Digest by Gregory Pardlo

Author:Gregory Pardlo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Way Books

Boethius: The creator moves the slowest bodies and halts those that are too fast, brings back to the right path those which have strayed.

Even Virgin Mary couldn’t compete with the miracles

performed on dashboards by GPS devices that summon

the heavens for guidance instead of forgiveness. Instead of

blessing we want clairvoyance and the dust bursts of angels

and demons appearing on our shoulders, though we know

they may only goad us into leading some high- or low-speed

chase while America tunes in at home, their eyes in the skies.

Used to be the battle of getting there was indeed a tortoise and

hare proposition full of K-turns in strangers’ driveways, but our

omniscient technology has made speed obsolete. Who needs to

hurry when we have a hivemind of newsfeeds, can discern death’s

thumbprint in the marrow of a bone and engineer children who

are elegant and fleet? In the end, James Dean couldn’t outrun

a glacier. Just as the slowest floes preyed timelessly on dinosaurs

and shat their bones, our rockets now fold the speckled

firmament to take orbit on the shoulders of eternity where they

may fill the creator’s ears with our mortal doubts and provocations.

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