The promised land

Only an apple can teach you what an apple is,
only a fish can teach you what flight is,
a falling star measures the universe with a precision
equal to death as a dynamizing universal principle,
such that, in Silicon Valley, poetry has become the resource
most treasured among scientists, from which they
extract their visions,
post-man lives in post-history,
post-love gives birth to post-life
despite that everyone believes there’s a computation error somewhere,
the same world combines useful & sweet
like in an ice cream recipe over which you pour lots of maple syrup
which sweetens and refreshes you.

But the American scientist told God,
during a work break: Lord
(or however you’re called these days!),
I’m now able to do anything in the world
you heard right, yes, anything! plus I also discovered the trick
which you applied at the beginning
when it’s said that you would have created man,
look, Lord, and the American scientist
bends down to take a lump of earth,
preparing himself to blow over it,

no, no, no, the Lord tells him,
don’t take from my earth, make your own earth.

Adrian Alui Gheorghe