I OWN THE WORLD
I covet nothing...that is my special gift...
I covet nothing...because...I own the world... I curate
my world...
Every day...in my own way
My eyes see the beauty...that is in play
The Earth is the Earth...and has always been this way... We are
imperfect animals...and always were...
Now even the worst amongst us...doesn’t even cause...a stir... I own
the wars...the bombs and the pain...
The smell of Cordite as the bullets reign... I own
the famines...
The droughts...the disease
Send us just $18 a month...if you please...
I even own the pratfalls of the leaders of this Earth... All the
fragile egos of the silly little boys...
Owning the world I curate my world every day... I covet
nothing...I own it all...
Central Park is mine...
So is ‘The Church of Saint John the Divine!’
Fifth Avenue...and Madison too...I am on them...all the time I stroll
through the galleries of the ‘MET’
I stop in front of ‘Philip de Montebello’s’...
Ancestors’ ‘Empire Chest’...
I own ‘THAT’ chest...
The ‘Ormolu’...it is absolutely...the best!
I take my time climbing the stairs...they too are mine...
Perseus...holding the ‘Gorgon’s’ head high...
You can feel the last squirms...of the snakes...as they die...
I make my way to the gallery...‘Jacques-Louis David’...confronts me... The epic
‘Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and his wife’...immortalized... I regard...
This is mine...I own this too...as my eyes digest... The
beauty and the detail of every brush stroke...
A genius Aristo...who predicted silicone...named Oxygen...
Carbon...and Hydrogen...
This was not one...of the ‘ORDINARY FOLK’... The
French Revolution was bustling along... Which only
reminds me of ‘our mess’...
And all its ‘wrongs’...
Lavoisier’s crime... “SAPERE,
AUDE!”...
He “DARED TO KNOW!”...
The ‘CRIME’ of the
‘ENLIGHTENMENT!’ ‘COGITO
ERGO SUM’...
I THINK...THEREFORE...I AM...
Guilty as charged...“I own that shit too!”... Aloft in
the “TUMBREL”...
With no one to...woo...
On to ‘REVOLUTION SQUARE’...was there nothing... Anyone
could do...
Is there no ‘SYDNEY CARTON’ in this generation...?
Obviously...not! ‘GUILLOTINE’...awful...apparatus...
LAVOISIER lost his head… Because
of his status...
They took his head...but not his
‘Burgeoning brain’...
Lavoisier...left us his intellect...to be...exact... All these
generations later...still intact...
The whole ‘9 yards’ of history...has its repeats... And yet
we learn nothing from all our defeats...
Little glitches...here and there...in the ‘WEAVE’ of our evolution... How is
it...that in all this time...we haven’t found a solution...
I own the world...I own this too...
I own the beauty...I own the ugly...I own the history...I own the fury... I own
the future...
If we are lucky to have one... I own it
all!
I stand in front of
The magnificent “WINGED VICTORY!”
Tears...streaming down my face...
So happy to be part of the human race...
Life is like ‘Groundhog Day’...you wake up every morning
And hope...the day will end in a different way...
Not is the usual...dismay... History
teaches...
And yet we don’t learn...the liars and the deniers...just want To turn
the page...
Hitler exclaimed...
“WHO REMEMBERS THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST!?”
INDEED...I DO!!!
SOON...it may very well be the same...
