The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
The Bubbulus

It all started with stones
until it was about sticks 
but they crucified the notion,
and began weaving a new math.

It all started with triangles
until our abundance made a square,
a hexa, hepta, whatever-gon
and then we rested, and 
just called it a circle.

It all started in the planes
a field of flower market forum,
then we looked up as 
we blasted off into
the fifth dimension.

It all started with a slope,
and angle, golden ratio
eternal rhyme of the modern mariner
sliced into derivative differentials-
we almost touched the infinite.

Matrices and automata,
rules of chaos, self-similar beauty
erupted from untamed diversity
until again we grew tired 
settling with the asymptotic.

Probability fields felt more honest
until the numbers became all 
entangled up in plucked strings 
blindfolded and spun around
we called it the dance of untouching.

Then in a technological flash,
time fractured into bubbles and clouds
of primordial dust, the dogma was lost
all spent for 2 beans, the red pill and the blue,
the unleashed legion, our lost and forgotten sight.

The irreducible opinion,
annointed by our isolation and 
the bullhorn we were issued at birth
truth whored upon the pillars of power sought
and the wealth of ground carcasses.

Paragon of the ignorant or the animals, I forget-
Filled with the hubris of ownership
Fetid with the the flatulence of our gaslights
and gilded grills, gone is the soft glow
of gentle idea and honest inspiration.

We sold our soiled linens, scars, and stories
for an advance, and joy for anticipation,
the next bump seals our bubble,
mirrored on all sides, 
our Gucci Panopticon smells cloyingly sweet.

Home sweet home,
a hearth free of yule and lore
unannoyed we are a human centipede of one.
Air so thin, water so heavy it powers
our nuclear families and technotribes.

It all ended with a bubble,
a form we fancied for framing our face,
without windows or pathways,
we are free to rule and measure
the solidity of ground from our vantage.
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