Alone and Not Alone by Ron Padgett

Author:Ron Padgett
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Coffee House Press

An idea went by like a bird

and a bird went by like a cloud

and a cloud went by like a moment:

this is the Step Theory of Reality

and its by-product the Ziggurat Configuration.

Then a bird went by like an idea—

the idea of the Step Theory itself,

for no one thinks of it anymore,

because its pieces lock together seamlessly,

the way a play on words

is just words and not just words

at the same time, for a moment.

It can’t come back

because it never went anywhere,

unlike a cloud that can’t come back

because it went everywhere.

And so we jump around and sputter,

to the great amusement

of our higher selves,

the ones we can’t find,

their laughter echoing forever

in the few moments we have.

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