It-us is "is" One can...

 

It-us is "is"

One can say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are  the world that thinks itself—or that the world is at the heart of our flesh. In any case, once a body-world relationship is recognized, there is a ramification of my body and a ramification of the world and a correspondence between its inside and my outside, between my inside and its outside. – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

 

                                    There exists an existence

                                    throughout reality, or

                                    "is,"

                                    who

                                    is

                                    "is."

 

                                    This existence has set up

                                    terminals of awareness to experience

                                    itself as reality, that is, as "is;"  all the

                                    small things

                                    it might miss

                                    being all

                                    being  (a sunset here or on a far planet, or

                                                   watching itself be this ripple

                                                   in this stream or that one).

 

                                    Those terminals of the universe-

                                    Aware-of-

                                    itself

                                    are the sentient individuals, us,

                                    or it-us.

 

                                    It-us is here-there/now-then

                                    to explore "is"

                                    in it/our   

                                    life/death, this

                                    millisecond/infinite

                                    orgasm

                                    of time/space

                                    which is

                                    here-now/then-there.

 

                                    And so, just

                                    now-then/there-here, when

                                    vertebrates

                                    evolved and the space

                                    phone rang in the

                                    rubbed worn enamel

                                    sky, right

                                    here-now/there-then

                          

                                    Where the glass

                                    Drink-bottles glisten and

                                    lie with plastic

                                    Chemical bottles and metal cans

                                    and petrified wood and trilobites

                                    and pieces of cloth and plastic

                                    sheeting and condoms

                                    hang in the brush

                                    near the creek (where it/i look at

                                    the ripples for it/us),

                                    here-

                                    there-

                                    now-

                                    then-

                                    the eternal order of

                                    clowns was/is formed;

 

                                    being began,

                                    we knew

                                    we knew and                          

                                    laughed.

 

                                    Communion commenced.

                                    It/we became, began,

                                    begot/are becoming, are constantly beginning, and

                                    are always begetting

                                    it/us.

 

                                    It/we is/are constantly taking

                                    communion with it/us and it's/our

                                    unimaginable

                                    God/Goddess, while it/we hums

                                    to itself/our-self

                                    a hymn of

                                    it-us which is

                                    it-us in this, it's/our chosen

                                    trap for it-us,

 

                                                   “is”

 

Comments

[Nate Capehart]

This was written long before I became inerested in Merleau-Ponty. The quote at the beginning was added later.