we are the creators

we were birthed to be

artists scientists philosophers active engaged twinkling intellects

the stars our destination

somehow we got sidetracked

into shopkeeping & mandatory drudgery

& beliefs about the need to justify existence

& waste-clog landfills & skies & waters

& everyone runs around pretending

to use that fatty pudding

only for rationality & logic & reasons

that seem to ignore any number but some bottom line

but rationally logically reasonably we'd all be

better served as sculptors & poets, playwrights & illustrators

journalists & researchers, lab techs &

a 1000 kinds of nobel prize winners, & a never-ending line of musicians

life lived as art, art lived as life -- have ya ever tried this science of living

every moment's a boogie-woogie symphony, every view a cinema just for me

graceful moving sculpture's the whole universe of life

creating every moment that comes along

(& those are just the primitive forms, whole new art waits to be born)

what's vogon to one is shakespeare to another

that's part of the point, the process is more crucial than the product

(make that slow-producing artists & scientists & philosophers, leisurely loving their lives)

all is illusion & all is one & all is spirit & all is material

& everything's an energy field interacting with an energy field in an energy field

living in galaxies & nebulas of infinite improbability & pessimism's yours if you want it to be

but we are the creators & we find all the evidence we need

to support our beliefs as a matter of course

& i prefer to look forward to futures of unlimited potential

to live in hopes & dreams

to create the marvelous promise of the grey jelly

copyright 2007 by Kia Gabrielle McLean