recycled thoughts

in one's attic

by Roberto Lavidez

to rethink

old

assumptions

about the

order of

the cosmos

world

soul and

body

as the

suffering

of one

single

child

irrevocably

denies the

existence

of god

even

the best

of us

need

a reminder

of our

fallibility

and ability

to deceive

ourselves

into a very

confident

blunder

to access

one's attic’s

contents

to walk

inside and

look around

and see

what is

what

what has

come

from

where

what is

there

that

shouldn’t

be

and what

isn’t

there

that

should

be

old ideas

and new

insights

overlapped

confusingly

they have

proliferated

into every

corner

of culture

the old

accounts

of human

nature

recycled in

complex

imaginative

ways for

intensive

use in a

rapidly

changing

expanding

world

the evidence

too powerful

to ignore

including

reference to

abstraction

and detachment

as conditions

brought on

by various

types

of psychotic

overload

the inherently

incomprehensible

and deceptive

psychological

structure

the spirit

of  lethargy

that tempted

us to idleness

where there

should have

rightly been

spiritual labor

to detach

the framework

of fact

from the

embellishments

of theorists

to pause

and reflect

and reconfigure

the great

question

in the

minds

of many

people

dwelling

in Dante’s

Hell

unable to

speak in

whole

words

but quite

compatible

with the

calculation

of chance

the improbable

is not yet

impossible

©robertolavidez2014