, GA.

 

        There are three primary types of natural selection Directional, Stabilizing, and Disruptive or Diversifying selection. The first happens when natural selection favors one extreme of reoccurring variation. Much like how humans evolved to stand up right from a primitive crouch. When chosen over time this extreme replaces other extremes and intermediates, which become less common or at times disappear completely. An example is a giraffe. Over time smaller and medium giraffes died off because they could not reach the tops of trees to eat where others progressed like a wave building up able to reach the food they needed for survival.  The second Stabilizing is when the intermediates are able to survive because other extremes of the species are picked off due to the radical variables they carry. For example, albinos of an animal species have a hard time surviving because they cannot as easily blend in to their environment and may die off before being able to reproduce because of that characteristic. Like white foam of waves that recedes to the uniform of the ocean from opposite shores. The last is Disruptive or Diversifying, in this selection the extremes are favored over the intermediate states which become less common. This type of selection normally ends with two new species as those waves reach as far inland, at times leaving behind pools or great lakes.

 

 

1,000,000 Foughtless and thoughtless and useless and worn.

 

Over 3 million people were killed during the long war in Vietnam.

 

Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc, as protest to the conflict, burned himself to death in Saigon, Vietnam in June of 1963.

 

            Eternal Return is the concept that because time and space are thought to be endless you can presume that the universe and all of existence and energy has been reoccurring and will continue to recur an infinite number of times. If you combine that with Murphy’s law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong, although I like to think that anything can happen for good or ill, you can say since both are thought to be true, this means that for every me that may lose at something another of me wins. Every time I take a step, I could trip but I could also be just standing. Every moment that I live, I’m dying.

 

1,000,001

 

     Look up and see as this passes you by.

 

              Blinking, a life out, as you scream out and die.