Thursday, March 3, 2011

Joseph

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Cliffs are impermanent. Eventually, after eons of esve, water, and wind-borne particle action cliffs become sand, dust and dirt. Sand is impermanent. Eventually, after years of buildup, pressure, and heat it becomes sandstone, or glass.

Glass is impermanent. Bottles are broken over heads. Stained glass windows are broken by rocks thrown by the unbelievers. Bongs just get broken, period. But broken glass is still glass, even if it’s ground into powder and added to a fellow inmate’s oatmeal for them to eat and internally hemorrhage from. But glass becomes lava, just like anything else.

Everything becomes lava. Bone, flesh, grass, glass. Except water, which when combined with lava eventually becomes obsidian cliffs overlooking the ocean. Perhaps topped by a church with stained glass windows. Impermanence is a cycle, and the absence of a true end.

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