The Pessimist

by

Frank Valentyn

Perhaps that's the message:
don't like anything too much
don't love it
don't hold anything so precious
don’t be that vulnerable

I've created a next generation
a phylogenetic vector
so what's left now?
my biological function
my complete observation of duty
in optimisation of probabilities
in the survival of alleles
has been done

The planetoid's philosophies
cutting edge of consistent neolithic sciences
transcendent religions and mythologies
all this spare intellectual capacity
this evolved emoting
simply overlies primary objective:
depositing the correct load of sperm
in a suitably attracted female
at least one, that is
unless meiosis itself
became infected
with religiomaniacal dogma
blind paradigm
and shallow conventionalism

Pray to the incidental god
of your geographical area
you, Lover and Forgiver of all Mankind
start another Jihad
about incorrect interpretations
of the Prime Motive
or the price of oil
or the traditions of obeisance
with your wife, son or neighbour
come, I challenge you
give love where it's not allowed -
to those other others
so contemptibly different -
where it's not understood, or wanted

Ah, said the clinical psychologist
but we live on so many levels!
Yes, I said,
and the most manifest
is that of sperm and ovum
retrovirus, micrometeorite
pre-targeted megatons
and then spare intellectual capacity
to ensure correct vectoring
where advanced spiritual psychodynamics
is part of the vital hallucination
to give imagined sense and meaning
to the recycling of cosmic dust

It's all such a learning process, isn't it
the psychic pains and agonies
the physical traumas, cancers and amputations
those complex autoimmune diseases
that can turn the product of your womb
into a self-mutilating monster

Trust me, said the universal intelligence
and I answered:
that is my continued intention, you misbegotten bastard
I'll still like tulips and freesias and vaginas
even if my cytokines rebel
and my HLA complex makes me sneeze
at airborne pollens

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Ma and Pa from the Farm in the Diner
by: Wesley A. Storer
from: Spokane, WA, US

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