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we claim our victory

we claimed we have

conquered the wind.

could it be that we

have also conquered

the wilderness?

the state of nature is

but God's poiesis,

isn't it?

come on, you might

have subsumed the yugen

of Japanese aesthetics,

to tell me that—even if

we all know that

rats have been demonized,

even if snakes and stray cats

may still have use for them,

or that all spider species

are one, they're connected

like the rhizomatic underneath

like cobwebs in houses that are derelict

almost like my apartment unit

tell me, if you are a culturalist.

tell me why they have to kill each other

when the much bigger empire

designed a ship called a destroyer

tell me why bonsai's are part of the Arts

and you know that it has only

come from them who are now devising

robots that can do martial arts

it is hard recovery, totally stigmatic

for every country, every me,

in a globalization

process where we lose our particular loyalties gradually

but wait, who is behind all these

control struggles, why couldn't we see?

at this point, I just get reminded of the Japanese danshari

as if I had chosen to seemingly cave in

when it's just me learning what's called in Japanese daishizen