DESTINY

It has become exceedingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein, German-American theoretical physicist

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DESTINY

Jamie Dedes

The unconscious wake of the city canyon lined

with monolithic buildings, a modern Stonehenge –

an outright lie, the feeling that a wee human can

do anything walking down this asphalt valley

though wise hawks flee to the countryside and those

thrusting window ledges are home to pigeons who

coo piteously at the traffic below, a parade of some

silly folk wearing fetching clothes and trusting

their sugared dreams to the midnight winds and

others arrogant who trip the ego fantastic and

hammer at their expectations with stone fists well

weighted by iron beliefs. It’s all mythology because

cultures die, worlds end, nothing should surprise,

but better to play and pretend our end didn’t begin

a century ago with the Wrights at Kitty Hawk and

that somehow, somehow we’ll outsmart our destiny.

Photo credit – Peter Griffin, Public Domain Pictures.net.

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