There was always chaos. In life, love and magic
unbroken universes, existed before
new universes formed in the trillion trillion split second.
That idea alone is chaotic. Philosophy begins
first line: Its only from chaos all reason springs
and so we lurch forward assured that
we are still bumbling idiots oozing metaphors
and other cunning devices to write
chaotic stuff, adding to the confusion of thought
increasing the confusion, blasting the fusion
splitting the atom, our brains, *****
and guts explaining why things are so confusing
are they?
doubt swallows me up when I see
a scientist scratching his head for answers.
inside he must be organised
outside chaotic and nonplussed?
Come on, it’s a slant in all of us.
We are confused human beings
Except (hmmmmm) when it comes to ***
we know what fits where and why
and we grind endlessly just as
the entire universe grinds timelessly
in an eternal clock.( ****?)
Like light and darkness
two sides of a day, we too
are organised chaotically.
Now where was that folder with my best poems?
See what I mean?
Its only from chaos that all reason springs.


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