Whale songs sound so sad. I wonder, did they used to sound happy? Before we butchered their ancestors, and filled their oceans with plastic? And I wonder what they're doing with all that brain matter? The sperm whale has the largest brain of the animal kingdom; it doesn't take that much brain mass to make a tail go up and down.
Again, lovely thoughts. The juggernaut will be stopped (legal status of corporations ended) and the whales will sing happier songs as our new o/s emerges. World 5.0
Whale Songs
Wow.
This one is a mic drop... fantastic.
'pity this busy monster, manunkind'
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go
e. e. cummings
Caitlin, every one of your missives is a silver bullet. Your book just arrived in the post today. Thank you, and please, don’t stop. JM
Yes. Hear the whales and let them lead us out of our slumber and fears.
Love this
Another precious piece from the incomparable Caitlin Johnston.
Again, lovely thoughts. The juggernaut will be stopped (legal status of corporations ended) and the whales will sing happier songs as our new o/s emerges. World 5.0