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Tony Tracy: The Pitfalls of Evolution

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

            My therapist sighs, swallows the weight of the moment,
then clears his throat to ask, “Tony, what do you believe is the fate of
            mortality?” Careful not to own an opinion, a proof that might
later be held against me, evidence submitted to discredit my possible
            petition in the highest and holiest of courts, a breach in contract
that could be summoned by heaven’s writ, I fall mute to the white noise
            of my continual dismay, mystery that dogs me from session
to session, crux of my dilemma T.J. has repeated for more than a year,
            what he claims is at the root of all my anxiety: stupefying fear of
the unknown, unimaginable void of non-existence, a consternation that
            can be traced back to the ancients, a people who catalogued
the inexplicable with charcoal drawings, our earliest forms of sophistry
            that linked truth to the moon and stars, aid that allowed them
to sleep through the night lest a saber-tooth or woolly mammoth roused
            Paleolithic concern when the coarse, animal silhouettes emerged in
the cave’s mouth and children roughed images of terror and bloodshed
            on the stone walls as they shied from the treacherous moonlight.

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Issue 86, Poetry, Poetry 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Poetry, Poetry 86, Tony Tracy

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