The Dream of Uroborus. Poem. Robin Ouzman Hislop

The deluge will come,

warm waters will lap at your home,

the plague will increase

& we creatures will perish.

 

The meiotic dance

in our speciation

could have been a trance

not a deception,

biophylia in the masque of eros

in life after estrus.

 

Evolution doesn’t say

& perhaps on another day

it’s androgynous anyway.

& we’ll sequence the genome

again, in trans-genderey,

at the end of the century,

a new human womb

in the womb of time,

or will we start it all over again,

from homo sapien to homo rapien!

 

Talking heads loom, expert

in this, authority on that,

profession, specialisation, prophet

in this, last word on that, then fit

into the screen, focus the information,

take it down, you are now one of them.

 

The crowd is full of strays,

being sent home,

embedded in the grain.

& all stories are the same

swallowing themselves like Uroborus,

who in its own dream disappears,

only to appear again.

 

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