Yes You are the first strike The flint, the steel, the silver spark Yes, you are, in fact, burning alive You dissolve against the test Melting quantum cotton candy At the speed limit of Gods hot mouth Yes you're the dancing static of dreams A fortuitous concourse of atoms Yes you are already dead & birthless Your gigantic solitude swallows entire copper colored mountain ranges Vast cloud choked landscapes, silent forests and still lakes, where rolling planets lull and white dwarfs, red giants gas and sputter. All/Not. Yes you are born again Neither lost nor found you find yourself Awake at the dark hollow egde of another decaying era But your foundations smoldered Long before the deep Stone Ages Remember? before blood signaled Tanged Point Technocomplexes before the cardinal idiot's first monolithic abstraction-before the first eye ever blinked against the light We mingled dangling our feet over the edge a while there in that anti-light dawn vertigo before the flow took us again remember?