One grain, one syllable,
one breath at a time:
the dead become words—
and words, over
centuries, change
to information—
and information
is the catalyst which
ferments questions
into theories—
which congeal
to prescriptions
before eventually,
under tremendous pressure,
dissolving into legends.
Meanwhile,
the temporarily-alive
are starving
and cannot survive
on the juice extracted
from disaster,
or on the hopeful fumes
of stories—even those of loaves
and fishes.
