Another Schematic

 

To depart the living, days before sunrise, climbing rungs through tired rain

drenched, submerged, drown and suffer, racing demons, tumbling

jacob’s ladder, slingshot ether, space and its silence, its contradictory warmth

earth and its darkness, its deepest refusal, its collection of planets, its mighty debris

its essential goodness, its essential nothingness, its vile institutions, its practical waste

its endless approvals, its consecutive minutes, exchange of orbits, castaway

its networks and maps, its godly logistics, its mounds of waste, its recitations
its schematics that tell us nothing, its descriptions that efface meaning, its categories of unity, its redeeming hatred vectorizing emptiness, measuring infinity, scheming for salvation, vomiting analysis

coupling with outcomes, guaranteed certainty, rush and stimulation, effect and cause

assembling evidence, assaulting the judge, insisting on guilt, pardoning angel
exchange of information, elegant damnation, tearful departure, nonchalance

victimizing heaven, its towering landfills, its prestige and institutions, its sequential events

devouring its contents, peaceful and mighty, its expendable perfection, its digestible grace