Family dinner Table

It is impossible not to catch onto the continental drift, meaning feeling the spreading and slip faults, under-foot-in-mouth-

there is boiling just beneath the surface.

And Oh how we have known this volcanology for centuries, the flow of temperature, electromagnetism, schisms,  and the cosmic microwave background re-distributes energies,

It becomes hard to focus on one spot when things as small as photons erode before us into virtual reality and augmenting this pseudo-civilization we insist on polarization.

It was the Generation they said 

And problems with the country, I stand form moving more than a mile a minute, 

It is dizzying, the speed of progress and the discomfort was apparent on the surfaces,

so we built borders, walls without windows, so we cannot see what is coming.

And since we have all been blindsided, and are famished for justice, parched for freedom and ripe for decomposition,

And despite all this preservation of self and species, all the worlds problems lie on the table,

And my adult children and I discuss in depth and debate all aspects of these prickly problems-

And great progress is underway.

Just today, we gnawed on the dispute between Pinker and Musk,

about the pursuit of intelligence whence, it is not our own,

and the syllabic sparring proved artificial anyway-

Yet the issue remains

an ethical one, anyway, Thy will be done.

Should we proceed with constructing intelligence-artificially?

If we don’t understand the question-it remains unanswered.

Do we flip a coin; heads we shall be Gods, tails, we are asses?

What is really at stake? Fear? Being surpassed by what we make?

I look at my children.

Suddenly, we are all responsible for finding solutions

And securing ourselves against outside elements known to be corrosive-

Violent.

Someone suggested that mental health screenings for all adolescents should be required,

which is a hair closer to the trigger than the finger.

And the finger is pointed-inward-to the nuclear family, WMD’s and

There it is, 

The landmine, the nuclei, the main dish, the pyramid.

The jumpy microcosmic scale that mirrors the macro-cosmic tragedies,

It is the net effect of families that combust, decay, repel, rebel, squander energy,

that assemble negatives and positives, displace energies and shatter these proximal covalent bonds with such force hitherto unknown,

the annihilation of love,

demonstrates how naturally things can fall apart while still connected

and that a nucleus is nourished by positive traits and hot plates. 

Photo By White, Clarence H., 1871-1925, photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.