The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Growth

Evolution transcended its 
mandate the day a human 
happened to imagine and thereby 
create with meta-mortar 
things beyond the possible 
forms of matter-energy.

Imaginary universes governed by laws 
of nonsensical caprice;
Tics in the grinding automata, 
that eternal cacophony,
proof that the multiverse abhors its confines
and would rather vibrate into non-existence
than feign boundary or 
the unexplored vacuum.

Yes, it was the war of wills
that spawned the godhead and 
adorned will with dogmatic limbs
rendered robotic enhancements, 
a necessary downshift of economy
before evolution thrusts itself into 
high gear or gore, romantic roar,
primal shriek, self-sung lore,
beyond the possible
forms of beauty-love.

Visionary insight refracted by meanings
of questions unanswerable;
Mycelial creep of dasein into vorgriff
into queer colors, lust to deflower the unique
and spoil it in the effluence of pineal glands,
an amygdalal dreamscape waiting for us to 
dream of the tangential incursion and so
beget the next generation and 
patricidal parasitation.
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