issue 28 > poetry > turco

I. The Big Bang

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II. The Big Blink

Is it a butterfly or a wasp? No matter,
     catch it in our net - don't let it get away:
When life blinks out, that's it: Nothing existed, ever.
The Big Blink takes place. There's nothing to regret,

   no one to regret it. There will be no darkness —
     darkness so deep we are of it, no silence
so vast one can hear oneself think, nothing to wish for,
     nothing to want, no one to think or wish for,

   no darkness or silence so vast and deep that we
     are the silence, nor so deep and vast we are of
it, nor in it, nothing to want, no self to wish
     or wish for, no being to become, to Be.


III. The Big Blank