nature / in and around all things / and not things / the return of the complex / to the simple / high to low / that which has built up must be torn down

in praise of entropy

sometimes you think / entropy is chipped plates, oil changes / sagging breasts / a break in the dam / bugs on the windowsills

in praise of entropy

you want to be in control / you want a say / you want immortality / invulnerable immutable inviolate / you want that that, that you love is forever

in praise of entropy

but it simply is / like gravity and sunlight / hating something that is true / makes no sense / the power unleashed by the wings of a butterfly / a single grain of sand / that scratched away the pyramids / fires and floods / tides and mushrooms

in praise of entropy

can you really say this / this is the best of us / we will build no more / anchor us here / it is not just the snake and the cicada shedding its skin / you cannot breathe in / without breathing in something I left behind / we must take in and give back / if we are to become

in praise of entropy

and if we do not fall / if we hold on / laminate this world / preservative ourselves inside and out / the calcium to our bones / but never our bones to calcium / our density only increasing / our orbit inescapable

in praise of entropy

if the structure does not collapse / all of our beaches will soon be fields / of sandcastles