Tuesday, December 5, 2023

ORIGIN OF INERTIA

In the beginning 
was a boundless (read: 
impersonal) world. 

Only, soon it was 
realized that 
nobody wanted this,

and so, quick 
as a cracked 
whip, infinities 

were blunted—then 
separation, 
screaming, and 

television 
were invented. 
But once things 

had a shape to them, 
they could then be 
interrupted.

And though changing 
one's direction seemed
judicious as a strategy, 

all were ill 
prepared to know the
death of isolation—

the suffocating
weight of conservation 
of momentum.