How can you think when realities collide?

9/18
galaxies collide
solar systems end

Will the time come when I go through a day without thinking about it?


9/19
Where do you go when galaxies collide? Where do you hide?
Does one universe ever smash into another universe?
Is this happening now?
How can you think when realities collide?
Think the unthinkable - go ahead - Think the unthinkable

9/22
Nearly 2 weeks after
being
nearly obliterated
during
the vaporization
of the Twin Towers
I relax on a bench
in a park
where long ago
men were executed
by hanging.

9/23
Walk to the Village.
Despite the Death Smog that covers the city, happy people sit at sidewalk tables, drinking, eating, laughing, talking on cell phones. The smog smells like a burnt electrical cord combined with something you don’t want to think about.

Walk below Canal Street,
join the carnival crowd of picture takers, rollerbladers, baby stroller pushers, souvenir T-shirt buyers and sellers, cell phone chatters - an ugly mass of people with no sense of the sacred, except for the odd mourner here and there, the odd pilgrim.

And what are you doing here? What did you come to see?
I wanted to go back to the center of the world
where I used to sit on a bench and drink coffee
and watch the human race pass by.

Every day the city wakes up to the anguish,
to the fact that something very big is missing.
the entire city wakes up like an amputee haunted
by phantom limbs.

9/24
first there was
ABSOLUTE TRUTH,

and opposed to this was
ABSOLUTE FALSE.

ABSOLUTE TRUTH
was contained in
THE BOOK.

outside of
THE BOOK
there was only
ABSOLUTE FALSE.

some people went by
THE BOOK,
and others went against
THE BOOK.

the first kind of people were
TRUE,
and the second kind of people were
FALSE.

then a third kind of people arrived with a NEW BOOK
which was a sequel to
THE BOOK.
they said that THE BOOK,
together with
THE SEQUEL ( the NEW BOOK ),
constitutes
ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

now there were 3 kinds of people:

1) those who go by THE BOOK, but against THE SEQUEL
2) those who go only by THE BOOK and THE SEQUEL together as one BOOK.
3) those who go against both THE BOOK and THE SEQUEL.

then there came another, fourth, kind of people who had a
THIRD BOOK.
this, they claimed, is another BOOK in the ABSOLUTE TRUTH series that, furthermore, completes the series.
Now comes another group of people - the people who buy many books, but who are not by any book exclusively.
no book, they argue, contains ABSOLUTE TRUTH, but most, or even all, books contain some mixture of truth and falsehood.

the peoples who go by THE BOOK, or its SEQUEL, or THE SEQUEL TO THE SEQUEL, are infuriated by the relativism of those who buy many books and who apparently reject even the idea of ABSOLUTE TRUTH contained in a book.

A DAY will come, many say, when a BOOK WILL BE THROWN.

but which BOOK will it be? we ask.