Today's random bibliomancy

[willowoak]

Elders

 

we have been here so short a time

and we pretend that we have invented memory

 

we have forgotten what it is like to be you

who do not remember us

 

we remember imagining that what survived us

would be like us

 

and would remember the world as it appears to us

but it will be your eyes that will fill with light

 

we kill you again and again

and we turn into you

 

eating the forests

eating the earth and the water

 

and dying of them

departing from ourselves

 

leaving you the morning

in its antiquity

 

          –W.S. Merwin

 

Today is a “kill the cat” day.  I went to bed late last night.  But Merlin decided that he needed to purr passive-aggressively at about 1:30.  I couldn’t get him to stop.  I pounded on him…he purred.  I’d push him off the bed, and he’d jump right back up and start to purr again.  Rusty chainsaws have nothing on his purr.  Arghhhh!  And I’d been sleeping so well before that.  Little bastard!  So this one made me laugh today…in a bitter, ironic sort of way.