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DECLARATION OF THE ARTIST

I am the one and I am not ashamed. I am the one that stenciled my hand on the cave wall 50,000 years ago.  Yes me, and I am not ashamed.  No, I am not a descendent of the one.  I am the one.  I am the the one that saw the relationships between the stones on the wall the the images in my memory.  I am the one that had that creative impulse/ thought/ bio-electrical connection that caused me to place my own image on the wall.  Yes, I am the one that created.  No, I was not reborn again with each generation.  I am continuous.  The math formula in my mind or genetic trait that matched the images on the wall with the images in my mind and caused me to create a new image on the wall has been continuous for 50,000 years.  I am the one and and I am not ashamed.  I am one.  I am continuous.  I am the creator and I am not ashamed.

 

THE MINE

The mine

The mine

The canaries whine

They do not sing

They do not fly

Deep

Deep

In the mine

The miners

The miners

Sing their song

Crying for the sun

Singing with the pick

Deep in the mine

Down, down, down

Other bugs

Crawling on higher ground

Working their life

For the family they love

Making the monuments

For the owners above

Forcing the miner

Deeper, deeper deep

In the cold

Without a break

Without sleep

Their life away

For the family they love

 

Building the monuments

For the owners above

More and more monuments

Forcing the miners

Deeper, deeper, deep

Deep in the mine

Down, down, down

Other bugs

On higher ground

For ever and ever

Digging, deeper, deeper deep

Till the canaries stop

And the miners sleep

 

For a thousand years

And a thousand more

The species cried

The monuments stood

The workers died

One day

The gray dust blew

The towers fell

Fire from the sky

Instead of hell

Now the monuments

Rust and dust

The species at its best

The miners sleep

And the workers rest

 

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