Absurd Beliefs

Some — many — believe that we live again, yet we

only live once before our body burns or rots

but it’s never enough to only live once, free

or not, although freedom is an illusion, thoughts

of grandeur meandering in the brain like stars

Why am I here, where am I going, who the fuck

am I? and more useless questions, including Mars

I mean Ares, the original Greek name, schmuck

whoever you are, even Greek, English-speaking

or some other famous language, because they died

and their tongue with them, the funeral was reeking

of despair, at least of the soulless Cosmos, wide

as nothing else knowable in this existence

filled with insistence, inconsistence and distance.

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Absurdity advancing to a beat